ERE.net has learned more details about LinkedIn’s July 1 decision to cut off Monster’s BeKnown and BranchOut’s API access. We’ve also obtained copies of the emails that LinkedIn sent to both companies. If there was any doubt that commercial reasons were behind the move, it’s gone now. Both emails end by proposing that the companies join LinkedIn’s “Partner... [full article »]

Another shot has been fired in the war to own the social career networks — TechCrunch reported today that LinkedIn has cut off access to its data to both BranchOut and Monster’s BeKnown. As we’ve reported, both services are designed to leverage Facebook’s social graph and more than 750 million users to help them find career... [full article »]

The war to bring career opportunities to Facebook’s over 750 million users is on in a big way here at SHRM Conference. Sunday, Monster launched BeKnown, an app that lets Facebook users harness their social graph to find a new job. If this sounds familiar, its because it is exactly what BranchOut  has been offering since... [full article »]

Two weeks ago, the team at KODA threw in the towel. With their goodbye, the Gen Y business connection site joined a long list of promising startups with sweeping ambitions to change the way that people find jobs that ultimately failed. Except for the runaway success of soon-to-IPO LinkedIn (and arguably Indeed & SimplyHired), there have... [full article »]

A couple of weeks ago, The Ladders invited (and paid T&E for) a number of influential bloggers, writers, speakers, and consultants in the HR and recruiting profession to join them for a day of “insightful and spirited conversations.” If the reason for the invitation sounds like PR double-speak, that’s because it is. In spite of... [full article »]

For months, John Zappe has been covering the .jobs saga here on ERE.net, so regular ERE readers will be familiar with much of the background. If you are new to the story, you can catch up here and here. Today is the final day of ICANN’s open comment period before they consider Employ Media’s .jobs... [full article »]

July 13th. Circle it in your calendar, recruiters. On July 13th, ERE Recruiter Meetups are going to be simultaneously run in cities around the U.S. It’s going to be a great opportunity for recruiters to meet and network with other recruiters in their area. The Meetups are going to be locally run and organized by the people... [full article »]

Ever since John broke the news yesterday on ERE.net that a committee of the Society for Human Resource Management was meeting tomorrow to consider amending the .jobs charter, several people have asked for a simpler explanation of what the stir is all about. In this post, I will attempt to explain the facts of the situation... [full article »]

If you are reading this on ERE.net or in our ERE Daily email today, right now you’re seeing red. That’s thanks to the generosity of our sponsor, iCIMS, who is graciously underwriting ERE.net this week. We’ve wrapped ERE.net in their brand — woven their ads and colors into our navigation, look and feel. Why are... [full article »]

This is an exciting time for ERE. We’re just a month away from the start of both the 10th Annual ERE Expo and our newly acquired SourceCon in San Diego, and both are going to be the largest since this recession began. (You heard that right — when’s the last time that you were at... [full article »]

I’m proud to announce that ERE Media has acquired SourceCon, the only live, in-person event for sourcing professionals in the world. SourceCon is unique. It brings together the best minds in the sourcing profession to focus on minute intricacies of the art like no other event in existence. I was at the first SourceCon, and... [full article »]

I am looking at an email in my inbox from June. I’m not going to call anyone out by name in this post, but it’s from an HR Blogger, and in it the Blogger is complaining that they did not get a speaking slot at our Social Recruiting Summit even though they would promote the... [full article »]

A little over a month ago, I announced the launch of ERE.net’s new community. Since then, we’ve received a lot of great feedback on how we can make a good thing even better, and I wanted to share a couple of the new things we’ve been working on. One of our goals with the new... [full article »]

It’s hard to believe, but ERE has been running a community for recruiters for more than 10 years. In that time online communities have radically changed, morphing from from listservs to forums to today’s never-ending cascade of social networks. Our community has evolved as well, expanding to include over 50,000 recruiting professionals, and growing more... [full article »]

Over the weekend, I followed a conversation between Charlie O’Donnell (@ceonyc), Founder of Path 101, and Alison Doyle (@alisondoyle), About.com’s Job Search Guide on Twitter, and then later on their blogs. (Click on the graphic for a larger, more readable version.) They were debating the value of the cover letters vs. a more comprehensive personal... [full article »]

Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn’s Founder and CEO, was on Charlie Rose a couple of weeks ago. I’ve been meaning to give it a watch since I saw it on Techcrunch, and I was not disappointed. [full article »]

The ERE team has been working on the next evolution of our community for months, and today we’re ready to show it off! There’s a preview up at http://beta.community.ere.net/, and we’re looking for your feedback on how to make it better before we go live on the main ERE.net. So what’s new? Here are some... [full article »]

The New York Times has a great interactive map showing how employment rates are changing across the United States. I find it striking how the worst problems in employment seem to center around the local areas that support the industries that are the epicenters of this recession: the real estate bubble, automobile manufacturers, etc. Lots... [full article »]

“Talent Pools.” “Talent Pipelines.” “Talent Networks.” All of these buzzwords describe the same thing — the idea of building a community of individuals whose skills you will need before there is an immediate opening for them. The idea is to strengthen the bonds between these people and the organization so that when the need arises,... [full article »]

It’s not news to ERE readers that recruiting is a cyclical business, and that times are tough. This morning, Indeed released data that they are calling Industry Trends, which compare the current number of online job postings in the United States today with the same data from a year ago.  It’s no longer news that... [full article »]