Raghav Singh

Raghav Singh is the co-founder and chief product officer at eVolv, a Bay Area startup building products to support employee engagement and increase productivity. He has held leadership positions at several major technology vendors including Salesforce, Oracle, Korn Ferry Digital, and IBM. Raghav's career has included work as a consultant on enterprise HR systems and as a recruiting and HRIT leader at several Fortune 500 companies. Opinions expressed here are his own.

When Your Recruits Should Be American

Raghav SinghSeptember 2, 2013

My recent post on helping the unemployed generated a lot of interest — shared over a thousand times on Linkedin. I take it that a lot of us would … Read more

What’s a Degree Worth? A New Test Will Help Employers Know What a Graduate Has Learned

Raghav SinghAugust 29, 2013

Is a degree from Harvard worth more than one from Oklahoma State? By how much? A year at Harvard costs $52,650 versus about $9,000 at OSU. So is a graduate … Read more

We Need Lobbyists

Raghav SinghAugust 26, 2013

What’s the difference between the recruiting industry and North Korea? North Korea has a lobbyist in Washington. So does Ultimate Fighting. But no lobbying … Read more

Recruiting: It’s Not Just Filling Job Orders

Raghav SinghAugust 20, 2013

What do we stand for? What is it we do as recruiters? Fill jobs? Source candidates? Use ATS, social networks, job boards, etc? An excellent recruiter and … Read more

A Recruiter’s Values

Raghav SinghAugust 16, 2013

What do we stand for? What is it we do as recruiters? Fill jobs? Source candidates? Use ATS, social networks, job boards, etc? An excellent recruiter and … Read more

Hiring Generation U: Problems With the Recent Crop of College Grads

Raghav SinghAugust 8, 2013

My recent post on Generation U (underemployed and unemployed) generated an enormous amount of activity on ERE. This is a topic of some interest to … Read more

The Unemployment Bias: The Long-term Unemployed Face Severe Discrimination

Raghav SinghJuly 30, 2013

Last year I did some work for a large company that decided it would not hire anyone who was unemployed. It would automatically reject any candidate who had … Read more

Generation U: Too Many Underemployed College Grads

Raghav SinghJuly 19, 2013

Recent college grads today face some of the worst job prospects since the great depression. A survey by the Associated Press found that over 50 percent … Read more

Immigration Reform: The Charge of the 535

Raghav SinghJune 24, 2013

We are in the midst of yet another attempt at immigration reform. The situation in Washington can be summarized with this adaptation of the Charge of the … Read more