These days seeing headlines announcing massive layoffs at companies are not uncommon. News stories like these often set off alarms or panic for many as they can signal changes in the economy that are perceived as dismal. As a sourcing…
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What Really Happens During a Layoff – a Completely Unscientific, Real-Life Example & Sourcing Strategy
The following is a little secret I discovered years ago, witnessing it as layoffs happened. I validated my theory, as best I could, by watching layoffs happen through a few recessions from within the company. Hearing the announced “target” reduction…
Microsoft Reportedly Acquires GitHub
It has been a weekend of gossip and speculation, but it appears Microsoft and GitHub have agreed to an acquisition and the arrangement could be announced as early as Monday, Bloomberg reported on Sunday. GitHub attracts over 27 million software developers with…
How Recruiters Can Use Layoff Announcements to Source Candidates and Help Others
Whenever I heard about layoffs, I would think, “Hmm, I want to contact those being affected and see if I can recruit them for my open jobs.” As I did this, I learned, “Hey, a lot of the unaffected people…
What is the Future of Sourcing?
It’s incredible to think just how much sourcing and recruitment have changed since businesses first began to invest in talent acquisition functions. I can’t imagine what it must have been like 20, even ten years ago, when conveniences like LinkedIn…
Sourcing for Good – Helping the Community After a Layoff
Moments. Moments can change how I feel about the sourcing world. I have had moments where I am frustrated by failure, but then I have those few moments. Moments that make me fall in love with what I do all…
Talent Sourcing in a New Reality: A Story of Human Kindness
Downsizing, restructuring, workforce reduction, realignment, these are words that pull at all emotions: anger, sadness, disappointment, fear, and feeling lost. I felt the same years ago when it happened to me. I didn’t know where to begin looking, or how,…
What the Future of Sourcing Should Look Like
“It’s all up to you, kid. The dinosaurs are dying out. Become a Bird…” ― Scott Snyder Evolution happens in every industry, sometimes it helps and creates a flourishing environment, and sometimes it unravels to total disrepair like Enron going down…
Building Your Talent Bench Before You Need It – Sourcing For Pipelines
The end of a company’s fiscal year is often the time where organizations go through headcount review and strategy forecasting. Typically, depending on your organization, your talent acquisition team may see a slowdown of sorts, as requisitions go to hold,…
Human and Machine: Better Together
Applications for Talent Acquisition For years, computers posed a minimal competitive threat to the world’s elite chess players. In a 1985 event, grandmaster Garry Kasparov put up a 32-0 record against his computer challengers simultaneously. Twelve years later came his 1997 defeat to IBM’s…
Sourcers Need to Know, Who’s in The Market?
At SourceCon Anaheim this year, Shannon Pritchett talked about the persona of the audience that completed the State of Sourcing Survey for 2016. Meet Judy: She is a full-time corporate recruiter in the telecommunications industry with four years of experience….
Bot-Proof Your Career (Part 1)
Unless you’ve been living under a rock these days, you’ve likely heard the news: the robots are coming. And these robots are coming to every aspect of business – from the back office to the front, from the medical industry…
Randstad To Acquire Monster for $429 Million
Yes, each time you’ve turned around this year, there has been more big news in the recruiting field. If you didn’t get whiplash from the news we broke in May that SimplyHired was being acquired, or the surprise announcement about…
3 Talent Acquisition Trends You Need To Know In 2016
This post originally appeared on the Proactive Talent Blog Talent acquisition has undergone a significant transformation in the last five years. With 76% of the online population now on social media, it has never been easier to find and source…
As Jobs Continue to Expand, More Workers Start Looking
Recruiters and sourcers may find their job just a little easier this month, as more workers who have been sitting on the sidelines for months or even years, are now rejoining the labor force. The U.S. Labor Department reported this…
2016 Forecasts And Predictions: More Hiring, Higher Wages, Longer Fill Times
Death and taxes may be the only certainties in life, though new year forecasts and predictions have to be close seconds. 2016 is no exception. Here’s a look at some of what we can expect in the months ahead: Dice,…
August Jobs Report Shows Smallest Increase of the Year
Even taking into account the usual summer hiring slowdown, this morning’s jobs report from the U.S. Labor Department can only be called surprising. The Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics said 142,000 new jobs were created in August, a number far off the…
Don’t Miss These Addictive Interactive Charts Displaying 10 Years of Job Changes
If you want to see what industries and occupations are adding jobs, which are losing, and where they stand, you could you spend a few hours with the Bureau of Labor Statistics drilling into the employment numbers there. But for a quick…
May Employment Report Shows Job Creation is Gaining Momentum
Early indications of an anemic May employment report proved unduly pessimistic this morning when the U.S. Labor Department announced 217,000 new jobs were added during the month and that the unemployment rate was unchanged at 6.3 percent. Analysts predicting a gain of…
Economy Adds 175,000 Jobs in February Despite Nasty Weather
Less crippled than economists predicted by the nasty weather that gripped much of the nation last month, the U.S.Department of Labor reported this morning the economy improved hiring in February, adding 175,000 new jobs. That was 25,000 more jobs than the average of analyst…