People Aggregators: Candidate Mining

In a recent study, the CareerXRoads team uncovered some startling data. It turns out that while the industry buzz is all about passive candidates, we hire active candidates nearly eighty percent of the time
 

Where The Innovation Went: Sales HR

I’ve been watching the HRTechnology scene for a long time. With each passing year, I wonder a little more about where the innovation comes from. At Dreamforce, I found it. The sales department is doing the innovation that the rest of the organization needs.
 

eMee: Serious Business Gamification

My jaw dropped when I saw that the first ever comprehensive enterprise management platform using gamification was developed by Persistent Systems, an Indian company. Persistent’s social gamification platform, eMee, harnesses game dynamics to drive both productivity and personnel development.
 

Disruption

Topics: Big Data, HR Technology, HR Trends, HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
Digital technology moves through our landscapes like a tornado, stripping away the familiar while installing a new order. In some ways, we’re increasingly nonplussed by astonishing change. In other ways, we are constantly being taken by surprise.
 

Internet News: The Perils of Automation

Topics: Big Data, HR Technology, HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
The physical constraints of an actual newspaper limit my choices. In doing so, they increase the likelihood that I’ll consume information that is not directly related to my stated interests.
 

Startup Compensation Guide

While it’s not quite exploding, there’s a frenzy of activity in the startup world. As the deck chairs rearrange themselves and new players get introduced, the whole compensation question is veiled in mystery and supposition.
 

Eleven Nations: A Course in Culture

Our regional divides stem from the fact that the original clusters of North American colonies were settled by people from distinct regions of the British Islands—and from France, the Netherlands, and Spain—each with their own religious, political, and ethnographic characteristics.
 

On Riding a Trojan Horse

Innovation has to happen whether or not big companies can afford it. As a result, smaller and smaller increments of value are worth more and more.
 

The Shifting Landscape: IBM Joins Buyers’ Club

Topics: Big Data, HR Scoop, HR Technology, John Sumser, by John Sumser
The Shifting Landscape: IBM Joins Buyers’ Club I want to start by trying to enumerate my biases on this one. I’ve gotten to know the management team at Kenexa over the past couple of years at Analyst confabs and industry events. Prior to that, I was on the Board of Directors at Salary.com when we […]
 

The New Architecture of Work III: Gamification

Topics: Big Data, HR Technology, HR Trends, HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
Whether it’s administrative paperwork, project plans or performance objectives, gamification will be used to influence the way work gets done. Gamification is the key to measuring and understanding work pacing and flow in information work.