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personal branding in a 2.0 recession

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

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By Dan Schawbel - In today’s economy, you’ll find a substantial amount of people on job boards, corporate websites and on social networking sites. Job seekers are fighting for the few job openings left, which are dwindling day after day. In these tough times, creativity and powerful connections is what separates the successful and unsuccessful job seekers and recruiters. The one thing that always remains the same is that the top personal brands always win. Today I want to talk about some future trends and thoughts concerning the collision of personal branding and recruiting in this web 2.0 world and then hear your reactions.

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a new social network for recruitment advertising

Thursday, March 5, 2009

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MyLongLunch.com is being touted as the first social network for the recruitment advertising industry. The site is introducing four new features.

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talent and the video age

Monday, October 6, 2008

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By Susan Burns - The use of video for recruitment is nothing new. It may not be widely used yet but its nothing new – in 1999 while at Macy’s Inc. we launched our first college recruitment site with 20+ executive video interviews. Even the use of video for candidate interviews is not really new – several years ago video-conference style interviewing was trying to emerge. It never happened, due to many of the same questions that remain today around the use of video resumes.

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avatars run the show at virtual event

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

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By Vanessa Dennis - ChicagoJobs.com, in partnership with Shaker Recruitment Advertising and Communications, held its second virtual job fair September 16. Fifteen employers attended, including Allstate, Quill Corporation, and Kellogg, and over 2,500 job seekers registered for the event. Gone were the banner-decked booths littered with company schwag. Instead, digital representations of the employee stations were rendered in a virtual world complete with colorful avatars who wandered around networking chat rooms seeking advice and leads on job opportunities.

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arbita set to acquire appendant marketing group

Saturday, April 12, 2008

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Arbita, a Minneapolis-based organization that covers a variety of media and technology solutions for its clients and partners, is set to purchase Indianapolis-based Appendant Marketing Group, which specializes in recruitment advertising. Don Ramer, Arbita CEO and founder (and one of our favorite people), says: Working with Appendant will provide real benefit to our customers. Messages that personally [...]

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