A few weeks ago I was on a hunt for cost per applicant benchmarks. I wanted to see on average how much an applicant was worth to a company’s recruiting team so that I could think about the ROI behind various ways to increase job seeker traffic.

Of course, an "applicant" can mean very different things. It can mean a software engineer in New York City or a customer service representative in North Dakota. While each valuable, the former is a much-harder-to-find person…

I started SelectSoftware because I know firsthand how hard it is to find and buy the right HR and recruiting software. There are too many vendors, biased online research, and lots of conflicting opinions. I wanted to help and knew that I could create a site to aggregate all the best information from the smartest people in our industry.

I get a lot of joy from looking at the number of people who visit our site to learn from our research. Currently, that number is a…

We met with Ananth Kasturiraman, co-founder of Skillist, to discuss the flaws in our traditional hiring system and how “skills-based hiring” addresses some of these inefficiencies. Skillist is a Boston-based software company that offers a new approach to the hiring process by creating a better way for job-seekers and employers to connect and…