Cheezhead Recruiting News and Opinion

(career)building a social media brand

By Vanessa Dennis - CareerBuilder says they want to help companies connect with the growing rankings of social media users, and to do so, they've created a social media recruitment brand management service. Sounds like a mouthful, right? But the solution is simple: to help employers develop 'a deep and beneficial relationship with their target talent through customized programs, one-on-one advising, quality content creation and ongoing communication monitoring.'

hotjobs on fire

By Vanessa Dennis - One would never know by the number of new Hotjobs products and enhancements rolled out before and during SHRM that the job board might be on the auction block. The possibility of an impending sale has been speculated about for months, while a recent report from New York Times confirming the rumors only added more fuel to the fire. But at the recent SHRM conference in New Orleans, the Hotjobs crew displayed no signs of leeriness for the future. Chris Merritt, vice president and general manager, Yahoo! HotJobs, told OnRec, “The products we’re rolling out at SHRM this year demonstrate that Yahoo! HotJobs is more focused than ever on helping recruiters maximize their resources and find the right candidates.”

simply hired now in five new countries

By Vanessa Dennis - Simply Hired has announced the debut of new job search websites in five countries. The launch of these sites increases Simply Hired's span across the global recruitment market. “Simply Hired is proud to offer localized job search engines in Europe, Asia, North America, South America and Australia,” said Sachin Shah, Director of International, Simply Hired. “Our recent expansion. . . is a testament of our commitment to helping job seekers around the world.”

the mystery of the social media summit

By Doug Berg - Recently I attended the ERE Social Recruiting Summit at Google's HQ in Mountain View. I was amazed that hundreds of major employers had converged on arguably the largest search engine's campus to discuss their social recruiting strategies. It had me wondering why the event wasn't held at LinkedIn or Facebook. Being at Google, I kept asking people the simple question: "Do you have your search strategy online so that candidates can Google your jobs and find them?" And the answer was consistent: "Nope."

a dark day for monster

By Vanessa Dennis - The last day of this work week proved to be anything but a relief for Monster Worldwide employees, who were forced to deal with another security threat and technical issues that caused their main site to crash for several hours. If these problems weren't enough of a headache, Monster staff awoke Friday morning to find a stinging article about the job board's relevancy in BusinessWeek - a piece that quickly poured into all social media channels, much to the delight of the job board's loudest critics.

the slice (6-23-09)

hotjobs introduces pay per candidate

By Vanessa Dennis - Yahoo! HotJobs has just unveiled a new product called Pay Per Candidate, which is a performance-based online recruitment product that allows recruiters the option to pay for candidates instead of just paying per listing. The Pay Per Candidate product enables recruiters to cap the number of pre-screened candidates they receive per job posting when candidates apply on the HotJobs website.