Jobster has been very busy in the last little while trying to take over the recruiting online space, buying up WorkZoo, and GoJobby. Today they announced that they acquired Recruiting.com! Jason and his merry band of writers are joining the Jobster mothership. Congratulations to them all. You can read the official version of events atContinue reading “Jobster buy’s another site”
Category Archives: Recruitment
Inside out, back to front and open recruiting
Rob Merrill over at GoodRecruits has a taken several ideas that are brewing across the blogosphere and produced an interesting business idea. Jobster, but distributed… Rob feel we all need to get into Microformats, Microformat Search engines, social networks, XFN (or would RapLeaf be just as good?) mash them all together and create a distributedContinue reading “Inside out, back to front and open recruiting”
Job Boards Vs. Craigslist how do they rate?
CM Russell from AllCountyJobs.com tried a little experiment on the quality of candidates returned by Craigslist. He got 6 candidates from Craigslist, 1 from Califorina, 4 from Russia and 1 from Ireland. From the other board 3 fully qualified candidates. He hired one from the job board!
Seth Godin talks about Recruiting
(Thanks to Dave Lefkow for the pointer) Seth Godin provides Todd Raphael, editor in chief of ERE, with an interview on recruitment and the intersection with marketing. The quote I really like from the interview:- Employee satisfaction is entirely related to the respect and autonomy employees are given. Over and over again, it has beenContinue reading “Seth Godin talks about Recruiting”
Movement in Job Search
Over the last couple of weeks there has been some interesting developments in the job search arena on both sides of the global. Firstly in Australia we have had the very flashy launch of jobs.com.au and in Canada there has been the launch of Eluta a Canadian specific vertical search site. jobs.com.au claims to notContinue reading “Movement in Job Search”
Link to me I have a blog!
I noticed today that Linkme has launched a blog, or blogs as they like to refer to it. Good to see another Australian HR-related blog in the marketplace. (Free tip 1:- Linkme, it is really not a blog without RSS feeds) (Free tip 2:- It is called a blog and it contains posts, a post isContinue reading “Link to me I have a blog!”
Job seekers and blogs
There has been a bit of a rush this week on posts about using blogs to help you find a job. Previously most of the discussion and example have been about corporations promoting themselves through blogs. To a lesser extent job seekers using a blog to create a micro-brand that increases their standing within a particular industry,Continue reading “Job seekers and blogs”
Google Base in the click stream
HitWise Lee Ann Prescott provides us with an interesting usage breakdown for Google Base during March 2006. Shopping & Classifieds sites getting 18% of Google Base’s downstream traffic, with nearly 8% of traffic going to job sites. Lee Ann ponders that Google Base is a part shopping directory, part recipe search service, part classified service,Continue reading “Google Base in the click stream”
Seek out jobs with RSS
Browsing Seek today I noticed that they have added RSS feeds to the site, good to see. They even provide Help on RSS Job Feeds for users getting started with RSS. One of the interesting selling points on their site is the you “find out about suitable jobs faster” than using the once a dayContinue reading “Seek out jobs with RSS”
Learning like a 5 year old
A recent Wired Magazine article provides unique perspectives on learning and to a lesser degree recruitment. The article talks about a senior manager at Yahoo who is a guild leader in World of Warcraft, a massive multi player online game. His position in World of Warcraft has provided him many of the necessary skills neededContinue reading “Learning like a 5 year old”
Michael Specht 