By Jason Buss. Online Job Board Offers Job Seekers FREE Listing and FREE Video Resume Posting Until Jan. 1, 2009. One day there is talk about the drawbacks of video resume’s. The next, a new job board, FutureResume.com opens shop. The site is scheduled to go live for employer job listings in August. During that […]

By Jason Buss. For RSS and e-mail subscribers it should come as no surprise I am not a big fan of most job boards – that is – the way that they are typically used by most organizations and candidates. For new readers, welcome, and here are a couple of posts to set the stage: […]

By Jason Buss. The weekly recruiting blog poll results are in from last week. The question: What is the primary focus of your recruiting metrics? The results: Measuring productivity (54%) What metrics (26%) Measuring value (10%) A combination (value and productivity 10%) In addition to the obvious quality of hire, there were 3 top picks […]

Dayak, the online recruiting marketplace that links employers with professional recruiters, recently launched its full-service innovative site to quickly and efficiently fill employer job openings. Dayak’s new recruiting solution allows employers and recruiters an opportunity to work together to fill open positions in nearly every industry. There are no costs associated with posting a job […]

How is the candidate experience at your company? Leslie Stevens writes on ERE about improving it. CareerBuilder.com Launches WorkInRetail.com to Connect Retail Employers and Job Seekers, after a recent survey showed more than one-third (36 percent) of retail employers say they have open positions for which they cannot find qualified talent. View the press release […]

By Jason Buss. As we move through the summer students are on vacation, but most college recruiters are busy putting the finishing touches on their fall college recruiting strategy and plans. After writing an article on a successful approach to college recruiting and building partnerships on Campus, I recently caught up with Amod Damle to […]

By Jason Buss. After posting a few HR blog links and reporting on The HR Metrics Center, I received a confirmation e-mail (1 1/2 hours) after registering. I logged on, and while only trying the free service, here are some observations: Unless you have free time to waste, there was little value in the service […]

By Jason Buss. Diversity, Inc. revealed top companies for African Americans. While revenue may being growing in the RPO arena, reducing costs by 40% while increasing quality has to be an extreme example from the most broken recruiting function a RPO provider could find. As a follow-up to my post on AllianceQ, I came across […]

By Jason Buss. Nearly every reputable business is talking about “going green” right now and trying to find ways to green up their operations as a selling point to their customers. Not just a passing fad, the green movement is a trend that will be around for quite some time, and more and more customers […]

Doug Berg, Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of jobs2web writes about the 100+ million job related searches on google last month.   I also recently shared some great successes with capitalizing on this opportunity – and the results after implementing the product. Internet entrepreneur Darren Bahnsen has announced the launch of College Jobs Network, a FREE […]

By Jason Buss. All of these people are all waiting patiently to be recruited – and to apply for a job at your company. They would apply, except the process takes too long and 99% of the time it results in an auto generated response and nothing else. OK, maybe they are watching a football […]

National BDPA and WorkplaceDiversity.com Announce Winners of the 2008 Best Companies for Blacks In Technology.  HSBC North America, Merck and Company, Monsanto, State Farm Insurance, Wal-Mart Stores, WellPoint and Wells Fargo Bank are among the winners.   Contract hiring is under scrutiny in Michigan after a report by the Interagency Task Force on Worker Misclassification, issued last week, […]