Gen Yers aren’t specifically using Facebook for business, but with an average of 700 “friends” and a propensity to change jobs after two … Read more
Report Says 2011 Ended With Lowered Unemployment and 200,000 New Jobs
Surprising economists and putting an upbeat end to 2011, the U.S. unemployment rate declined to 8.5 percent in December while the economy added 200,000 new … Read more
New Referral Communities, New Matching Site, New Games, and More in Today’s Roundup
Here’s a collection of odds and ends about startups, new features, and other bits and bytes of useful info. You may remember CodeEval from a year … Read more
Economists Cautious About Today’s Strong ADP Jobs Report
Payroll processor ADP says the U.S. added 325,000 private sector jobs in December, a new jobs number that beat even the most optimistic of estimates. The … Read more
5 Predictions for Recruitment 2012
I was just reviewing the predictions I made for 2011 written at roughly this time a year ago. Much of what I thought would happen unfolded as expected, … Read more
We’re Wary But Hopeful As 2012 Gets Underway
Here, on this first business day of 2012, the new year is still full of promise, and optimism hangs in the air. Consumer confidence is at the highest level … Read more
Latest Job-matchmaking Site Will Focus on MBAs
We began 2011 talking about new “matchmaker” job sites starting up. As 2011 progressed, as Jeff Dickey-Chasins said, such sites, some more art … Read more
Upstream’s Game Generating Candidates It Would Have Ignored
Remember that mobile-marketing company Upstream that’s using games in its online recruiting? In short, that game has blown away expectations. Guy … Read more
Can You Get an Elephant Into a Refrigerator?
How would you get an elephant into a refrigerator? Think that’s an odd question? How about this one: What do you think of garden gnomes? Glassdoor … Read more
Talent Tech Swoops in to Save VisualCV
When we said VisualCV was shutting down at the end of the month, we hedged with a Hail Mary closer: “unless, we suppose, a buyer swoops in.” So … Read more