Recruiting Tools

“I fucking hate apps.” To say I was taken aback when Enboarder CEO Brent Pearson, a former Monster executive, said this during a product demo of his solution – touted in a… Read more

Marketing automation is getting easier and easier (and scarier and scarier). Finding needles in a haystack used to come down to which sourcer knew more than the others. Now, finding… Read more

Selling stuff to HR isn’t easy. It’s a market filled with people who are inundated with phone calls, are risk averse and budget constrained. Not a good recipe for quick… Read more

In March 2000, Monster topped $86 a share. It was worth nearly $8.5 billion. It was still valued at more than $7.5 billion in 2006. Yesterday, recruitment firm Randstad Holdings purchased Monster for $429 million… Read more

Industry vets will know the name Doug Berg. He’s a serial entrepreneur that has done very well for himself thanks to ventures like Techies.com in the ’90s and Jobs2Web in… Read more

You’re not going to use this app. Why? Because it’s targeting very small businesses. Historically, this is a market that recruiting technology vendors fear to tread. But, like a honey badger, ipply “don’t… Read more

Creating email lists when sourcing sucks. It is like flossing your teeth or working out. It sucks but you have to do it. And if you want to compete, you… Read more

Don’t call ’em SimplyIndeed. When Recruit, Indeed‘s parent company acquired SimplyHired a few month’s ago, there was a lot of speculation around what would happen next. Would www.simplyhired.com just redirect to… Read more

 No Drama Demo: Elevated Careers Do any of these sound familiar? You don’t know what candidates really want to hear. Our company talks a lot about excellence, but we don’t… Read more

The story you tell is more important than ever. It’s the voice of your company and in a world where almost every candidate is doing their research before even considering… Read more

LinkedIn quietly acquired PointDrive this week. On the surface, the move looks like a grenade launch at Salesforce. This is not a shock, of course, when we all learned that a big… Read more

When are you bringing Cheezhead back? I get this question regularly. For industry vets who are old enough to remember Cheezhead, you probably get it. For those who aren’t, Cheezhead was a… Read more

  They call it “social media” but I’m unclear when it transitioned from social to just that annoying thing we call media. Social implies that we talk, we converse and… Read more

What happens in your ATS to candidates that you don’t hire? If you have been recruiting as long as I have they could fall into the infamous Recruiting black hole… Read more

Look, sometimes we recruiters need to make a little money on the side. Just like social media marketers do consulting for Facebook, we hire on the side. We make extra… Read more