The impact of automation on jobs is one of the most widely debated topics in the global technology sphere, and the question of how automation will impact the staffing sector is uncertain. One thing is for sure: there will be an impact, but will it be something that staffing professionals dread or embrace?

Your employees can be overloaded on training, exposed to more information than they can absorb — especially if they are stressed or burned out. Too much of a good thing can be a real problem.

Making critical decisions when it comes to managing talent has always been difficult: How should we invest in our people? Who are our most valuable employees? How do we make the best use of limited resources?

Let’s get this out of the way: Talking about big data is not one of your favorite topics. You’re an HR manager or a TA leader, not a data analyst, right?

Chinajob.com, an online recruitment site backed by China’s State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, has entered a partnership with another recruitment site sponsored by the same agency, Laowaicareer.com. Both sites list positions available to global job seekers looking to relocate to China. The exact nature of the partnership was undisclosed. Founded in 1998, Laowaicareer.com offers recruitment […]

So finally you have decided that you want to make a career in sourcing. Congratulations, you have selected one of the most exciting and rewarding careers. Not surprisingly, numerous challenges need to be overcome to be successful in this fast-paced field. So here’s a lay of what to expect and how to succeed.

Entelo just raised $20 million. Party time!

Okay, the last post from HireVue’s Digital Disruption, but it was something I had to share! TA leader Molly Weaver at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City is killing the game! If you do an interview with Children’s on the HireVue platform, they have actual kid patients ask you the interview questions via video! I […]

The Chinese recruitment and staffing services platform Lagou has announced that it has come to a joint agreement with Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) by which its SaaS cloud services product, “Lagou Cloud HR” (Lagou yun renshi), will join the roster of Alibaba’s recently-launched SaaS bazaar, the “Cloud Marketplace.”  Lagou Cloud HR was launched in December 2016 […]

It’s part of the game, we all understand. As long as “buyers” exist, there will always be “sellers.” Now, in an age of increasing transparency, there are multiple ways for the two to connect – some ways much better than others. So, realizing this is part of the way business is conducted, I attempt to […]

IBM partly fills its candidate pipeline with workers who come from non-traditional backgrounds, and it is beginning to pay off.

The race to crown a winner in the AI-powered recruiting software space is on. With both Workey and Mya nabbing rounds in the last few weeks, the timing is..

Voice assistants at home are becoming big business. Amazon’s Alexa showed-up in 2014. Google Home came shortly thereafter. And now Apple has gotten into the game with HomePod.

LinkedIn and its user agreements, yes they make some recruiters and sourcers uneasy, but I always tell my cohorts, there is always another way to the information.