Recruiting Tools

If you attended the HR Technology Conference in Chicago earlier this month, there were two buzzwords you heard more than once if you visited the expo hall: Engagement and A.I…. Read more

A recently launched app, tilr, hopes to make finding new employees as easy as swiping right on Tinder. It is the brainchild of Carisa Miklusak and Summer Crenshaw, both formerly… Read more

“Big data” is more than a pair of buzzwords. For employers with, say, a resume database full of candidates, “big data” ends up being a headache at best, and an unused… Read more

We’ve come a long way since the mainstream introduction of paying for clicks to get candidate traffic. I can remember a presentation by Indeed‘s Paul Forster back in 2006, educating… Read more

Next to “artificial intelligence,” “engagement” was all the rage at this year’s HR Technology Conference in Chicago last week. Evolution in technology and mobility has made interacting with employees in new… Read more

LinkedIn announced it is rolling out ProFinder nationwide after a successful 10-month pilot. ProFinder is essentially a marketplace for freelance white collar professionals. ProFinder models itself similarly to companies like Upwork, Fiverr, and Maven… Read more

Let’s be honest. The reason that your recruiting messages are not completely personalized is due to time.  It just takes too long to engage candidates already in process, let alone… Read more

Facebook officially launched Marketplace this week. It’s about what you’d think: Post an item for sale via your Facebook account and potential buyers contact you via Messenger. The buyer and… Read more

I know that I have done a review of Hiretual before, but I am excited about the latest update. Currently, Hiretual acts like a “Recruiting Assistant” and obtains additional information about candidates on… Read more

I sat down for lunch yesterday and took out my phone and dialed-up the web site for the HR Technology Conference, which is going down in Chicago next week. Surprisingly,… Read more

Many of the rumors around Microsoft buying LinkedIn for as much as it did was speculation that Salesforce was driving up the price by making it well known they wanted the professional… Read more

If you’ve been avoiding Snapchat, whether personally or professionally, it’s time to start paying attention. Aside from the fact that the mobile phenomenon enjoys 100 million users daily, and that… Read more

Things are moving pretty fast. In the workplace, anything that can be automated is being automated. Robots are taking over. Artificial intelligence promises to make us all obsolete replace countless corporate functions…. Read more

Using badges to encourage competition and progress is nothing new. Whether we’re talking the military, the Girl Scouts or Foursquare, simply rewarding achievement with some sort of visual does wonders…. Read more

Portfolium, an 18-person start-up based in San Diego has raised $6.6 million in a first round of venture capital funding, led by SJF Ventures. The company was launched in 2014 by… Read more