Cheezhead Recruiting News and Opinion

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sharethis shares share data (e-mail still rules, sorta)

By Joel Cheesman - If you're not leveraging Web 2.0 technologies to enable visitors to share your content with their social networks, you probably should. ShareThis has given us a glimpse into the most popular ways Web surfers pass along Web pages to friends, including Facebook, MySpace and Digg.

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Lisa Orrell Appears on MSNBC About Recruiting Gen Y

is myspace divorcing simply hired?

By Joel Cheesman - Could Oodle's new deal to power MySpace's online classifieds be the end of the road for MySpace's relationship with Simply Hired, the vertical job search engine that currently runs the jobs-only section at jobs.myspace.com? The players are saying no, but the signs aren't necessarily good for Simply Hired (even though MySpace's ownership, News Corp, has a stake in the company). Continue reading to find out why.

job sites ignoring myspace apps?

By Joel Cheesman - The guy on the right has a MySpace application for jobs, and you don't. What's up with that? While many job sites jumped on Facebook's application process immediately, few are leveraging the world's largest social network. Aside from Simply Hired, no other big-name player is on the field. That could change, however, as more job sites looking to get on board begin to workout the kinks in MySpace's offering. Or maybe not. We went looking for some answers ....

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Keeping Your Workplace Off Myspace

Technology has become crucial to today’s workplace. Since you can’t slow down to snail-mail after you’ve been souped up to warp speed, many employers are now facing a new problem: How do you limit the use of the Web and its various modes of communications to those beneficial to company productivity? Giving employees free rein to [...]