The U.S. Labor Department has a number of new grants it’s soliciting related to the employment of people with disabilities. Included are: $1.1 … Read more
Monster Reports Weak Quarter; Outlook Is Not Promising
Even Monster’s CEO had a hard time finding much to be optimistic about in the company’s 2nd quarter performance. There’s some improvement … Read more
LinkedIn The Likely Winner In 2nd-quarter Financial Reports
This is a big week for the job board industry. Monster reports its second-quarter results this morning before the market opens, and LinkedIn reports later, … Read more
Using Foursquare For Recruiting? You Now Have A Slew Of New Tools
No matter your take on privacy, people are using services like Foursquare to track their check-ins, get perks and let their friends know where they are at. … Read more
Dice Sees Slowdown in Tech Hiring Through End of Year
A slowdown in tech hiring among the long tail — smaller firms outside the major markets — coupled with a falloff in financial services hiring … Read more
Facebook Is Seriously Revamping Internal Search… “Soon”
For those of you hoping that Facebook might go on to compete head-to-head against Google’s bread and butter search, you’ll have to wait a … Read more
Softness in IT Job Ads Prompts Dice to Lower Estimates
A slowdown in tech hiring among the long tail — smaller firms outside the major markets — coupled with a falloff in financial services hiring … Read more
Informatica Goes Big-Big-Big With a Little Careers Site Update
Informatica, multiple honoree of the ERE Recruiting Excellence Award, has launched a new careers site whose design isn’t full of bells and whistles, … Read more
Amazon Takes Over Homepage to Announce New Employee Program As It Gears Up To Hire Thousands
As Amazon prepares to open two, massive warehouse facilities in the next six months or so, the company took the unprecedented step of announcing a new … Read more
3 Lessons from the Olympics Security Debacle for Talent Acquisition Or . . . How Not to Embarrass Your Nation
As you may have heard, the company contracted to provide security guards to the London Olympics announced a scant three weeks before the event that — … Read more