Baseball is trying to understand the value of fielding like it has done for years with batting statistics. Measuring slugging and on-base percentages is … Read more
LinkedIn’s ‘Open Candidate’ Could Be a Blow for Job Boards
It’s been a busy few days for talent acquisition technology. The week got started with the HR Technology Conference in Chicago. Today, LinkedIn Connect … Read more
3 Ways You Can Measure the Quality of a Hire
CEB, after exhaustive research, concludes that 20 percent of new hires are “regretted decisions.” If this is true, why aren’t more companies testing … Read more
Stop Calling It an Intake Form!
Intake form. It’s a term I’m embarrassed to say I used for many years. You know, the form you take into a hiring manager meeting, to scope out a new req? … Read more
We’re Taking the Plunge and Hiring an Analytics Leader
You might have seen my comment on Raghav Singh’s article about Monster’s fall. I said: “The better companies get at analyzing and using … Read more
Lies, Deception and Gut Feelings … No Wonder Hiring Fails Half the Time
The Top 7 Reasons Why Your Process Continuously Produces Hiring Failures Unexplainably, few in corporate recruiting attempt to measure the failure rate of … Read more
No Need to Be Scared of Monsters: Life With Randstad
A job board isn’t defined by the color of its website or the name on the incorporation papers; its effectiveness is typically framed by the quality of the … Read more
An Obscene Applicant Raises Some Good Real-world Hiring Questions
As you may have read about or seen on TV, I recently rejected someone’s job application via AngelList’s Talent Platform. As an independent recruiter … Read more
Stop the Insanity: You’ll *Never* Reach Diversity Goals Until You Shift to a Data-Driven Approach
If you have direct access to recruiting leaders like I do, you would quickly learn that upward of 95 percent of large corporate diversity recruiting … Read more
Is Brexit an Opportunity to Reform Immigration for Skilled Workers?
In 2010, David Cameron pledged to reduce net migration in the UK to tens of thousands. This was always going to be impossible with the freedom of movement … Read more