
Matt Charney
Matt serves as Chief Content Officer and Global Thought Leadership Head for Allegis Global Solutions and is a partner for RecruitingDaily the industry leading online publication for Recruiting and HR Tech. With a unique background that includes HR, blogging and social media, Matt Charney is a key influencer in recruiting and a self-described “kick-butt marketing and communications professional.”
Content authored by Matt Charney
Pithy The Fool: Deconstructing Recruiting Best Practice Buzzwords.
I’m just going to jump right into this one; no one wants content or complexity in their content, therefore, leads are just kind of a waste of space. Everyone wants… Read more
All Recruiting Is Mobile Recruiting.
I’m lucky (or unlucky) enough to have gone to enough recruiting related events and conferences over the past few years to realize that while mobile has progressed to the point… Read more
What A Trip: Recruiting, Retention and Your PTO Policy.
As if there weren’t already enough reasons for us to love Chipotle, the restaurant chain recently gave us one more, announcing it would be extending such benefits as sick leave… Read more
The Future of Applicant Tracking Systems: A Recruiting Roadmap.
There is no single piece of technology that’s more universally despised throughout recruiting’s rank and file than applicant tracking systems. That these cumbersome, rigid legacy systems, written on a code… Read more
Notorious: Why Recruiters Who Ignore Big Data Are Ready To Die.
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
Traffic, Transparency & Talent Technology: The Future of Online Recruiting
Innovation and competition have always gone hand in hand, and the recruiting technology industry has historically been no exception to this rule. One has to look no further than only… Read more
How To Make Sure You Know Exactly Who You’re Hiring.
As the ousted former CEO of Yahoo!, the disgraced Dean at MIT , the publically shamed past President of IBM or the would-be head football coach at Notre Dame can tell you, lying on your resume never really pays… Read more
The State of Candidate Experience in 10 Statistics
With hundreds of employers voluntarily subjecting their hiring process to the intense scrutiny involved in being adjudicated by nearly 95,000 applicant responses, the 2014 Candidate Experience Awards did more than… Read more
HR Technology: One Platform To Rule Them All, One Platform To Find Them.
Every year in the US alone employers spend $72 billion — that’s billion, with a B — on recruiting services, staff and technology. For some perspective: $70 billion will buy every franchise in the… Read more
How To Use Social Media for Employee Onboarding
Recruiters always talk about finding “top talent,” but the truth is, most of the time, it’s damn near impossible just to find even minimally qualified ones, no matter how mediocre… Read more
Quick Hits: Why HR Needs To Stop Worrying About Weed.
I’ve always been acutely aware of the central role alcohol seems to play whenever HR people congregate, and found it oddly paradoxical – and hypocritical – that the same group that… Read more
Friend or Foe: The Hiring Manager Conundrum
Cats, as TS Eliot once pointed out, are solitary creatures. Much like Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac, they can go their own way – and if the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical… Read more
Perk Up: How To Make Employee Retention Pay Off
There are a bunch of sweeping stereotypes ascribed to Gen Y workers, and most of these generalities are generally completely false, which shouldn’t be a surprise. Workplace generational theory is… Read more
Not Another Mobile Recruiting Post.
If you want a business case or case use for the importance of mobile recruiting adoption and optimization, you don’t really have to look far. Hell, there’s a cottage industry… Read more
“We’re Going To Compete With Intuit.” ZipRecruiter CEO Reveals Big Plans for Small Businesses
Most recruiting tools and technologies on the market are designed with enterprise employers in mind, focusing an inordinate amount of their bandwidth and budget on landing big deals with big… Read more