Stories written by John SumserJohn Sumser has been chronicling and creating the state of the art in Recruiting for nearly 20 years. A philosophy major with slim employment prospects, Sumser joined the Defense establishment in DC is the late 1970s (after several years of taking over student governments at DC Universities). Finding his niche as an engineer, Sumser navigated Hopkins and Loyola grad schools while becoming an R&D executive. In those days, staffing was likely to be done by the hiring manager.
At 36, John packed up his family and headed to Silicon Valley just before the internet moved from Defense R&D labs into the public eye. His post-defense career began with the operation of the first business that allowed personal internet accounts. in 1993, he founded interbiznet, the first fiirm to evaluate, chronicle and prod the nascent Online Recruiting Industry.
Today, as the Editor of the HRExaminer and as the Principal Analyst at HRxAnalysts, Sumser continues to break new ground. Currently, he is leading a team to evaluate the emerging social media (recruiting and HR) market, building a comprehensive curriculum in social media effectiveness for Recruiters and collaborating on the development of employment related economic indices for several clients. His ongoing analysis of influence in the HR and Recruiting industry continues to provoke thought and conversation.
The subject of Big Data is on everyone’s short list. The trend beneath the buzzword is so important that is as hard to imagine as the web was in 1993. It’s driven by smart tools, cloud architectures, cheap processing, cheap storage, broadening access to data and the search for new ways to gain productivity.
The idea is big enough to support an array of conflicting notions. A scan through the search results finds topics that range from analytics to large scale data integrations to novel correlations. The Big Data tent includes all of these somewhat contradictory ideas.
April 30, 2012 | Posted in
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Who in the world named Google’s Search Plus Your World, SPYW? The acronym gives a creepy tone to the fact that the search engine, once famous for independent objective results, has thrown in the towel. With SPYW, Google shifts the game to personalized results that are self-referential within the Googleplex.
Now, it’s all Google, all the time. From here forward, when you visit Google, you should expect that the company will be trying to keep you within their offerings. As advertising revenue declines, the company will be more and more reluctant to give you reasons to go elsewhere. If you’re trying to get work with your Google profile, it’s an interesting opportunity to rise to the top of your own search results. If you’re looking for people, it’s a different story.
February 6, 2012 | Posted in
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Social technology has been evolving for nearly a decade (LinkedIn opened for business in 2003). For that entire time (more if you count the emergence of blogging in 1997), we have been trying to harness social technology for Recruiting purposes. All manner of company has emerged to aggregate data, introduce people to each other, harness referrals, post job ads, augment resumes and smooth out the hiring process.
January 12, 2012 | Posted in
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