Doug Berg is the first to tell you he’s not very good at naming companies. “Everything I’ve ever started ended up with a different name than when I started,” he said. “JobKeys became Techies.com, HotGigs became Jobs2Web, TrackIF became MyAlerts”…
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TextRecruit, Nexxt Partner to Mashup Sourcing With Text Recruiting
Roughly a decade ago, Beyond (now Nexxt) added a little checkbox to its job-seeker registration form without knowing exactly how it would benefit the bottom line then, or in the future. The box asked for permission to text users about…
Quick Wins for Your Corporate Recruitment Website
My good friend Matt Alder recently wrote an excellent piece on this website on why a recruitment website is so important. He also did research showing that most recruiters are unhappy with their own careers website. I can only reiterate his…
The Top 5 Factors That Make Job Seekers More Likely to Apply
What are the big things that job seekers are looking for in their next job? You probably have a good idea — a better salary and job title, more opportunity, and perhaps, better benefits or more work/life balance — and…
Why Do People Switch Jobs? It’s Mostly the Same No Matter How Much They Make
Here’s the big takeaway from this latest bit of candidate data from Ladders, the career site for six-figure jobs: When it comes to pay, perks, and job satisfaction, people looking for high-paying positions seem to have many of the same…
Text Recruiting Platform Canvas Introduces Personalized Avatars to Messaging
About a year ago, my 70-something year old father was introduced to Bitmojis, those animated images in text messages meant to look a little bit like the sender. He loves them. About every third message I get from him is…
When Facebook Worked for High-volume Hires
Facebook is a massively underused tool for attracting talent to your organization. Each day nearly 1.5 billion people access the site, much more than LinkedIn, which has 250 million users monthly. Facebook also has lots of rich data that can…
Watch Out ZipRecruiter: LinkedIn is Coming After Small Business Hiring With ‘Recommended Matches’
LinkedIn’s brand hasn’t exactly been associated with small business employment over the years. The unspoken word for businesses that can’t maintain a robust company page has basically been to come back when you get an applicant tracking system and hire…
Google Introduces 3 New AI Features to Hire, Focused on Reducing Monotonous Tasks
No one’s stopping. Microsoft’s not stopping. Facebook’s not stopping. Indeed’s not stopping. And no, Google’s not stopping either. Announced today, the company is upgrading its Hire product with a focus on artificial intelligence. With the launch of Hire last year,…
The Truth About Game-based Talent Assessments
Games are fun, assessments are not. This is all you need to know to understand the strong interest in injecting games into the hiring process. But are game-based assessments really all they are cracked up to be? Should you be…
Google, Amazon Wanted GitHub Too. Here’s Why It Lost to Microsoft
Microsoft recently buying GitHub for $7.5 billion was a big deal, with a variety of winners and losers in the recruitment industry. By buying the most valuable online community of software engineers in the world, Microsoft now claims the two most…
Sifting Through the Winners and Losers After Microsoft’s GitHub Acquisition
Microsoft dropped a bomb earlier this week by paying a reported $7.5 billion for GitHub, the world’s biggest collection of tech talent on the web. The move makes Microsoft the owner of the top two professional networks around, once you…
Facebook Begins Testing Sponsored Marketplace Listings
It was only a matter of time. Facebook, the world’s largest social networking platform — by a lot — launched a Craigslist-like classifieds service in 2016. Shortly after letting users sell used bikes and old couches, Facebook introduced the ability…
Are You Ready to Recruit in a World Where Microsoft Owns LinkedIn and GitHub?
Love ’em or hate ’em, recruiters and vendors need to get used to the reality that Microsoft now owns the two most popular professional networking sites on the net. And as a result, it owns the two most important sourcing…
Facebook Quietly Upgrading Job Search, Marketplace Growth Impressive
Don’t fall asleep on Facebook. With all the talk around Glassdoor and Indeed joining forces, Google for Jobs growing, Monster awakening, and LinkedIn marching onward, Facebook is quietly building a formidable player in the jobs space with its Marketplace. At…
Shift to a Poaching Strategy When There Are Few Unemployed to Hire
Have you seen this startling current job market statistic? For the first time in this century, there are more job openings than unemployed people. And this shortage of unemployed applicants means that you must shift your recruiting strategy from an…
3 Steps to Recruiting an Ideal Employee From a Client
All of us are currently on the lookout for ideal candidates. It’s an omnipresent issue when you consider that “82 percent of workers are seeking new job opportunities.” There’s a good chance you can find someone to fit your business in…
My Initial Thoughts on The Glassdoor Acquisition
Glassdoor didn’t make much of a splash when it launched back in 2008. Job boards like Monster, CareerBuilder, and HotJobs owned the headlines, while upstarts like Indeed, SimplyHired, and Jobster were grabbing most of the remaining attention. The business model…
No-poaching Agreements: Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200, Go Directly to Jail
Perhaps not directly to jail, but the U.S. Department of Justice has come out aggressively warning talent acquisition and human resources professionals about the risk of criminal prosecution arising from what the government considers to be non-poach agreements, where competitors…
Monster Touts ‘Humanizing’ Job Search With Latest Updates
At its core, the Internet isn’t particularly human. That help-wanted sign in the window of your local convenient store is even less so. Putting help-wanted signs on the Internet is a recipe for ice-cold capitalism, but Monster is rolling out…