Recruiting: Risk-Averse Or Just CYA?

Twitter’s a great recruiting tool. No wait, it’s terrible one. You could get suuuuued.

Well, okay, you could get sued for recruiting on Twitter if doing so leaves you with a homogenous applicant pool and a discrimination lawsuit.

But Kris Dunn at Fistful of Talent has a problem with articles about the legal implications of new recruiting tools.

He writes:

“Employment law ‘experts’…scare, intimidate and generally freeze the average HR person from adopting tools that can help them do their jobs better, get more respect and generally free themselves from the stereotype that they’re nothing more than advanced secretaries paid to say ‘no’.

“There’s

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