Little more than a year after introducing video resumes, CareerBuilder has discontinued the service. It was quietly taken offline in June. The company … Read more
Ready For Your Closeup? Here’s A Quick Guide To Job Board Video Production
You’ve done your homework and sold the boss on getting a company video made. In fact, you did such a good job the CEO is hinting around about having … Read more
RecruitMilitary Buys Competitor
Even the military is not immune from the consolidation of job boards. Today, RecruitMilitary, LLC announced it bought competitor Landmark Destiny Group for … Read more
Pick A Color, Find a Career
If you’re into brown, blue and green you ought to go be a doctor or a forest ranger. See how easy picking a career is when you know your colors? Like … Read more
Assessment and Job Boards: Two Years Later
Back in 2006 I wrote an article discussing the integration of assessments into job boards. It was an example of the continued movement toward the inclusion … Read more
New Media for New Media
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, … Read more
Weekly Update: Quality of Hire, Cuil, Assessments
Quality of Hire Measurement Reporting and metrics is always a hot topic for recruiting, but so few companies do it right. In my research over the years, … Read more
Monster Buys Trovix And Beats The Street
Big news from Monster (profile; site) today. It bought jobmatcher Trovix (profile; site) for $72.5 million; settled that class action shareholder lawsuit … Read more
Yahoo! Execs Walk, But Not At HotJobs
With the Carl Icahn proxy fight averted and the Microsoft buyout dead (today, but check back tomorrow), Yahoo! can resume the reorganization it announced … Read more
Scope Out Each Other Via Scopings, Anonymously
There’s a new recruitment site where a candidate doesn’t need a resume, doesn’t need to say who they are, doesn’t even have to go … Read more
Weekly Update…Homegrown ATS, End of Job Boards, and Interviewing Expenses
Below: Monday’s Question of the Day Building an ATS From Scratch Search Engine Marketing Sendouts vs. PCRecruiter Candidates Going Out of Their State … Read more
Swanson: Value of Big Boards Waning
From a report today by Nate Swanson, who analyzes HR/recruiting stocks for ThinkPanmure: “We believe that companies are beginning to realize that the … Read more
Video Resume Site Launches
If video resumes are the future of recruiting, then FutureResume.com is a peek at what’s to come. The brand new site showcases candidate videos that … Read more
Weekly Update…Outsourcing, OFCCP, and Becoming Independent
I am keeping the Seven Wonders of the Week alive but I need your help! I picked out six of the top discussions and wanted to ask what you think #7 should … Read more
Mid-week Chatter: New Sites, New Apps, New Studies, New Lawsuits
Zacky has settled with the OFCCP. Because of hiring practices the Labor Department believes disproportionately rejected female applicants for some jobs, … Read more
Podcast: The Phoenix Police Department’s Hiring Binge
Larry Horton, a police-officer-turned-recruiter for the Phoenix police department, talks about one of his favorite of the general job boards (hint: … Read more
100 Million Job-Related Searches on Google in June!
For months (and years) I’ve wondered what the number of monthly searches was for job-related keywords on Google. I always knew it was a big number, … Read more
As Gas Price Rises Jobing.com’s Gets Better Exposure Per Gallon
Unless you’ve been in a cave for the last couple of months you couldn’t have missed hearing about Jobing.com’s (profile; site) unique and … Read more
Monster’s SHRM Promotion: $1 million To Charity
Monster has come up with a unique way to attract visitors to its booth at the SHRM conference now underway in Chicago: Give away $1 million. Monster is … Read more
CareerBuilder On Verge Of Offering Job Search On iPhones
CareerBuilder (profile; site) has just bumped up its coolness factor and raised the stakes in the competition to be the No. 1 job board in the U.S. Soon, … Read more