Tools

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

Living in the age of the algorithm, we’ve come to expect that anything that can be quantified will be quantified. The seemingly amorphous things that can be converted into hard… Read more

When was the last time you used your phone to search the web? Do you perhaps have a few search windows open right now? With the omnipresence of mobile devices,… Read more

If there’s one thing recruiters and talent practitioners place a premium on, it’s the tools of the trade. And not a day goes by, it seems, without another “killer app” for… Read more

I recently read Matt Charney’s blog post about how the corporate recruiting market is using big data for in-house talent acquisition (great read, and I swear he didn’t even pay me to… Read more

There’s been a lot of discussion about the many similarities between customers and candidates, particularly as relates to  improving candidate experience. It’s a convenient comparison, sure, but before adopting this… Read more

As anyone even tangentially involved in talent acquisition already knows, there’s perhaps no entity that we love to hate more than LinkedIn (even if we couldn’t live without it). For… Read more

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

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

There I was, packed into the sweatbox that was the small club in the heart of downtown Austin, pressed up against that weird mix of slick, suit clad biz dev guys,… Read more

If you’re a recruiter or employer, there’s a good chance that when you opened your inbox last week, you received an e-mail from LinkedIn announcing a class action settlement. Here’s… Read more

There’s an old aphorism – and a true one – which holds that companies are only as strong as the employees who work for them. That’s why hiring the right talent… Read more

For weeks (actually, no, make that months), I’ve sat back and watched a pretty interesting phenomenon unfold. It’s nothing new, of course, but it’s a hell of a lot more… Read more

If there’s one issue about which I’m particularly passionate, both personally and professionally, it’s recruiting veterans. Of course, military hiring holds a special place in my heart – I spent… Read more

In my last Recruiting Daily article, Unscientific Assessment: Phrenology for Recruiters, I explored some of the stupid, silly and specious culture of talent acquisition in which scientifically validated, insightful assessment tools… Read more