It’s been a couple of years since we’ve seen a HR / Recruiting web site (community) for sale via auction.  The last was in late 2009, when HRM Today sold on ebay for $4,075 (the site had 1,200 members at the time). Until today…  RecruitingBlogs.com sold via auction on Flippa for $95,000. This is the […]

Mobile is “it”.  With over 11 billion apps downloaded, we’re just getting started.  The prediction that mobile will overtake PC’s by 2013 as the most common web access device doesn’t seem too far fetched.  But…  Will mobile recruiting be “it” in the job search and recruiting space? We know organizations are investing in mobile recruiting, […]

Conference season is in full swing. I am looking forward to a session I am co-facilitating tomorrow called “Social Media – The Impact to Diversity Recruiting”. It’s at the 2011 Multicultural Forum on Workplace Diversity, in Minneapolis. In building out the content and research for the topic, a lot of information has been published from […]

You’ve spoken, Weddles has answered.  Each year the top 30 job boards are announced. Each year, WEDDLE’s conducts a year-long ballot of recruiters and job seekers to determine which employment related sites they like best. The 30 sites that accumulate the most votes during the year are named WEDDLE’s User’s Choice Award winners – and […]

Indeed.com has been a well known job search engine for years.  A few months ago, it became the largest job “site” in the world when measured by unique visitors, according to Comscore. How many visitors? In October, 2010, the site recorded 12.3 million unique visitors in comparison to Monster.com’s 12.1 million.  CareerBuilder recorded third place, […]

In 2008, I created The Talent Buzz and the reaction far outweighed my highest expectations. On what would have been the 3rd Anniversary of the site, I am thrilled to share a complete overhaul, expansion, and name…  And, a completely new site, Talent HQ. My original goal was to share ideas on recruiting, create some […]

In a press release earlier today, the “.JOBS Universe” announced its’ going to transform online recruiting. Put your seat belts on, and get ready for more job pollution with 40,000 new job sites coming, potentially growing to 100,000 by the end of the year.

8 months ago we shared a post about the opportunity to leverage LinkedIn for Campus Recruiting. Now, as LinkedIn surpasses 80 million members this is even more of a reality. With LinkedIn’s Career Explorer, available at 60 Universities in the U.S. as part of the beta, students now have the ability to explore different career […]

Jobvite’s solutions have already been adopted by companies including Starbucks, Twitter, Zynga and Yelp. Earlier today they announced they are advancing their technology solution to deliver real-time recruiting intelligence to optimize the sourcing and hiring of talent. An intuitive, personalized dashboard built into the Jobvite recruiting platform now integrates all the relevant data from any […]

Monster has concluded it’s agreement with Yahoo, and is making plans now to transform itself into the worlds largest online career resource.  The deal is positioned as providing both employers and job seekers more reach, breadth, talent, and local presence. The combined presence of Monster and HotJobs is expected to provide access to more than […]

The 2010 results are in! HRO Today Magazine today announced the carefully watched results for its annual Bakers Dozen ranking of major recruitment process outsourcing firms. After 2 years running, The RightThing was pushed out of the top spot by SourceRight Solutions (formerly Spherion). The RPO Baker’s Dozen List, was developed from information culled on […]

Last week SHRM announced a 6 week pilot of their HR Jobs Resume Database, making it searchable by employers. During this time SHRM’s HR Jobs will allow you to make your resume available for employers to search and contact you directly regarding employment opportunities. In the announcement, SHRM encouraged job seekers to sign up – […]