Commuting is changing rapidly. New U.S. Census data tells us that the number of “super commuters”– those who travel 90 minutes or more to their workplace — increased by 23 percent between 2010 and 2015. On the other hand, over 2.7…
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This Is the Year of Reinvention In Staffing & Recruitment
On a windy and rainy day in April, I took my kids to downtown Salt Lake City, to take in the Leonardo Museum, named for the famed inventor, scientist, painter, and one of the greatest minds of the Renaissance, Leonardo…
Job Seeker Nation Report: 82% of Workers Seeking New Opportunities
If there’s one thing that jumps out from Jobvite’s 2018 Job Seeker Nation Study, it’s this: they hit you immediately with the huge changes going on today in the world of recruitment and talent acquisition. This wasn’t the case with…
Key Takeaways From Spark Hire’s 2018 Hiring Trends Report
Jobs are already growing rapidly this year, as showcased by this month’s employment report, but what is driving the expansion of some companies around the nation, and what are companies focusing on to improve hiring processes? Spark Hire is one…
Robots Will Disrupt Recruiting More Than AI
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 doughnuts. A robot host goes to guest tables with a reminder when their hour-long…
Here’s Why You Should Care About CareerBliss’s ‘Happiest and Unhappiest Cities to Work’ in 2018
Career-who? It’s OK. The rise of Glassdoor and volume of reviews on Indeed have made the competition vying for real estate in the anonymous employee review space pretty obsolete. So, you’re forgiven for not caring about such PR bait like…
4 Workforce-Related Takeaways From Davos
I just adore the annual flood of knowledge that comes out of Davos, Switzerland, compliments of the World Economic Forum. It serves as a very small window into the minds of the world’s richest, and sometimes smartest minds in the world….
Automation, Text Messaging, and Lagging Confidence Showcase Hottest Recruiting Trends for 2018
Hot off the acquisition of TextRecruit by iCIMS, a new recruiting trends report from Bullhorn supports the strength of text messaging to communicate with job seekers over email and phone calls. Of the staffing professionals surveyed by the CRM and operations…
Talent Acquisition Professionals — Here’s How to Future-proof Your Organization in 2018
What does the future of hiring look like at my organization? Who should we be hiring to set ourselves up for long-term success? How are we helping talent get from where they are now to where they want to be?…
2018 Headlines — the “War for AI Talent” and Other Top Recruiting Headlines
In my nearly four decades of involvement in recruiting, I have found no period in which change has been more rapid and impactful than during the last two years. I am forecasting that this high rate of change will continue…
University Study Says These Are the Top 10 Emerging Jobs for College Grads in the U.S.
Looking to launch a new job board or searching for a recruiting gig with real potential? If so, the University of California San Diego Extension Center for Research on the Regional Economy has just released its annual list of the…
The Future of Recruiting — The Talent Advisor Model Dominates (Part 2 of 2)
Note: This “think piece” is designed to stimulate your thinking about the future of recruiting Many are unaware that the recruiting function is already beginning to undergo a strategic shift toward the “talent advisor model.” If you’re not familiar with…
The Future of Recruiting — the Talent Advisor Model Dominates (Part 1 of 2)
Note: This “think piece” is designed to stimulate your thinking about the future of recruiting Whether you want job security as a recruiter or to simply understand the future direction of recruiting, understand that the recruiting function is already…
The 5 Things Talent Acquisition Should Be
More than 100 of us leading practitioners and thought leaders in HR have been collaborating to understand the forces of change impacting work today and in the future, as well as how HR needs to evolve to help our organizations…
The Data-driven Recruiter: AI’s Impact on Recruiting
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 has created an image of AI that offers tantalizing benefits, but is also…
The Future of Recruiting Is an Internal Talent Consulting Group, As Technology Handles Daily Recruiting Tasks
8 Things To Do When You Want Recruiting To Be More Strategic The march of technology is already underway in recruiting. And that means that most day-to-day recruiting activities will become transactions, and that means that most sourcing, job matching,…
Intel’s Latest Acquisition Will Speed-Up the Mass Unemployment of Truckers, Drivers
In the next decade, robots could replace 1.7 million American truckers, a workforce that represents one of the last remaining careers to offer a middle-class salary without a college degree. In addition to truckers, there are another 1.7 million drivers of taxis, buses, and delivery…
Talent by the Numbers
A new feature: some recent stats, facts, data, and figures in the talent-acquisition field, the job market, and the economy. If you have any good ones, let me know for next time. 300 … millions of dollars the U.S. Army will…
The Crazy, Topsy-Turvy Emerging 2017 — 4 Emerging Trends
This promises to be one of those years we will all remember. From politics to economics, from hard-to-find talent to algorithms and predictive analytics, this will be a year of emerging technologies and real changes in how we think and…
The Top 5 Talent Surprises That Could Spoil Your 2017
It’s hard to think of an exception to the rule that “it’s always better to be prepared than surprised.” As a result, most professionals do read end-of-year projections (e.g. 2017 trends) because they help them view and prepare for the…