By Paula Santonocito on the Appcast Blog Hiring continues to heat up. Last week, employers added 559,000 workers and the unemployment rate fell to 5.8%. The biggest job gains were in leisure and hospitality, as bars and restaurants reopened and people, many of whom are now vaccinated, returned to “normal” life. After months of speculation...Read More
By Peter Weddle, CEO TAtech The good old days of one-step advertising conversions on the Web appear to be coming to an end. I’m sure that statement generates some nostalgia. It’s been a very dependable business practice for a lot of years. You post an ad online, a consumer clicks on an embedded link, gets...Read More
By Peter Weddle, CEO TAtech In-person conferences for the HR community are scheduled to restart this fall, and there’s one thing talent technology providers can be sure of: more often than not, they’re going to be treated as second class citizens in the exhibit halls of those conferences. They’ll be sprinkled in a nonsensical, hit-or-miss...Read More
By Josh Oakhurst on the Bayard Blog There are a lot of thorny questions in our society at large that don’t have neat workplace answers, but increasingly, companies are where the experiments in D&I execution are happening. Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) initiatives mean different things to different companies. Some executives feel it’s a data and...Read More
By Peter Weddle, CEO TAtech Don’t buy an applicant tracking system or a chatbot, a candidate relationship management platform or an interviewing application, a point solution or an end-to-end talent acquisition system. Buy these products, and then implement them effectively. Seems obvious, right? And yet, survey-after-survey confirms that companies generally do the first part well,...Read More
By Peter Weddle, CEO TAtech Barely a week goes by without an announcement (or two or three) of one company’s acquisition of another. Talent technology solution providers are snatching up other providers at a breathtaking pace. There are any number of rationales for these purchases, of course, but every single one of them creates a...Read More
