Making sense of the endless stream of updates from your social media connections can be a headache. Thankfully, new tools are emerging to take the heavy lifting out of interpreting social media data as valuable business intelligence.
“Small Worlds” Thinking: Breakin’ Down the Talent Pools…
Need some Recruiting & Sourcing Juice to get you going these days? Feel like you’re connecting with lots of people in the Talent Pool, but they’re not yielding the information you’d like (referrals, intel, leads, “word on the street”, etc.)? Perhaps it’s time to step back and think about the structure of the Talent Pool itself . . . Before …
02/14/11 – The Day IBM’s Watson Tapped Out the Boolean Cash Cow…
Within the Recruiting, Sourcing, Talent Acquisition, and HR World, February 14 was likely a day that came and went without much notice. Yet make no mistake – 02/14/11 is the day that changed our profession forever as the Boolean Cash Cow was abruptly tapped out and fell over dead. Let me explain… If you tuned into Jeopardy! during the early …
A CEO Keeps It Real — Here’s Why We Should Love It
Last September, Stephen Elop, former Head of Business Development at Microsoft, was hired into Nokia as their new turnaround CEO. My guess is that he took the last few months to assess the true challenges he was looking at. They are steep, make no mistake. Apple changed the mobile game and now owns the high-end market, growing from 25% market …
It’s HR Rant “Square Dancin” Time, Y’all – Grab Your Partner and Dosey Doe!
Gather round the HR Tractor campfire, y’all – it’s time for a square-dancin’ rant or two. Don’t be scared – just let your feet go and “Dosey Doe“. It don’t have to be pretty the first time. All you have to do is hop up from your chair, clap loudly, approach your partner and circle to the back, and then …
So You Say You Want MORE Sourcing?
I get this all the time. The conversation starts like this, “Kelly, I want more sourcing. How can I get more sourcing?” Which always leads to the question from me, “What are you doing now?” Before you say you want more… of anything… you have to assess. You want more cake? How full are you? You want more people in …
Three Counter Offers Later, I Lost the Candidate. And This Rant is for Her Employer.
Beloved friends. Can we all pause for a moment of silence to recognize a loss? It was the most tragic event, and I'm in mourning: I lost a candidate last week. She slipped away from me, and yes folks, this is a tragedy. Or maybe this is my bruised ego talking, but hear me out. Fast forward through the sourcing …