Next week Blogging4Jobs will deliver over 30 blogs from top industry leaders on the topic of big data. This topic has been talked about and mulled over in the HR industry for years, but do practitioners really know how to apply it to real-world scenarios? Join us April 6-12th as we give real examples on how a practitioners can harness the true power of big data to make smarter hiring decisions.

“Big data has the ability to completely change how HR departments think and do business. Harnessing the power that big data gives practitioners will allow them to make smarter, more effective hiring decisions,” says Jessica Miller-Merrell, Founder and Chief Blogger at Blogging4Jobs.

This isn’t the first themed week Blogging4Jobs has hosted on their website. Other themes have been The Candidate Experience and Workplace Automation.

“Themed weeks were created to help give insight in crucial topics in the HR industry. Our goal is to serve as a resource for those who are seeking information on various topics that’ll benefit them in their daily work life. We’ve seen a lot of good writers and topics funnel through our blog during these themed weeks and we’re excited about the topic of Big Data,” says Blake McCammon, Community Manager at Blogging4Jobs.

During this week Blogging4Jobs will also host a special Twitter chat over Big Data. Join us April 10th from 3-4pm EST using the hashtag #BigDataHR to get your questions answered about how Big Data might work for you.

“We want to drive conversation over this important topic and help answer questions practitioners face everyday. This Twitter chat will help drive much of that conversation.

About Blogging4Jobs
Blogging4Jobs is the leading HR and workplace blog in the world offering an unconventional point of view on topics including corporate social media, HR, recruiting, and leadership. Chief Editor, Jessica Miller-Merrell and her team seek to take the industry to uncomfortable yet necessary places.

About Jibe, Inc.
Launched in 2009, Jibe Jibe provides cloud-based recruiting technology solutions for talent acquisition teams to help them identify, attract and engage candidates. Jibe’s Recruiting Intelligence(TM) is an all-inclusive, cloud-based recruitment marketing platform, featuring an analytics engine at its core that pulls recruiting metrics from disparate back-end systems and turns them into actionable insight to guide hiring decisions. Recruiting Intelligence also features a next-generation talent network, simplifies job distribution, enables optimized mobile and desktop apply, offers an enhanced employee referral process, and significantly improves the candidate experience overall. Full integration with applicant tracking systems, combined with a SaaS delivery model, provides a seamless solution without disrupting processes or impacting IT resources. For more information, please visit www.jibe.com and follow us on Twitter @Jibe.