Microsoft recently buying GitHub for $7.5 billion was a big deal, with a variety of winners and losers in the recruitment industry. By buying the most valuable online community of software engineers in the world, Microsoft now claims the two most…
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Dice Survey on Tech Industry Finds Discrimination, Bias, Ageism Are Still Big Problems
This shouldn’t come as any great surprise: Dice’s new Diversity and Inclusion Report 2018 finds that discrimination and bias are still major problems in the tech industry, particularly as they relate to gender. The Dice report surveyed nearly 4,000 technology…
Are You Ready to Recruit in a World Where Microsoft Owns LinkedIn and GitHub?
Love ’em or hate ’em, recruiters and vendors need to get used to the reality that Microsoft now owns the two most popular professional networking sites on the net. And as a result, it owns the two most important sourcing…
Following Glassdoor Acquisition, Indeed Embraces Employer Branding With New Report
When Glassdoor got gobbled up by Indeed’s parent company last week, I speculated that the two would eventually become one. If not one brand, I guessed they would at least start sharing content, resources, product offerings, employer platforms, and the…
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…
Monster Finally Gets a CEO, Adds Former Dice President to Executive Team
Well, that took a while. So long, in fact, that I don’t even remember who the last CEO was at Monster. Better late than never, I guess, as Monster announced a tech executive from the travel industry as its new…
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…
Viva Las Vegas: Caesars Entertainment No Longer Screening for Marijuana Use
You probably knew this day would come: Companies across America are quietly dropping marijuana from the drug tests they give to prospective employees. The latest to do so this week is casino giant Caesars Entertainment, owners of such famous properties…
CareerBuilder Sells Labor Market Analytics Firm Emsi to Strada
Sell! Sell! Sell! Keeping in tune with the private-equity playbook, it was just a matter of time before Apollo Global, CareerBuilder’s majority shareholder since 2016, would start putting pieces of the portfolio up for sale. Announced today, the company is…
Dice’s Parent Company, DHI Group, Has a New CEO
True to its word back in November 2017, DHI Group, the parent company to well-known tech job board Dice, has a new CEO, replacing outgoing CEO Michael Durney. Announced on April 10, Art Zeile now holds the title of chief executive officer….
How Google Begins and Ends the War for Talent
The average member of the workforce is well aware that today’s job hunt looks very different than it did just a few years ago. Now, virtually all applications must be completed online, and there’s usually an opportunity to populate applications…
You Have a Choice: Diversity and Inclusion Doormat, or Change Agent
Last year was a milestone for underrepresented groups across industries when it comes to diversity, inclusion, and the flurry of “me too” stories that were told to the world. Susan Crowler, Ellen Pao, and Salma Hayek, to name a few….
LinkedIn Turns on Damage Control in Light of Google for Jobs, Underscores It’s Not Indeed
With all the chatter around Google putting a chokehold on Indeed.com, LinkedIn clearly wants to make sure people know it’s not in the crosshairs too. Jeremy Rozicer, SVP of recruiting at Oak Solutions Group Inc., shared an email from its LinkedIn representative earlier…
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…
My Response: Why The Recruitment Industry Won’t Die in 2018 (or Any Other Year)
If you read enough HR blog posts, you’ll come to believe the recruitment industry is on its last legs. Almost every week, I read about the rapidly approaching death of the industry due to automation, machine learning, and, of course,…
The Hype of Candidate Engagement and Candidate Experience
It seems that 2016 was the year when recruiters fixated on improving candidate engagement and the candidate experience. There were hundreds of articles and reports on candidate engagement, awards, and at least one conference devoted entirely to discussing it. There…
Overtime Rule Delayed, But Not Reversed: The Impact So Far
In May of 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that it would raise the salary threshold set by the Fair Labor Standards Act, above which workers are ineligible to receive overtime pay — more than doubling it from $455…
Where the Talent Acquisition Profession is Headed
The business practice of recruiting has been the same from the beginning of time. My great-great grandfather was a wagon and buggy wheelwright in San Francisco in the 1870s. This was a specialized skill in his day, and whenever he…
How Changing the Compensation Conversation in Interviews Solves More than the Pay Gap
A few months ago, Massachusetts pushed pay transparency forward when Governor Charlie Baker signed a law prohibiting employers from asking candidates about their salary history. The law, which also forbids companies from telling employees not to discuss their salaries, is designed to…
The Recruiting Times They Are A-Changin’ (How to Stop Worrying and Love AI)
Come gather ’round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You’ll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you Is worth savin’ Then you better start swimmin’…