When it comes to AI-based hiring assessment tools, we are presently at the bottom of the Technology Adoption Curve staring upward. Those brave enough to be … Read more
Fixing the Talent Shortage: Drop the College Degree Requirement
After serving their country and gaining valuable experience in the process, many of our nation’s veterans still struggle to find jobs when they return … Read more
No-Cost People Search Engine Findera Launches
Meet Findera, a people search engine that officially launched in October 2018, offering a free recruiting solution for employers to find talent on a global … Read more
Fixing Bias in AI
It was reported recently that Amazon shut down an AI-powered recruitment system because it discriminated against women. The system was designed to look at … Read more
Uncommon Adds Automated Sourcing to Its Programmatic Job Advertising Solution
Active candidates just aren’t enough these days. Not with the unemployment rate under 4 percent anyway. For Palo Alto-based Uncommon, this meant the … Read more
5 Takeaways from iCIMS Analyst Day
Analyst days are pretty common in almost any industry, and employment is no different. Basically, a company brings in influencers for a glimpse into the … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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. … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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, … Read more
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 … Read more