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The bias behind being called a feminist is rampant. To this day, just saying the word feminist strikes fear in most men’s eyes. They look shocked and scared by the mental… Read more

Sourcing is one of those skill sets that you continue to use even after you leave recruiting—and just as relevant if your new job, like mine, involves generating marketing-qualified leads…. Read more

The monstrous melodrama continues. Let’s catch up. A couple weeks ago, Monster announced they were being acquired by Randstad Holdings. Last week, Monster’s biggest investor said, “not so fast,” believing the… Read more

As the dust settles from Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn, the rumors have just begun to swirl. The first wave of reactions were all about the product and people were posting almost daily. Questions… 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

While I’m generally pretty good at reading the M&A market in the HR Technology space, I admit that the announcement that venerable tech titan Microsoft was acquiring LinkedIn took me,… Read more

A year or so ago, I saw an internal recruiter from Hewlett Packard bragging on LinkedIn about how successful he and his team had been in filling open job requisitions…. Read more

Turns out there’s good news, there’s bad news, and there’s LinkedIn Customer Service. At least, this was the discovery I made after an excruciating 25 minute long phone call with a… Read more

I don’t think it’s unfair to call spam “the fossil fuel of recruiting” – it’s cheap, it’s easy and it gets the job done. On the other hand, though, it’s… Read more

There are people in this world who do not use LinkedIn. This is not an April Fools joke. I have clients that do not know of or ever heard of… Read more

Way back when Skills and Endorsements were introduced (yes, they were announced in late September 2012), I did it myself. I wrote about the Facebook-ization of LinkedIn. Endorsements were frivolous…. Read more

Back in the day, when I was first starting out in my career, I ended up taking a job as a “social media ninja” for Monster Worldwide, the parent company… Read more

I hate to kick someone when they’re already down. In fact, I’m surprised I can, all things considered. Seriously. For all the shit that’s been talked about LinkedIn on this… Read more

It started, as so many of these sad stories do, in one of those meetings – you know the type. The one with the client, or the hiring manager, or… Read more

There’s nothing new about M&A in the HR Technology Industry; after all, big fish swallows little fish is how most top tier talent vendors have ended up so bloated they… Read more