One of the great promises of AI in recruitment is automatically screening candidates. The hope is that we’ll just hand off the job specs to a computer, it … Read more
How Sales ‘Hunters’ Stalk Their Prey
You buckle into your business-class window seat, primed for a five-hour mental vacation. And then this guy settles in next to you. His wife practices … Read more
Would This Phone Screen Make You Excited?
Take a look below at the telephone pre-screen one of my clients uses for frontline, hourly employees. Now, if you were the applicant and someone called … Read more
If You Hire In California, You Need to Know About These New Background Screening Rules
Several common background check practices became illegal in California last month. Recent additions to the state’s Fair Employment and Housing Act address … Read more
Google Launches a Powerful New ATS For SMBs
On the heels of its May announcement of a powerful job search tool — Google for Jobs — the company today publicly released an ATS designed for … Read more
The Definitive Action Guide For Minimizing Bias and Increasing Diversity Hires (Part 2 of 2)
This is the second part of a two-part article covering action steps on how to minimize biases that negatively affect diverse recruiting. The first part of … Read more
If the Big Guy Gets a Break, Why Can’t ‘We the People?’
Dear U.S. Corporations: If the President of the United States gets a break on meeting the criteria and requirements of the job description — can we … Read more
Selecting a Background Screener Is a Team Project
If you have ever developed a RFP or participated in a presentation for a new HR service or system, you’re familiar with the procurement process. A … Read more
Hoops and Hurdles and Holy Cow That’s a Long Recruiting Process, Oh My!
You may have been the recruiter, the hiring manager, or the candidate in this horrific Oz of terrible recruitment, and we all know how it looks. Resume … Read more
Google Jobs API: The Future of Intense Job Poaching?
Google announced its coming release of Google for jobs, after having closed its alpha on its jobs API we were expecting it. Where could it lead us? … Read more