I’d like to share an interesting case study from the Netherlands with all of you as well as what we can learn from it. The municipality of … Read more
How to Promote LGBTQ Equality in Your Recruitment Process
There’s an uncomfortable reality haunting us: we continue to live in a society where people are frequently discriminated against based on their sexual … Read more
Hiring for Culture Is Stupid
Culture is one of those “trends” in HR/recruiting that we just need to let die. It’s stupid. The whole idea behind it, although well intentioned, … Read more
Hey Google, Your Job Board Needs a Lot of Work
Google for Jobs was launched to much fanfare. I lost track of the number of commentators saying … ”This is the moment Indeed has dreaded blah blah … Read more
Memorable Moments From LinkedIn’s Talent Connect: the Pledge to Help Others, and the Program for Prisoners
Last week 4,684 or so talent acquisition and HR practitioners from around the world gathered in Dallas, Texas, to attend LinkedIn’s 10th annual Talent … Read more
Data Privacy: The Real Issue in the LinkedIn v. hiQ Ruling
The ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in favor of hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp affirmed that the automated scraping of publicly accessible … Read more
A Look at Life After ‘Google Hire’
Google Hire recently became the newest Google tool to be retired, with Google deciding to slowly phase out its recruiting platform by September of 2020. As … Read more
Executive Search, Ripe for Disruption
Let’s play a guessing game. Guess the average CEO pay in 2018 across America’s largest corporations. I’ll give you a hint. It’s increased 940 percent in … Read more
Google for Jobs’ Impact on Job Boards
Is Google for Jobs the end of the job board? Although it’s not launched in most European countries yet, the major European job boards seem to think … Read more
4 Reasons Indeed Might Be ‘Crazy Like a Fox’ to Block Google for Jobs
I give Indeed a lot of grief for not participating in Google for Jobs and not letting the search giant index its job postings. For years, Indeed has gotten … Read more
Glassdoor Open for Business in 3 New Global Markets
I’m on record predicting the Glassdoor brand will eventually disappear in light of it being acquired by Indeed’s parent company last year. I … Read more
If You Really Want to Help Government Workers … Recruit Them Away
It’s not an overstatement to label the current federal government partial shutdown as the most extraordinary opportunity to recruit government employees … Read more
ICYMI: The Stories That Shook The Recruiting World in 2018
I get it. You’re busy. You can’t be expected to catch all the recruitment news and opinion from 2018, right? That’s why I’m going … Read more
5 Predictions for 2019
I hit about .300 on my 2018 predictions. I fall back to baseball, because saying 3 out of 10 in anything else looks like an epic fail. A few of them, like … Read more
Real-Life Recruiting Robots Are as Creepy as You’d Expect
Text messaging with a bot is one thing. Asking Alexa and Siri what today’s weather looks like is another. But a robot you can actually touch and feel … Read more
Here Are My Top 3 Jive Turkeys for Thanksgiving 2018
In addition to mass quantities of turkey, pecan pie, and cold beverages being consumed on Thanksgiving this week in America, it’s the perfect time of … 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
HireVisor Dives Into the Deadpool
HireVisor, the company that let employers share the candidates that weren’t good enough to be hired with others, is calling it quits. Here’s an … Read more
ConnectJob.io Is Looking a Lot Like a Crypto-Scam
If you’re investing gambling on making crypto riches, hopefully none of your capital went into Gibraltar-based ConnectJob.io. I wrote about the … Read more
What We Should Take Away From Amazon’s Embedding Bias in Its Algorithm and Stopping the Project
A while ago I wrote an article warning recruiters about embedding their bias in their selection algorithms. The problem, as I described, is we all have a … Read more