GreenJobInterview, an early entrant in the video interview arena, is being acquired by Montage, one of its two leading competitors. No financial details were disclosed in this morning’s announcement, which also included news that Montage had closed an $8 million funding round…
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Engineer’s Anti-Diversity Memo Gets Sharp Rebuke From Google
A political firestorm has erupted at Google over a 10-page memo by a software engineer challenging the company’s diversity efforts, declaring that biology and not society explains why there are so few women in tech and leadership. Posted internally last…
Average Time to fill Takes Big Drop In May. But Is It Temporary?
It took an average of 27.6 working days to fill a job in May, according to the latest data from career site publisher DHI Group. That’s the fewest days since January, and almost three days fewer than it took in April….
Google Enters the ATS Market With a Full-Featured Tool For Small and Mid-Sized Businesses
On the heels of its May announcement of a powerful job search tool — Google for Jobs — the company today publicly released an ATS designed for small- and mid-sized businesses. Google Hire integrates with its widely-used G Suite, enabling recruiters…
Majority Share In CareerBuilder Sold to Investment Group
Note: This article was updated to reflect information from industry sources regarding the CareerBuilder sales price. A Canadian pension fund and private equity firm Apollo Global Management announced today they are buying a majority share of CareerBuilder. The price was…
Here’s What We Know (and Don’t Know) About Google’s New Job Search
Indeed’s tagline used to be “One search. All jobs.” Looks like Google took offense. Long rumored to be getting back into the job search game, we got our first visual confirmation of that a few weeks ago, when Google Hire first…
$1 Billion Sale For CareerBuilder Could Be Near
Reuters news is reporting that a Chicago private equity firm is in talks to buy CareerBuilder for more than $1 billion. Citing anonymous sources, Reuters said GTCR, LLC. is in the process of finalizing a deal. The sources cautioned the…
Nearly 500,000 New Jobs Added This Year
Employers continued to add nonfarm jobs at a rapid pace in February, increasing payrolls by 235,000 during the month, blowing past predictions of a more modest increase. Adding to economists’ surprise, the U.S. Labor Department’s monthly employment report also showed…
Expedited H-1B Program Suspension Announced
Friday’s announcement that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will halt its expedited H-1B visa processing is raising concerns that businesses dependent on foreign talent could be impacted. “This suspension is not good for American businesses by any means,” immigration…
Uber’s Culture Is A Reflection of Its CEO
If any part of the charges of sexual harassment and favoritism made by a former Uber engineer hold up, company CEO Travis Kalanick should go. The VCs who sit on the company board should do the right thing if he…
Employers Add 227,000 Jobs In January, But Slow Wage Growth
Hiring surged, wages slumped, and the unemployment rate rose slightly in January, as the first month of the new year and a new administration showed the economy, though strong, could still be confounding. The U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor…
Private Sector Adds 246,000 Jobs In January
Private sector hiring surged in January, with employers adding 246,000 new jobs, significantly above the 170,000 economists were predicting. It’s the strongest start to a new year in more than a decade and hints that the government’s more complete employment…
The Bots and Apps Are Taking Over!
Academia is getting into HR tech development. Two professors and an administrator at Temple University business school have come up with DevelapMe, a performance management app. Not to be confused with Develop.Me, which is a performance management app for churches,…
Homeland Security: Green Card Holders Will Be Allowed to Return
President Trump signed an executive order on Friday, January 27, 2017, that suspends the admission into the U.S. of people from certain countries for 90 days. This three-month ban applies to citizens of the following countries: Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan,…
Latest ADP Buy Is Bet That Analytics Trend Will Accelerate
The big vendor news this week was the acquisition of The Marcus Buckingham Company by ADP. It’s not so much the size of the deal — TMBC is a boutique performance management consulting and services firm; no price was announced. Instead,…
One Company Is Running a Super Bowl Ad And It’s Not to Get You to Buy Anything
A $2.5 billion, 5,000-employee with 250 locations in 30 states will be running its first Super Bowl advertisement February 5, and it won’t be to get you to buy beer, a car, or host a website. 84 Lumber’s spot is…
Spotify Puts Up a Job Description That Fits a Very Purple Squirrel
Spotify’s looking for “world-class leadership.” Fair enough — plenty of candidates could fit the bill. Attention to detail — also doable. Team spirit, excellent work ethic, a warm attitude — makes sense. But as for the rest of the job: something…
Jobs Grow by 156K in December; Wages Take Jump
Ending the year much as it began, employers hired a modest 156,000 new workers in December, bringing the total for 2016 to 2.16 million new jobs. In 2015, employers added 2.74 million. While this morning’s jobs estimate from the Labor…
DOL Sues to Get Google Comp Info
Google is being sued by the U.S. Department of Labor for allegedly failing to turnover documents relating to compensation of employees at its Silicon Valley headquarters. The suit announced today charges that Google provided a September 1, 2015 “compensation snapshot,”…
U.S. Agencies Get New Rules About Disabilities
In the U.S., the government is out with new rules related to hiring people with disabilities, guidance that currently applies only to government agencies, not the private sector. The rules, among other things, require each federal agency to try to have…