One of the most important developments in talent acquisition is completely OG, an old-school idea with some interesting new wrinkles. LinkedIn’s brand-new Global Talent Trends 2020 report cites internal hiring as one of the four trends that will reshape talent acquisition in the years to come. With the talent market historically tight, recruiting teams have...
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When Rachel Williams joined X, the Moonshot Factory (formerly Google X) earlier this year as the head of equity, inclusion, and diversity talent acquisition, she quickly realized that this wasn’t going to be like anything she’d done before. She’d spent more than a decade in the talent space, but the corporate environments she’d previously worked in were nothing...
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There’s a saying in certain circles that Java is to JavaScript as car is to carpet. It’s a phrase developers often use to explain their frustration with talent professionals who don’t know as much and, as a result, make some embarrassing missteps in their outreach and interviews — like mixing up the similar-sounding programming languages. There are even entire...
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- Future of Recruiting
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Early in my career, I had the good fortune to work as a financial analyst for a Fortune 50 company. During a meeting where the...
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ESPN.com called it “the wildest NBA week ever,” the first few days of the free-agent signing period earlier this month. Superstars...
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- Employee Referrals
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If a recruiter ever needs to present more than 3-4 candidates in order to make one great hire, there is something fundamentally wrong...
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- Hiring Managers,
- Sourcing