Cheezhead Recruiting News and Opinion

five-minute interviewing prep

Interviewing-101 is a new site that claims to help job seekers prepare for an interview and secure the perfect job, at the cost of $20 per year and five minutes of your time.

jobcentral on nbc nightly news

2009 hiring predictions

The 2009 Job Forecast survey from CareerBuilder shows that most employers plan to make no major hiring changes next year, and those who do plan to take a slow, cautious approach. On the up side, many employers plan to implement new and innovative hiring practices.

a look back at our 2008 predictions

By Joel Cheesman - Predictions are fun. They give you freedom to be as nonsensical as you want. And they’re so much fun that we do them every year. But before looking forward to 2009, it’s entertaining to look back at the stuff that came before. We did pretty well, actually. At the dawn of 2008, we predicted everything from Facebook still not making money to the many mergers and acquisitions in our industry. Of course, we got lots wrong too ...

jobfox now charging for intros service

A reader wrote Cheezhead to complain about a recent change to Jobfox's Intros Service, which was launched and marketed late last summer.

dan schawbel on your personal brand

yahoo! hotjobs writer called out for ‘liberal bias’

Tom Musbach, a writer for Yahoo! Hotjobs, recently penned an article about career do's and don'ts that sparked a fiery response from a managing editor at Newsbusters.org.