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How An AI Platform Is Matching Employees And Opportunities

How An AI Platform Is Matching Employees And Opportunities

By Louis Columbus on September 13, 2020

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 […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged AI, AI in HRM, Artificial intelligence, Eightfold, Human resource management, Louis Columbus' blog, machine learning, talent management

Remote Recruiting In A Post COVID-19 World

Remote Recruiting In A Post COVID-19 World

By Louis Columbus on April 21, 2020

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 […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Artificial intelligence, CHRO, COVID-19, Eightfold, HRM, Human resource management, Louis Columbus' blog, Remote recruiting, talent management, Virtual recruiting

What's Next For You? How AI Is Transforming Talent Management

What’s Next For You? How AI Is Transforming Talent Management

By Louis Columbus on July 10, 2019

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 […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged AI, CHRO, Eightfold, Human resource management, Louis Columbus' blog, machine learning, talent management

Using Machine Learning To Find Employees Who Can Scale With Your Business

Using Machine Learning To Find Employees Who Can Scale With Your Business

By Louis Columbus on December 12, 2018

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 […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged AI, Applicant Tracking Systems, Artificial intelligence, ATS, Eightfold, HR machine learning, Human resource management, Louis Columbus' blog, machine learning, talent management

People first: Cloud HRM and talent management

People first: Cloud HRM and talent management

By Phil Wainewright on March 19, 2013

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 […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged EnSW2013, Human resource management, ibm, sap, software as a service, workday

Are You The Very Model Of A Modern HR Leader?

Are You The Very Model Of A Modern HR Leader?

By Naomi Bloom on June 4, 2012

[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.  […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged best practices, HRM, Human resource management, Human resources, KSAOC

Reflections On A Long Career — Part IV — Summing Up

Reflections On A Long Career — Part IV — Summing Up

By Naomi Bloom on May 29, 2012

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Aging, Employment, HRM, Human resource management, Life's Challenges, linkedin, Looking Back/Looking Forward, Professional development, Ruminations, Twitter

Reprise — The Road From HRM To Business Results Is Littered With Misguided Metrics

Reprise — The Road From HRM To Business Results Is Littered With Misguided Metrics

By Naomi Bloom on March 27, 2012

[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 […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business Outcomes, Employment, Follow The Yellow Brick Road, HRM, HRM/IT Intersection, Human resource management, Human resources, Metrics/Analytics, Strategic HRMDS Planning, Vocabulary Shapes Our Thinking

HR Leaders: Do You Know How To Answer These Questions?

HR Leaders: Do You Know How To Answer These Questions?

By Naomi Bloom on September 12, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Debunking/Calling Out, enterprise software, Follow The Yellow Brick Road, HR Tech Conference, HRMDS, HRO, Human Resource, Human resource management, Outsourcing, Strategic HRMDS Planning, talent management, workday | 2 Responses

HRM Software/Services Q1 Vendor Briefings — What Impresses Me?

HRM Software/Services Q1 Vendor Briefings — What Impresses Me?

By Naomi Bloom on May 3, 2011

  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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged best practices, Human resource management, Human resources, SaaS, software as a service, Vendor Briefings/Demos

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