{"id":562,"date":"2007-08-15T11:44:26","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T15:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2007\/08\/15\/is-google-starting-to-change-recruiting-methods\/"},"modified":"2012-11-23T23:55:28","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T04:55:28","slug":"is-google-starting-to-change-recruiting-methods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2007\/08\/15\/is-google-starting-to-change-recruiting-methods\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Google Starting to Change Recruiting Methods?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those of you who have read this blog for a long time know that I’ve been critical of Google VP of People, Laszlo Bock, due to lack of execution in the past. Things like placing an ad in a magazine and forgetting to launch the microsite<\/a> or worse ignoring employee referrals that were highly relevant frustrating employees and creating brand damage externally.<\/p>\n

Google held an event with several senior executives last night in Chicago. Eric Olson told me about the event, I recently spent a fun day serving as a volunteer website judge with Eric at the annual FBLA-PBL convention – you can read those details here.<\/p>\n

I was told by one source that they wish to personalize the recruiting process more and make it less about numbers, keywords<\/a> and passive candidate recruiting and more about soft skills, knowledge and passion. Time will tell if they succeed in this attempt at change but even stating this shows that they are listening to numerous types of stakeholder feedback and innovating from that. It’s a positive sign. So I have to acknowledge these communicated goals as they suggest that change is a priority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those of you who have read this blog for a long time know that I’ve been critical of Google VP of People, Laszlo Bock, due to lack of execution in the past. Things like placing an ad in a magazine and forgetting to launch the microsite or worse ignoring employee referrals that were highly relevant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21,20,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-goog","category-online-recruiting","category-recruiting","category-reputation-management"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t