Are game-based assessments the future of employment testing? In the podcast below, I talk about that question with Ben Hawkes. He’s an I/O … Read more
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 … Read more
Our ‘Get Home’ Recruitment Game
We talked about how 2016 needed to be a big year for SAP’s employment brand. The key for us was, as a b2b, standing out from the crowd. We revealed how our … Read more
We’re Exploring Whether Technology Can Provide a Better Candidate Experience
We revealed how we launched our new EVP in 2016. The message: Bring Everything You Are. Become Everything You Want. To help us know “everything you are” … Read more
How Our Own In-house Talent Acquisition Is Standing Out From the Crowd
In 2016 SAP needed to stand out from the crowd and have its biggest year for employment branding, with actual employees telling their own life stories. … Read more
Outrageous Talent Practices – They Grab the Attention of Top Talent
If you’re battling to recruit and retain top talent, you must have talent practices that go beyond the mundane in order to get their attention. And if you … Read more
Google’s Rabbit Hole — Innovatively Sourcing Top Talent Based on Their Search Words
Google’s seven-month old “rabbit hole” recruiting program simply has to be classified as innovative. The program has two major components. The first (a … Read more
In a ‘League’ of Our Own’ … Introducing ‘Sourcification’
How do you disrupt traditional sourcing? How do you drive higher performance while making work more fun? Can you bring the philosophical principles of … Read more
How to Hire People Who Think: Use Games
If you want to recruit people who have knowledge, test their knowledge. If you want to recruit people who have experience, ask for job histories. And if … Read more
Gamification: Big Data Is Watching
Recently, ERE asked me to conduct a webinar on The Impact of Gamification on Generational Talent. It’s an exciting topicworthy of exploration by … Read more
Moving from Transactions to Engagement — 4 Recruiting Trends
Recruiting is finally moving away from transactional thinking and beginning to understand how to better connect and engage with relevant candidates. We are … Read more
Playing Games With Candidates Might Help You Hire
“Turn off that Atari and get to bed!” My mom would yell up at me as I sat in my room, staring blankly at the TV screen. Like most kids do, I’d stomp my … Read more
Amazon Midway Through Rollout of Careers Site, Game, Recruiter and Candidate Features
Amazon is making significant changes to its careers website, changes that are about a year in the making. It’s also launching a short online game, … Read more
An ATS With “Emotional Engagement” Gets $10 Million
“The ATS has to die,” says the man who built a business and made a name on that earliest technological breakthrough for recruiters, the … Read more
What Trends in Film-going Tell Us About Employer Branding
Hollywood’s summer season is in full swing, and a Monday morning review at our company of the weekend’s box office led to an impromptu employee survey … Read more
Gaming Can Be More Than Fun
As a child, I never got into it. As a teenager, I tried to forgo the boys who let it consume their whole day. As a spouse, I try to ban it from my living … Read more
Talentral Says It’s the End of the Resume as We Know It
The end of the resume? I know, I know — you’ve heard that one before. The latest company to proclaim such a thing is Talentral, launching … Read more
Maersk’s Slick New Game Has People Searching for Oil
The shipping-oil-gas company Maersk is out with a a new game meant to drum up interest in its careers. While the U.S. Army and others — some … Read more
Game on for Employee Gamification
While speaking at a recent HR conference in Las Vegas, I had occasion to meet Jane McGonigal, game designer, speaker, author, and probably the world’s … Read more
What’s New: HuntShire; Shiftgig; CareerCloud’s Social Resumes; iCIMS; WordPress
Here’s a quick look at some of the newer recruiting-technology companies you may not have heard of, from gamification to screening to a significant … Read more