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2. The Resumator on T3
Last 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.