Earlier this year, Ning announced over 1 million social networks have been created on their platform.  How much could one of those with 1,200 members sell for? Lance Haun, and Laurie Ruettimann sold HRMToday, a niche social and blog network for the HR community.  The final bid on ebay last night was $4,075. The auction […]

In April 2005, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN) board of directors approved a new top-level domain –  .jobs. EmployMedia, sponsored by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), had hoped to get corporate attention by creating a space devoted to posting and recruiting for job opportunities (i.e., Microsoft.jobs or IBM.jobs).  The […]

Last night was the debut of #TalentNet on twitter.  It was an active one, making it one of the top trending topics on twitter, along with American Idol and Swine Flu. What is is? #TalentNet is a hashtag event for recruiters that takes place the last Wednesday of each month at 9pm Eastern. Hosted through […]

Small businesses can now identify and recruit talent more effectively and efficiently via high-tough, automated system. Hiring Managers Can Identify Top Prospects 70% Faster With HarQen’s VoiceScreener™ And Effectively Manage More Candidates With Fewer Resources.  HarQen, a leading web-telephony company announced today that they are offering VoiceScreener, an efficient, automated telephone interviewing service, to small […]

by @jjbuss. 21 blog posts were submitted for the $1,000 contest, and the results are in! A quick thanks to all of the authors who submitted for the contest. Congratulations to Seth Simonds for receiving the highest number of unique visitors to his post! Seth wrote “Gosh! Napoleon Dynamite’s Guide To Social Networking“, and has […]

Google.  What would we do without it…  Remember when? Search engines have made a significant impact to Human Resources and Recruiting.  As an example, the last statistic I saw was 4-5 million job related searches are conducted every day.  HR and Recruiting professionals also use search engines for a variety of job related reasons including […]

Super Bowl ads, a favorite for many game watchers… And after an entry back after taking some time off, Monster.com returned to the Super Bowl scene. Afterall, they are trying to build awareness for their totally redesigned site. Vote Now! [poll id=”11″]

Social media and networking continue to get a lot of hype.  Twitter, as an example, has grown by over 750% in the past 12 months with an astonishing 1 billion tweets and counting! Applications and tools for these growing sites and platforms are growing quickly too.  If you use twitter, here are 8 newer sites […]

Today AIRS announced the release of their Annual Job Board and Recruiting Technology Directory, which can be downloaded for free. This marks the 5th annual edition.  According to AIRS, this is the largest, most up-to-date, and most usable career site and recruiting resource on the market.

A few months ago I wrote on article on the future of Jobster.com – stemmed from their overhaul of the once popular recruiting.com.  3 months have passed, on Jobster is now singing the Britney Spears hit single Oops!…I did it again.

With hundreds of investments you can make with online advertising, the CareerBuilder ad deal with Facebook, hasn’t proven to be one on the top of my list.  What was touted earlier this year as an innovative way to break into the social media and networking space hiring – and the next big thing for CareerBuilder […]

Part one of my conversation with Susan Burns focused on opportunities and trends within talent management.  Part 2, posted here focuses on social media and social networking, metrics, and the candidate experience from a recruiting perspective. Jason: There continues to be an emphasis and talk about the use of social media and social networking in […]