In addition to a shortage of talent, Microsoft E&D has identified three trends that impact recruiting and have caused us to see a new way of looking at … Read more
When Your Boss Is an Ogre, Enter a Contest
Gail Washington quit her job at a university in Dallas when her boss chose to belittle her, rather than help her solve a problem. Music Teacher at a … Read more
BrightMove’s Latest ATS Version Offers Lots for Little
In the world of recruiting technology, there’s not much difference in the core functions of one ATS from another. All of them need to receive, parse, … Read more
Five Scenarios for the Future of Recruiting 6: Invasion of the Shallybots
I spent an hour on the phone yesterday with yet another entrepreneur who imagined that the future revolved around the “eHarmony for Jobs.”(The … Read more
Internal Hiring Dominates 2009 Job Fills
The ninth Source of Hire report from CareerXroads is out and it shows the impact of the U.S. recession on hiring patterns over the last few years while … Read more
Welcome to Lance & the Creative Excellence Awards
This is an exciting time for ERE. We’re just a month away from the start of both the 10th Annual ERE Expo and our newly acquired SourceCon in San … Read more
Free Job Board Demos? It Happens In The U.K.
Imagine 70 or so of the largest job boards in the U.S. volunteering to disclose their site demographics and user details and have all the data made … Read more
Love Blooms In The Workplace, So Be Prepared
Yikes! Here it is two days before Valentine’s Day and not a romance story in sight on ERE. Let me remedy that with some tales from the gurus, … Read more
T-Shaped People, Jobs, and Recruiting
Recruiting is about to be forced to start looking for people and assessing them in very different ways than they have. The nature of organizations is … Read more
Promises, Promises: How to Identify a Bad Hiring Test (Part II of II)
In Part One I explained why a test user has to be exceptionally careful about trusting a vendor’s claim their test is suitable for hiring. Without … Read more