How Premise Data Boosts Candidate Response Rates by Replacing Linkedin Recruiter with Entelo

The passive talent market is tricky. As a recruiter, you want to get in front of passive talent with the right opportunity at the right time – before they raise their hands and announce to the (recruiting) world that they’ve hit the job market. Since they’re not actively looking, this becomes quite the guessing game.

If successful, you beat the competition to the punch and are making hires before they can say “impressed by your background.” More often than we’d like, however, recruiting outreach garners no response at all.

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5 Ways to Use Social Media For Fast and Easy Personalization

It’s estimated that in 2018 the average business professional received 120 emails a day.  That comes out to 600 emails a week flooding your candidate’s inbox – and when many of those emails offer little more than a useless distraction, it becomes exceedingly difficult to cut through the noise as a recruiter. Add to the mix an average attention span of a mere 8 seconds and you have all the ingredients for an uphill battle.

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Last Week in Talent - June 5, 2017

Hello friends! I’m just back from a splendid vacation in beautiful and surprisingly sunny Ireland, so today’s Last Week in Talent will be slightly briefer than usual. So, my deepest apologies for that, but trust me when I say that what I do have is pretty darn good, so be sure to dive in for all the best data, insight and news this side of Timbuktu. Please and thank you. Now, without further ado, here's what we're cooking with in the wide world of talent, recruiting and everything in between.

Happy hunting and thanks for reading. 

Links

What jobs are least susceptible to automation [Vice Money]

Why there’s no such thing as big data in HR but your data still matters more than ever [Harvard Review of Business].

This might be as good as it gets for the American job market [New York Times]

Guess what: Remote work is here to stay [Wall Street Journal]

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Last Week in Talent - May 30, 2017

Happy post-Memorial Day short work week everyone!

I hope my American readers enjoyed a long weekend of resplendent weather, not too competitive wiffle ball and ample barbecued foodstuffs. This is Last Week in Talent, the we're-so-close-to-summer-I-can-smell-the-suncreen-and-taste-the-rosé edition.  

So let's get cracking. On the macro side, unemployment crept up for the first time in three weeks but the overall labor market remains robust as the four week average of unemployment claims sunk to their lowest level since 1974. Welp, let the great talent hunt of 2017 continue and maybe tell your cousin Kevin to put down the controller and go find a job, for the good of everyone. 

In other news, Apple hired a new diversity chief who will report directly to CEO Tim Cook, veteran tech reporter Walt Mossberg wrote his final column at Recode before he retires (fare the well, Walt), Amazon is recruiting healthcare experts to help break into pharmaceuticals, Google heads to China for talent and...attention and, alongside Facebook, empties the data science talent pool like there’s no tomorrow, which could be one reason Airbnb created their own internal university to train more data scientists.

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