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5 Tips About How You Can Improve Your Career Development

We all know people with a successful career. They are entrusted with the most interesting tasks, they are given powers that are not available to colleagues, and they are the...

Why do you care so much about your system of record?

Why are so many organizations, both in-house TA teams and agencies, continuously evaluating their ATS / CRM / whatever they use as a core system of record? Almost every day...

How to measure your organization’s cyber security maturity

Spending money on cyber security doesn’t prove an organization is getting better at it. Ask Nicholas Johnston, Toronto-based vice president of the global data risk group at Duff & Phelps,...

Rating themselves, more infosec professionals think their security posture is improving

Students hate being graded. Wouldn’t life be easier, many wonder, if we could grade ourselves? Infosec pros from around the world have been given that chance by Domain Tools, who today...

Smart cities and opportunities we shouldn’t miss

One of the world’s greatest IT opportunities is staring us in the face. But will Canadian talent and Canadian technology be there to win advantages in what will be a...

One of the ultimate paradoxes of the hiring process

When I was finishing grad school in May 2014 and started going on a bunch of interviews with companies of about 250 employees all the way up to places like...

“Where will you be in five years?” question is gone

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A brief examination of candidate and employer “ghosting”

Seems like “ghosting” has been a hot topic of late in recruiting circles, so it felt wise to cover it, albeit briefly. Most discussions of ghosting seem to focus...

A.I. Will Replace Tasks, Not Jobs

There is no shortage of angst when it comes to the impact of AI on jobs. For example, a survey by Pew Research Internet finds Americans are roughly twice as likely to express worry...

Will People Analytics Really Get Mainstream In The Next Few Years?

If you’ve never heard of ‘people analytics,’ essentially it’s a concept that takes Big Data and applies it to HR and management. Since I often write about Big Data, HR,...