Love ’em or hate ’em, recruiters and vendors need to get used to the reality that Microsoft now owns the two most popular professional … Read more
Microsoft and LinkedIn May Have Just Leapfrogged Google for Job Search Supremacy
Sometimes brilliance is right at the tip of your nose; the kind that makes everyone wonder why it took so long to happen. Combined with the kind of … Read more
Microsoft Closes LinkedIn Buy; LinkedIn’s CEO Drops Hints at What’s to Come
Microsoft and LinkedIn officially sealed the deal Wednesday morning, closing its $26.2 billion acquisition. The official status comes almost 6 months after … Read more
What They’re Saying About Microsoft/LinkedIn
Here’s a look at what some sources are saying about the big acquisition: This could transform talent management (TLNT) Microsoft wants to be in the … Read more
Why Did Microsoft Buy LinkedIn?
Microsoft’s deal to buy LinkedIn has major implications not only for both companies, but for how workers in all sorts of occupations and industries … Read more
Some Ideas LinkedIn and Microsoft Have Tossed Around
In a letter to the LinkedIn workforce about the acquisition, LinkedIn CEO mentioned a few of the ways Microsoft and LinkedIn could “unlock some … Read more
Microsoft To Buy LinkedIn For $26.2 Billion
Breaking news coming out of the West Coast this morning as Microsoft has announced that it is acquiring LinkedIn, the professional networking site with … Read more
LinkedIn Introduces AI-Written Job Posts
The platform's is also enabling members to use AI to create profiles. But is there a risk that these new features will backfire? Read more
Top Stories: LinkedIn’s Algorithm Experiments, Calendly Enters Recruiting, a Confusing Labor Market, and More!
The Most Interesting Recruiting Stories of the Week Welcome to “The Most Interesting Recruiting Stories of the Week,” a weekly post that … Read more
What Microsoft’s Analytics Reveal About How We Work
In Episode 44 of Best Hire Ever, Kris Dunn talks with Kamal Janardhan (general manager, Microsoft Viva Insights, Microsoft 365) about the MyAnalytics … Read more
The Odds Microsoft Buys Upwork Just Went, Um, Up
Microsoft doesn’t want to lose its hold on enterprise computing. It ousted IBM from that mountaintop many moons ago, and it’ll be damned if … Read more
LinkedIn Acquires Employee Engagement Platform Glint
LinkedIn has signed an agreement to acquire Glint, an employee-engagement platform that aims to deliver insights to improve employee satisfaction, … Read more
Bing Mimics Google for Jobs, Pushes LinkedIn Postings
Google isn’t a monopoly in search. It feels that way, maybe, but it’s not quite there. In the U.S. for the month of April, for … Read more
Google, Amazon Wanted GitHub Too. Here’s Why It Lost to Microsoft
Microsoft recently buying GitHub for $7.5 billion was a big deal, with a variety of winners and losers in the recruitment industry. By buying the most … Read more
Sifting Through the Winners and Losers After Microsoft’s GitHub Acquisition
Microsoft dropped a bomb earlier this week by paying a reported $7.5 billion for GitHub, the world’s biggest collection of tech talent on the web. … Read more
LinkedIn Embraces Its Inner Snapchat With New Video Features
Launching less than a year ago, LinkedIn was really late to the native video upload game. At the time, I wrote, “Employers will now be able to post … Read more
Recent Judgment Against Oracle Could Bode Well for hiQ in Battle With LinkedIn
Until recently, I had never heard of Rimini Street, a publicly traded company that provides third-party software support services to companies like Oracle, … Read more
Sticking It to ‘The Man’ Is Expensive, hiQ Learns in Battle with LinkedIn
LinkedIn is in a fight for its very existence. OK, that might be going a bit overboard. Or maybe it isn’t. In case you haven’t been paying … Read more
Here’s Why Facebook Should Scare the Hell Out of LinkedIn This Halloween
I’m a big fan of Halloween. Dressing up, carving pumpkins, and eating too much chocolate are all some of my favorite things. It’s also a time … Read more
Forget LinkedIn, Here’s Who Facebook Is Really Aiming For
Facebook recently partnered with a slew of job sites and technologies with the goal of getting more job content onto the world’s most popular social … Read more