Recruitment stocks were no exception to the hammering stocks took today as investors worldwide drove down markets, sending a message to finance leaders … Read more
The Web 2.0 Job Seeker: Faster, Smarter, and More Connected
This year in the recruiting industry there has been a lot of talk about how companies are tapping into Web 2.0 technologies to enhance their recruiting. … Read more
Yahoo’s 4 Questions
Yahoo asks itself four questions when sourcing candidates of different generations. Where are they? How do they want to receive information? What makes … Read more
CareerBuilder Ends Video Resume Experiment
Little more than a year after introducing video resumes, CareerBuilder has discontinued the service. It was quietly taken offline in June. The company … Read more
Ready For Your Closeup? Here’s A Quick Guide To Job Board Video Production
You’ve done your homework and sold the boss on getting a company video made. In fact, you did such a good job the CEO is hinting around about having … Read more
RecruitMilitary Buys Competitor
Even the military is not immune from the consolidation of job boards. Today, RecruitMilitary, LLC announced it bought competitor Landmark Destiny Group for … Read more
Assessment and Job Boards: Two Years Later
Back in 2006 I wrote an article discussing the integration of assessments into job boards. It was an example of the continued movement toward the inclusion … Read more
Weekly Update: Quality of Hire, Cuil, Assessments
Quality of Hire Measurement Reporting and metrics is always a hot topic for recruiting, but so few companies do it right. In my research over the years, … Read more
Monster Buys Trovix And Beats The Street
Big news from Monster (profile; site) today. It bought jobmatcher Trovix (profile; site) for $72.5 million; settled that class action shareholder lawsuit … Read more
Yahoo! Execs Walk, But Not At HotJobs
With the Carl Icahn proxy fight averted and the Microsoft buyout dead (today, but check back tomorrow), Yahoo! can resume the reorganization it announced … Read more