It’s merger-and-acquisition season in the work technology sector. The whole industry has been infused with investment levels of historic proportions over … Read more
How Can I Transform My Talent Acquisition Capability When I Don’t Have X?
This question in the headline has been posed to me several times. For context, we are driving a transformation of the way we do talent acquisition. In a … Read more
Our Talent Acquisition Path at Intel, From Transactions to Relationships
Intel has been on a journey to rethink talent acquisition for the last two years. We started from a fundamental premise that the way talent acquisition in … Read more
Jobvite Swings for Fences, Acquires Talemetry, RolePoint, and Canvas
Blame it on Google. Or maybe Microsoft. For almost two decades, the applicant tracking business sort of shuffled along like a tortoise in the mud. … Read more
A Hidden Source of Talent: Reducing Recruiting Waste
If one cannot increase the supply of a resource, one must increase its yield. — Peter Drucker. I have yet to learn about a recruiting process that … Read more
5 Key Metrics for Your Talent Pipeline
Many talent-acquisition teams are starting to proactively nurture pools of candidates into pipelines or talent communities. When a new req comes in, a … Read more
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 … Read more
A Recruitment Marketing Refresh Is Happening for a Giant of Corporate America
The 180-year-old Fortune 36 company Procter & Gamble, famous for brands like Crest, Charmin, Dawn, and Downy, is revamping its career site and its … Read more
Talent Pipelines, Explained
There seems to be a lot of talk about talent pipelines, or CRM, or talent communities, or whatever you want to call it. There’s good reason for that: … Read more
Talent Pipeline Case Study — Nestlé Purina Reaches an Amazing 43 Percent of Hires
You might be surprised to learn that a talent pipeline strategy can yield a time to fill that can actually be zero days. If you’re not familiar with the … Read more
I’m a Responsible Babysitter, But Something Tells Me That Job Alerts Aren’t Working
I’m concerned about job alerts. These are the micro-apps that job boards, applicant tracking system vendors, and others, have created to keep … Read more
IBM Is Launching a Much-awaited ‘Watson’ Recruiting Tool
For many months IBM has gone to recruiting-industry conferences to say that the famous Watson will be at some point used for talent-acquisition, but that … Read more
A Recruiter’s Guide to Talent Segmentation
One of the toughest challenges that recruitment organizations face is understanding who is in their talent community, how one candidate is different from … Read more
The Key Operational Components of an Effective Talent Pipeline
Let’s face reality: most sourcing efforts are extremely rushed. As a result, there is a high probability that in key jobs, your sourcing effort will … Read more
3 Trends to Watch in Recruiting and Sales
New apps, social media, nudges … we’re always trying to catch the latest trends to stay ahead of the curve and impress our clients, vendors, … Read more
Yet Another Recruiting-Technology Company Is Expanding Out From Its Job-Board Roots
You probably know by now from reading these pages, but job boards and applicant tracking systems are expanding their offerings. Trying to be more. … Read more
We’re Reversing the Job Search Process by Making it Personal With Video Introductions
The job search process has not changed with the advent of technology and the Internet — all we did was take our job postings from print and put them … Read more