Imagine being a job seeker joining a job site and having your profile automatically matched with employers in a social networking-type environment. You could also think of it as joining LinkedIn and automatically being connected to anyone who matches your interests.
That’s how Climber.com CEO Mike O’Brien recently explained his company’s new offering, dubbed RecruiterRockStar.
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SearchPath International, a Cleveland-based franchisor of staffing firms, today announced its intent to go public. MarketWatch has the details.
Said CEO Tom Johnston, “The decision to go public was an easy one. We want to give our franchise owners access to performance-based equity compensation that allows them to share in our success as, together, we grow […]

… in cloud formation.
intro marty snyder calls me a journalist (mom would be proud) john sumser explains background of event and the speakers, promotes sponsors (Arbita, ZoomInfo, Recruiting Blogs, PC Recruiter, CareerBoard) don ramer (arbita) future of web recruiting “technology doesn’t destroy intermediary businesses; they empower them” lots of questions for me after about […]

Start-up RiseSmart is trying its hand at mashing-up a $100K job board and a candidate sourcing service, dubbed Recruiter Concierge.
According to a company release,
Screened candidates are delivered to the client the same day a requisition with Recruiter Concierge is opened. Clients may access resumes and provide immediate feedback to their concierge via […]

Amy Lynch of Bottom Line Conversation in Nashville presented at the recent SMA conference on recruiting millennials. In it, she said employers need to move past general social networking site like MySpace and Facebook and look into more niche-specific networks like We Play.
Considering the fact I think most employers are still trying to get […]

Forget about traditional background checks and assessment tests. All you need is a handwriting sample. Or so says Candidate Insight, a company that claims to help employers make better hiring decisions with just two short paragraphs. They promise to reveal hundreds of personality traits never before “available to employers prior to hiring.”
Says VP Ryan Vener, […]