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BryanStarbuck - who has written 2 posts on Cheezhead Recruiting News and Opinion.

Bryan Starbuck is the CEO of TalentSpring. Bryan had a 10 year career at Microsoft managing engineering teams. His career focus has been applying data mining and machine learning to solve the problems in various industries. At the peak of the spam epidemic in 2001, Bryan started the Spam Filter team at Microsoft which uses Neural Networks to filter spam in Hotmail, Outlook, and Windows Live products. Inisight about using data mining to immediately find top talent brought Bryan to the recruiting industry. Plug into Bryan via Twitter, Linked-In, TalentSpring blog, Bryan Starbuck Blog, or Facebook.

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the future of recruiting

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

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By Bryan Starbuck - As recruiters invest in moving from transactional to strategic, we found that a technique used by executives in business decision-making translates very well to recruiters to securing a higher ratio of top performers into interviews. The technique is precision questioning, and it has a history of being used by some executive recruiters who were formerly executives themselves. This video provides a short walk-through of a) how the precision questioning technique works, b) how to apply it to recruiting, c) and how Talent Acquisition senior leaders can allow their organization to apply this at scale with a low cost.

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is twitter a waste of time?

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

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By Bryan Starbuck -Twitter was the hot topic at the Florida ERE 2008 conference. The key note was almost entirely about using Twitter in the recruiting process. However, as people walked out of the key note, their chatter mainly fell into these categories: Category #1: What is Twitter? None of this makes sense. Category #2: How do I get started using Twitter? Category #3: Isn’t Twitter a big waste of time?

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