Talent-acquisition professionals in any specialty ranging from university relations to sourcers to Candidate-experience directors are working hard to find new ways to enhance diversity and inclusion. We’ve decided to share some tried-and-true diversity tactics that are based on actual leadership…
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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 Google or Salesforce or whoever is going to return the favor. That’s a big reason it dropped…
‘Corporate Skill Pivots’ May Signal the End of the Permanent Employees
Forget the job threats created by the march of the robots, because the new skill sets required by radical new technologies are much more likely to cause you to lose your permanent corporate job! In case you missed it, General…
Fixing the Talent Shortage: Drop the College Degree Requirement
After serving their country and gaining valuable experience in the process, many of our nation’s veterans still struggle to find jobs when they return home. Veterans without college degrees are often overlooked for high skill jobs. Companies should consider veterans’…
The First Step to Creating an Equitable Company Culture Is Asking the Right Questions
I recently asked my Facebook friends, many of whom are in staffing, if they noticed that leaders in recruiting are disproportionately male. I explained that what I had experienced wasn’t that there were necessarily more men in recruiting leadership roles…
Survey Finds You Gotta Know How to Recruit Vets If You Want to Hire the Very Best Ones
With Veterans Day coming on November 11, it’s an occasion to again raise a very good question — “Why aren’t we doing more to hire the veterans who have served our country so well?” Orion Talent digs into that question…
What We Should Take Away From Amazon’s Embedding Bias in Its Algorithm and Stopping the Project
A while ago I wrote an article warning recruiters about embedding their bias in their selection algorithms. The problem, as I described, is we all have a bias, usually unconscious. Just look around you right now at your department. Is…
We’re Helping U.S. Military Veterans Transition to Civilian Life
As a human resources professional, I often witness recruiters struggle to find job candidates with the technical skills and experience their company needs. I also know that scores of military veterans have these skills but struggle to find work in…
Instead of Complaining About a Talent Shortage, Let’s Expand the Definition of Talent
Recruiting today misses talented people who may not directly fit the job description, or model of the “ideal hire.” Traditional hiring practices assess on experience (what you have done) rather than potential (what you are capable of), with a disproportionate…
What the European Job Board Market Looks Like in 2018
There is no single European job board market leader. There are 24! Below, I examine the use of leading job boards in Europe, including Monster, StepStone, Indeed, LinkedIn, and more. It’s based on the Global Talent Acquisition Monitor, a European…
Glassdoor’s Talent Hack
Glassdoor’s HR team is using a very interesting tactic to attract talent. Specifically, it is using their Robots.txt file to communicate with potential employees. If you don’t know, a robots.txt file helps “robots” like Google’s web crawler to understand the…
How to Have a Very Global Talent-acquisition Career
I’m very lucky that at this point in my career I get to give back to the next generation, and have the opportunity to mentor some wonderful people who will one day be the next generation of TA leadership. One…
The Two SEO Queries That Recruiters Should Care About
Over 30 percent of Google searches are related to job searches. But, the majority of these search results are completely dominated by Indeed, LinkedIn, Monster, and the many other job boards out there. That said, there are two queries that the majority…
How to Design and Implement a Winning Internship Program — and One That Will Grow the Ideal Employee of Tomorrow
Gone are the days of hiring interns to fetch coffee and complete administrative work. Today, interns are recognized as providing a true value to the workforce — both for the work they complete during their internship and for the experience…
Google Cloud Announces Enhanced Job Search Capabilities for Military Personnel
Veterans will now find easier to search employment on career sites and job boards powered by Google’s Cloud Talent Solution. Specifically, U.S. service personnel and veterans can enter their MOS, AFSC, or NEC specialty code and get a list of civilian…
Don’t Embed Your Bias in Your Algorithm
AI, algorithms, and machine learning are the buzzwords in recruitment at the moment. Although many don’t really know what they entail, everybody wants them. But because of a lack of understanding the true nature of what we are building and…
This Talent Acquisition Team Is Paving the Way for Gig Workers
Larry Nash, head of the U.S. recruiting team at EY, is my guest in the next episode of the “Big Fish in the Talent Pool” series (link below). During our discussion, he offers interesting insights into his own career path, including…
Greenhouse Raises $50 Million, Touts Diversity Offering
Greenhouse, a popular applicant tracking solution, joined a growing number of its peers raising money lately. Hired, for example, just raised $30 million. Phenom People recently raised $22 million. I could go on, but the gist is recruitment remains hot…
Why Recruiting Professionals Should Care About These 5 Groups That Are Revolutionizing Diversity Recruiting
Unfortunately, the flippant use of the word “diversity” has caused it to lose potency in important hiring conversations when speaking with high-level managers like owners, CEOs, and board members. We have done the industry a great disservice by diminishing the…
CodeFights Changes Name to CodeSignal, Adds Scoring System for Developers
Rebranding is all the rage this year. RealMatch is now PandoLogic. Jobs2Careers is now Talroo. And now CodeFights is CodeSignal. If you don’t know CodeFights, the site launched back in 2014 as a platform for developers to compete in coding…