No not my network, Gautam Ghosh’s. He is trialling the new Jobster service for invited job seekers to share jobs through their network. The service was launched a few weeks ago. The jobs are all from Microsoft and were advertised by Heather last week. Personally I like the sound of the Product Strategy job IContinue reading “Jobs in my network”
Category Archives: Recruitment
Vertical search podcast coming soon
Must ensure I get the vertical search podcast from the Vertical Leap conference that is being run next week. Of real interest will be the “Classifieds / Job Search” session with a great group of people:- Moderator: John Zappe, Classified Intelligence Report Craig Donato, Oodle.com Gautam Godhwani, Simply Hired Konstantin Guericke, LinkedIn Garrett Price, KijijiContinue reading “Vertical search podcast coming soon”
Job board with integrated ATS
OnRec had a press release today from Tempwork who have “has integrated a job board and online application system into its core product, enabling staffing firms to take advantage of the enormous business potential of the Internet.” I read the release only due to the title “Job Boards Are the Way Forward for Staffing Companies”,Continue reading “Job board with integrated ATS”
Googling and recruitment
Last night I wrote a short item on using Google for background checks, this morning I find Regina Miller has also put together a post (completely separately) with a more recent example of how a Google search might of been the difference between life and death right here in Australia. I had previously seen theContinue reading “Googling and recruitment”
Blogs as Due Diligence in Hiring
In my search for HR blogs I came arcoss this post from Fred Wilson from way back in 10th Feb 2005 on how he used a blog to validate a hiring decision. (Via Moonwatcher Adoption) From reading the post and other parts of Fred’s site it seems to me that this particular hiring decision wasContinue reading “Blogs as Due Diligence in Hiring”
dot jobs is available
Overnight the official launch of the dot jobs domain took place at the SHRM Conference, as part of the launch companies can now begin to register the domain. Over the next few days and weeks I expect we will see a lot of commentary around where the domain is heading. In the meantime I haveContinue reading “dot jobs is available”
Jobster wins over Heather
After many weeks of courting it seems that the guys at Jobster have won over Heather Hamilton with their job referral service. It will be very interesting to see the results and if Heather finds the service really useful and not just a fad. I guess Dave will be happy.
Social reputation and authority
Happened to be browsing Feedburner today and found an interesting post in their blog about a new API. The Feed Awareness API looks very interesting and seems to already have support from some of the feed reader software. The best way to describe it is to quote the Feedburner site. Feed Awareness describes the extentContinue reading “Social reputation and authority”
The future of recruiting
I have mentioned that before, the future of job/applicant search will be in Google, something I know Joel Cheesman agrees with. Anyway it seems that this future is quickly becoming a reality, with rumours that Google to provide listings search. Joel does a good job of highlighting the relevant parts. While the item in RedContinue reading “The future of recruiting”
Tech Recruiting is Hard
Jeremy Zawondy chimes in on the issues faced by recruiters that were raised by Gretchen earlier in the week. Interesting perspectives from Jeremy and his readers, shows some of the issues that the HR profession need to address. You might not agree but remember perception is reality.
Michael Specht 