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Revolutionary, Volume 1: Confessions of A Startup Advisory Board Member.

Recruiting Daily

This is also the case for the probably two dozen advisory deals I’ve actually turned down – I’m sorry, but I can’t promote a pyramid scheme (see: staffing marketplace), an app that looks like the mobile equivalent of ET: The Video Game (but way harder and more frustrating for the end user or a video cover letter play.

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Shark Tank Meets HR Tech: Testing the Recruiting Waters at iTalent.

Recruiting Daily

It’s more or less a social listening and monitoring tool that has been specifically tailored for the HR and Talent industries. For companies spending so much time and effort on social recruiting, online engagement and building their employer brand, it’s a way to actually monitor, measure and optimize that investment.

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The Top 15 HR Technologies And Recruiting Tools of 2015: The Final Countdown.

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The first generation of ATS systems, which consisted of such legacy Taleo/Oracle/Peoplesoft ; SAP/SuccessFactors and Kenexa/Brassring (an IBM joint), are as much a relic of the early 90s as pogs, Blossom or Bubble Tape. These numbers are pretty damn impressive, until you consider Taleo commands 54% market share, conversely.

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