Joel Cheesman
Loading...
Content authored by Joel Cheesman
This Employer is Using Snap Spectacles to Recruit Millennials
Some scoffed when I wrote about Snap Spectacles being a relevant recruiting tool. Fair enough, but I may have been on to something after all. Here’s why. Citi is now using… Read more
This Lame Move Proves Newspapers Might Be Even Harder Up Than We Thought
Times are tough in the newspaper business, but I didn’t know they were this tough. You probably aren’t familiar with tronc, but you certainly know their old moniker, Tribune Publishing. They’re behind such… Read more
Relax, Silicon Valley! President-Elect Trump Will Deliver the Immigration Reform You Most Desire
President-elect of the United States Donald Trump had a meeting with select leaders of the tech industry this past Wednesday. They exchanged warm words and smiles, and perhaps buried a… Read more
Don’t Laugh, Robots and Algorithms are Coming to Recruitment in a Big Data Kinda Way
The experts would have us believe our jobs will soon be taken by intelligent machines. A study from the Oxford University suggests that within just the next two decades around… Read more
Recruitment Startup Founded by Yale Students Receives Funding to Expand Nationally
Ripple Recruiting, the startup founded by students from Yale to help employers find, recruit and hire the best students has raised a grand total of $700,000 during a recent round… Read more
Job Board Vet Gets into the Chatbot Game with GoBe on Facebook Messenger
The most memorable email I’ve ever received from Jonathan Duarte was delivered in 2009. It essentially said he was leaving the U.S., pushing pause on his relatively successful job site,… Read more
Slack Adds Video Calls, Skype Adds Real-Time Translation
Video interviewing and corporate messaging got a few goodies in their stocking this year. Microsoft launched a recent update for Skype Translator that allows it to work with landlines and… Read more
Yik Yak is on Life Support and Anonymous Employee Review Sites Should Take Note
Anonymity was all the rage a few years ago. In case you forgot, apps like Secret, Whisper and Yik Yak allow(ed) users to tune into a plethora of faceless content. At… Read more
Here’s How This Startup is Recruiting, Retaining New Parents
There are a few ways companies try to attract people, including happy hour and ping-pong, but the tech firm Outreach has come up with something new. The Seattle-based sales analytics… Read more
CEO Of Zenefits David Sacks to Step Down
The CEO of Zenefits, David Sacks, has announced his plans to step down from the top job at the HR tech startup after less than a year. What’s next? Among other… Read more
Ikea Just Made It Tougher for Retailers to Go All ‘Scrooge’ on Parental Leave Policies
The US division of Ikea will begin offering employees longer parental leave. The move comes after tech companies such as Netflix offering similar benefits to retain their great workers as… Read more
European-Based Job Today Raises $20 Million, Eyes U.S. Market for Mobile-First Platform
How long has the recruiting industry been saying, “This is finally the year of mobile”? I’ll put it at roughly 2008. The combination of a risk-averse customer, timing and legacy systems… Read more
Facebook Unveils Yet Another Recruiter-Friendly Feature
The hits just keep on coming. Facebook means more than sharing photos and whining about the election. It means business. In the past few months, the most popular social network… Read more
Facebook Looks to Take a Serious Bite Out of LinkedIn with Latest Move
It’s amazing how $26.2 billion can wake-up a sleeping giant. After selling to Microsoft for that amount, it’s no surprise others, like Facebook, are taking notice. I imagine the conversation at… Read more
Bill Warren of DirectEmployers Announces Retirement, Organization Names Successor
Bill Warren is an industry icon. The online employment business might be a vastly different place had he not started Online Career Center in the ’90s, eventually selling to Monster (becoming its first… Read more
