Robot Recruiters | How Big Data is Playing Recruiter…| Can Good Algorithms Dismiss Great Candidates?

Here’s a round up of the latest news on recruiting a multicultural global workforce:

Robot Recruiters

THE problem with human-resource managers is that they are human. They have biases; they make mistakes. But with better tools, they can make better hiring decisions, say advocates of “big data”. Software that crunches piles of information can spot things that may not be apparent to the naked eye. In the case of hiring American workers who toil by the hour, number-crunching has uncovered some surprising correlations. Read more

How Big Data Is Playing Recruiter for Specialized Workers

WHEN the e-mail came out of the blue last summer, offering a shot as a programmer at a San Francisco start-up, Jade Dominguez, 26, was living off credit card debt in a rental in South Pasadena, Calif., while he taught himself programming. He had been an average student in high school and hadn’t bothered with college, but someone, somewhere out there in the cloud, thought that he might be brilliant, or at least a diamond in the rough.  Read more

Big Data In Recruiting: Can Good Algorithms Dismiss Great Candidates? [Video]