Branding 2012

Topics: HR Scoop, HR Trends, HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
The key to 21st Century marketing effectiveness is a combination of intimacy and search engine friendliness. A surprise branding challenger emerged at last month’s Recruiting Innovation Summit.
 

Why SaaS Will Take Over the World by Colin Kingsbury

Topics: Colin Kingsbury, Editorial Advisory Board, HRExaminer, by Colin Kingsbury
As the chief executive of a SaaS provider of talent management systems, I might reasonably be expected to disagree strongly with John’s recent three-piece j’accuse, revisiting the pitfalls of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). In fact, I more or less agree with the substance of all of it. But that doesn’t matter because SaaS is still going to take over the world, and I’ll explain why.
 

Reaching Wayback: Stay Tuned to Stay Ahead

It’s hard to explain how different the world looks when you shift your focus. What seems subtle or obvious at first become the foundations of a whole new way of seeing things. Things change when you change the way you look at them.
 

HRExaminer v2.43

Is there any there there in mobile recruiting?
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A Great Place To Work For Everyone

Topics: HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
I have a hundred “Why Virgin America is great” stories. Here are a couple from recent travels that highlight what it’s like to work on a Virgin America flight for the customer and employees.
 

Good Time

It’s hard to have great conversations in social media. What I’m noticing is that very little social technology is actually social. Mostly it’s about the collection and distribution of data. That’s not inherently bad. It’s just that the present and future have so much more to offer.
 

Mobile Recruiting. Really?

With an iPhone, an Android, an iPad and my sleek MacBook Air crammed into my briefcase I hit ten conferences and two analysts confabs in less than seven weeks. I watched my workflow and thought about Mobile Recruiting. There was not the slightest opening for the consumption of advertising of any kind. The few bits of text spam I got made me mad. Where does mobile recruiting fit in all this?
 

Job Descriptions Are The Experience

Scant attention is being paid to the root cause of resume overflow and bad candidate experience. Poorly written job ads. We need copywriters to both reduce the flow of errant resumes and improve the candidate’s experience.
 

HRExaminer v2.42

The 2012 Index of Social Technology in HR & Recruiting After five and a half months, I’ve finished the 2012 Index of Social Technology in Recruiting and HR. The 100+ page report is a comprehensive guide that will help you chart your social media strategy for 2012 and beyond. Read Now » Big Data vs […]
 

Pre-order special: Social Tech in HR & Recruiting Report

Topics: HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
In my post a couple of days ago I mentioned I would offer a pre-order special on my new HRxAnalysts report: The 2012 Index of Social Technology in HR and Recruiting. You can order the full report now (for immediate electronic delivery) for $200 off the normal price of $595. The report will be available […]
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