Matt Charney's Blog – April 2014 Archive (8)

Racial Profiling Aggregation: Meet Entelo Diversity

Sure, only 47% of the American workforce over the age of 16 are women (a gender disparity that’s been gradually closing over the past decade), but you wouldn’t know that from the looks of your average HR department. There’s a reason we…

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Added by Matt Charney on April 30, 2014 at 5:00pm — 7 Comments

What Talent Shortage? It's Not Them, It's You.

There's a lot of people out there talking about the skills gap out in my chosen line of work.  Apparently, somewhere along the way, women decided that the necessities of stuff like going through a horrific physical transformation in order to ensure the survival of our species, around the same time that high schoolers figured out that majoring in liberal arts involved way…

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Added by Matt Charney on April 24, 2014 at 4:43pm — 3 Comments

5 Crafty Ways To Repurpose Content

Writing great content doesn’t always come easy.

In fact, the content creation process takes a great deal of time and effort, so it’s important to make sure you get full usage from everything you generate.

While people will stop clicking on your social posts if they always contains the same content, there are a number of stealthy ways to repurpose it across…

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Added by Matt Charney on April 24, 2014 at 11:44am — No Comments

300 Million Ain't Nothing But A Number

LinkedIn announced last week that they’d reached a milestone of 300 million users, which is pretty impressive, considering that means that their online population pretty much parallels that of the United States.

This comes about 5 quarters after reaching 200 million users in January 2013,…

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Added by Matt Charney on April 22, 2014 at 8:30am — 26 Comments

Visualize It: Get A People-Centric View of Your E-Mail Life With Immersion

Immersion, out from MIT Labs (so you know it’s gotta be legit), claims to provide a “people centric view of your e-mail life,” which, according to their website, provide “a detailed description of our personal and professional history” that’s “older than the web.”  

By logging in through a secure server through…

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Added by Matt Charney on April 14, 2014 at 12:31pm — 6 Comments

99 Problems, But A Pitch Ain't One: How To Get Press For Your Recruiting Product

This week at the HR Tech Tank, a startup incubator & networking event for startups and emerging technologies in the human capital management and recruiting space, one of the major topics that emerged as front of mind for attendees echoes that of entrepreneurs everywhere. Once you’ve got a great product, how do you get people to notice?

Getting the word out means…

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Added by Matt Charney on April 8, 2014 at 6:13am — 2 Comments

Evil Empire: LinkedIn Legal Actions Set Dangerous Double Standard

Sell Hack has one employee who spends most of his time working at a completely unrelated startup, has no budget and doesn’t even warrant a company profile on Crunchbase, since it’s got no budget, no capital backing and no plans for monetizing its services.

By contrast, LinkedIn is a blue chip, NASDAQ listed global corporation, with a valuation in the tens of billions of dollars,…

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Added by Matt Charney on April 4, 2014 at 10:06am — 2 Comments

LinkedIn Files Lawsuit Against SellHack; Why 800 Pound Gorilla Is Scared of A Startup

SellHack is one of those rare tools that actually delivers as promised, meets a real recruiting need and actually lives up to the hype - which isn't easy to do, considering the amount of buzz and word of mouth that this emerging startup has built up in a relatively short amount of time.  What makes SellHack really unique, however, is the fact that unlike so many other point…

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Added by Matt Charney on April 1, 2014 at 11:54am — 2 Comments

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