Stephen Lowisz, author of Six Good Metrics, isn’t fond of some of the most common measures of recruiting success. He talks about one company that’s doing it differently; how to measure whether recruiters are “just passing paper”; and the “biggest buzz” right now in recruiting metrics. [full article »]

From the online-recruiting grapevine: –(You heard it here first): NewmediaHire is going live with a redesign of its site today. If it looks familiar, it’s because it’s based on a platform called “Ning,” popular for building websites. The video-blog-discussion-heavy site is aimed at creating a sense of community — more than just job-hunting — and is... [full article »]

Jonathan R. Hefferlin, managing director at MRI Dana Point, a former radio commentator and a prescient observer of economic trends, gives his weekend take on Friday’s jobs report. [full article »]

I’m “sick and tired” of having to explain just how much disabled people deserve to work, can work, and want to work, a high-level U.S. Labor Department official says. Neil Romano, assistant secretary, office of disability policy, told the ILG conference today that people still believe the myth that disabled people are receiving plenty of money... [full article »]

Mickey Silberman, the ubiquitous Jackson Lewis attorney with a gift for gab and an encyclopedic knowledge of the U.S. government’s online recruiting rules, offers employers who must comply with such rules three questions to ask themselves. By asking themselves these questions, he says, you can reduce the number of people considered “applicants.” This can help employers... [full article »]

The U.S. EEOC will be “looking very, very closely at disparate impact issues,” the agency’s chair Naomi Earp said a few minutes ago here at the big ILG conference in Anaheim. President Bush appointed Earp, a single mother of a teenage son, to her current term in 2005. She says the “agency has no illusion” that it... [full article »]

From a report today by Nate Swanson, who analyzes HR/recruiting stocks for ThinkPanmure: “We believe that companies are beginning to realize that the value proposition of the large, generic job boards (Monster/CareerBuilder/HotJobs) is waning, at best, as they increasingly provide a large volume of low-quality candidates. With recruiter in-boxes being filled with the equivalent of “resume-spam,”... [full article »]

The U.S. EEOC has new “guidance and instructions for investigating and analyzing charges alleging discrimination based on religion.” The agency lays out three examples of how discrimination can crop up in the recruiting-hiring-promoting process. [full article »]

Sometimes you want interviews to, well, explode. So does the law firm Halleland Lewis, so it’s smartly making fun of them to its own benefit. It’s targeted to lawyers, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see another employer in another industry build a similar site. To build the site, Halleland sought help from its own... [full article »]

Zacky has settled with the OFCCP. Because of hiring practices the Labor Department believes disproportionately rejected female applicants for some jobs, the company will pay about $347 to women turned down for jobs; hire some who weren’t hired; and monitor its hiring process to make sure it’s not discriminatory. A new report on healthcare and... [full article »]

Larry Horton, a police-officer-turned-recruiter for the Phoenix police department, talks about one of his favorite of the general job boards (hint: it’s not Monster, CareerBuilder, or HotJobs). He also discusses the part of the U.S. where he’s finding the most physically fit applicants; his employer brand, and more. [full article »]

Ron Hanscome’s serious thoughts of moving from HRchitect to Kenexa (profile) began during Kenexa’s “analyst day” this past April. But Hanscome, the new veep of product strategy, met Kenexa’s CEO more than five years ago, when Hanscome was at the META Group, and always had in the way back of his mind that Kenexa could... [full article »]

An ERE Exclusive: a new site is launching this weekend for employers to automate their candidate research across a long list of social-networking sites. Spokeo isn’t new — but it was only recently that the company realized it could try to make money by selling its services to the recruiting world. As you’ll read about... [full article »]

A first look at the monthly jobs report. [full article »]

Jobvite, the Web 2.0 company whose clients include TiVo, has snagged Dan Finnigan. Finnigan is a former GM of Yahoo! HotJobs (profile). He’ll start as CEO July 1. [full article »]

Peopleclick SVP Ginny Gomez says five clients are testing out the company’s new onboarding product, and it’ll more generally available in Q4. Also, she says, “we’re not really seeing the big downturn” — and that the company’s European business is going strong. … Personified (the new CareerBuilder subsidiary) has about 110 employees and is charging roughly... [full article »]

“You cannot not be here,” NuView CEO Shafiq Lokhandwala says, laughing at the double negative, about SHRM. NuView, an HR tech vendor, doesn’t get many leads here, but feels like it’d look bad if it didn’t show. The company is growing by about 70% a year (and may ask for funding in the coming months... [full article »]

Higher gas prices, of course, mean winners and losers in the job market. The winners are likely to include some oil company employers, alternative-energy employers, Houston recruiters, and telecommuters. It’ll be interesting to see whether the increased demand for public transportation will eventually mean more hiring at public transportation agencies. Here in sprawling Los Angeles, though... [full article »]

–In Illinois, a home healthcare company settles a case regarding an employee allegedly not hired for being black. –Meanwhile, Disney is sued for allegedly not hiring someone who didn’t have the “Disney look.” –Who says the newspaper is dead? Well, I do, often. But Brian Hauswirth of the Missouri Department of Corrections tells me the paper’s the... [full article »]

The biotech firm Invitrogen has formed a new in-house team with the mandate of filling at least 10 executive (director and above) searches this year that would have gone to an outside, retained search firm. It hopes to save a half-mil in search fees (an initiative that Invitrogen’s James Seetoo goes into more detail about... [full article »]