Category: HR & Recruiting Technology
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How To Build A Mobile Recruiting Strategy
The move towards a mobile-dominated world has happened faster than anyone could have imagined. By the end of 2015, there will be more than two billion smartphone and tablet users worldwide. And with desktop usage dropping, consumers are using these mobile devices for more and more activities – including looking for jobs. More than 90…
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Does Glassdoor Really Matter?
It’s amazing to me how many times I’ve been asked, “Does Glassdoor really matter?” It’s amazing because those same people asking are the ones who use Consumer Reports to make purchasing decisions, look at movie reviews before buying tickets and many of them when asked will admit to having Yelp profiles to look at restaurant…
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Sales Technology: Top Tools & Apps for Closing Deals On the Road
Away from home, away from your colleagues and your office – it’s challenging to stay focused on the road, particularly if you’re in sales. The good news: there’s plenty of sales technology tools and strategies to help turn being away into a home field advantage for your sales team. Cloud communications solutions and mobile apps can…
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Size Doesn’t Matter: Recruiting Technology for Small Business Hiring
As many of you know, Brandon Hall Group launched its first annual Talent Acquisition Benchmark Survey at the start of the year. In the time since, I’ve been slicing and dicing the data – by levels of effectiveness, by industry, and most recently by company size. Across the board, survey respondents indicated hiring better talent is their highest talent…
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Shut Up, Startups: Why Recruiting Technology Can’t Fix What’s Really Broken
What follows is an account of a successful early careerist having a career discussion with an influential mentor: After I graduated from Harvard and took my first job as an investment banker earning $150K, upon returning home for Thanksgiving my Mom cornered me in the kitchen and in an exasperating tone asked (or rather, demanded): “You’re…
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How LinkedIn Recruiters Use LinkedIn Recruiter
Have you ever wondered how LinkedIn would use their own platform to recruit? Have you ever thought “What LinkedIn feature do LinkedIn’s recruiters find the most useful?” Or “How would LinkedIn’s own recruiters use LinkedIn Recruiter to get a response from candidates?” Well, Erin Osterhaus, HR analyst at Software Advice, recently sat down with one of LinkedIn’s senior product recruiters, Mark…
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Recruiting, Technology & Your Hiring Strategy
With numerous recruiting systems available, it can be overwhelming trying to decide which tool is best for your business—and, more importantly, your recruiting strategy. Software Advice, a business that reviews recruiting software, spoke with Laura Smous of The Resumator to learn how HR managers can optimize their tools to assist them in meeting their recruiting goals. Smous offered a…
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Buyer Beware: Simplifying HR Technology
In his most recent book, “To Sell is Human,” author Dan Pink articulates that in our current world, the balance of power in information is no longer in favor of the seller. The buyer now has equal access to information, which means when it comes to transactions between buyer and seller, salespeople can no longer take…
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LinkedIn API: Why HR Technology Companies Should Proceed With Caution
Even if you don’t know what an API actually is chances are pretty good you’re utilizing them on a daily basis. And if you’re in recruiting, there’s almost a 100% chance that you’re using LinkedIn’s API – whether through your applicant tracking system, a point solution or even to share social media updates or automatically…
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2014 HR Technology Trends: What To Watch For
It’s the holidays, which means it’s that special time when B2B marketers start pushing lazy, self-congratulatory content (“our favorite posts of the year!”) and, even more noxious, the prediction post. You know, the kind where bloggers talk about what’s going to happen next year. Which is weird, because you’d think if bloggers could predict the…