Kenexa’s second quarter financial report yesterday was a mixed bag. The HR technology vendor reported that it grew revenue by 14 percent over the … Read more
StepStone Solutions Buys MrTed
Recruitment tech vendor MrTed is being acquired by StepStone Solutions, a global talent management provider based in the United Kingdom. The sale gives … Read more
Taleo Grows Revenue; Beats The Street
HR software vendor Taleo grew its revenue and customer count during the second quarter of this year and though it also grew its net loss, the company beat … Read more
Where Do Your “Friends” Work? BranchOut Can Help
Want to get your friends to help you raid a company? There’s an app for that. Want an introduction to a hiring manager? There’s an app for that, too. Just … Read more
New Tools Simplify, Amplify Social Media Job Posting
Jobmagic has joined the growing number of vendors offering social media recruiting tools. The company, the successor to job-match provider Vitruva, … Read more
Initial Outreach For Sourcers
I’ve been asked several times over the course of my research career to share examples of my initial email outreach to prospective candidates after … Read more
HootSuite For Sourcing
For anyone who hasn’t heard of HootSuite, it is quickly becoming one of my favorite social tools for sourcing. To provide some background on what … Read more
Sourcing and Plato’s Cave Allegory
Plato was was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution … Read more
Quitting Twitter
Our friend (and yours!) Jerry Albright made a brazen announcement yesterday that he is quitting Twitter, and that as of June 30th his account would be … Read more
How Microsoft Does Social Recruiting
How does Microsoft find the talent to do cool things like develop a gaming platform, or perhaps make that platform operate without a controller like … Read more