Big Data

Analytics, Big Data & Moneyball HR/Recruiting for Dummies

Tweet   The interest in leveraging big data, analytics and Moneyball in HR and recruiting is gaining significant steam. Ever since my first article on the subject back in 2011, I’ve set up Google Alerts and Hootsuite streams set up to catch any mention of big data, analytics and/or Moneyball in conjunction with HR, sourcing or recruiting,  and the volume [...]

Analytics, Big Data, Moneyball Recruiting

100+ Free Sourcing & Recruiting Tools, Guides, and Resources

Tweet   It’s been a LONG time coming, but I finally got around to updating my free sourcing & recruiting tools, guides and resources page where I now keep a current list of the best of my work all in one place for easy bookmarking and reference. You can find it here on my main [...]

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The End of Sourcing 1.0 is Near, Sourcing 2.0 Just Beginning

Tweet   In case you haven’t read Dr. John Sullivan’s recent article entitled, “The end of sourcing is near…the remaining recruiting challenge is selling“, I highly recommend that you do so. While I agree with some of the points that Dr. Sullivan raises, I disagree with others as I believe he has an oversimplified view [...]

Artificial Intelligence Matching, Big Data, Future of Sourcing and Recruiting, Job Posting, Sourcing, Sourcing Automation

I’ll be at the HCI, LinkedIn, and ATC Talent Conferences

Tweet From late April through May, I will be presenting at 5 talent acquisition events in 3 countries and 4 cities. If you are already scheduled to attend one of these events, please be sure to take a moment to introduce yourself if we haven’t already had the chance to meet in person. If you’re [...]

Big Data, Conferences, Moneyball Recruiting

The Current and Future State of Talent Sourcing

Tweet I had the distinct honor and privilege of serving as the conference chair of the biggest-ever SourceCon, held at the Georgia Aquarium in February. Part of my responsibility in that role involved kicking off the event, and I took the opportunity to touch upon my observations and opinions on the current state of sourcing, as well as [...]

Analytics, Big Data, Data Science, Future of Sourcing and Recruiting, Human Capital Data, Moneyball Recruiting, Predictive Analytics

LinkedIn’s Talent Connect, Talent Pipeline, and Certification

Tweet Talent Connect 2011 in Las Vegas  was just as good as, if not better than, Talent Connect 2010 in San Francisco. Nearly 2,000 people showed up, which is around 3 times as many attendees as last year’s conference, and they represented over 700 companies from 17 countries. One thing’s for sure – LinkedIn knows how to [...]

Big Data, Conferences, LinkedIn, LinkedIn Search, Moneyball Recruiting, Sourcing Automation

Big Data, Data Science and Moneyball Recruiting

Tweet With each passing day, an increasing amount of data is being generated and transmitted by and about more people than ever before. At Google’s 2010 Atmosphere convention, Google CEO Eric Schmidt stated that “There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 [...]

Big Data, Data Science, Moneyball Recruiting, Sourcing, Sourcing and Recruiting