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…
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What the Data Tells Us about Hiring Trends in 2017
At Glassdoor, I spend my time trying to make sense of the labor market through research, primarily with our own data. In 2016 I learned a lot about hiring challenges facing both the recruiter and job seeker, about how the…
Dramatically Improve Your Applicant Quality Using a Simple Side-By-Side Job Post Test
A quick and low-cost approach for improving the attraction power of your job postings The most damaging failure point in recruiting is having a weak job posting! Even if your job is exciting, you will get fewer applications if your…
When Did We Start (I Mean Stop) Talking?
Humans began talking as early as 2.5 million years ago. It might have been groans and grunts, but humans were using their facial expressions and vocal cords to communicate and connect. Talking is a unique human ability: logical thought is…
December Is Prime Time for Recruiting … Because the Competition Is so Low
Recruiting is a direct competition between firms. So, unless you’re a firm with a great employer brand like Google, Facebook or GE, focus your recruiting during the months where the competition is extremely low. And, in the U.S. and many…
The Business Impact of Candidate Experience
Here’s what’s crystal clear in business today: poor customer service impacts customer retention, referrals, and potential new business. Social media has given consumers an open forum to share both good and bad product and service experiences to all who will…
Tackling the Gender Diversity Gap — Recommendations for Employers to Attract Women in STEM
For many of the employers we work with, gender diversity is a high priority on the corporate agenda — especially women in STEM roles. Employers are often tasked with achieving diversity targets, but are faced with high competition for the same…
Remember You Read It Here! The Next Big Surprise in Talent Management Is ‘The March of the Robots’
Should You Hire an Employee, a Robot or an Algorithm? You have been warned: a robot is about to take not just your job, but most jobs! Few in talent management or HR are prepared for the robot takeover, and…
What Veterans Want
Picture this: you’re a military veteran who has returned home from active duty and attempting to assimilate back into civilian culture. You’ve got the support of great family and friends, the respect of your peers, and the opportunity to immerse…
There’s Some New Poaching-Related Guidance From the U.S. Government, and It Can Mean Criminal Prosecution
In late October, the U.S. federal agencies responsible for enforcing antitrust law issued new guidance about anti-poaching and related agreements that you may have missed. But it’s important to those of you in the U.S., so let me explain. The Antitrust…
Your Hiring Managers Are Still Asking Dumb Interview Questions
When I was a teenager and applying for a job the manager who interviewed me asked what even then I thought was about the dumbest question: “Where do you see yourself in five years?” Seriously. Asking that of an 18 year…
Alexa, Get Me Some Candidates! Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Recruiting
AI is the new new thing in recruiting. Products like Mya claim to use AI and promise to revolutionize recruiting. As usual, the hype far exceeds the reality, since true AI means having a flexible, general-purpose intelligence of the type…
3 Things You Didn’t Know About Talent Acquisition in Hong Kong
Employers from Europe and the Americas provide jobs for over 1.5 Million Hong Kongers, a population of more than 7 Million. We typically follows the cycle of more mature regions; disruption is needed here. The biggest mistake made by international employers is failing…
The War for Talent is Dead: Is Open Source the Future of HR?
For the most part, the HR and recruiting industry has historically treated our work as strictly confidential. Outside of conferences or between individual colleagues we seldom see companies actively sharing their secrets for success or lessons learned from their failures…
Recruiting Problem or Business Problem?
Like most of my articles, I like to write disclaimers up front. In the spirit of transparency, this is part marketing article, but I also included some interesting insights you have probably never seen before to justify it being one…
Good, But Not Good Enough: Matching Workers with High-growth Jobs
In the six years since the global financial crisis, the U.S. economy has gained much of the economic strength that was lost in the recession. In the last month alone, the economy showed a robust hiring rate of 287,000, the…
Future Shock: 3 Trends That Will Make Recruiting More Difficult
The World Economic Forum predicts that recruitment is going to become a lot more challenging in the next five years for just about every job in every industry. The WEF report — the Future of Jobs — attributes this situation to an…
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality: The Next Frontier
It’s early, but virtual reality is showing some promise as a recruiting tool. Employers ranging from the British Army to the Commonwealth Bank of Australia are using it to give candidates a preview of their facilities and the experience of working there….
We Built a Crystal Ball for Recruiting … and Can Predict Which Reqs Will Be at Risk
If metrics are like headlights that allow us to see where our business is going, predictive metrics are the high beams. You can see further out and avoid issues that you can’t with normal views. We talk about predictive quite…
Memo to Recruiters: Don’t Want To Be Replaced By A Robot? Stop Recruiting Like One
Like you I have seen the many articles the past months with statistics that say that X percent of the workforce is one day going to be replaced by a robot. Some of this has leaked into the recruiter and HR…