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One of the most widely-read bloggers on emerging recruitment issues in the world. Accomplishments include being named Recruiting.com’s Best Technology Recruitment Blog and Best Recruiting Blog. Joel's been featured in Fast Company magazine, BusinessWeek Magazine, Resumes for Dummies, U.S. News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal and more. Plug into Joel via Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, iTunes, YouTube or Flickr.

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zamzim: the brits are coming!

Thursday, August 28, 2008

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By Joel Cheesman - UK-based job search engine Workcircle has launched in the U.S. via Zamzim. The site hopes to aggregate job content from job sites and drive traffic through "contextual, deep-linked, long-tail PPC campaigns across the major search engines." Zamzim and Workcircle CEO Simon Appleton believes there’s space in the already-crowded job search engine market, saying "We’re cheaper, simpler and more effective than buying PPC direct from the major search engines, and it certainly works here in the UK."

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careerbuilder touts 5,000 facebook friends

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

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By Joel Cheesman - Since launching in March 2008, CareerBuilder's Facebook fan site has generated 5,000 fans. Not a big number, but in comparison to the competition - Jobing.com, MonsterTrack, etc. - it's not too bad.

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cvgadget helps you be as lazy as ever

Friday, August 22, 2008

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By Joel Cheesman - CVGadget enables you to plug in a name and search results across a variety of popular services, from Google to Facebook to Zoominfo to LinkedIn and more.

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who’s still using myspace?

Thursday, August 21, 2008

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With Facebook being the darling of Silicon Valley, who's still using MySpace? Yahoo's Tech Ticker looks for answers.

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collegerecruiter.com: we’re no. 1,403!

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

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By Joel Cheesman - CollegeRecruiter.com, a job board for college students searching for internships and recent graduates hunting for entry level jobs and other career opportunities, today announced that it was named to the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest growing, privately held companies in the United States.

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visualcv gives it away, gives it away, gives it away now

Monday, August 18, 2008

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By Joel Cheesman - Giveaways used to be a staple of the Web. Anyone else remember iWon’s million dollar giveaway? They’ve since subsided. I, for one, hope they come back. Maybe VisualCV's new music giveaway via Amazon is a start. Burn rate, baby. Burn rate!

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why won’t anyone buy indeed.com?

Monday, August 18, 2008

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By Joel Cheesman - On the heels of Trovix being gobbled up by Monster for a mindboggling $72.5 million, why isn't anyone buying up the vertical job search engines? Surprise! It's not the most traffic that wins. It's the most money (or at least the expectation of driving the most money) that wins. And chances are, the vertical job search engine industry simply isn't attractive enough to prospective buyers.

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