Don’t Promote, Attract

The presence of fear in promotional tools is precisely the reason that cold calls and direct marketing approaches have such low rates of closing. When you reach out cold to a prospect, your batting average falls rapidly.
 

Five Links: Skills Gap

Mexico Is Now A Top Producer Of Engineers But Where Are The Jobs? “President Felipe Calder on last month boasted that Mexico graduates 130,000 engineers and technicians a year from universities and specialized high schools, more than Canada, Germany or even Brazil, which has nearly twice the population of Mexico.”
 

Five Links: Measures

In the Nick of Real Time “Pandora’s box has been opened. It can’t be closed. Brands are racing to capture as many fans as possible in as many social media channels as possible. It’s not enough for brands to capture and connect with these consumers, without the expectation of one good turn deserving another. It […]
 

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Why Don’t Employment Sites Have These Features? Jeff Dickey-Chasens is the preeminent expert on job boards, their functionality, marketing and business strategy. Her, he outlines some useful functionality that would improve job board effectiveness and reach.
 

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.
 

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13 Tech Trends to Adopt Before Year’s End A panel of young entrepreneurs recommends that you pay attention to these 13 areas. It’s worth a scan as a reminder of the changes that you are immersed in. Mobile Recruitment: Morning Mind Control From the UK’s Felix Wetzel comes the first intelligent piece of writing on […]
 

TalentBin iPhone App

Topics: HR Technology, HR Trends, HRExaminer, John Sumser, Reviews, by John Sumser
If you’re headed to a meeting or out and about, this is a fantastic tool for finding and finding out about someone from your phone. Lookup gives you access to the database from your phone. For free.
 

Skills Shortages

Topics: HR Trends, HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
Around the planet, people are starting to notice imbalances between the workforce and the available jobs. There seems to be an abundance of candidates and a simultaneous shortage of candidates who fit.