Living the Brand: The Olympics & The Workplace
These Olympic Games are just wonderful. What strikes me most, is once again the impact that they have on individuals and nations. Now we all know about the positive internal impact, the new role...
View ArticleLiberty or Freedom: The Employee’s Choice
When John Frith and I met with Worldblu CEO Traci Fenton last week, we talked about the different ways companies are starting their transformation into a democratic workplaces. Whilst there are ten...
View ArticleThe Shifting Global Recruitment Map
One of the presuppositions of NLP is “The map is not the territory. The words that we use are not the event or the item they represent.” In other words, there is an underlying order of the world and...
View ArticleMobile recruitment: Morning Mind Control
By now everybody who is interested in mobile has hopefully read David Armano’s post ”The Future Isn’t About Mobile; It’s About Mobility“. In it he writes: “It’s not about mobile as much as it is...
View ArticleTurning a global pandemic into recruitment success
Amelia Merrill is one of the most creative recruiters I know. She is right there at the outer edge of innovation and possesses the creativity of transforming ideas into workable solutions that deliver...
View ArticleOn/Off: Finding the rhythm of digital life
“Quien nunca está solo, ya no se conoce a sí mismo, y quien no se conoce a sí mismo empieza a temer el vacío” Paulo Coelho, Manuscrito de Accra When I was at university I spent a year in the Erasmus...
View ArticleTalent Acquisition: Finding the common in the unique – #ERE13
Each one of us is unique. At the same time, we share many similarities with other special and unique people, to the point where underlying patterns emerge. This became obvious when listening to all the...
View ArticleThe rise of the internal headhunter
It’s quite a remarkable phenomenon that audiences rave about future gazing presentations, yet rarely ever act on them when they have returned from the conference. It could have to do with the fact that...
View ArticleThe Supermarket of Talent
I think we’ve got it all wrong. Not because of stupidity or ignorance, but out of the goodness of our hearts and by wearing rose tinted glasses when looking at reality. I am talking about the way we,...
View ArticleRiding the wave of freelance working – the trends behind the Freelancer.com...
Freelancer.com is expected to list on the Australian Stock market this week – 15th of November to be precise; at the current offer price the market capitalization would be $218m and the company claims...
View ArticleRecruitment is local (Infographic)
This year I worked with a team in Evenbase on a research that that compared recruitment markets around the world (Digital Recruitment: The Hottest Markets in 2020,) The differences in these markets are...
View ArticleJob boards & Social Media (infographic)
There is no doubting it: Social and aggregators are the significant growth segments in online recruitment. But in the foreseeable future the greatest market share will still be commandeered by job...
View ArticleThe new recruitment model
Several sessions in last week’s iRecruit conference focused on a new recruitment model. This new model starts with the already existing individuals in a network and builds from there on out. 1. At the...
View ArticleAnarchy in the U.S.A.
Hold on a second! What is happening in the USA? The beating heart of capitalism is turning into the second coming of Lenin and Marx. Well, not all of the USA, but certainly Silicon Valley and friends....
View ArticleThe Employment Brand – the glue for recruitment cohesion
The employment brand is the most important part of the new recruitment model. It is the glue for recruitment cohesion. It defines and amplifies values, mind-set, behavior and vision – acting therefore...
View Article4 Steps to recruitment automation
For years there was a lot of talk in the recruitment industry about mobile, matching (of both skills and culture) and big data. Now we have not only moved from talking to doing, but to building useful...
View ArticleRecruiting Overseas – Tailoring To The Local Market
On the face of it, job seeking and recruiting is the same in most developed countries. It follows the same tenets of relevance and speed. It has the same success criteria and it most often features the...
View ArticleThe Reimagining of HR through Big Data
The launch of LinkedIn’s university ranking is a great example on how to turn data into useful insights. LinkedIn states that they have analysed the career path of all their members and from this data...
View ArticleIn the LinkedIn/Indeed embrace
Job boards are under pressure. LinkedIn on the one side, Indeed on the other. An uptick in the economy might mask this development, but it is happening. It doesn’t come as a surprise to most and is a...
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