Realmatch recently publicized the results from several interviews detailing the frustrations felt by job seekers and employers while trying to connect with each other online. The interviews and survey research very clearly indicates an extreme degree of frustration and dissatisfaction about the economy as well as the fragmented, commercialized and noisy environment perpetuated by online […]

Congratulations to Steve Rothberg and CollegeRecruiter.com for announcing it has integrated LinkedIn networking features into the site. Students, recent graduates and alumni who apply on CollegeRecruiter.com to internships or entry-level jobs will now immediately see who they know at the organization they applied at. What do dating and recruiting have in common? Assessments and Job […]

By Jason Buss. July sets another record for the job aggregator site, Indeed.com, with over 8 million unique visitors. Site traffic is up overall 94.9% for indeed through June, while traffic for its’ rival Simply Hired is down 11.9% the first half of this year. Since some classify Jobster as an aggregator, I threw that […]

By Jason Buss. I came across a tweet tonight from ZenRecruiter regarding a discussion on ERE – whether or not Resume databases have a normal distribution of talent. The discussion came from a question posed by Madeline Tarquinio as a follow-up to my post: “What Would Happen if Job Boards Became Obsolete“? There is some […]

A busy news day for Monster.com. Monster Worldwide Reports Second Quarter and Six Months 2008 Results, adds next generation intelligent search technology by acquiring Trovix, Inc., and signs and alliance with HireRight.

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. 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 […]

AllianceQ set to revolutionize the $58 billion recruitment industry by creating a free supply of job candidates for Fortune 500 companies. A group of industry-leading Fortune 500 companies today launched AllianceQ, an organization created to build a free, exclusive and perpetually growing pool of job candidates to drive down its members’ cost of recruiting. Founding […]

Peopleclick Announces Strategic Partnership with CareerBuilder.com – will a new shared application feature really maximize the pool of quality candidates?  Monster.com today announced an In-house Centralization of all North American customer service functions at an attempt to ensure a best-in-industry service. How does your organization stack up against Diversity Edge’s 2008 Best Companies for Diverse Graduates? […]

Just when HR and Recruiting professionals thought the big boards lost all innovation, CareerBuilder launches job searching for iPhones.  While giving credit for trying to innovate – will successful, passive talent search and apply for their next career move on an iPhone? Meanwhile, Monster puts money where its’ heart is, and like rival Yahoo! HotJobs,  both are focusing on banner ads.  […]

Web 2.0 is about enhancing creativity, information sharing, and collaboration. The definition must have been written with the intent to exclude job postings and job boards as part of the world wide web. With all of the talk about attracting passive talent, the war for talent and focusing on hiring quality, I was surprised to […]