Cheezhead Recruiting News and Opinion

desperate times = desperate measures

By Joel Cheesman - Times are tough. Job board owners are talking about 25-40 percent decreases in postings. Stories of layoffs at boards big and small abound. And it’s only November. December should be worse. Wait, did I say should be? I meant will be. Once the layoffs have hit their zenith, the money-at-all-costs mentality will creep in. My guess is this will include everything from AdSense all-over to Indeed backfill to data selling to SMS spam to the return of strategies seen in years past. Luckily, there's a bright side.

visualcv competitor is ’simpler, every-day person’s tool’

By Vanessa Dennis - Zolio, a free resume building web site that transforms the traditional resume into a complete multimedia profile, launched this week.

readers select their favorite job site

By Vanessa Dennis - A job search expert who writes for About.com recently asked her readers to select their favorite job site. The results might surprise you.

linkedin slashes 10 percent of staff

By Vanessa Dennis - Professional networking site LinkedIn has announced that they will be laying off 10 percent of their workforce, or approximately 36 jobs.

linkedin’s privileged and prosperous

By Vanessa Dennis - A new independent study from Anderson Analytics on the demographics of LinkedIn users confirms what we already knew: most of them are loaded.

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linkedin raises $22.7 million

By Vanessa Dennis - LinkedIn is reporting that they have raised an additional $22.7 million in investment funds, a follow-on to the $53 million they raised last June in their Series D round of funding.