The Resumator on T3Last week, one of the major players in the SME space for applicant tracking systems, The Resumator was featured on Talent Tech Tuesdays (T3). Acknowledged HR and talent professional and influencer Tim Sackett has recently launched T3, a weekly series of posts about the latest recruiting and sourcing technologies. For 52 weeks straight, he presents the most interesting technologies, and vendors can apply to be featured by dropping an email to Tim and standing a one-hour Q&A.

Workday among Cloud 500 application vendors

Apps Run The Cloud has published its latest list of top application vendors in the cloud, featuring one of the major recruiting softwares, Workday. The survey lists vendors according to their 2013 cloud revenues. Workday is the 9th of the 500 with $337 million, with a 86% year-on-year growth. The whole list is accessible by a subscription model. Plus, Workday Rising, the yearly conference of the vendor is just on, presenting a revenue target of $765 million for the company for the coming year.

Crowdrecruiting: what if we were recruiting collaboratively?

Belgium-based Talentsquare writes about an interesting new sourcing model that may appear soon among the tools of recruiters. It is based on the analogy of crowdfunding, only this time it’s not the money people put in the project but their networks. The advantage to this compared to the usual referral model is that it opens up the pool of candidates to people outside of the agencies and HR departments’ networks.

Choosing the right online recruitment software

A thorough and informative article on Recruiting Blogs about deciding on a recruiting software implementation. Although it says such software is really for large-scale recruiting, it also highlights the most important criteria when choosing technology to support it: integration, simplicity, multiposting, tracking and flexibility are the essentials.

ASA’s Staffing Index continues to climb

Staffing employment reached its highest value, 104.75 since December 2007, for the week of October 13-19, 2014. The index, published also weekly by the American Staffing Association, is a near-real time measure of employment trends and is also an approved economic indicator.