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Unlocking the Potential of Data in Staffing: CEO Andrew Buhrmann on jobTopia
Recently, our CEO, Andrew Buhrmann, joined Tony Moore on the jobTopia podcast to dig into one of the most pressing issues in staffing today—data management.
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CandidateIQ promoted during Tony Moore’s recent job Topia podcast
Tony Moore’s recent job Topia podcast featured Bullhorn’s Eric Scalese who discussed the latest trends in CRM and ATS software, how to evaluate them and how maximize their effectiveness with integrated database management tools like CandidateIQ.
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Exploring the Future of AI in Staffing: Insights from the Pulsecast Podcast
In a recent episode of the Pulsecast Podcast, hosted by Travis Webb and PARQA, Jeff Neumann, SVP of Product Marketing at Bullhorn, shared valuable insights on the evolving role of AI in staffing. Here are the key takeaways and our CEO Andrew Buhrmann's perspective on these insights.
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The Power of Staffing Automation: Insights and Best Practices from Bullhorn's Billy Davis
Billy Davis's insights into staffing automation present a comprehensive view of the transformative nature of automating recruitment processes. In the context of Candidate IQ, these ideas align perfectly, showing how staffing automation's full potential can be realized through accurate and quality data management.
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The Risks of Hyper-Wrong Personalization in Staffing: When ChatGPT Meets Incorrect Information
In the digital age, personalization has become the holy grail for businesses across industries, and the staffing industry is no exception. The advent of AI technologies like OpenAI's ChatGPT has opened up a world of possibilities for personalizing communication at scale. However, like any powerful tool, automated personalization carries inherent risks, especially when it operates on outdated or incorrect information. This post will explore the potential pitfalls of "hyper-wrong" personalization, specifically in the context of job advertising campaigns.
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Leveraging Inventory Management Practices and Candidate Intelligence in the Gig Economy: Automation and Efficiency for Staffing Agencies
In this follow-up, we will explore how staffing agencies can use inventory management practices and candidate intelligence to fuel automation and improve efficiency across their operations. By implementing these strategies, staffing agencies can better manage their talent pool and streamline their processes.
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Exploring the Gig Economy: How Staffing Agencies Can Adapt and Thrive in a Shifting Work Landscape
The gig economy has been steadily growing, with more and more professionals opting for flexible, project-based work over traditional full-time positions. This shift in the work landscape presents new opportunities and challenges for staffing agencies, as they must adapt their strategies and operations to better serve both clients and candidates in this new era of work.
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Easy-to-Understand Guide for Staffing Executives: Key Terms and Concepts
The staffing industry is constantly evolving, driven by the rapid pace of technological advancements and shifting labor market dynamics. As a staffing executive, it is essential to stay ahead of the curve and be well-versed in the terminology that shapes the industry.
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Bullhorn's 2023 Report: How High-Performing Staffing Agencies Leverage Technology and Talent to Stay Ahead
As the staffing industry continues to evolve rapidly, it is more important than ever for staffing agencies to leverage technology and talent to stay ahead of the competition. In 2022, the staffing industry grew by 11%, and many firms were able to make the most of the opportunities presented to them.
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Advantage 2.0: Data innovation via culture, ecosystems and applications
Gain advantage from your data vs. talk about it by understanding the 3 pillars necessary to realize consistent innovation with data. Data innovation has been wildly successful, and frequently highlighted as a key focus for competitive advantage. In many businesses, however, it is still more of a “buzz word” discussion than a meaningful driver of strategic and operating value.
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Using AI to optimize your board
In this piece, I am going to explore how companies can use AI to analyze and optimize their board composition. I was inspired to write this piece by the events at GE, which has recently announced that it will slash its dividend by 50%.
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What it’s like to be intern at Vettd.ai
Vettd.ai college interns are gaining a unique perspective about the difference between classroom learning and real-world experience. They are being challenged to use open-source and low-cost software components to create prototype applications to compliment or compete with alternative approaches to natural language processing (NLP) solutions.
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Unsupervised vs Supervised AI: Not all AI is created equal
But how can you figure out which functions within your business can actually be transformed by AI? What are the quality limitations? How can you evaluate which business service companies are using AI effectively while others could be selling hyped up linear algebra? The best way to know if an AI product is right for your business is by asking the right questions.
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AI for HR is Here. Vettd Can help.
Any job seeker or talent acquisition professional will tell you about the challenges in the digital candidate experience. On one side, exasperated candidates blanket job websites with resumes and cover letters.
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Let’s make the college admissions process more user friendly
The college and university admissions process has plenty of room for improvement based on experiences of two Vettd interns who spent the summer gathering data for a large project. In this blog, the interns suggest several ways to make the admissions process more user friendly.
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Talent classification cited as a new way for organizations to improve internal talent mobility
In the December 7th issue of First Analysis Quarterly Insights, managing director Corey Greendale concludes that there’s a significant information gap that makes it difficult for organizations to optimize internal talent mobility.
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The Transparency Problem with AI - Part 2
Transparency in data privacy involves openness; being willing to share with users all aspects of usages of their personal data. This includes an openness on what is being collected, why it is being collected, how it is being analyzed, and how the decisions being made by AI algorithms were decided (what output parameters drove the decisions made by the AI algorithms).
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The Transparency Problem with AI
The use of Artificial intelligence (AI) in important decision-making areas continues to grow and includes such important decisions as: loan-worthiness, emergency response, medical diagnosis, job candidate selection, parole determination, criminal punishment, and educator performance. But, a critical question keeps coming up in these areas, how are the decisions being made?
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M&A Series: How to decide who to retain after a merger or acquisition
With the completion of every merger or acquisition, the electronic ink is barely dry for the Chief of Human Resources and their staff before they are called upon to integrate 500, or 2,500 or maybe 25,000 new employees into the new entity. This is a daunting task that's part art (aka experience + luck) and part science (aka …if only there was some).
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M&A Series: Talent Classification improves chances of a successful merger or acquisition
For over 20 years, I’ve been perplexed by the inability of the M&A process to properly capture, recognize and sort out all the people that are involved in the integration of two companies.
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4 Reasons Why Candidate Screening is Not a Human Task
Humans will always play a critical role in the hiring process, but the consistency vs efficiency challenge exemplifies why reviewing resumes is a task better suited for modern machines than modern humans.
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Finding Social Media’s Place in Recruiting Strategy
We had the privilege of being the topic of conversation in a new post from William Frierson at College Recruiter.
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Avoiding your enterprise expiration date
In the era of digital transformation, having the right people in the right places will make or break your organization. If you can bring together data about your people and your business and map talent to the needs of your organization, you’ll better understand how to stay ahead of your competition.
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Big Data and Hiring
Job seekers and employers have access to almost any information they want these days. This raises a few important questions. Is more data truly useful? Does more information directly correlate to better jobs, better employees, and better matches? How will we measure the impact that big data has on hiring in the future?
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Truth #2: Companies need to own their AI for HR
No matter what industry you’re in, nearly every organization is becoming an information technology company due to the massive amount of data being gathered about their customers and workforce.