
How An AI Platform Is Matching Employees And Opportunities
Bottom Line: Eightfold.ai’s innovative approach of combining their own AI and virtual hackathons to create and launch new additions to their Project Marketplace rapidly is a model enterprises need to consider emulating. Eightfold.ai was founded with the mission that there is a right career for everyone in the world. Since its founding in 2016, Eightfold.ai’s […]

Remote Recruiting In A Post COVID-19 World
Bottom Line: Virtual career fairs and events, fully-remote recruiting, more personalized career paths, and greater insights into candidate experiences are quickly becoming the new normal in a post-COVID-19 world. The COVID-19 pandemic is quickly changing how every organization is attracting, recruiting, and retaining employees on their virtual teams, making remote work the new normal. Recruiting […]

What’s Next For You? How AI Is Transforming Talent Management
Bottom Line: Taking on the talent crisis with greater intelligence and insight, delivering a consistently excellent candidate experience, and making diversity and inclusion a part of their DNA differentiates growing businesses who are attracting and retaining employees. The book What’s Next For You? by Ashutosh Garg, CEO and Co-Founder and Kamal Ahluwalia, President of eightfold.ai provide valuable insights and a data-driven roadmap […]

Using Machine Learning To Find Employees Who Can Scale With Your Business
Eightfold’s analysis of hiring data has found the half-life of technical, marketable skills is 5 to 7 years, making the ability to unlearn and learn new concepts essential for career survival. Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) don’t capture applicants’ drive and intensity to unlearn and learn or their innate capabilities for growth. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine […]

People first: Cloud HRM and talent management
In 1951, the world’s first business computer was switched on at the London headquarters of J Lyons & Co, a food and catering giant that, with its chain of popular tea shops, had been the Starbucks of wartime Britain. Named LEO (for Lyons Electronic Office), its main role was processing payroll and inventory. Around the […]

Are You The Very Model Of A Modern HR Leader?
[If you haven’t seen a great production of “The Pirates Of Penzance,” then the title of this post may not make any sense. If that’s the case, please check out the lyrics and a performance before reading further.] I have always loved “The Pirates of Penzance,” and especially the monologue-like song of the modern Major General. […]

Reflections On A Long Career — Part IV — Summing Up
The Message Is Clear! In the first three posts of this series, here, here and here, I reflected on various aspects of building and sustaining a long and successful career. Now it’s time to sum up the lessons of my own career, a long professional run for which I’m truly grateful. There’s been a huge portion of […]

Reprise — The Road From HRM To Business Results Is Littered With Misguided Metrics
[I published a post addressing this topic right after I launched my blog 11/9/2009, and I never expected to address this topic again. Surely by now, I would have thought that we’d have broad agreement on how to measure the impact of HRM on business outcomes. But I had few readers in the beginning, and there’s […]

HR Leaders: Do You Know How To Answer These Questions?
Dr. Naomi Is In! Unlike my good friend Ray Wang, there are no Naomi clones. Just this solo consultant trying to save the world from bad HRM and HRM delivery systems. And while I’m a pretty productive and hard worker, there aren’t enough hours in a lifetime to support every HR exec who comes calling with their […]

HRM Software/Services Q1 Vendor Briefings — What Impresses Me?
How The Hell Should I Know What Software Is Best? Here’s another post that I had meant to write much sooner, but now it will post while we’re in Monaco before the start of our cruise up the Rhone River. I’m going to try to do some tweeting/posting from the “road,” always hopeful that […]