Recently, a Reddit user asked fellow users on the platform, “What social custom needs to be retired?” Many of the top answers pertained to work and jobs. Let’s take a look at four of those discussions. The Cover Letter The…
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Envisioning a Blockchain Future for Recruiting
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 this movie before. A technology emerges in another industry and the recruiting world becomes…
Monster Teases Mysterious iPhone App
Meet Monster Studios, whatever the hell that is. The app is currently live in the AppStore to download, but the sign-up button doesn’t work yet. “You’ll hear more about that at HR Tech,” is all Kate Rambo, director of PR…
How to Tell if a Job Candidate’s Ability Matches Their Resume
It’s always exciting when you receive a resume from a job candidate who seems like a great fit. It’s even more exciting when the candidate nails the interview. And there’s nothing quite like the relief and satisfaction you feel when…
Why Did Indeed Acquire Resume.com?
Historically, Indeed’s acquisitions make a lot of sense. Adding Simply Hired, Interview, and Workopolis are pretty easy to justify. Same thing for Recruit Holdings, Indeed’s parent company, which recently added Glassdoor to the arsenal. The recent news that Indeed had acquired…
What Blockchains Can Do for Recruiting
Blockchain is a young technology, first conceptualised in 2008, and still mainly used to support cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. It has dubious antecedents; some of the motivation to create it was to make it difficult for law enforcement agencies…
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 videos and get data that actually supports recruiting. Imagine a company promoting a…
The Last Recruiter: AI and Recruiting
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. At the time, the idea that recruiters would be replaced…
As Google for Jobs Drinks Its Milkshake, Indeed Eyes LinkedIn’s InMail Model to Tap New Profits
Life is pretty good at Indeed right now. Case in point, its parent company recently announced that segment’s EBITDA for the company, in the last six-month period, enjoyed an increase of 96.6 percent, year-on-year.Unfortunately for it, however, past is not always prologue,…
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 strategic excellence that would make Sun Tzu blush, and the whole game…
Study Says Less Is More and Cheaper is Better When It Comes to Recruitment Videos
I’m not a big fan of video when it comes to resumes, but for employers, I think it’s a must-have. What companies struggle with, however, is exactly how video should be done. Many opt for professionals armed with with costly…
Just Because You Can, Doesn’t Always Mean You Should: Meet O’Hire
I see a lot of press releases highlighting new companies in the talent acquisition space. It breaks down pretty close to this: 80 percent are been-there-done-that, 10 percent are categorized as pretty solid ideas, 5 percent are home runs, and…
Facebook’s Offensive on Recruitment Marches On, Testing Resume Posting Feature
If there’s anything more interesting than Facebook’s foray into recruitment, it’s the speed at which it is moving. This year alone, Facebook has introduced the following: The ability to post jobs on through company Pages A serious competitor to Slack, including…
‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Launches Job Board to Help Former Criminals Find Work
This news probably won’t end up in a movie deal starring Leo DiCaprio, but it’s certainly worth sharing here. In addition to being the original “Wolf of Wall Street,” a character popularized in the 2013 film by Martin Scorsese, Richard…
Skype Finally Gets Serious About Being a Video Interviewing Tool
There’s no shortage of video interviewing tools in the recruiting industry. Green Job Interview, HireVue, Take the Interview, Montage, Wepow, Sparkhire, and Vervoe are just a few off the top of my head. Though each one can talk up their…
Better Late Than Never: LinkedIn Will Soon Let You Upload Videos, Reveal Some Viewer Data
It’s about five years overdue, but news is spreading that LinkedIn’s 500 million users will soon be able to upload a video and share it. Yes, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and, of course, YouTube have had this functionality for years, so it’s…
Need More Strategic Thinkers? Here’s How to Hire Them
What firm doesn’t need to be strategic? In fact, what could contribute more to the success of an organization in today’s fast-changing world of business than having a large cadre of strategic thinkers? As a result, CEOs would love to…
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…
Find Out What Happened When We Reversed the Job-search Process
About a year ago I told you about how we’re reversing the job-search process. Now’s a good time to tell you the results. We have now hired 101 from this program — and counting! On average, these candidates had applied for…
Questions You’re Probably Not Asking on a Career Gap Resume
Many people go through a stage in their career when they take a break. There can be a number of different reasons for this, including traveling, bringing up children, ill health, education, or just pure nonchalance . A career gap…