Cherchez la femme. Aside from a few Canadian readers, few of you probably know French, so I’ll translate: It means seek out the woman.
It strikes me as very odd that so many men occupy so much real estate in the human resources brain trust of bloggers, particularly when most numbers I see put woman at […]

My company launched its Web site, http://www.hrseo.com, in Jan. of this year. It was released from Google’s fabled "sandbox" earlier this month.
The sandbox is a penalty Google places on new Web sites before it is released into Google’s index to be accessible by the public.
The reasoning for this was that many new sites were […]

David Manaster writes a nice piece on a recent Inc. Magazine poll of smaller employers and their favorite ways to fill job openings.
The results:Friends / Colleagues - 44%Newspaper ads and / or job boards - 22%Corporate Web site - 22%Current employees - 15%
This poll is bad news for newspapers and job boards, considering the strong […]

There’s a mall a few miles from my home office. Occasionally, when I don’t feel like cooking lunch, I’ll head down to the mall’s food court. Great variety and even better people-watching.
No matter how much I’m tempted by a Subway sandwich or the Chinese restaurant’s daily special, I always end up at Chick-fil-A.
Granted, I love […]

It’s taken awhile for Google to adopt RSS feeds into its offering, but they are now on board. As part of their Google personalized homepage, users can now sign-up for RSS feeds.
In addition to showing up on your personal homepage, word is Google will be serving feeds within its Gmail e-mail solution, as well as […]

I ramble on a lot about Google and Yahoo!’s current and potential strategies around providing job listings to users. However, I rarely discuss Microsoft’s MSN because, frankly, there’s usually not a whole lot to talk about.
That may be changing. The software giant quietly made an interesting play in the online recruitment space this week. A […]

I’ll admit I haven’t been the greatest proponent of networking sites like Ryze, LinkedIn or others. (I still think Monster Networking is a breeding ground for spammers and pitchmen.)
But this week, I was forced to eat my words … to a certain extent at least. Damn that LinkedIn!
This past week a good friend of mine […]