by @jjbuss. Calling all job seekers and recruiters! #JobHuntChat started on twitter 2 months ago, and is quickly growing.  You can experience the chat every Monday night at 10 pm EST. I had the opportunity to attend and contribute last night, and would highly recommend this venue.  5 questions were tweeted, follow-up questions were submitted […]

Jobster – what seemed to have a shift in strategy or direction frequently years ago has possibly seen some daylight.  The site has a new home and has been acquired by a start-up that offers Talent Management applications in the Human Resources space – Zapoint. Previous news on Jobster from The Talent Buzz: Job Aggregator […]

Written by Kristin Dziadul. Mike D is now following you on Twitter. Mike D has accepted your friend request. Comment posted by Mike D Text Message from Mike D The above is a prelude to a love story. Yes, love can occur by meeting in class, meeting through a friend or at a party, but […]

In Lewis Carroll’s famous novel, Alice was a precocious child with her own idiosyncrasies. In my imagination, Alice did not fall into a rabbit’s hole into Wonderland. She was thrown into the 21st century instead. Within a year, she became the most famous Twitterer ever. How did Alice fit in the Twitter scene? With these […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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:

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 […]