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Best HR Software Providers: Standard-setters in performance tracking to 401(K) management

HR Digest

Workable – Best HR software for sourcing and applicant tracking. Workable has developed an easy-to-use recruiting software that goes beyond applicant tracking and posting jobs online. Founded 2012. Gusto – Best HR software for payroll management. BambooHR – Best human resources information systems. Founded 2021.

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Ending the phony war for talent

Workable

Back at McKinsey, a 2012 report gave their old idea new currency. At Workable , we took a conscious decision not to talk about our product as a weapon in the war for talent. Since 1997 there have been huge economic peaks and troughs, periods of near full employment and slews of lay-offs. Evolution not an arms race.

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Employee development and the Peter Principle: Why your managers keep messing up

Workable

Who better than Workable’s top manager, CEO Nikos Moraitakis , to offer commentary? He gestures to the skyscrapers outside his office at the Workable headquarters in downtown Boston, and notes that they are technical and architectural marvels, and it would be impossible for one single person to build that whole skyscraper by themselves.

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The dishonest myth of work-life balance

Workable

This was apparent when Anne-Marie Slaughter wrote in 2012 about her reasons for quitting a powerful job at the U.S. Certainly institutional structures don’t make it easy to balance work and the rest of life,” Kanter wrote in the Harvard Business Review in 2012.

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The leadership illusion

Workable

In her 2012 book “The End of Leadership” she found that while thinking about leadership was as old as human history, there had been an explosion of interest in leadership since 1980. Kellerman says there are roughly 1,400 different definitions of the words leader and leadership. The end of leadership.

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Building a winning engineering team: Workable CTO tells his story

Workable

When you talk to Spyros Magiatis about his experience building the engineering team that owns Workable’s recruitment software, you quickly understand that it was like Rome – it didn’t happen in a day. In fact, the roots of the innovative spirit that fuels Workable goes back to pre-Workable times.

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How can we fix tech recruiting?

Workable

When Aline started recruiting in 2012, there were very few recruiters in Silicon Valley with technical backgrounds. Here’s how Aline thinks about tech’s recruiting problem and her advice for recruiters who want to fix it: Resumes are the biggest barrier to entry in tech. Traditionally, resumes sit at the top of tech’s recruiting funnel.