A new “matching” site, a new social media/employee-referral site, and the negatives of stripping. Yes, it’s our regular roundup of recruiting and HR happenings, below. Social Referrals [full article »]

Financial and business consulting group PricewaterhouseCoopers captured the top spot on DiversityInc’s Top 50 Companies for Diversity. Of PwC, DiversityInc said this: “Always cognizant of the war for talent, PwC continuously creates innovative strategies to find, engage, and promote the best and brightest employees, especially those from traditionally underrepresented groups.” Surprisingly, considering the layoffs and slowdown in... [full article »]

We got a pitch this week about The Pitch from The Ladders, which is doing a co-promotion with the latest unscripted TV show to air. From cable network AMC, this show has two ad agencies competing each week to win an account. If you think about it (but not too much) there is a connection... [full article »]

Finally, Friday! If your week was as long as ours, you’ll appreciate that today’s roundup isn’t going to take too much of anything seriously. We had enough of that serious stuff when we had to write out four-figure checks to the U.S. Treasury. So we’ll put the business stuff after we introduce you to Ronald... [full article »]

Regular readers of this roundup, and of ERE, will be so very not shocked to know that there is a new website calls itself the “eHarmony of talent.” But before we get to the love, we turn to the latest installment in the epic saga we call .JOBS, or, if you prefer, Dot JOBS. To ... [full article »]

Catching up with Shally Steckerl; a survey about hiring; a mystery no longer; hiring from fraternities and sororities, and top CEOs, all in today’s roundup. First, we have this breaking news… Our source, which we will call PR, tells us Shally Steckerl is about to launch a new venture. It’s an online, educational site called... [full article »]

A new site for women, two new, visual-heavy job sites, jobs with smoothies, and six seconds to read a resume. All in today’s roundup. Women’s League The PR release calls the new Levo League, “The first online community designed for professional Gen Y women.” We’ll quibble with that, since we found more than a few... [full article »]

Calling all tech industry recruiters. Get ready to pounce. Yahoo, as we presume you’ve heard, is about to dump thousands of its employees. Exactly who is going isn’t known publicly, though reports (all stemming from the original article on All Things D) say CEO Scott Thompson has targeted “public relations and marketing, research, marginal businesses... [full article »]

Did you catch the news from the National Association for Business Economics this week about how the forecasters there expect job growth to be better than it has been, but nowhere near good enough to do much about unemployment? Missed it, did you? Or maybe you would recognize it if we reframed our approach. Did... [full article »]

In today’s roundup we’re going to give you the secret to a more productive workforce. This isn’t one of those five-tip lists that tell you to start by raising the level of engagement. Nope. The secret we’re going to share is something every company can do and costs nothing, unless you want it to. Even... [full article »]

Walk into any workplace and what’s in the air? Besides the burnt popcorn. We mean that other thing. That sweet scent of romance. Yes dear reader, just in time for Valentine’s Day CareerBuilder tells us what you’ve been suspecting all along: your office mates are mating up. If the survey is to be believed — and... [full article »]

A quick look at some of the goings-on in recent days from the recruiting/human resources world: If you’re looking for a gift for the busy New York professional who has everything, you can now get them a “PA for a day.” The new temp firm, founded by a PR/events director for a New York ad... [full article »]

Here’s a collection of odds and ends about startups, new features, and other bits and bytes of useful info. You may remember CodeEval from a year ago, and from an update we did when part of its service became free. The company has opened up its database for searching by employers. So if you want to... [full article »]

Ending what, for most, is a short week, we bring you the penultimate Friday roundup for 2011. Today’s collection includes mystery applicants, a police recruiting campaign gone bad, and Salesforce’s Rypple. We start with a job seeker good deed from the Challenger people: Free Job Hunting Advice By Phone For two days next week, job... [full article »]

You’ll see how many people are looking for jobs; how the Swedish military is advertising; and who beat out Booz Allen in a Best-place-to-work list, all in today’s roundup.  [full article »]

The emails in your inbox may be fewer in December and your phone less busy, but not all’s quiet. Here’s what’s turned up in our mailbox so far this month: [full article »]

This week brings a crop of new job sites, including an ambitious (should we say quixotic?) effort to change the very nature of third party recruiting. We also tell you about Kenexa’s latest acquisition, heralding another step into providing a full-service solution. First up, is the story of Staffingbook and one man’s quest to alter... [full article »]

News about internships, employee referrals, resumes searches, social media recruiting, and a video-oriented job board — it’s all in our roundup, below. [full article »]