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Archive | July, 2007

jobserve gets makeover

12. July 2007

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Although lesser known in the U.S. - aside from an acquisition here and there - well-known-in-its-homeland, UK-based JobServe has redesigned its Web site. Before After Nothing earth-shatteringly different here, but aside from a design much more SEO-conscious and misspelling favorite, I thought the way they divided the globe into three parts, utilizing different TLDs (.us, .com.au) and serving [...]

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podcast with jobsinpods’ chris russell

12. July 2007

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Chris Russell is one of my favorite people. The head of Recruiting Fly, All County Jobs, Jobs In Pods, Job Search News and whatever else has a lot in common with yours truly, small-ball, serial entrepreneur. We even have similar tastes in eyewear. So when I heard Chris was going to be at SHRM in full [...]

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facebook ipo buzz

11. July 2007

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The Web is abuzz with rumors of a Facebook IPO, largely in part to this job posting. Should be interesting.

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collegerecruiter launches facebook app

11. July 2007

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Our friends at CollegeRecruiter inform us they’ve just launched a Facebook application that enables users to access the entry level job content that resides on CR. The move is part of Facebook’s recent F8 launch which enables anyone to add such services and offer them to users. So far, the initiative by Facebook has been a [...]

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indeed.com killing them softly

10. July 2007

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Recent rumors of Simply Hired getting pinched by CareerBuilder has forced Indeed.com to up its damage control rhetoric. And for good reason. By and large, job boards are both their primary content provider and revenue source. As a result, Indeed is very careful to not outwardly cross the line into competitive territory, such as offering [...]

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cheezhead acquires magic pot of jobs

10. July 2007

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A lot of my readers will be familiar with Magic Pot of Jobs, a blog written by former recruiter Tiffany Bridge. She exited the biz a few months ago, which, as a result, put a great site potentially on the market. Over a few correspondences, we hammered out an agreement that transferred ownership. The terms are [...]

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farmers insurance goes ppc for diversity recruiting needs

9. July 2007

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The following pay-per-click ad caught my eye recently: The link goes to a page focused on diversity. Not shocking, considering the ad hopes to attract Spanish-speaking candidates. Diversity job boards have long been seen by employers as a necessary expenditure, made possible by government regulation. And a lot of diversity job sites count on such regulation for [...]

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