LinkedIn Hiring Assistant: Clippy Makes A Comeback

Posted on September 4, 2025     4 Comments

LinkedIn’s Hiring Assistant, which just expanded its availability globally after a year in pilot, is being framed as a milestone in recruiting automation. In practice, it’s more like Clippy got a makeover, learned how to parse job descriptions, and started sending templated InMails.

It’s just as obnoxious as it sounds.

Read More

Oh, The People You’ll Meet.

Posted on July 28, 2015     4 Comments

It’s been a pretty good month for Eisenhower era literature, as Americans discovered Atticus Finch was a racist and Harper Lee still can’t move as many titles as Chelsea Handler, and, perhaps more importantly, Dr. Seuss dropped a new book today. Well, he didn’t do it, although if he was a zombie, that would make […]

Read More

How Many Licks Does It Take To Get To The Center of Social?

Posted on December 16, 2014     3 Comments

Hootsuite, a high growth, high tech employer based in Vancouver has emerged as one of the most widely used social business platforms on the market. Its enterprise social monitoring and publishing tools have fueled the company’s explosive growth from bootstrap to big brand, from start-up to social success story. In under four years, Hootsuite has […]

Read More

Fashion Faux Pas: Funkyzeit Mit HR

Posted on September 8, 2014     2 Comments

If you’ve seen me at a conference, this is going to be hard to imagine.  But when I was immersed in the world of Fortune 50 HR departments, the professional equivalent of a home ec class, I thought the best way to fit into a world where I was an obvious interloper was by simply […]

Read More

Pour One Out For These Dead Recruiting Trends, Homies.

Posted on July 8, 2014     Leave a Comment

Recruiting and HR pundits sure seem to like writing obituaries.  Hell, there’s an entire cannon of posts, white papers and corporate copy on the death of any number of human capital-related themes.  Reading through this generic genre, everything from job boards to resumes (false) to LinkedIn (true) are either dead or on life support. Most […]

Read More