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 remember being... [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 community... [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 every... [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 branding... [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 of the... [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 of red… [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, it’s a simple... [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 there’s... [full article »]

Moody’s Economy.com released a forecast for employment in the United States for the next few years, and USA Today has done a phenomenal job at packaging the data by state and industry in an interactive map. [full article »]

Here at ERE, we have a profound respect for the truthiness and recruiting insights of Stephen Colbert. [full article »]

If the gods of software development are kind, we’ll be launching a major revamp to all things social on ERE.net in the next few weeks. It’s given me the chance to look at every aspect of the site with a fresh eye. As an exercise, I wrote up a draft of what I believe ERE.net is... [full article »]

Our friends at Fistful of Talent just launched the pilot of their new FOTv show this morning. There’s a ton of noise in the recruiting blogosphere these days, and Fistful is on a very short list of the blogs that have become my daily must-reads. Like everything they do, the pilot is fun and opinionated, and... [full article »]

The last hour and a half has been an exercise in frustration. I spent most of it freaking out as I tried to connect to today’s webinar and listening to busy signals and dropped audio on my laptop’s speakers. The rest of the time I spent on hold waiting for technical support at GotoWebinar, the company whose... [full article »]

John and I were trading emails last week, and he asked me to elaborate on one of the comments that I made. I have been thinking about it ever since. The recruiting profession is at a unique moment in time, and it’s not just because of the economy. We are at an inflection point where the... [full article »]

Google is arguably the most storied company of the new millennium, but even it is not immune to the global economic slowdown. The company just announced via its official blog that it will be laying off 100 recruiters, a large slice of their recruiting team, which our own Dr. John Sullivan has called “one of the... [full article »]

On Wednesday, we created a Facebook fan page for ERE.net. It’s a fun little experiment, and we’ve put up some pictures, upcoming events, and a feed of our articles. I’m not sure where we’re going to go with this yet, but it’s obvious that there is demand for more ERE on Facebook — it’s only been... [full article »]

We’re already a week into 2009, and everyone else has already published their predictions for the year. In the spirit of better late then never, here are a few of mine: 2009 will be a painful year for recruiters. It’s obvious, but how could I leave this off the list? We’re in a recession, and as... [full article »]

Elaine wrote about today’s Employment Report for ERE’s sister publication, The Fordyce Letter, and there’s no other way to put it — it’s just awful across the board. [full article »]