Five Links: Big Data, War for Talent

Topics: Daily Links, Futures, John Sumser, by John Sumser
How Google Builds Its Maps – And What it Means for the Future of Everything. Read this to undestand what your big data future looks like. The secret isn’t information savvy, it’s being willing to commit actual human beings to massage the data.
 

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
 

Gamification Fundamentals 1

By the age of 21, the average American young person has spent over 10,000 hours playing computer and video games. That is almost exactly the same amount of time an American student spends in the classroom from 5th Grade though High School Graduation
 

HRExaminer v.3.39

We made fun of gamification last year because early HR offerings had done little more than offer simple leader boards and badges. But just as great consumer games are pushing the limits of gameplay to intoxicating heights, eMee has found a way to harness game dynamics to drive both productivity and personnel development.
 

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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.
 

HRExaminer v.3.38

Under the The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) employees can talk to each other about their wages, hours and working conditions and take actions together to form a union. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has interpreted these rights very broadly, and has found that many standard policies violate the NLRA, especially social media policies.
 

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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 […]