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LinkedIn Builds ATS and Launches New Diversity Insights
LinkedIn knows how to put on a show, and this year it didn’t disappoint at its annual Talent Connect Conference in Anaheim, California. The headliner this morning was CEO Jeff Weiner and the announcement from Sarah Beth Anders that LinkedIn is…
Meet the Robot Recruiters
Recent innovations in recruitment technology include chatbots that are being used for interview scheduling and screening. Today these are text-based products that converse with candidates using text messages or email. Google’s development of Duplex adds a voice component to chatbots…
Get More From Your Recruiting Technology by Following 3 Rules
It’s human nature to go to extremes. We tend to be all in or completely out. If you’ve watched poker players, you’ve seen this dynamic in action. When players have a bad hand, they fold quickly. When they have a…
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…
Don’t Embed Your Bias in Your Algorithm
AI, algorithms, and machine learning are the buzzwords in recruitment at the moment. Although many don’t really know what they entail, everybody wants them. But because of a lack of understanding the true nature of what we are building and…
iCIMS Secures New Round of Private Equity Funding
Popular applicant tracking system iCIMS added a new investor this week. Vista Equity Partners is giving an undisclosed amount of money to the company for an undisclosed piece of the company. It joins Susquehanna Growth Equity as the second firm. SGE invested in 2012…
How to Use a Conversational Interface
The conversational interface is coming, and it’s coming fast. Remember when in 2010, about three years after the iPhone was launched, people were telling you mobile was going to be it? And you didn’t believe them? And even though you…
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…
Text Recruiting Stays Hot with Launch of Jobvite Text, Powered by Canvas
Sometimes a competitor being acquired is the best thing for a startup. Back in January, popular ATS platform iCIMS bought TextRecruit, a text messaging and live chat communications platform for employers that launched in 2014. “This couldn’t be a better fit,” said Erik…
Greenhouse Raises $50 Million, Touts Diversity Offering
Greenhouse, a popular applicant tracking solution, joined a growing number of its peers raising money lately. Hired, for example, just raised $30 million. Phenom People recently raised $22 million. I could go on, but the gist is recruitment remains hot…
When AI Will Replace Recruiters
Products infused with AI are being introduced into recruiting at an increasing pace. It seems like a question of when, not if, that AI will start replacing recruiters. While there’ll always be barber school, consider what levels AI has to…
The Future of Career Sites
The corporate career site has now been with us for 20 years. In that time technology has advanced at a blistering pace, mobile devices and social media have revolutionized the way we experience the Internet, and many employers have significantly…
What 1 Million Chatbot Conversations Tell Us
A lot of companies are contemplating adding a chatbot to their careers site in order to drive higher conversation rates into the applicant tracking system, and to boost the candidate experience. Chatbots have been very successful in the worlds of…
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…
The Limits of AI: What It Can and Cannot Do for Recruiting (Today)
AI is making big strides into recruiting technology, with startups and established vendors investing heavily in products for a range of uses including interview scheduling, sourcing, and assessments. While it’s certain that AI will disrupt recruiting by automating a lot…
Blockchain Social Networks Aren’t Ready to Transform Recruiting
Blockchain technology has gained a lot of traction in recent years. Now it’s being used to create social networks, including Sapien, Steemit, Sola, Dock, Indorse, and others. As with most new platforms, the hype is starting to get deafening, with…
HireVue, Indeed Unveil Pre-Hire Assessment Solutions Born Out of Acquisitions
One did it with a new acquisition. MindX, a game-based assessments company based in London, has been acquired by HireVue, best known as one of the oldest video interviewing solutions. The announcement was made last week. “The MindX game-based assessments are…
How CEOs and People Leaders Need to Embrace 3 Levels of the AI Stack
We’ve all heard doom and gloom reports of the coming AI revolution. Some forecasters predict a very grim future indeed: robots take over and humans find themselves unceremoniously kicked to the curb, suddenly unable to provide for themselves and their…
You’ve Seen the Epic Google Video. Is This the Future of Recruiting?
Many of you have seen the video (see below) of Google Assistant booking a haircut and reserving a table at a small, hip restaurant. It’s truly amazing of how far in technology we have come. For those of you in recruiting, I’m…