HackerRank, a fast-growing Palo Alto, Calif., company that helps corporations find top technical talent, is widening its global reach by attracting a $7.5 million infusion from the venture-capital arm of a major Japanese human-resources company, Recruit Holdings.

LinkedIn launched a new, standalone version of its Pulse news-reading app on Wednesday aimed at giving users a better-tailored reading experience and more reasons to strike up conversations with their LinkedIn connections.

Because it can be tough to sift through all of the day’s news, Pulse is intended to give users the articles they should read to adeptly handle water-cooler talk at work and to know which stories are popular among people in their industry, Akshay Kothari, lead product manager at LinkedIn and cofounder of Pulse, said in an interview.

  Minutes ago at the Recruiting Trends Conference the 2012 Recruiting Award winners were announced live. This marks the 2nd year for RecruitingAwards.com.  These awards remain unique based on the crowd-sourcing element compared to other awards in the industry.  Thousands of votes were submitted online from recruiting practitioners, Recruiting Trends conference attendees, and the panel of […]

LinkedIn continues to be cited as the top online channel for both job seekers and recruiters. Yet, most do not spend an adequate amount of time investing in their online profile. Reasons for this vary from not enough time or knowledge, to the an awareness gap in keeping up with the sites new enhancements and […]

It’s a hiring managers dream. To have their recruiter source and sell a “passive” candidate on the req. Right or wrong, candidates get labeled from passive to active and everything in between. The reality is there is a group of candidates not looking for their next opportunity. Entelo, a talent search engine which is launching […]

The nominations to identify the best of the best in recruiting are in, and it’s crowd-sourcing time! It’s time to vote! The nominations are in for our 3 award Categories: (Talent Hunter, Recruiting Innovation, and Recruiting Organization of the Year). Our panel of judges and conference attendees with be casting their votes soon. Voting closes […]

Recruit Co. Ltd., a Japan-based HR services and consumer internet firm has acquired the job search site leader, Indeed.com.  Indeed will continue to be led by its current management team and operate as an independent subsidiary of Recruit. Indeed launched 8 years ago, and in that time became the #1 job search site with 80 […]

In less than 1 month we’ll be announcing the winners of the 2012 recruiting awards, live at the Recruiting Trends Conference in Las Vegas. The awards are for all recruiting professionals regardless of the industry, company, or geography they recruit for, and are open to corporate and agency recruiters. The nomination deadline has been extended through […]

Over the past 15 years, I can count the number of times on one hand that I’ve seen some real possibilities created with a new product or service in the $120+ billion recruiting industry. Today is one of those days. After spending some time with recently with Kevin Grossman, an industry professional I met 5 […]

13 years ago, DiversityInc created the “Top 50″ companies in Diversity globally.  This years results are out, and the Top 50 are listed below. It all started back in 2001, when companies were starting to see business value in diversity as a strategic priority. The companies participating in the survey and assessment from DiversityInc are […]

No, they are not. Human Resources as a profession can be an extremely rewarding one, when working for an organization that values the investments it makes – especially its’ workforce. As with any job function in a company there is a broad spectrum of views, performance, self awareness, and emotional competence. Irregardless of what you think […]

The topic around job board effectiveness is always an emotional one, from the supporters to the haters. Until a few years ago, it was difficult to gauge and compare the results from a specific job boards – with each other. Remember back in the day when candidates were asked to self supply their source? The […]