Google’s Hiring Process: A Peek Under the Hood with Laszlo Bock

Between his interview with the New York Times’ Adam Bryant, and a talk at The Economist’s Ideas Economy: Innovation Forum, Laszlo Bock, SVP of People Operations at Google, revealed some game-changing ideas about Google’s hiring process.

The insights and solutions he offers are off-kilter and exciting.

5 Predictions for HR Technology in 2014

While we certainly don't pretend to have a crystal ball, there's enough information available for us to make this solid claim: 2014 is going to be the year of Social HR.

John Naisbitt made this futurist statement in his 1982 text Megatrends: “We are drowning in information, but we are starved for knowledge.”

From our perspective at Entelo, we created our SaaS Company to do exactly that—furnish knowledge about tech candidates from a sea of information.

Lou Adler’s Performance-Based Hiring

Lou Adler is a hiring-related guru with four decades of experience in training and educating job-seekers, hiring managers, and recruiters. A prolific writer and influencer, Lou crafted the concept and practice of Performance-Based Hiring.

How does he define Performance-Based Hiring?

Recruiting with Google+

After looking at "Fascinating Social Media Statistics of 2013" something stood out: Google+ is adding ~25,000 users every day. We’re sure you've heard of recruiting techniques for Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin—but what about Google+?

As with everything Google does, Google+ is in constant flux. After launching on June 28, 2011 it has rapidly become the second-largest social networking site in the world.

Here are some persuasive details for why recruiters should be using Google+:

Spotting Resume Fraud & Fake CV Claims

Has the thought of embellishing your CV, resume, or portfolio crossed your mind before? Perhaps someone close to you recommended it, passing off the act as merely an outdated taboo?

Think twice about using even seemingly inconsequential white lies—no matter how tough the job market is.

Here are a few examples of terrible fraudulent tactics that now haunt the culprits:

How Does HR Use Social Media?

After covering how recruiters use social media in their sourcing efforts, here's an infographic from BLR highlighting social media uses for HR.

Top 5 Social Recruiting Tips for LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook

Social Talent is an Irish company that provides online and social media training for the recruitment and staffing industry.

5 Personality Traits: Using Twitter to Evaluate Candidates

Each year the traditional resume comes a little closer to becoming a historical relic. It may never fade away entirely, but it will be predominately replaced by the modern resume." For some background reading, see our post, "You are More than Your Resume."

A resume won’t mean what we’re all familiar with: a brief written account of your personal, educational, and professional experience that’s prepared by you, the applicant. Instead, recruiters are quickly adapting to social recruiting practices—thereby acquiring information about you by examining your social footprints.

Where is this going to take us?

Jobvite’s 2013 Social Recruiting Survey Takeaways

On October 23 ^rd of this year we formally announced—with untold glee—our partnership with Jobvite. Here’s the full blog article: “ Announcing Integration with Jobvite!”

To ease the challenges of finding and networking with top talent, customers of Jobvite and Entelo now have access to both tools without leaving their Jobvite screen. This exciting integration arrives at a critical time in history as companies continually look to increase their investment in candidate recruiting through social networking—dramatically turning social recruiting into ubiquitous hiring practice.

This evolutionary trend of social recruiting is deeply reflected in Jobvite’s “2013 Social Recruiting Survey.” Here are some pertinent takeaways:

Dig Deeper on Reference Calls with these 3 Starting Points

Let’s be honest: chances are most references aren’t going to say anything negative about the candidate. If that’s all you’re looking for you’ll potentially miss out on some valuable “unwitting testimony.”

It doesn’t matter if you’re looking to hire engineers (or non-engineers) for startups (or for larger firms) so long as you aim to gain fairly illuminatory—or in the very least refreshing—feedback.

Coming up with a structured framework for reference engagement is the best way to achieve this objective.

5 Pressing Recruiting Challenges of 2014

There’s little doubt that new challenges will arise for recruiters in 2014. Dynamics in the recruiting space are susceptible to market fluctuations, education/technology trends, and occasionally paradigm-like shifts.

Inspired by Dr. John Sullivan’s post on ERE, “The Top 25 Recruiting Trends, Problems and Opportunities for 2014”, I wanted to outline some significant challenges recruiters can expect to confront and overcome in 2014.

Recruiting: an Art or a Science?

The question of whether recruiting is more of a learned, measurable science, or a subtle, somewhat innate art continues to inspire healthy dialogue to this day. As recruiting methods evolve and pairs technology with good-old fashioned human outreach, what we're likely to see is a combination of these two schools of thought.

Adaptive recruiting is going to require the retainment of art-infused practices, while also openly embracing a crafty application of scientific methods.

How can this be done?

Around the year 2000 most people in the recruiting industry were asking themselves, and one another, if recruiting online was a viable method. Within a couple years that question had been answered, and the next question revolved around how can technology revolutionize the practice of talent acquisition.

Solving the “Talent Equation”

Matt Ferguson, CEO of CareerBuilder.com, networked with two business school professors: Prasanna Tambe (NYU Stern School) and Lorin Hitt (University of Pennsylvania Wharton School) to write The Talent Equation: Big Data Lessons for Navigating the Skills Gap and Building a Competitive Workforce.

Better than Bacon: 5 Tasty Books for Recruiters

'Tis the season to get reading. Give yourself the gift of temporary escape from loved ones this holiday season by making your favorite seasonal cocktail, and curling up with these adroit books:

Hire MacGyver, Not MacGruber?

There are a lot of opinions out there on how to hire great recruiters. Instead of getting lost in the hodgepodge of concepts, we’ll start by looking at a couple colorful approaches—and then cut right to chase.

Here are some of my favorite quips: “Look for MacGyverisms”; Enlist the help of an Industrial Psychologist; Motivation is king; Value candidates with empathy and emotional intelligence, so bring out the Voight-Kampff test from the sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Maybe this last one is a stretch: we shouldn't expect android recruiters for at least a few more years).