What a crappy way to start the year, without a job! Well that’s what 60 people over at Seattle based Jobster are now facing. Obviously when a high profiled company in the recruitment business cuts jobs it is going to be newsworthy to many people. And while many knew it was coming it is neverContinue reading “The Jobster weight loss program”
Category Archives: Recruitment
Voting in the Recruiting.com Awards
I have been ignoring the HR blogosphere for the last couple of months, partially by accident and partially on purpose. In the last couple of days I noticed that the 2006 Best Recruiting Blog awards are on, strangely enough I am not nominated this year but I think I know why :-). Anyway enough aboutContinue reading “Voting in the Recruiting.com Awards”
What do you think this will be??
So how do you Hire’m? I guess we will have to wait and see…. (I seem to have my blogging feet again!)
Job Trends in Australia
With my new job I have not found much time to blog about HR and HR technologies in the last few months. Today is different. I just received an email from Maneck Mohan of Recruit.Net about their new Job Index Trends that is launching tomorrow. It got me all fired up. The Job Trends IndexContinue reading “Job Trends in Australia”
Google tweaks its hiring process
I kind of think that Google is becoming just like everyone else. They are adjusting the process just a bit, is this in response to candidates going else where or a recognition that they need to grow faster, ie put on candidates as greater speed? Or is it as the article suggests they are transitioning from aContinue reading “Google tweaks its hiring process”
Shhh, want a job?
I got an email, come press release, this morning from Gayleen Robinson about a service for job seekers called QuietAgent, normally I read these types of messages and sit back and wait. Wait why, to see who else has got the email and read their view points. However today I felt given title of theContinue reading “Shhh, want a job?”
Words to avoid on your resume
Many job seekers have “resume in mouth” disease, that is they kill any chance of getting a job BEFORE they even get to the interview. Typos, poor formatting, not focusing on what the hiring manager is looking for, and using the wrong language. TechRepublic wrote an article a couple of years ago, and created aContinue reading “Words to avoid on your resume”
The new recruiting.com
I have been debating in my head do or don’t I post about the new recruiting.com. If I post will I just add to the hype and if I don’t will I regret not getting my thoughts out. I also am a bit bitter about the whole thing as I had grand plans to doContinue reading “The new recruiting.com”
Do you know where your candidates are?
Carve Consulting client Cerco had a problem, where are our available candidates? Cerco are a provider of IT consultants and needed to be able to fulfill client requests very quickly. So what did Carve Consulting do? They created a mashup of their candidate database with Google Maps! Registered clients can have CV’s delivered in one-click,Continue reading “Do you know where your candidates are?”
The long tail of job ads
Jorge posts a follow up on my post about online job ads continuing to rise. I really like his summary:- My takeaways from this limping rant:Large is not a problem per-seNiche is not a panacea per-seDatabase Quality drives a sustainable revenue/business modelSite functionality and Price are two tools to mould publisher behaviorSite Functionality and content – bothContinue reading “The long tail of job ads”
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