Two medical recruiters are the new owners of recruiter community and discussion site RecruitingBlogs.com.
Noel Cocca, owner of Novo Medical Careers, and his partner Tim Spagnola bought the four-year-old site at auction Tuesday for $95,000. The two also have a small blog they started last year, RecruitingDaily.com.
“We’re both very excited about this,” Cocca told me by phone, not long after RecruitingBlogs founder, Jason Davis, revealed the identity of the buyers. “I don’t know what we’ll do with RecruitingDaily, but we’re going to keep the status quo on RecruitingBlogs.”
Noel Cocca
No changes are planned, said Cocca, adding that it works well as is. What they do hope, he said, is to grow the audience and participation. “We might add something ,” he said. “I really can’t see us making any changes.”
“The philosophy that Tim and I share,” Cocca said, “is we are open people. We believe in simplicity. And to pay it forward.” keep reading…
The eclectic recruitment social network with its rich potpourri of opinion, observation, social activities, and practices both best and otherwise, was put up for auction yesterday by founder Jason Davis.
“I have reached a point where it’s time for me to do something new and what I really want to do is to make placements,” Davis posted to his blog Monday. ” I am constantly having discussions with other recruiters and every time I do, I get this buzz and excitement.”
In a conversation today, Davis said he’s proud of the four-year-old site, believes it has the potential to grow beyond its 28,000 members and its 67,000 monthly visitors, but he wants to return to active participation in the industry where he launched his career 14 years ago. keep reading…
Rackspace is a company doing so much right in the social media space that it’s hard to know where to begin. Numbers are as good a place as any. So consider these:
Its Facebook page is “liked” by almost 2,700 people.
Visitors to RackerTalent, the company’s 8-month old career site, spend almost three times as many minutes learning about its culture than the average for the entire site, including actually searching for a job.
“Not only can we say it’s good, but damn, this is really great.” That’s Michael Long. He’s head of global talent branding for the web hosting and cloud computing company in San Antonio.
You may recall Long from my post in March. He’s the guy who got the company’s logo tattooed on his arm. Also known as The Red Recruiter, Long shepherded Rackspace’s new career site, first as a consultant, then inside as branding leader. The site launched shortly before the tat got inked. keep reading…
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 the production values set the bar high for everyone else in our industry who works with video.
I spoke with FOT Editor Kris Dunn today to learn more about the thinking behind the project and what we should expect in the future, and here’s what he told me:
Kris is a big sports fan, and the format for the show was inspired by ESPN’s PTI.
Moving forward, the plan is to produce the show weekly, and future shows will be much shorter — closer to five minutes in length than 20.
While the pilot was shot with Kris, Jessica Lee, and Josh Letourneau, future shows will feature a revolving cast of FOT contributors.
Two medical recruiters are the new owners of recruiter community and discussion site RecruitingBlogs.com.
