Cheezhead Recruiting News and Opinion

the votes are in: the new writer for cheezhead is . . .

By Vanessa Dennis - A former corporate recruiter, Vanessa Dennis, has joined the staff of Cheezhead to become a full-time writer for the employment industry blog. She will be blogging about recruiting trends, vendors, and emerging technology for job seekers.

meet laurie ruettimann of punk rock hr.com

By Joel Cheesman - Aside from a Facebook “friendship” and an ongoing Scrabulous rivalry, I didn’t know much about Laurie Ruettimann coming into SHRM ...

confessions of a former careerbuilder sales guy

By Joel Cheesman - The following e-mail was sent to me by a former CareerBuilder sales rep. The locations and names have been changed to protect the innocent. They discuss how "selling to HR" is a no-no when trying to make the sale.

twitter overtakes msn as driver of traffic to cheezhead

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 search [...]

current, past monster employees just can’t get along

If you thought the flood of comments for old blog posts on Jobster and Workmetro were entertaining, I invite you to checkout the current string of commentary on a post about Monster that has current and ex-employees going at it. A favorite snippet says, “Walk the 3rd floor in Maynard and ask people how much they [...]

sans blogging sorry

johnsumser.com

Granted, he’s a little like the crazy ol’ uncle portrayed in movies at holiday time, rambling on-and-on about the Nixon administration, UFOs, Jimmy Hoffa’s whereabouts and Civil War collectibles … However, for those who feel a little less complete - me included - because John Sumser isn’t dropping the gospel on hungry disciples like he did [...]