Cheezhead Recruiting News and Opinion

add your ere pics to our facebook fan site

If you’re going to be at the ERE conference this week and have your camera handy, feel free to add your photos to Cheezhead’s Facebook Fan Site. Upload and share pics of your booth, educational sessions, employees and associates, speakers, favorite parties or whatever you want (no adult-only content of course) and share them with our [...]

wsj outlines newspaper plight

From today’s Wall Street Journal: 1. Print-ad revenue suffered biggest decline since “at least 1950″ in 2007. 2. Classified ads, third of total, was down almost 17% last year. 3. Gannett Co. saw an 8.3% fall in same-newspaper ad revenue compared to Feb. of 2007. 4. McClatchy’s ad revenue fell 13% in Feb. 5. Media General reported a near [...]

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itzbig launches getyourselffired.com

Candidate-matching site itzbig has launched Get Yourself Fired.com. The move is an attempt to generate a viral marketing campaign around the idea of, you guessed it, getting yourself fired. After which, you can run over to itzbig for a new one. At the site, you superimpose your face (see pic) on a variety of compromising images [...]

careerbuilder’s ‘gauging your workplace worth’

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hotjobs dumps ‘date order’ for job search results

Yahoo! HotJobs says job listings will no longer be served in date order. Instead, the job board will deliver results in a search engine-style algorithm of relevancy. They’re labeling it the R.E.A.L. Search Algorithm, meaning Relevance, Engagement, Availability and Location. Jeff Kinder, Y! Hotjobs senior vice president and general manager, says “Yahoo! has shown that relevance [...]

nothired.com is pathetic, disgusting

Am I the only one who finds NotHired.com repulsive? Maybe it’s the just-celebrated-Easter in me, but this new site – a collection of online resumes, cover letters and such that anonymously highlight the lesser educated among us – is simply sad and wrong. I received an email last week from the holier-than-thou founders: We are a group of [...]