The Week That Was 5.12.17: Talent Sonar, Gig Economy, Mya, True People Search,

The Software Formally Known as Unitive: Talent Sonar

From Founder and CEO, Laura Mather:
A few months ago, we acquired Talent Sonar and its machine learning technology for anonymized resume review. You know this feature well if you’ve used Unitive recently.  As you know, our hiring software focuses on five hiring best practices. They are: prioritized job requirements, inclusive job descriptions, anonymized resume review, structured interviews, and data-driven hiring.  These help you find the right fit for your company from a broader, more qualified talent pool. A few months ago, we acquired Talent Sonar and its machine learning technology to strengthen and improve our anonymized resume review.

Ultimately, we realized that Talent Sonar was a better description of the services we offer. It also signaled a key component of our new mission. We innovate and operationalize the best in new technological solutions to address today’s hiring challenges. Our name change is a re-commitment to investing in the power of technology to build exceptional teams.

Read their full transition story here.

Gig Economy: Yah or Nah?

‘Gig Economy‘ is a buzzword that just won’t die. But is it a real thing? This New Yorker article by Contributor Nathan Heller does a great job of describing what is up with the gig economy and what it means to Americans.

“The American workplace is both a seat of national identity and a site of chronic upheaval and shame. The industry that drove America’s rise in the nineteenth century was often inhumane. The twentieth-century corrective—a corporate workplace of rules, hierarchies, collective bargaining, triplicate forms—brought its own unfairnesses. Gigging reflects the endlessly personalizable values of our own era, but its social effects, untried by time, remain uncertain.”

Click here to read the article in its entirety. Let me warn you – it is a loooooooonnnnggggg one.

It took all but two replies to that statement to set people off on how much they dislike recruiters. “Recruiters are like used car salesman but for people,” said one contributor. We work with recruiters every day. We come from a recruiting background. We like recruiters. So you can imagine this was a bit startling.

We continued to read, however, and what followed were a lot of complaints about recruiting practices that we nor our clients would ever encourage or enact. But that doesn’t change perspective. Rather it is up to us to show people we are an ethical and good recruitment agency. Here are a few things we know you do, but we want to make sure you’re making your clients and candidates aware that you are a good recruitment agency. Read the complete RecruitingBlogs Article written byAdam Appleton by clicking here.