Auren Hoffman is the CEO of Rapleaf. Rapleaf helps B2C companies give their consumers a better experience by providing automated search services for each consumer. We’ve written about Rapleaf earlier this year. Here’s his take on Effectively Using Email To Make Introductions. The Art of the Email Introduction How to introduce two people so that […]
It’s amazing how simplistically things can be described when they are devoid of operational experience and limited to the perspective of recruiting. I’ve come across a view of the Human Capital Marketplace that describes the “Talent Lifecycle” as Attract-Recruit-Hire-Retain. It’s as if candidates didn’t exist in advance of requirements and didn’t have a variety of […]
Social Media Reconsidered | Feature This week we continue our feature on social media as I dive into the changes that social media has introduced in our lives. We were asking many of these same questions four years ago but this time there’s a lot more tires on the road and a lot more wear […]
Five years ago, I wrote the following article. It’s about the reasons that people hate HR. It was prompted by an article in Fast Company that is cited in the piece. Five years ago, there was some promise that HR would come under scrutiny and transform itself. I don’t think that that’s what happened. Does […]
Tungle For the past six months, I’ve been using Tungle to schedule and coordinate meetings. The logistics associated with trying to work out schedule details are a time sink. It’s hard, when you do things manually, to guarantee that everyone ends up on the same page. Tungle works well as either a plugin for Outlook […]
In the United States and parts of Europe, conventional wisdom holds that job boards are dead. Personalized recruiting generated by an array of social media powered by artificial intelligence is on the verges of wiping out the business. Social media, in that view, is a revolution of the same scale as the original emergence of […]
Social Media Reconsidered IV I live in Sonoma County in California near the ocean. It’s a remote outpost. Almost no one lives in my neighborhood. There are lots of raptors and you can hear the sea lions barking at night. But, it’s a long way to anywhere. Periodically, I go out into the world to […]
Social Media Reconsidered | Feature Is it time to reconsider social media? I’ve always argued that online interaction is the new literacy. So you might find it surprising that I’m in the middle of an experiment where I take a social media siesta. My experience so far is this week’s feature for The HRExaminer and […]
Social Media Reconsidered III Calling it a decision makes my Social Media Siesta sound like the work of a much smarter person. Truth is that life caught up with me. Years of routine web publishing, 18 solid months of Tweet-aly-dee, a range of Facebook experiments and a host of other assignments had me in the […]
Social Media Reconsidered II Old friend Colin Kingsbury (who is the president of HRMDirect) sent along a note in response to the first article in this series. ” My take on social media is that while they present some unique modalities compared to other communication channels, they are not sui generis. For instance, consumer products […]
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