When it comes to the rise of social recruiting, our minds tend to rest on LinkedIn as a truly “enabling platform.” Facebook, on the other hand, seems to raise more questions than it provides answers or solutions. While Facebook offers connections to several hundred million people worldwide, how to […]
Recently, we have been calling attention to online staffing platforms, pointing to companies like NextCrew, WorkMarket and OnForce to argue that digital platform models open up new forms of work arrangements that can mean market opportunities as well as ways to innovate traditional staffing operational models. Still, […]
Social recruiting has certainly been all the buzz for several years now. Though the use of social recruiting platforms like LinkedIn has risen dramatically, they have been treated more like social sourcing platforms (just another place to find candidates, another candidate pool). But is that really social recruiting […]
Years ago, job boards, and then vendor management systems, changed the way staffing firms do business. Now it’s clear that was just the beginning of a more fundamental development: “electronic platforms” are now a force causing disruptions, and promising new opportunities, in the staffing industry.
Generally speaking, platforms enable useful interactions and transactions among different parties. […]
