If you don’t subscribe to Wired magazine, go out and get this month’s edition. The cover story is about the increasing transparency of business (why it’s mostly a good thing). In it Jobster’s Jason Goldberg gets a not-so-nice write-up regarding the recent firings at Jobster and the heat that followed. Goldberg probably hopes that little incident [...]
Continue reading...30. March 2007
If you’re in need of a little comic relief, head on over to Facebook’s Career Center, powered by Jobster, and read some of the user comments. u will luv it bc its sooooo funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG!
Continue reading...29. March 2007
Being in the online recruitment industry as long as I have, I should have been more skeptical about job postings on blogs being a great idea and huge success. Don’t get me wrong, it is a great idea. But since when did common sense equate to dollars and cents with HR? Selling job postings is [...]
Continue reading...28. March 2007
A growing number of SEOs I talk to are focusing more and more of their attention on what I’ll call second search. If you’re keeping score at home, first search would basically be like Google’s traditional Web search engine. Second search refers to the opportunities that secondary or vertical search engines offer. That is, as [...]
Continue reading...27. March 2007
E-mail spam is bad. Poorly done e-mail spam is even worse. Check this: from Kimberly Watson @ dfwinsurancefinder.com to Undisclosed-Recipient date Mar 27, 2007 2:57 PM subject job mailed-by bounce.secureserver.net I saw your job that you had posted and thought that you may want to try another site too www.thejobplanet.com Just thought it might help you. Start with the obvious that I don’t know who this is [...]
Continue reading...27. March 2007
He’s excited about Web 2.0. Loves video. And is surprisingly a little sour on SEO. I chatted with self-proclaimed Internet marketing geek (and fellow Clevelander) Jim Kukral recently about a few of the Web’s hottest topics. Jim doesn’t know much about Internet recruiting. But maybe that’s a good thing. See more of Jim at JimKukral.com.
Continue reading...26. March 2007
I’m not a big American Idol fan. However, while channel surfing the other night, I came across a performance by Sanjaya Malakar and thought, “Man, this dude sucks.” Then I see this on The Best Week Ever: Ahh, Vote for the Worst. A site dedicated to getting viewers to vote for a pre-selected no-talent assclown like Sanjaya. [...]
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30. March 2007
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