Talent Intelligence
The Future of Sourcing and Talent Identification
Tweet If you listen to certain people in the recruiting industry, you’d think that being able to leverage information systems for talent discovery and identification will be an obsolete skill for recruiters and that sourcers will have to find another profession in the near future. According to these folks, people with sourcing skills won’t be [...]
Sourcers and Recruiters – Don’t Fear Watson or Semantic Search
Tweet I’ve read a few articles recently talking about IBM’s Watson and how the technology they developed may be the harbinger of unemployment for people in many professions. Here’s one from Fortune magazine, asking if IBM’s Watson will put your job in jeopardy. Here’s another suggesting that those who train others in Internet, social media, [...]
Is Finding and Recruiting Top Talent Really Your #1 Priority?
Tweet Do these quotes sound familiar? “People are our greatest asset.” “The only real sustainable competitive advantage of any company is the recruitment and retention of great people.” “Talent is our #1 priority as a company.” “Your technologies, products and structures can be copied by competitors, but your people can’t be.” “No matter what kind [...]
Talent Mining and the Future of Sourcing and Recruiting
Tweet Many people equate sourcing candidates with simply creating and running Boolean search strings. In my opinion and experience, Boolean search neither adequately describes nor gives proper credit to what sourcers and recruiters are really doing when they leverage the Internet, resume databases, ATS/CRM applications and social networking sites such as LinkedIn to find candidates, [...]
Why Do So Many ATS Vendors Offer Poor Search Capability?
Tweet This question has been burning in my mind for quite some time – why is it that so many ATS/recruiting CRM vendors offer poor or limited candidate search functionality? I’m not talking about ATS vendors you’ve never heard of – I’m talking about some of the biggest names in Applicant Tracking/Candidate Relationship Management applications. I’m [...]
Do You Have Talent Intelligence?
Tweet Does your recruiting or staffing organziation have Talent Intelligence? I believe that all staffing organizations should view and value their internal resume/candidate database/ATS as a proprietary business intelligence tool. Business intelligence refers to applications and technologies that are used to gather, provide access to, and analyze data and information and help companies develop consistent and “data-based” [...]
