The War for Talent is Dead: Is Open Source the Future of HR?

For the most part, the HR and recruiting industry has historically treated our work as strictly confidential. Outside of conferences or between individual colleagues we seldom see companies actively sharing their secrets for success or lessons learned from their failures for the benefit of other companies. As the competition for talent increasingly intensifies, many companies even hide their best practices in order to fight and win the so called “war” for talent. There is a movement happening to push the industry toward a more open and collaborative approach to knowledge sharing similar to what has been seen in the tech world.