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More Data Won’t Turn Employees into High-Performing Machines

Harvard Business Review

The hope, at least for cutting-edge bosses, is that technology will enable them to measure, predict, and manage employees’ job performance, not just in call centers and manufacturing plants, but also in creative, complex, and knowledge-intensive jobs. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.”

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business Review

The geofilters combined amusing visuals and messages with the web address of Snapchat’s job page, all in the hope that a Twitter engineer taking a quick Snapchat break might come across the targeted “Fly Higher!” ” message and think, Hey, maybe it’s time for a change.

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Zappos Killed the Job Posting – Should You?

Harvard Business Review

It’s an old-school idea common to technology companies as far back as the 1980’s, akin to “we know more about the engineers that work for our competitors than they do.”. Hiring Human resources Leadership' Companies like Zappos do a great service with their HR innovations, but that doesn’t mean you should simply copy them.