Checkster radically reduces the cost of reference checking while dramatically improving its effectiveness. Rather than spending a perfunctory 90 minutes chasing down dead ends, the recruiter asks the prospective employee to invite a dozen or so people to give brief Checkster references. The results are collected, annotated and delivered in a substantive, easy to understand report.
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 […]
Review: Linkup Toby Dayton is one of the industry’s least known, most effective entrepreneurs. JobDig, his first offering, is the midwest’s parallel to the Southwest’s Jobing. JobDig delivers recruitment advertising a combination of print, radio and web in Oklahoma, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, North Dakota and South Dakota. Like Jobing’s Aaron Matos, Dayton understands that Recruiting […]
Review: Broadlook As the flow of technology accelerates, it’s easy to lose sight of the functionality of industry standards. While users are busy using and non-users are busy using something else, software evolves relentlessly. The hardest part of any review process is that as soon as you put your foot in the river, it’s a […]
Review: HRNX Most terms used in HR and HR Technology are ill defined and used to grind the axe of the speaker. “Talent Management”, for example means everything from ‘succession planning’ to ‘the full complement of tools and organizational processes required to harvest the maximum value from Human Capital’. One extreme is tiny and precise […]
Review: HireVue Today, I conducted yet another interview on Skype. I routinely use videoconferencing in either Skype or Google to do business outside of domestic American borders. Like many technical things, the rest of the world is fairly well ahead of the US in communications technologies. It happened while we weren’t looking. While there is […]
Review: Jibe Social Media seems to produce more than its fair share of mad inventors. In past days, I’ve seen a swarm of demos from micro-bootstrap entrepreneurs who toil in the evenings on their pet social media recruiting tool while keeping the kitchen table set with the income from their day jobs. It’s as if […]
Review: Jennifer Government The Five Scenarios project pushed my thinking about the future in a number of directions. Geopolitics, automation, game design, demographics and branding all came to the forefront. Getting a handle on a series of alternate futures is an exercise that stretches the imagination. Along the way, I got into a series of […]
March 5, 2010 HRExaminer v1.09 Spring ERE Expo: Enjoying John’s Five scenarios series? Come discuss the future at ERE on March 17, 2010 at 3:15PM in Recruiting Disruption. Five Scenarios For The Future Of Recruiting VIII: Games | Feature Would you like to play a game? Many adults laugh at the thought /component/page,shop.product_details/category_id,6/flypage,flypage.tpl/product_id,59/option,com_virtuemart/Itemid,44/vmcchk,1/”>buying but we […]
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