With unemployment rates hovering at record highs of between 8% and 11% in North America and major European countries, coupled with sluggish economic … Read more
Why Robots Shouldn’t Replace People In Sourcing
I read an article from AdAge yesterday titled Why Robots Shouldn’t Replace People For Social Media Monitoring, by Darrell Jursa. The article is … Read more
“Real Recruiting”: Talent Identification AND Acquisition
As you might be able to tell from the name of my blog, I’m passionate about leveraging information systems for finding candidates. Unless you’re running … Read more
Kryptos: The Ultimate Challenge
“Anybody holding a secret has a position of power, even if it’s a trivial secret.” These are the words of Jim Sanborn, designer of the puzzling Kryptos … Read more
Happy Thanksgiving Sourcing
What are many of us telephone sourcers doing this Thanksgiving week and next? We’re sourcing of course! The holidays are EXCELLENT times to gather the … Read more
Blekko and DuckDuckGo Announce Search Partnership
You may have seen our recent post on the Blekko search engine. Well, today they announced a partnership with semantic search engine DuckDuckGo in an effort … Read more
Job Boards = Bad Candidates? Don’t believe the hype.
I continue to see well respected thought leaders in the staffing industry make claims that the value of the job boards is waning and that the quality of … Read more
Sourcing: A Passing Fad Or A Strategic Move?
"Strategy" is a longer-term investment, and it isn't appropriate for all companies, all industry verticals, or even all recruiters. A strategy is about … Read more
Podcast: Sourcing In the UK vs. the U.S. – A Chat With DeeDee Doke of Recruiter.co.uk
Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting DeeDee Doke. Doke is the editor of Recruiter.co.uk, the ‘web home’ of Recruiter, the UK’s … Read more
Resumes Are Like Wine
In response to my post last year about the deficiencies in the search capability of many Applicant Tracking Systems, a few people commented to the fact … Read more