Archive for February, 2012

It’s not like the polar ice caps of data have been sliding into the warming world around us of late; we’ve been accumulating this stuff for a long, long time. In recruiting, companies have been accumulating tons of applicant data, mostly in the form of the infamous resume, although more often these days it’s in [...]

With all the talk of the online job boards dying and the resume dying, you’d think they were dying. They’re not. In fact, according to an article on ERE.net: For being so out of fashion, so yesterday, job boards manage to come out on top or top-adjacent on nearly every source of hire study. In [...]

“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.” — Arnold Bennett Not really what we want to hear when we don’t think anything’s broken. Take marketing for example. You’re in business selling magical whizzie-whigs and you need to generate visibility and leads in order to sell them. And [...]