Don’t look for Time magazine to be one of the employers vying to get onto TMP Worldwide’s virtual recruiting hot spot on Second Life, TMP … Read more
Monster Powers Ahead Globally
Lost in the announcement last month that Monster will lay off some 800 workers was the amazing news of the company’s rapid growth abroad. For at … Read more
The Housing Crisis, the Economy, and Their Impact on Recruiting
Over the course of my nearly 40-year career in human resources, I have witnessed almost a dozen recruiting booms (where recruiting budgets ballooned) and … Read more
Country-Fried: First Magnus Succumbs to Mortgage Mess
The First Magnus Financial Corp. website isn’t sugar-coating anything these days. A visit to the company’s revised one-page website shows a … Read more
Building the Workforce of the Future
The Business Week cover story, “The Future of Work,” for their August 20 edition is must reading for all recruiting and HR leaders. The basic … Read more
CareerBuilder’s Test of Video Resumes is First by a Major Job Board
Launching in late June with little fanfare, CareerBuilder is the first major job board in the United States to offer video resumes. Now, not even two … Read more
Countrywide’s See-Saw: Employee Base Up 1,159 as Shares Plummet 13%
When the Dow closed below 13,000 Wednesday afternoon, amid bad housing news and a surge in the price of oil, Countrywide Financial’s new workers were … Read more
MBA Hopeful Works to Connect Disabled Grads, Employers at Virtual Job Fair
A 21-year-old business administration major at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego is helping to organize the first-ever virtual online job fair … Read more
Ghost Town: A Glimpse at American Home Mortgage’s Once Near-Perfect Careers Website
By all accounts, American Home Mortgage Investment Corp.’s envy-inducing careers website is what most companies wish they could replicate. A … Read more
Do You Spock Your Candidates?
While it might not have the popularity of Google searches just yet, people-tracker Spock.com has officially launched. Known as the “search engine for … Read more