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…
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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…
Candidate Experience vs. Candidate Quality? Have Your Cake and Eat it Too
When it comes to hiring in 2018, candidate experience is driving the bus. Failure to provide a good candidate experience can spell disaster for your hiring process and your brand. If you want proof, check out this cool little widget…
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 them in a way that is segmented and regular. That’s not really…
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 whole recruitment marketing and messaging to candidates. Scott Read, associate director, global talent supply at Procter…
What You Need to Know About Recruiting Automation
Recruiters don’t get enough credit for how dramatically the field of talent acquisition has changed in just the past decade. From job boards and social recruiting to employer branding and recruitment marketing, talent-acquisition professionals have navigated multiple waves of technology…
An Interview With Matt Alder, Who Has Watched the Online Revolution in Recruiting
“We used to do presentations saying that the Internet would change the way people looked for jobs,” says Matt Alder, “and everyone used to laugh at us.” Alder is a speaker, author, and talent acquisition consultant at the forefront of…
Hire by Google Launches Candidate Discovery Feature to Search, Engage Old Resumes
It was just a question of time. When Google launched Hire last year, everyone knew it would eventually introduce its search technology into the product and make finding and reengaging resumes in your database more, well, Google-y. And that day…
Blockchains and Recruiting. Transformative Technology or Just a Buzzword?
Every so often some new technology comes along that gets the recruiting world buzzing — AI, VR, AR, to name a few. Blockchains are the most recent entrant. With the proliferation of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, the underlying technology…
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: the few companies that are starting to effectively pipeline talent don’t have…
Key Takeaways From Spark Hire’s 2018 Hiring Trends Report
Jobs are already growing rapidly this year, as showcased by this month’s employment report, but what is driving the expansion of some companies around the nation, and what are companies focusing on to improve hiring processes? Spark Hire is one…
Here’s Why RealMatch Just Rebranded Itself PandoLogic
Maybe there’s just something in the recruitment waters. In light of Beyond changing its name to Nexxt last year, RealMatch is now PandoLogic. However, unlike Nexxt, who sold its original domain name for a bucket of cash from Bed, Bath &…
Robots Will Disrupt Recruiting More Than AI
If you’d like to see the future, visit the Henn-na restaurant near Nagasaki in Japan. Inside, a robot chef makes pancakes, while another makes cocktails or doughnuts. A robot host goes to guest tables with a reminder when their hour-long…
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 concept, a talent pipeline recruiting strategy provides a tremendous competitive advantage…
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…