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I was traveling last week so I'm a little behind - but I finally got a chance today to listen to the Recruiting Animal's radio show (aka live podcast) on the topic of recruiting blogs: Have Recruiting Blogs made it big? I wish I could Read More
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I don't watch the show with ze frank as often as I should, but when I do, I always enjoy it. Scoble pointed to a video today so I headed on over there. Yesterday's show - focused on new technology, online community, and surfers - is Read More
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Recent dust-ups, misunderstandings, and their associated apologies in the blogosphere have got me thinking about transparency and blogs as communication tools.
Specifically, what ever happened to good old fashioned in-person talks to resolve Read More
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Fortune: I got my job through Second Life
. . . the most radical dotcom 2.0 recruitment wave is happening in virtual reality thanks to Second Life. Instead of posting a resume on Monster.com that will hopefully net a flesh-and-blood job interview, Read More
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This CareerJournal article from the Wall Street Journal indicates that more employers are starting to place restrictions on employee web use. Some are using filtering tools to shut down use of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook. Read More
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As I am reading through my morning feeds, I am realizing that I am a bit overwhelmed by the number of posts on some of the sites, particularly blogs, that I subscribe to on a regular basis. I recently decided to drop a few of these feeds because Read More
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I talk a lot about how employees' blogs can affect your company's employment brand. It's a chance for potential recruits to hear - first-hand - what it's like to work at your company. It's an opportunity to informally showcase Read More
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If you are a regular reader, you may have noticed a decidedly cranky tone from ye old Jobgals when it comes to some of the blogworthy stories that have been making their way into the world of recruiting and job search (questionnaires, spam and spam, Read More
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Few things get me going early in the morning, but one of the articles that I read during my morning routine put a bee in my bonnet that I couldn't just ignore. John Sumser again commented on spam as a tactic used by recruiters to "find" candidates Read More
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"We don't believe there's such a thing as a community of job seekers."
-- CareerBuilder CEO Matt Ferguson on social-networking job sites
Read more: Business Week: Online Job Sites Battle for Share
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Sigh ... It’s only a few days into 2007, and I think I’ve already spotted the worst recruiting ploy of the year … Google’s fantastic, awesome hiring algorithm.
I have to tell you, my negative reaction to this new technique is so strong that Read More
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Check out this timely article by John Sumser regarding the use of spam in the recruiting industry. It’s timely to me in the sense that after being bombarded on a regular basis with spam via email and comments on our blog, I’ve been thinking a Read More
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This fluff piece from CareerJournal underscores the recent fervor over developing the next great thing in social networking to land a job: video resumes. The article itself is pretty lame sighting few real world examples of those who have been Read More
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Looks like after intense pre and post-holiday speculations, kicked off by this Seattle PI blog post from John Cook, that Jobster is officially laying off 60 people, mainly made up of in-person sales and support staff, as of today.
With all the hullabaloo Read More
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It’s weird how technology is adopted in my home. I met and married a software engineer without really knowing what I was getting myself into :) and while he certainly is geeky about some things (can’t tell you the number of times dinner Read More
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