In addition to making you hungry, the Smokey Bones website accomplished something else: it was one of the sites that helped one company’s recruiting … Read more
Monster Beats Market, Gets Rewarded. LinkedIn Blasts Through and Loses 20 Percent
Shares of LinkedIn and Monster moved in opposite directions today, although both careers sites met or exceeded, or, in the case of LinkedIn, blasted … Read more
5 Ways to Build a Crowdsourcing Strategy to Uncover Hard-to-Find Talent
Hard-to-find talent isn’t interested in submitting resumes or engaging with career sites. These are busy people, deeply focused on a project or idea. … Read more
Jobs … Social Media … Applicant Tracking … It Must Be Another Launch
“Imagine what the world of recruiting would be like if Twitter, Linkedin, Foursquare, and Monster combined into one awesome social recruiting … Read more
RPO Company Futurestep Rolling Out a Data/Metrics Tool
Futurestep has quietly been developing a tool called “Foresight” it will be rolling out to its clients, a dashboard meant to make heads and … Read more
Does 119k New Jobs Mean Hiring Is Slowing?
The news about April’s job growth is not looking good. Economists were predicting a mediocre month even before ADP released its estimates this … Read more
‘Kill the Cover Letter.’ Long Live the Cover Tweet
While the debate rages on about the future of the resume, there’s angst, but not as much, over the destiny of the cover letter. A year ago Fortune … Read more
Revealing 3 Leading Edge Talent Practices From the Silicon Valley
Practices: The return of talent agents; HR owns M&A; and hiring without degrees Anyone who tracks advanced trends in talent management knows that many … Read more
Dice’s On Target Q1: A Foreshadowing of Job Board Slowdown?
If Dice Holdings is any kind of bellwether, Q1 is looking like it got off to a slow start for the publicly held job boards. The company reported this … Read more
Big Tech, Social Media Companies Say Ireland’s Where the Jobs Are
IT and other employees not interested in Nashville, Austin, Detroit, or even Yukon might want to take a look at Ireland. Certainly, Facebook, Google, … Read more