Recruiters are overwhelmed by too many open positions. Candidates are frustrated with hiring processes that they view as too slow. So how can chatbots help your HR team? This week begins SXSW and one of the sessions and topics I'm most interested in is the subject of chat bots for HR and recruiting. Chat Bots As Tools for HR and Recruitment First, let’s define what a chatbot ... Read Full Article
The Future of HR Technology Starts with Blockchain
Blockchain isn’t the newest technology, but it's becoming more mainstream and has the potential to disrupt everything we do online and in the real world, including traditional HR processes. What Is Blockchain? What is blockchain? A blockchain is a digitized, decentralized, public ledger of all cryptocurrency transactions. Constantly growing as ‘completed’ blocks (the most ... Read Full Article
Launch of Google Hire Tells Us We’re All in the HR Industry
Over the last six months, I have written about one emerging HR technology company the most, and it's one that you wouldn't expect. That is Google. And since their last two announcements of Google for Jobs and Google Cloud API, prior to the most recent launch of Google Hire I didn't want to write about the launch of their products or new services related to human resources. ... Read Full Article
Will Robots Kill Jobs? Yes. Will Robots Create Jobs? Yes.
A new study from the Centre for Economics and Business Research in the UK suggests that robots aren't going to steal our jobs -- they're going to give us new ones. The study was co-sponsored by Redwood Software and examines the impact of Brexit on UK robotics research. They found that Britain does indeed lag behind other major world economies in both automation and robotics ... Read Full Article
Improved Technologies Have Unintended Consequences
I recently came across an interesting article on PCmag.com about the unintended consequences of driverless cars. This article was written by someone whose a family member received a donated lung from a car accident victim. Their family member had been saved by this donation, as had another four individuals who benefited from the harvested organs from this accident victim. ... Read Full Article
5 Podcasts Business Owners Should Be Listening To
Podcast consumption is growing rapidly. According to a study by Edison Research, Americans spend about 2% of their daily audio consumption time listening to podcasts. Also, according to Apple, there are over 250,000 different podcasts with over a billion subscribers. That’s amazing for a medium that’s really only been around for about a decade. I am a huge podcast ... Read Full Article
Five Flaws in Your ATS
The face of recruiting has changed greatly over the last decade, but the tools our industry uses have essentially stayed the same. While there are a few that are able to offer what a recruiter really needs the same old standard ATS that most of us use has been around for decades. This creates a major problem for our industry as the abilities of an ATS don’t match up with the ... Read Full Article
Is It Time to Upgrade to LinkedIn Recruiter or Navigator?
Big changes are coming now! LinkedIn Advanced Search as we have come to know and love it is in the process of going away. LinkedIn is rolling out the new desktop user interface globally now and over the next few weeks and months. You are probably sitting next to someone with a different user interface than yours right now! As a result of the newest LinkedIn changes, upgrade ... Read Full Article
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