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,…
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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…
LinkedIn Referrals Set to Close Down Later This Month
If Indeed getting out of the candidate referral business wasn’t enough to convince you that it’s a failed business model, how about LinkedIn? According to the company’s website, LinkedIn Referrals will no longer be available after May 18, 2018. According…
How to Effectively Engage Your Talent Communities
Building a talent community is a great step in pipelining talent. But, it’s just the first step. Once you get people to opt in, you have to engage them in a way that is segmented and regular. That’s not really…
The Future of Recruitment Videos Lies in the Crazy Trend of Unboxing Videos
It all started when I found my thrifty six-year-old watching YouTube videos of kids opening up packs of Pokemon cards. I thought he had lost his mind, but after a quick Google search, I came to realize that we have…
Google for Jobs Expands to Canada, India
If you’re a job board outside the U.S., consider yourself warned. Google is coming. It was a just a matter of time, but Google is finally rolling out its vertical job search solution, commonly known as Google for Jobs, to…
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…
Jim D’Amico — A Profile of an Exceptional Corporate Recruiting Leader, Part 2
Note: this two-part article is part of my continuing series of profiles on exceptional corporate recruiting leaders Last week in Part 1 of my compelling profile of recruiting-leader-extraordinaire Jim D’Amico, I covered his recommended actions, the firms he admires most,…
How Google Begins and Ends the War for Talent
The average member of the workforce is well aware that today’s job hunt looks very different than it did just a few years ago. Now, virtually all applications must be completed online, and there’s usually an opportunity to populate applications…
LinkedIn’s Love Affair With Video Rolls On With 2 New Features
LinkedIn first dipped its toe into native video July of last year. It was years behind the likes of Facebook and Twitter, but hey, better late than never. The move struck me as a simple me-too strategy to make sure…