An Employee Referral program can prove to be the best source for recruitment. This is because having referred candidates while hiring can cost less while having better quality. Studies show that referred candidates once selected, have higher chances of staying longer than those who join through…

Most people in talent acquisition do not understand that there is a huge drop off from the time the candidate finds the job on a job board to the time they click the apply now button and land on the company’s career website to fill out the application. I’ve spoken about in at least…

How you reject candidates matters: The famous Virgin Media example

How you reject candidates matters. 

Bad candidate rejection practices can cost you more than a few…

When time is money, a more efficient workplace is a more profitable workplace. If you’re tired of your team wasting valuable hours each week in long, meandering meetings, we strongly recommend putting huddles to work in your business.

Every day, more and more forward-thinking employers and managers are embracing the…

Careers in computer science typically tend to offer individuals significant employment opportunities. If you really want a chance to get involved in a growing field, though, you will need to specialize. Below are the steps you’ll need to take to start a career in the growing field of Cyber Threat Intelligence.

Start with Education

While it’s not technically necessary to have a specific degree in order to become a cyber threat intelligence analyst, the vast majority of…

OSINT, Open Source Intelligence, is the big buzz word of the day. I find this interesting as I have been speaking about it for over 20 years. The funniest part is OSINT can trace its history all the way back to the 1800’s.

Now before we go any further keep in mind the basis for all this can be found in my Book “…

Gitter is an open-source instant messaging and chat room system for developers and users of GitHub repositories. Gitter is provided as …

Today on the Speaker Agenda Show we’re going to be discussing How to build a strong personal professional brand on social media and What are the biggest mistakes and how to avoid them.

I have Gina Riley a Career Branding Coach at Talent Group and she helps people identify…

The first thing that comes to mind when we hear the term “Recruitment marketing” is probably various methods used to attract active and passive candidates to build a pipeline. It includes everything from your organization’s employer branding and job advertising to your candidate engagement and conversion strategies.

For few people this…

It is irrefutable that technology is hugely important to society and business today.

We see the effects everywhere. In medicine, in engineering, in accounting. There is scarcely a corner of our lives left untouched by technology, for better or worse. Though in business, it’s generally for better.

2020 is set to be one of the biggest years yet…

Trello is a web-based Kanban-style list-making application which is a subsidiary of Atlassian. Originally made by Fog Creek Software in 2011, it was spun out to form the basis of a separate company in 2014 and later sold to Atlassian in January 2017. The company is based in New York City. This can be a great place to find candidates however a lot of…

Many organizations fail to realize their desired growth targets in revenue and profitableness. However, the chance of achieving profitable growth is heightened whenever a company contains a clear growth strategy and powerful execution infrastructure. One without the other impairs the probability of success. This author describes why and…

Marketing through social media has its many benefits. It allows you to reach out to your audience to richly engage with them in a way that traditional advertising can’t. Putting your brand or your product out there in the social media jungle can also open it to vulnerability.

Since marketing through social media is a two-way street, it is unavoidable that your brand, product or service can get exposed to haters, trolls and a flood of negative comments. And no matter how careful you…

While many people in business might have heard of absenteeism, its counterpart presenteeism is perhaps becoming a bigger issue when it comes to employee productivity. Presenteeism might seem like a positive action – ‘the practice of being present at the place of work for more hours than is required’, but it is most commonly associated with insecurity from the employee towards their role. So, with some help from…

Need for HR technology:

Technology is changing the way HR teams function. It’s making the hiring process easier by gathering and breaking down data to get an overall picture. With the new age technologies like AI and ML the whole HR industry is going digital and it is opening the door to a whole new world of possibility for the recruitment industry. The…

I am substituting my regularly scheduled episode of “The Jim Stroud Podcast” for this special episode.

A little over a decade ago, I co-hosted “The Recruiters Lounge Podcast” with my pal – Karen Mattonen. It was very…

As we enter 2020, we see a significant change in HR technology trends. 

Companies are becoming more people-centric. Apart from attracting candidates, companies are now also focusing on retaining their workforce. Of course, AI and automation will remain at the top of the list. 

I am writing about a few unique trends that will be the priority of applicant tracking systems.

People Analytics …

[Original air date: 12.10.08]  Jim…