Big Data

The first time I used Waze was a revelation. This was not because of the network effects it generates, but more importantly, because of how transparently the application’s user interface… Read more

The Numbers Game: How To Use Data To Land Top Talent More than ever, “understanding the numbers” is an essential for any hiring manager, recruiter, or talent acquisition professional who… Read more

As someone who’s more or less grown up with the commoditization and corporate adoption of social media, and as someone who gets paid to do this stuff, I’ve seen a… Read more

While the Federal Reserve recently decided to raise interest rates for the first time since the financial crisis, they cited job growth as a key driver for their decision. As the New… Read more

Let’s face it. If we liked math (or were any good at it), there’s a good chance we wouldn’t be in recruiting. Crunching data has to be one of the… Read more

If you run a business or manage a team, then you’ve felt–or can imagine–the extreme stress of a talent deficit. Experiencing a rapid-fire personnel change is comparable to being struck… Read more

Oh, “time to fill.” If you’re a recruiter, the very mention of this metric is enough to send shivers down your spine; after all, it’s been used for years now to… Read more

There’s never been a clear cut consensus on where, exactly, sourcing ends and recruiting begins in the hiring process. It’s a distinction that data is increasingly rendering more and more… Read more

Have you ever seen one of those inspirational football movies? I’m confident you’ve seen at least one. Think movies like Remember the Titans, We Are Marshall or more recently Draft Day,… Read more

If you’re like most recruiting and talent pros out there, you’re probably sick and tired of hearing about “big data,” a concept so seemingly complex that neither pundits nor practitioners… Read more

Living in the age of the algorithm, we’ve come to expect that anything that can be quantified will be quantified. The seemingly amorphous things that can be converted into hard… Read more

It’s no secret that the world of work has changed – but the fact of the matter is, recruitment, largely, remains stuck in stasis, with many employers failing to adopt… Read more

As someone who’s more or less grown up with the commoditization and corporate adoption of social media, and as someone who gets paid to do this stuff, I’ve seen a… Read more

There have been a ton of articles written about applying sabermetrics to workforce analytics – hell, Billy Beane keynoted the one and only TLNT conference in history to talk about… Read more

Recruiting, as a rule, kind of sucks when scale is involved. It’s no secret that most corporate recruiters feel overwhelmed with too many resumes to review, or too many requisitions… Read more