Well, after some prodding and thinking I have finally agreed to blog. Joel was kind enough to ask, and I decided what the hell. So here I am on Cheezhead.
If you’re going to read my first blog post, there is something you should know, besides the fact that my post will likely suck.
Every […]

When I first transitioned into a recruitment leadership role it was 1998 and the emergence of the Internet and the ASP model for Applicant Tracking Systems were emerging market disruptors. ATS’s were hitting their peak around 2000/2001, after which industry consolidation quickly followed. Yet today there is still more dissatisfaction than praise around […]

Ok…so we’re in a war, the most popular vote in the upcoming election seems to be a “vote of no confidence”, and the housing market is about to get an oz-style wake up call - no, we’re not in Kansas any more (although we may be soon, since everywhere else will be too expensive to […]

Simply Hired got a facelift, taking it a few steps away from its original simplicity (which Indeed has maintained). According to SH, the new look “technically went live about a week ago,” but it’s the first time I’ve seen it.

Ok, so they aren’t really selling land, but with their purchase power and brain power, It is only a matter of time. However, they have recently stuck their hands in the radio advertising cookie jar - here’s our story.
In running our job board, JobCircle.com, one of my goals is to try and brand the […]

Make sure to read “MySpace Strikes Back” if you’re a social networking market watcher like me. Burying MySpace is clearly a bit premature.

It didn’t even take a week from the time of my post from last week concerning regular background checks for current employees to be validated with an example of why this practice makes sense. The Northwest Arkansas Times reported that a school teacher who passed a pre-employment background check was recently arrested for possessing […]

The $100 laptop project (to be honest, I did not know about that one) has run into some issues, but is still on target to land under $200. These are some very, very smart folks working on this, big big brains; and I’m all for laptops for everyone. Internet access as a […]

Cheez tells me that people are actually reading this thing so I better not embarrass myself out here…my personal brand is on the line apparently.
On my mind today is a news story that we have all heard over the past month. The Michael Vick scandal.
Some stories like this are hard to shake […]

There’s nothing more annoying to a jobseeker than to visit a job board, do a search, review the job and click the apply button, only to be redirected to a company’s cumbersome applicant tracking system on the corporate web site.
OK. Now, they’ve got to create an account - sometimes having to search […]