About a year ago, a colleague — someone I admire and respect a great deal — introduced me to Brightkite.com. I can’t resist a new tool, so I … Read more
Unvarnished: Where Even Mother Teresa Would Worry
What do you think of doing a performance review in public and posting the written evaluation online? And then inviting people to contribute their own … Read more
Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn … Somebody Stop the Music!
No, I am not a hypocrite. I, like millions of people, participate regularly in social networking. I am a proponent of social networking and appreciate the … Read more
Startup Leverages Networks to Help Candidates and Jobs JIBE
Blogging from the ERE Expo last week I mentioned a social recruiting startup that was pretty ingenious in its utility. It wasn’t ready to uncloak … Read more
Ben Gotkin: Recruiting for a Great Unknown
ERE junkie Ben Gotkin (he’s on his sixth straight conference), the national recruiting director for the accounting firm RSM McGladrey, led a … Read more
Announcements From ERE Expo
Jobvite isn’t making a big splash about this, but it has a new social recruiting tool for job seekers. Think of it as a combination of bit.ly, the … Read more
For Gen-Yers, the Conversation’s the Resume
The Brazen Careerist has launched an interesting experiment in social recruiting, introducing what the site and its founder Penelope Trunk call a … Read more
3 Trends That Impact Recruiting
In addition to a shortage of talent, Microsoft E&D has identified three trends that impact recruiting and have caused us to see a new way of looking at … Read more
Internal Hiring Dominates 2009 Job Fills
The ninth Source of Hire report from CareerXroads is out and it shows the impact of the U.S. recession on hiring patterns over the last few years while … Read more
You Can Still Call Her Jenny, But Watch Out If She Sets Her Sights On Madam President
If Jenny DeVaughn hadn’t fallen in love with recruiting a decade ago, we might be calling her Madam President. Instead, you can still call her Jenny … Read more