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With two new economic reports today showing hiring growing faster than expected and worker productivity up, the evidence supporting a U.S. recovery is almost unassailable.

While it’s hardly a boom – a Christian Science Monitor headline today used the word “anemic” — the recovery has been picking up steam the last several months. Today’s ADP National Employment Report is particularly encouraging as it says 93,000 workers were added to the payroll of private employers in November. And, it revises upward by 39,000 (to 82,000) the number of workers added in October. keep reading…

A talented group of corporate recruiting leaders and others talk about what the expanding economy and improving job market mean to recruiters; how recruiting departments are changing; how contract work and RPOs are being used, and why many employees now bitterly resent their employers.

Among those on the podcast:

• Amit Pal Singh, the operations director at Labor Finders, a large staffing firm with about 200,000 customers
• Erin Peterson, the former VP of global talent acquisition at Hewitt, now leader of the RPO business at Aon Hewitt
• Indrajit Sen (from India), a recruiting/HR leader at Aricent and past ERE Recruiting Excellence Award recipient
• Carrie Corbin, a talent-attraction strategist at AT&T
• Jenifer Lambert, a big-biller recruiter and founder of Talentum keep reading…

Have you ever watched Numbe3s, the now-defunct crime drama that featured a geeky math genius who used quadratic equations to help the FBI get the bad guys? I happened to watch a rerun the other night, and a scene between Don Eppes (the tough, FBI agent brother) and Charlie Eppes (the math genius brother) struck me like lightening.

In pursuit of a gang of home invaders, Charlie the math genius instructs his FBI agent brother to get him “tons of data” about the people of Los Angles. The brother, a math Luddite, wants to know why he needs more — not less — data to find the criminals. Charlie explains that he’s built an algorithm that can filter through all of the social connections in Los Angeles. The more data he has, the more likely he is to find the pattern that will identify the robbers. Or something like that. I’m more like Don, the tough brother.

What struck me is that Charlie’s television math describes our expectations of social media when applied to recruiting. keep reading…