Businesses big and small convened on San Francisco last week for the Web 2.0 Expo, all with different agendas — to launch new products, to gain VC … Read more
The Future of Recruiting: It Won’t Be Anything Like Today (Part 2 of 2)
Most corporate recruiting functions are far from strategic, and most recruiters are intensely resistant to change that. It’s a fact that the business … Read more
Jobster Gets $7 Million Infusion
Jobster (profile; site ) pulled a rabbit out of the hat Thursday, announcing that its investment group has come up with $7 million in a fourth round of … Read more
Brand New Tool! SearchMonkey Rocks
In lieu of doing a complete recap today, I wanted to share some great information about a brand new way Yahoo! has come up with to use its search engine, … Read more
Online Applications Irk Executives
As popular ERE columnist John Sullivan has warned, the way to an executive’s heart is not through a tedious online application process. As Sullivan … Read more
The $58 Billion Candidate
If you knew that nearly half the job seekers who have Internet access are not using online media to look for a job, would that make you spend more or less … Read more
Where Have all the Machinists Gone?
Manpower is out with its list of the 10 hardest jobs to fill in the United States, and for the third consecutive year, sales representatives, technicians, … Read more
WWPCD? Harvard Business Might Know the Answer
The next time you’re dealing with difficult talent management issues and think, “What would Peter Cappelli do?” consider heading to … Read more
The Future of Recruiting: It Won’t be Anything Like Today (Part 1 of 2)
A while back, I was asked to give a presentation at Google’s main campus in the heart of the Silicon Valley on the future of corporate recruiting. … Read more
Job Offers Tighten, Raises Shrivel
What’s that sound you just heard? It’s the sound of the bubble bursting over the heads of many soon-to-be graduates of the Class of 2008. By … Read more