TotalPicture: Talent Acquisition, HR Tech, Careers, Leadership, Future of Work

Lars Schmidt, the Senior Director of Talent Acquisition and Innovation at NPR made it clear during his keynote at the Recruiting Trends Conference in Las Vegas... he's competing against other top media properties, as well as tech companies and start-ups to attract the talent NPR needs to stay competitive.

Peter Clayton talks with Jonathan Weiner, Executive Producer of A Real-World Documentary on the Staffing Profession

Pablo Fuentes and his team at Proven have solved the Craigslist Jobs problem. And the SimplyHired jobs submission problem. And the Beyond.com problem. That problem: Mobile Apply. More and more, job seekers are using their smartphones and tables to access job listings and career sites. If you were at the Mobile Recruiting Conference (#MREC13) in Atlanta, you heard the stats.

"Optimizing your career site for mobile is a lot more than just screen size... Mobile Apply is table stakes, you've got to have that... Only 5% of the Fortune 500 have mobile apply capability" Ed Newman

Joe shares research from a group of job seekers contacted through Craig's list as well as the difficulties many company face with mobile apply. Quoting Joe, "The expectations of job seekers is that career sites and job applications on mobile devices just work. Phones have delivered so much for them already, and they're such a powerful tool, that for jobs not to work for them is a surprise."

"One in every seven minutes spent online is spent on Facebook." Covered in this podcast: Facebook is going hyper-local Isn't Facebook for friends and family, and LinkedIn for business? Expert advice on Facebook company pages Tips for individual Facebook accounts Natural and organic Search Hashtags are not just for Twitter

Leela Srinivasan Group Marketing Manager, LinkedIn Talent Solutions and Rob Humphrey Strategic Initiatives Leader, LinkedIn, regarding the adoption of mobile in recruiting and social networks.

Is mobile recruitment living up to the hype? What do potential candidates really want and need from mobile interaction with companies, and what does that mean for recruiters? Sponsored by JobsinPods.com

People as Merchandise? Really? Think about it for a minute. Aren't we all "merchandise" on Facebook, on Twitter, on Pinterest, on YouTube, and on LinkedIn? Collectively, we are the currency that has made Mark Zuckerberg and Ried Hoffman and many other social network visionaries -- billionaires.

Few authors have reached the level of success -- and influence -- as Dan Schawbel. He just turned 30. Podcast is sponsored by JobsinPods.com, the cleaverst way to advertise your jobs.

"We are in the human age where talent is the major agent of economic growth. So we have to shift our mindset as recruiters to be supply and demand experts, versus job fillers."

Over six million Americans have jobs that depend on US-Mexico trade. Karen Russo talks candidly about business opportunities in Mexico, Brazil, and throughout Latin America.

Bill Kutik - Looking Back - Moving Forward - Video

David Dalka interviews Columbia Business School Professor and author Rita Gunther McGrath, author of The End of Competitive Advantage

Bill Kutik Reflects on the Greatest HR Technology Show on Earth for the Past 16 years