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 concept, a talent pipeline recruiting strategy provides a tremendous competitive advantage…
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Short of Technicians, We’re Trying Virtual Reality
Over the next four years there will be a shortage of about 15,000 technical professionals in the Netherlands. At our Dutch, 7,000-employee energy company Alliander, we have 700 openings annually. The shortage of technicians and the unfamiliarity of the energy…
Glassdoor Competitor Kununu Adds 2-Way Dialogue Option Between Employers and Job Seekers
Online employee reviews are becoming big business, for good reason. An iCIMS survey last year said nearly 1 in 3 workers have declined a job offer primarily because the company had negative online employer reviews. It also revealed that 47 percent…
Take Your Hiring Managers on Your Talent-acquisition Technology journey
Imagine the scene. Interview scenario; “Tell me about a time when you truly took one of your hiring community on a learning journey and explained what a new piece of recruiting technology actually delivers?” How many of us would pass…
Your ATS Will Never Help You Hire
Let’s start with the obvious: no one likes their ATS. Like airlines, wireless service, or cable companies, there are no good choices, only a least horrible choice. This necessary evil was once the best way to manage and track a…
Whiteboard Tests Can Improve Your Hiring Results in Many Jobs
Improve Candidate Assessment by Adding Problem-Focused Whiteboard Tests Let’s look at the data. The current state of hiring and candidate assessment is problematic because research shows that 46 percent of new hires fail in their first 18 months on the…
My Predictions for 2018
Most of the good predictions are already taken. Monster sells. CareerBuilder sells. Dice fails to sell. Nevertheless, there are some good ones left, thanks to technology and an endless stream new ideas percolating around the globe. So, here goes: “Blockchain”…
2018 Headlines — the “War for AI Talent” and Other Top Recruiting Headlines
In my nearly four decades of involvement in recruiting, I have found no period in which change has been more rapid and impactful than during the last two years. I am forecasting that this high rate of change will continue…
Sticking It to ‘The Man’ Is Expensive, hiQ Learns in Battle with LinkedIn
LinkedIn is in a fight for its very existence. OK, that might be going a bit overboard. Or maybe it isn’t. In case you haven’t been paying attention, a small company called hiQ is in a legal donnybrook with LinkedIn….
3 New Tech Inventions With Potential to Revolutionize the Job Market
Everyone is getting with the times. Smartphones, wearable technology, and ride-sharing apps are yesterday’s news. Here are some technology innovations that could affect the job market, to keep your eyes on. Google Crushes the Language Barrier There is power in…
The New New Thing: Blockchains and Recruiting
If reading about AI is making you feel like Alice in Wonderland, then take heart, there’s something new on the horizon — Blockchains. The technology has been around since 2008 but is now getting more mainstream in business applications, though…
Recruiting Chatbot Market Remains Red Hot, Mya Raises $18 Million
The ongoing automation of recruitment marches on with Mya Systems, creator of Mya, securing $18 million in Series B funding last week. This follows a Series A round of $11.4 million in May 2017, and a seed round of $3…
Breezy HR Jumps Into Chatbot Recruiting Race with ‘Hello’
The bots are multiplying. Breezy, an applicant tracking solution from the folks who brought us Path.To, launches Hello today. Similar to other chatbot offerings like Mya, Olivia, Crowded, and GoBe, Hello aims to have a virtual conversation with a prospect…
Building an Advanced Talent Acquisition Function Today: HRTech (Part 3 of 3)
In part one we covered people and different talent acquisition structures. In part two, we went into some depth around optimal process and operational governance. Today, we are going to dive into HR technology: how you need to be thinking…
Entelo Dives Into AI with Envoy
Artificial intelligence is hot. It’s difficult to go a week without commentary from the likes of Elon Musk, Bill Gates, or Mark Zuckerberg. Without a doubt, the machines are going to have a bigger and bigger role in our lives,…
AI or IA? Intelligence Augmentation for Recruiting
IBM’s Watson is synonymous with AI. Perhaps IBM should have named it Sherlock. Anyone familiar with the Sherlock Holmes stories knows that Watson wasn’t very bright. But he did have his uses. He was good at collecting and summarizing information,…
Not Hiring Exceptional Candidates Is Extremely Damaging but It’s Preventable
Note: This article is part of a continuing series covering high-impact business practices that recruiting should be doing, but it doesn’t! Losing Exceptional Candidates Is Damaging Your Firm Learning specifically why exceptional candidates were not hired can be added to…
Google Cloud Jobs API Is Now Cloud Job Discovery, Embraces ATSs, Staffing Agencies
Google for Jobs and Google Hire get all the attention, but the company’s job search API, which helps make search results on corporate career sites and job boards smarter, continues to be a focus. Today, Google Cloud Job Discovery, formerly…
Why Google Getting into Recruitment Is Great for the Industry
Much has been written about Google’s foray into recruitment recently, first with the launch of Google for Jobs, and most recently with the announcement of Google Hire. The reaction from recruiters has been cautiously optimistic thus far, but the reaction…
CareerBuilder Launches Talent Discovery to Ease the Pain of Logging In and Out Everywhere
Earlier this month CareerBuilder announced the release of its new Talent Discovery platform. This addition is aimed at decreasing the amount of time recruiters spend filling employment vacancies by combining all of the company’s products into one offering that integrates…