Career

How Machine Learning Can Connect Employers to the Best Recruiters

A lot has changed since The Monster Board, arguably the first-ever internet job board, went live in 1994. Between then and now, the massive adoption of job boards, search engines, job aggregators, LinkedIn, social media, and online job applications have radically transformed how candidates find and land jobs.Along the way, HR and recruiting teams dealt with their own deluge of new technologies that have revolutionized how employers attract, engage, and hire employees.

4 Ways to Ruin Your Job Search

For most of us, the job search seems pretty straightforward: You come across a job posting that looks like a good fit, apply for that job online, potentially get called in for an interview, and hopefully land the job.Unfortunately, this seemingly straightforward process is riddled with the potential for wrong turns.

The Latest: Interfaith ceremony for drowned Nigerian women

The Latest on the flow of migrants into Europe (all times local): 4:55 p.m. Catholic and Muslim preachers in Italy have celebrated a funeral for 26 young Nigerian women who drowned in a crossing from Libya, as prosecutors work to contact their relatives using phone numbers they had hidden in their clothes.

The Right and Wrong Ways to Manage People Through Technology

As we progress further into the Digital Age, many of us fear that the automation of processes through technology and the movement of HR into the cloud may cause us to lose the human relationships that lie at the heart of all good HR practice.What we need to realize, though, is that technology is useless unless there are people around to apply it.

4 Secrets of Recruiting Every Candidate Should Know

What's worse: being rejected from a job and receiving honest feedback regarding why you were not selected, or getting no response at all from an employer?As a career coach, I find that most of my clients feel no reply is worse than an honest, if negative, reply.

The Latest: Amtrak says safety improving after fatal crash

The Latest on ruling (all times local): 12:30 p.m. Federal investigators say they've found major lapses in Amtrak's safety culture, including more than two dozen unsafe conditions at a work zone where a train slammed into a maintenance backhoe last year near Philadelphia, killing two workers.