Yes, there are already sites in the hot contingent-worker management field we’ve mentioned before on these pages: Catalant, Sense, Toptal, TalentSwype, Upwork, TaskRabbit, ProFinder, Fiverr, Gigwalk, and on and on. A new site to manage contingent employees is coming this fall,…
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Firms Can’t Be Competitive Without Strong AI, But Even Apple Struggles to Recruit AI Talent
If your firm wants to be dominant, it should follow the lead of the world’s most successful firms. So corporate leaders should take note that each of the CEO’s of the five most valuable firms (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook and…
Hiring Software Engineers: Should Round 1 Be a Behavioral Interview, Coding Challenge, or Take-home Assignment?
With the enormous amount of software engineers who are being hired, building a successful hiring process is extremely important. If the hiring process is too long, you can lose a candidate to another company. If it is too technical, you…
What Worked and Didn’t Work for Us When Quickly Building a Technical Team
Cities like Seattle, San Francisco, New York, and where we are based — Austin, Texas — are typically underserved with highly skilled engineering talent, making it difficult for large organizations to attract and retain sought after experienced engineers. As a…
Werk Raises $2.9 Million to Improve Workplace Flexibility for Women
Werk, a job board platform focused on schedule flexibility, announced on August 4 that it closed its seed funding round, having raised $2.9 million. Female-run venture fund Rethink Impact led the round, joined by SoGal Ventures and Leah Busque. Previous…
Engineer’s Anti-Diversity Memo Gets Sharp Rebuke From Google
A political firestorm has erupted at Google over a 10-page memo by a software engineer challenging the company’s diversity efforts, declaring that biology and not society explains why there are so few women in tech and leadership. Posted internally last…
5 Best Practices for Running a More Successful Internship Program
This summer, thousands of young adults in New York City participated in internships that will start them toward successful careers. The interns aren’t the only ones who benefit: host employers across the city reap major rewards by filling skills gaps, infusing new energy into the company, identifying…
Ericsson Logs Off LinkedIn, Unplugs the Phone, and Hits the Streets to Recruit
Recruiting industry pundits, including yours truly, spend a lot of time chasing shiny objects. News releases touting artificial intelligence, chatbots, and virtual reality tend to standout more than, say, PR touting a new CEO or homepage redesign. Readers tend to…
Why HR and Marketing = A Killer Employer Brand
There’s an un-level playing field in the war for talent today, as employers face a rising competitor: flexible work arrangements offered via the gig economy. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics as well as workforce analysts like Ardent Partners and…
The Definitive Action Guide For Minimizing Bias and Increasing Diversity Hires (Part 2 of 2)
This is the second part of a two-part article covering action steps on how to minimize biases that negatively affect diverse recruiting. The first part of this article was published on June 26, 2017. It explained the two types of…
The Definitive Action Guide for Minimizing Bias and Increasing Diversity Hires (Part 1 of 2)
There has been a great deal of recent coverage on unconscious biases. However, almost all of the attention has been on becoming aware of these unconscious biases. This is problematic because even data-driven Google could not prove that unconscious bias…
Jaguar Land Rover Trying an ‘Alternate Reality’ for Recruiting
It’s not just for the military; Jaguar Land Rover is now using what’s called “mixed reality” or “alternate reality” to find engineers. The 40,000-employee UK carmaker is looking for about 1,000 electronic and software engineers, and about 5,000 new hires total this year….
Here’s the Real Reason Entelo Just Got $20 Million
Entelo just raised $20 million. Party time! I spoke to CEO Jon Bischke when it launched publicly in 2012 and was impressed by him and the company’s mission. As its website said back then, “Learn when talent is on the move…
Sorry, Alexa and Siri Won’t Find Your Next Hire
Voice assistants at home are becoming big business. Amazon’s Alexa showed-up in 2014. Google Home came shortly thereafter. And now Apple has gotten into the game with HomePod. Strategy Analytics estimates Google will sell 1 million devices by midyear. The…
Building New On-ramps for Returning Women
You know that guy who won’t let you in when you’re trying to merge onto the highway? Well, that’s corporate America for returning women. Three million returners are behind the wheel, blinkers on, pedal to the metal, tuned-up, tuned-in, and…
‘Don’t Look Too Hot!’ — Powerful New Dad-Daughter Video From HP Makes Fun of Interview Advice
HP is celebrating Father’s Day early with a video mocking the frustrating and sexist advice females are given when preparing for an interview. The two-and-a-half minute piece ends with HP saying that it’s training all hiring managers to reduce unconscious bias….
Wonder Woman – Why Every Firm Needs to Hire One
The Wonder Woman movie has been a blockbuster success at the box office, at least in part because both the main character and the director are women. Giving women the director role on major film projects is, unfortunately, rare. However,…
Ex-Googler Gets Backing of Silicon Valley Investors Thiel, Levchin to Build ‘the World’s Most Badass Recruitment Engine’
With the rise of the gig economy, managing freelance workers can be difficult for companies comfortable with the traditional employer setup. Pete Johnston, formerly a Google designer, aims to change that with the newly renamed Kalo. Armed with financial backing…
The Freelance Workforce Isn’t the Same as the Uber Workforce
Most industries have heard the term “Uberization” — the idea that if you apply the Uber model to an industry, it will bring disruption, change, and innovation to the market. The taxi industry was disrupted significantly when Uber came into…
Multi-billion-dollar IT Giant Live With New Career Site in 15 Countries
Remember that “little known Fortune 100 company trying to become a talent factory“? The IT products-and-services company has launched a new career site, talent community, mobile site, and CRM. Blake Wettstein is the lead on the new site; he and…