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Raghav Singh

Raghav Singh, director of product management at Salesforce, where his role is to build commercial products for HR, particularly recruiting. Prior, he was director of product management at Korn Ferry, where he developed and launched multiple software products and held leadership positions at several major recruiting technology vendors. Raghav's career has included work as a consultant on enterprise HR systems and as a recruiting and HRIT leader at several Fortune 500 companies. Opinions expressed here are his own.

Fixing Bias in AI

Raghav SinghNovember 8, 2018November 7, 2018

It was reported recently that Amazon shut down an AI-powered recruitment system because it discriminated against women. The system was designed to look at … Read more

Meet the Robot Recruiters

Raghav SinghSeptember 25, 2018September 24, 2018

Recent innovations in recruitment technology include chatbots that are being used for interview scheduling and screening. Today these are text-based … Read more

Envisioning a Blockchain Future for Recruiting

Raghav SinghAugust 23, 2018August 22, 2018

The road ahead will be paved by blockchains. Great things will happen. Like what? Patience, wait for the revolution. When is it coming? Soon. We’ve seen … Read more

When AI Will Replace Recruiters

Raghav SinghJune 13, 2018June 3, 2018

Products infused with AI are being introduced into recruiting at an increasing pace. It seems like a question of when, not if, that AI will start replacing … Read more

What Blockchains Can Do for Recruiting

Raghav SinghMay 28, 2018May 18, 2018

Blockchain is a young technology, first conceptualised in 2008, and still mainly used to support cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. It has dubious … Read more

The Limits of AI: What It Can and Cannot Do for Recruiting (Today)

Raghav SinghMay 24, 2018May 18, 2018

AI is making big strides into recruiting technology, with startups and established vendors investing heavily in products for a range of uses including … Read more

Blockchain Social Networks Aren’t Ready to Transform Recruiting

Raghav SinghMay 16, 2018May 16, 2018

Blockchain technology has gained a lot of traction in recent years. Now it’s being used to create social networks, including Sapien, Steemit, Sola, Dock, … Read more

Blockchains and Recruiting. Transformative Technology or Just a Buzzword?

Raghav SinghMarch 21, 2018March 20, 2018

Every so often some new technology comes along that gets the recruiting world buzzing — AI, VR, AR, to name a few. Blockchains are the most recent … Read more

Robots Will Disrupt Recruiting More Than AI

Raghav SinghMarch 7, 2018March 5, 2018

If you’d like to see the future, visit the Henn-na restaurant near Nagasaki in Japan. Inside, a robot chef makes pancakes, while another makes cocktails or … Read more

The Demand for Degrees Is Screening Out Too Many Candidates

Raghav SinghFebruary 19, 2018August 20, 2018

A recruiter’s job has never been easy. And it’s getting harder with the economy producing jobs at a furious pace and lots of competition for available … Read more

The Last Recruiter: AI and Recruiting

Raghav SinghJanuary 2, 2018January 1, 2018

A long time ago, in a conference room far, far away, I was asked by an HR executive if the ATS I was implementing would eliminate the need for recruiters. … Read more

The New New Thing: Blockchains and Recruiting

Raghav SinghOctober 23, 2017October 8, 2017

If reading about AI is making you feel like Alice in Wonderland, then take heart, there’s something new on the horizon — Blockchains. The technology … Read more

Blue Collar Blues: Recruiting Manufacturing Workers

Raghav SinghOctober 18, 2017October 6, 2017

Manufacturing in America is huge. Over the last 20 years manufacturing output has increased by almost 40 percent, and the annual value of production by … Read more

AI or IA? Intelligence Augmentation for Recruiting

Raghav SinghOctober 3, 2017October 2, 2017

IBM’s Watson is synonymous with AI. Perhaps IBM should have named it Sherlock. Anyone familiar with the Sherlock Holmes stories knows that Watson wasn’t … Read more

The Data-driven Recruiter: AI’s Impact on Recruiting

Raghav SinghAugust 17, 2017August 10, 2017

The idea of AI has been with us since Mary Shelley published Frankenstein in 1818. The recent HBO show Westworld is basically the same story. Pop culture … Read more

Failure to Launch: Millennials in the Workforce

Raghav SinghJune 27, 2017June 27, 2017

Millennials are now the largest living cohort in America, numbering about 75 million. Every generation is different from the ones that came before, but … Read more

The Revolution Will Begin Eventually (Maybe): AI and Recruiting

Raghav SinghJune 22, 2017June 11, 2017

Here’s the latest prediction concerning the future of AI, based on a survey of the leading researchers, conducted by Oxford University: the experts predict … Read more

Help Wanted: 75,000 Data Privacy Officers Needed (Why You Should Care About the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation)

Raghav SinghApril 14, 2017April 11, 2017

May 25, 2018 — mark the date. That’s the day when the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation comes into force. So why is this a big deal? The EU … Read more

The Big Squeeze: Too Much Money and Too Few People Means Recruiters Will Struggle

Raghav SinghFebruary 8, 2017February 7, 2017

Recruiters in the U.S. can expect to be busy filling a lot of jobs in the coming years. What makes this likely are the massive amounts of money flowing … Read more

Coming to America: The Immigration Challenge

Raghav SinghJanuary 31, 2017July 8, 2019

The President’s immigration order has created a lot of controversy, but the emotional outrage has prevented the focus from shifting to issues about a … Read more