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The $1,500 Blog Post Contest
It’s that time of year… Announcing the 3rd annual Talent Buzz blog post / article contest. If you write, or have ever thought of writing, this is for you! I am excited to announce the $1,500 blog post contest on The Talent Buzz. This time around, the stakes are higher as the winner will receive a [...] |
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The Future of Work via Elance?
High unemployment will likely continue in the coming years, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress today. While that is not the news anyone would hope for, it was widely expected. One approach the unemployed and underemployed are taking is leveraging online forums and tools to compete for work. Elance, one of the major players in [...] |
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Top 25 Digital Recruiters
HR Examiner is continuing to measure influence. This morning, they announced the top 25 most influential online recruiters, as a follow-up to their quest to identify the most influential people in the world of Human Resources. To calculate influence HR Examiner partners with Traackr, a Boston based online reputation discovery tool. You can view the [...] |
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Avature for Recruiting
When responding to an open job req, how many Recruiters have ever said to a hiring leader: “Let me develop a sourcing strategy” or “Let’s see what comes in after we post it”? How about changing that with this response: “Here’s what we have in our portfolio of talent” and/or “Here’s who [...] |
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The Twitter DM Deleter - Twedemption
Blast applications announced today the official launch of Twedemption, a new “mass delete” direct message service for twitter. For Recruiters and other twitter users that frequently communicate with their followers, Twedemption allows users to mass-delete direct messages. For a a one-time fee of $5.99, you can safely and securely delete multiple or all DMs from your [...] |
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LinkedIn Moves On Campus
As LinkedIn gets closer to its’ 7th Anniversary this May, the professional networking site is picking up steam on College and University Campuses world-wide. The site surpassed 55 million users in December, 2009. Their members span all 7 continents and 200 countries are represented. A new member joins every second. So what’s next for the professional [...] |
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2010 Superbowl Ad Winner: CareerBuilder vs. Monster.com?
With air time estimated between $2.5 and $3 million, both job boards are looking to gain traffic and exposure during high unemployment times. In our poll last year, CareerBuilder won the superbowl ad contest big time with 71% of the vote. After announcing the acquisition of Yahoo! HotJobs last week, the Monster.com beavers hope to take [...] |
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Monster acquires HotJobs
With Monster.com controlling 1/3 of online job postings, they announced their eating one of two main competitors, HotJobs. The deal is expected to close the 3rd quarter of this year. Monster also plans on doubling the number of newspapers that it works with to about 1,000 for online job postings and advertising. Background: Yahoo acquired HotJobs in 2002 [...] |
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A Job Board Nightmare?
He thought (and hoped) it was just a bad dream. Little Johnny just wanted to find a job, but he got lost in a universe cluttered with a million new job boards. He woke up, it wasn’t just a dream, as 25,000 will go live this week. While I have never claimed to be a “jobs” SEO [...] |
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2010 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For
The 2010 Fortune 100 best companies to work list is here, and most are hiring. How prevalent is social media becoming with these 100 companies? Nearly 40% contain links to groups, pages, and channels to connect on. Check out KPMG’s branded YouTube channel as an example. Here are some additional stats related to this years top [...] |
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Top Job Boards for 2010
It’s that time of year again - where the top job boards are announced. It’s the annual user’s choice awards, where both recruiters and job seekers pick the top job sites on the web. Each year, WEDDLE’s conducts a year-long ballot of recruiters and job seekers to determine which employment related sites they like best. The [...] |
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TweetDeck and TwitJobSearch Launch JobDeck
Announced early this morning for companies and job seekers leveraging social media, TweetDeck and TwitJobSearch have teamed up to provide a dedicated job seeker platform - JobDeck. This enables users to leverage the power of social media in job hunting including, searching for jobs, tracking the latest trends in job hunting, and connecting with contacts across [...] |
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The New Standard in Split Recruiting
A few weeks ago we highlighted the “Top 7 Mobile Recruiting Apps for 2010“. One of those apps, The Hire Syndicate is making waves with the future of split recruiting. I had an opportunity to connect with recruiting veteran Allen Ackerman, The Hire Syndicate’s Founder and CEO, to discuss the technology further - and his views [...] |
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Simply Hired Goes Social
With more than five million job listings worldwide, Simply Hired is the world’s largest job search engine and recruitment advertising network, and yesterday announced it’s going social. Today’s web-savvy job seekers are turning social applications into professional job hunting tools by embracing social networks to expand professional connections, tapping into twitter for real-time alerts about job [...] |
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The Sourcer’s Playbook
Geoff Peterson, Managing Principle of General Lead has over a decade of in-depth experience sourcing talent for organizations nationally. In the Spring of 2009 I met Geoff online via twitter, facebook, and the recruiting blogosphere; and then later in person at a recruiting conference. At the time, I learned about a book he [...] |
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The Top 25 HR Pro’s on Twitter
by @jjbuss. On Monday, the top 25 most influential list of recruiters on twitter was shared. Leveraging wefollow, it’s time to spread the love to our HR Tweeps. After all, they work just as hard as Recruiters! The current list of the 25 most influential HR Professionals on twitter are: Sharlyn Lauby - @hrbartender Laurie Ruettimann - @lruettimann Mark Stelzner [...] |
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The Crystal Ball: 2010 Recruiting Predictions
Each year there are hundreds of predictions made about recruiting. Some come to fruition, some don’t. It’s always enjoyable to reflect back on last year’s and look into the crystal ball for this year. This year is no different. Hundreds of predictions have been made about what 2010 holds for jobs, employment, and the recruiting space. [...] |
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25 Most Influential Recruiters on Twitter
by @jjbuss. It’s hard to believe it has been almost 2 years since my first tweet. Since then I’ve had the opportunity to meet a lot of great people inside and outside of my industry and profession, and publish a few blog posts on the topic. A few examples include: Using Twitter to Recruit, Find a Job, [...] |
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Top 7 Mobile Recruiting Apps in 2010
We recently shared the list of the top 10 Job Search & Job Seeker iPhone Apps. A couple of months later (yesterday) Apple announced another milestone, with 3 billion downloaded Apps. That’s an increase of a billion in 3 months. While Mobile Recruiting is evolving for both Candidates and Recruiters, it is about a lot more [...] |
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2010 Hiring and Job Forecast
CareerBuilder released its’ 2010 Job Forecast this morning. The forecast finds that the encouraging news regarding the economy may be easing hiring fears, as employers signal an increase in their plans to hire in the new year. Twenty percent of employers say they plan to increase their number of full-time, permanent employees in 2010, up from [...] |