I’m officially a Twitter believer. In checking traffic from last month, the microblogging platform overtook MSN search as the No. 6 driver of traffic to Cheezhead.
What’s more, Twitter-generated traffic looked at almost twice as many pages, stuck around about 4 minutes longer and bounced 12 percent less than visitors from the nation’s third largest […]

Experience has announced a partnership with Microsoft that directly connects job seekers with thousands of IT jobs. The project is known as the Microsoft Students to Business (S2B) community. The deal enables Microsoft’s community of 10,000 partner companies to post jobs or internships on the Experience network to find Microsoft certified personnel to match technology […]

Microsoft lost its cool factor a long time ago. However, certain brands like Xbox have broken out of the primary brand’s restraints. So why not create a unique employment branding experience around that coolness? Hats off to the software giant for creating ViewmyWorld.com.
The site is dedicated to driving top talent to the company’s cutting edge […]

I was recently interviewed by U.S. News and World Report in an article entitled, “Using the Web to Search for a Job.” If you have some extra time on your hands, it’s a pretty good read. They actually make me sound kinda smart, which is no easy task, I tell ya’.

You’ve likely heard some of the inititial buzz on startup VisualCV.
The VisualCV reinvents the resume. Ultimately, it will reinvent the way the Internet is used for recruiting, to the benefit of professionals, employers and recruiters alike.
Reinvent the resume? Pretty lofty goal, huh? But we’ll get to that in a second. My knee-jerk reaction was to […]

Yours truly is quoted in an article out today in The Journal entitled Recruiting 3.0: Web Advances Change the Landscape. It’s a great read.
Some of the highlights include video, podcasting, job board growth, assessments, and social networking.
Another example: Recruiters for Electronic Arts Inc. began perusing MySpace.com and Facebook.com a little over a year ago to […]

If you’re currently shopping around for a new applicant tracking system, you owe it to yourself to checkout CATS, an open source, free-to-cheap offering.
In addition to being easy on the wallet, the power of open source historically means the addition of new features on a regular basis. I also love open source for […]