Floating Point

Critical thought, reviews and guidance for Human Resource professionals on how to leverage the power of information to develop, assess, and continually calibrate HR (Human Resources) strategies.

eQuest today announced the release of another candidate tracking tool that will allow users of Workday/eQuest to better financially assess job board performances. The free upgrade will allow customers to view and track Completed Candidate Applies from any job board. This feature helps customers measure how many candidates reached its Workday hosted career site from … Continue reading “eQuest Adds Free Workday Upgrade to Job Posting Candidate Tracking”

By Neal Bruce   The turn of the century offered unprecedented opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors seeking to capitalize on the technological revolution, particularly the emergence of the Internet. The human resources industry was among the early pioneers to embrace new technology, spawning countless companies providing new software and services across the talent management spectrum … Continue reading “What Happened to the Top 25 HR Companies from 2001… …And Where Are They Now?”

eQuest has never failed a Federal VEVRA audit for a single customer. Their roster of customers reads like a “Who’s Who” of major corporations. The majority of the Global Fortune 500 rely on them. Most of the job advertisements you see on the internet have more than likely been delivered by them. And yet you’ve … Continue reading “Keeping Customers Compliant is eQuest’s Main Goal”

SAN RAMON, Calif. – September 27, 2016 – As part of its By The Numbers HR analytics series, eQuest today announced its latest statistics regarding nontraditional career sites with highest candidate response rates per job posting. The study was based on over 500 career sites during the period of June through August 2016, with a … Continue reading “eQuest Reports Top 10 US Nontraditional Career Sites with The Highest Candidate Responses”

See the latest statistics on what devices candidates are using to apply for jobs.

Without question, we are living in an increasingly mobile world, where smartphones are being used for more and more personal and business activities, including job seeking. And while many industry pundits tout the rise of mobile candidate applications, a closer look at recent survey results from Pew Research Center reveals otherwise. Yes, mobile job seeking … Continue reading “Job Seekers Utilizing Mobile is Growing But Still Lacks Conversion”

By Ben Leubsdorf Wall Street Journal Apr 22, 2016 1:27 pm ET The number of stay-at-home dads surged during the recession, but a stronger job market is drawing many of them back into the workplace. In 2015, 5.3% of U.S. families with children under 18 and married parents featured an employed mother and a father … Continue reading “The number of stay-at-home dads surged during the recession, but a stronger job market is drawing many of them back into the workplace”

I am happy to report that eQuest is now employing a more highly advanced bot filter that excludes known spiders and bots from job board candidate traffic statistics in its Big Data reporting. Humans Account for Less Than 40% of Global Web Traffic Bot traffic—including scrapers, hackers, spammers, impersonators—has been estimated to be as high as … Continue reading “If your company recruits talent on the Internet, you should pay attention”

I recently read a great article by Shelly Palmer, Managing Director of the Digital Media Group at Landmark Ventures, called Non-Human Traffic, Ad Fraud and Viewability. His article confirms many of the same data traffic conclusions eQuest’s Big Data division is seeing – that “so-called” viewer/candidate traffic is not actually viewers at all; but instead, a … Continue reading “Beware of Phantom Candidate Data”

We’ve made an improvement to your job posting experience. You will now see instant job board performance recommendations via a simple thumbs up-thumbs down indicator. We have connected your eQuest job board selection page to over 1.5 billion job board performance records – including your own previously posted data. Your job requisition is reviewed in a millisecond, … Continue reading “Job Board Recommendations Are Here!”

This update addresses an issue where job board credential validation (a real-time check is done to ensure credentials are valid) prevented admins from saving a board instance that was locked. The issue was clear when the reason for the board lock was exactly that–invalid credentials. We now disable job board credential validation when the board is locked. Read More about … Continue reading “Admin System Update (v2.46)”

In an effort to inform our users of new features and bug fixes, we have included this Version History option in the Posting Interface. Every so often you will see this overlay as noteworthy features and bug fixes are released. You can see the Version History at any time by clicking on the Settings icon and … Continue reading “What’s New? Version History”

This update addresses a bug within the job board Active Date Range feature where a Start Date that’s greater than the End Date was allowed during setup. The Active Date Range feature allows you to provide access to a board at a specific time, restrict access at a specific time, or allow the board only … Continue reading “Admin System Update (v2.43)”

The 3 most important concepts to keep in mind Readers of my blogs and articles know that my focus has often been on explaining Big Data. This Big Data phenomenon is quickly spreading throughout the business world. Those that understand it well will be able to garner new insights that will give them a competitive … Continue reading “When it Comes to Big Data, Don’t Forget — the Basic Rules Still Apply”

Big Data isn’t just for the Star Trek-loving geeks of the world anymore. Samuel Greengard at Baseline Magazine says it well: “…the topic has jumped outside the boundaries of IT and spread into the general enterprise. A growing number of business publications and portals, such as Forbes and Harvard Business Review, are devoting ink and … Continue reading “Big Data Gains Traction in the HR Space”