Category Archives: General

The forward thinking (read cool) Gretchen has released a new podcast called Jobcast where she is interviewing Microsoft employees, managers and recruiters to give us all a first hand understanding of Microsoft from all perspectives. All these cool things almost makes me want to go work for Microsoft… Maybe that is the point 😉 DownloadingContinue reading “JobsBlogCasts”

This morning I checked my Gmail and found some spam that Google had not caught. Why am I surprised? Because it was actually interesting, relevant and real. I got two emails from Tom Schmidt CEO of ResumeFit.com while the content was interesting and the proposed service might work it is still spam. However this doesContinue reading “Business spam”

The Indeed Blog has pointed to a real world example of a JobRoll based on their XML API in the same manner that I wrote about recently. Great to see!

Hmm just noticed both Mick and Cam pop online at the same time on Skype. Could this mean there is another “On The Pod” coming soon?

I feel like I must be the last person on the planet to be Getting Things Done! Ok maybe not the last, I suspect there is someone somewhere in the middle of South America that might be after me but I could be wrong. Over the last 36 hours I have made it through mostContinue reading “Finally getting things done”

Scoble “bashed” Tony Chang for his post on Google’s 20% time policy (not that I think Tony is right either). Scoble seems to have changed his tune a bit when prompted by Aaron Hockley in his comments. Robert goes on to admit that “Lots of people also get stuck in ruts and don’t know howContinue reading “Scoble misses the point”

I have been trying to find a couple of books on Amazon without any luck, however they do appear at Dymocks here in Australia. Maybe they are yet to be published in the US I’m not sure but it is the first time I have not found what I am looking for on Amazon. IContinue reading “Amazon missing books?”

Michael sees some flaws with the Indeed system, I however see the potential of their system, with some changes (which I guess could be seen as flaws). Why only search jobs? Why not search the resumes that are on the web and delivery matched candidates to recruiters via RSS as a paid service. Another extensionContinue reading “Indeed thoughts”

From ComputerWorld:- It seems that second tier vendor Aurion in Australia has picked up a several of high profiled clients. I wonder how many more there are out there? I do know that while I was in the vendor area I spoke to many potential clients who were looking to move away from PeopleSoft.

Slashdot reported overnight on the Job market for developers based on data from indeed. While the results that Slashdot have are interesting if you are a developer, but from an HR/Recruitment perspective it is much more! indeed went live Nov 2004 and aggregates jobs postings from many different sources in reading their FAQ they describeContinue reading “Aggregated jobs site indeed.com”