Some time back I was asked if there was a danger that Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) may discourage good potential applicants.
At that time my answer was that online systems increase the power of the recruitment brand so they are more likely to encourage applicants!.
Later on I thought about it more deeply and I [...]

The latest news from LinkedIn is that they have now republished their subscriber’s public profiles using hResume.
This a microformat and can simply be seen as a standard way for presenting the information in a resume, and for transferring it to others without loss of that information. There are a number of contenders for title of ‘Standard Resume Format’ [...]

It’s always good to continuously pontificate on what’s going to happen in the hiring market because sooner or later you get it right. You can happily forget all the times that you were wrong because they don’t count, right? 
Sometimes you find supporting material for your assertion because you were right. At other times because your [...]

The rollout of international level enterprise software in China has, over the past 10 years, tended to follow a definite pattern.
The first phase began in the early 90’s and only saw large scale systems such as SAP and Oracle. These systems were rolled out in the US first. Closely after the US came Europe followed [...]