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Um Yea: Not Another 2018 HR Tech Trends Post.
Posted on January 16, 2018 12 Comments
Here’s a good way to kick off a new year: for the first time in like, a decade, I’m actually not dreading writing one of those annual preview posts. See, if you’re in the recruitment content marketing business (a pretty shit nice, TBH), every year, you’ve got to put out a mandatory forecast into the […]
Git Up, Git Out: Why Prisons Are Killing Diversity in the Workplace.
Posted on December 12, 2017 6 Comments
If employers truly cared about diversity, then a felony conviction would be a non-issue for recruiting, if not an asset.
The G Spot: Google Gets Into the HR Tech Game, Because Why Not?
Posted on July 24, 2017 4 Comments
For a function long consigned to being something of a technological backwater, the very thought that the most ubiquitous, transformative and, arguably, the most innovative company in the history of technology has thrown its hat in the recruiting ring is, well, unbelievable. So, if today’s official launch of Google Hire, the Mountain View based behemoth’s […]
Something You Forgot: Sentiment Analysis for HR and Recruiting
Posted on July 17, 2017 5 Comments
Despite our near obsessive fixation on “employee engagement,” this term remains largely amorphous and highly ambiguous, a subjective subject at best. Inherently, HR knows that an engaged workforce is more satisfied in their jobs, more productive at work, and generally stick around for longer tenures and lower pay. These are all outcomes, we can agree, […]
Predictions That Probably Won’t Happen: 2017 Talent Trends.
Posted on December 29, 2016 12 Comments
The thing about talent trends posts is that if it were possible to predict the future of recruiting and HR, we’d probably have figured out some way to make it suck a little less. Of course, the glacial pace of change in these parts means that for the indeterminate present, 2017 Is shaping up to […]