On the eve of America’s annual day of Thanksgiving, there’s at least some better economic news to toast than what we’ve seen in a while. … Read more
Blekko and DuckDuckGo Announce Search Partnership
You may have seen our recent post on the Blekko search engine. Well, today they announced a partnership with semantic search engine DuckDuckGo in an effort … Read more
Dogs Rule. Snakes Earn. Fish Go Into HR
I always suspected there was something more than coincidence that Catbert, the “evil” head of HR where Dilbert works, is a feline. Having … Read more
No Limit on Whose Jobs Go on .Jobs, Says SHRM
The Society for Human Resource Management has essentially repudiated one of the fundamental reasons it and its partner, Employ Media, sought to create a … Read more
Staffing Firm Takes Slow Approach To Social Media So It Can Do It Right
When Staff Management decided it needed a social media presence, its first instinct was to be cautious. “We knew we had to be there, but there was a … Read more
Career Site Visitors Drawn to Rackspace’s Culture Channel
Rackspace is a company doing so much right in the social media space that it’s hard to know where to begin. Numbers are as good a place as any. So … Read more
RealMatch Gets $4.7 Million and New CEO From Monster
RealMatch, the job ad network that distributes ads for free charging only for candidates you want, has scored two big coups. The Israeli firm announced … Read more
Knowing Versus Thinking: Your Employee Referral Program Isn’t as Good as You Think
By Dr. John Sullivan & Master Burnett Over the past six weeks, we have attended eight large conferences that focus on or relate to talent acquisition. … Read more
Will Google’s 10% Holiday Pay Raise Cool The 6-Figure Counteroffers?
How much would you pay to keep a superstar who has another offer? How much if the employee was just a star? Before answering that you might want to take a … Read more
Employers Think Vets Are Great. They Just Don’t Hire Them
Amidst the rah-rah news yesterday about the drop in unemployment claims, little notice was paid to another one of the data points in the weekly report … Read more