Who Owns Data 7: Linkedin or Fencedin

Who owns data? Terms of Service or User Agreements are a kind of contract that describes who owns what. When you buy software, you don’t really own the software itself. You get a license to use it.
 

Not Knowing What You’re Doing

Topics: Big Data, HR Technology, HR Trends, HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
Always distrust tools; always be alert for alternative ways of thinking. Many of the amazing insights that are becoming available involve rethinking the things you think you know.
 

David Mamet’s Memo to the Writers of the Unit

Famous writers like David Mamet know how to hold an audience’s attention like few others. Good dramatic writing is to effective business writing as coffee is to closers.
 

Recruiting Is Local

Much of the published information and opinion about HR and Recruiting tries to establish norms or best practices as if local culture made no difference.
 

Holy Grail II

Topics: HR Technology, HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
The GuitarCenter uses a foundation of HR information to schedule the entire employee team in each store in a way that optimizes revenue. Step 2 is simultaneous scheduling of training. That’s an HR system with clear impact on the bottom line.
 

The Holy Grail I

Topics: Big Data, Futures, HR Scoop, HR Technology, John Sumser, by John Sumser
HR sticks to the story of the value of intangibles like a mobster hangs on to an alibi. It’s not hard to believe that people are the heart of the business. It’s been painfully hard to quantify it.
 

Communications Channels V: What Not To Use

Not all investments made by early adopters pay off. Anyone who is early to mobile recruiting knows what it feels like to go out on a limb. Without the right infrastructure, nothing succeeds.
 

Facebook Terms of Service Translated

Facebook rolls out new code twice a day. There are hundreds of engineers working on thousands of changes every week. The legal stuff doesn’t change that often. But it’s still worth understanding. So here are some of the terms you should know about and what they mean.
 

The HR Technology Conference

Topics: HR Technology, HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
If you are interested in the future of HR or the state of the art in American HR Technology, there is no other single event that serves it up as coherently.
 

Communications Channels IV

Each communications channel implies a different mode of recruiting and a different cost per hire. Imagine a spectrum that ranges from active at one end to passive at the other.