The dialogue generated around Notch up has been quite interesting. If nothing else there will be lots of eyeballs watching what happens when they move from Beta to Live! So, here’s some final thoughts from the initial post, Joel’s detailed post and the many, many comments that have been shared:

The not so good:
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These days everyone has become enamored with the concept of criminal background checks, and with good reason.  They absolutely help organizations make informed hiring decisions and mitigate risk in the workplace.  However, there is an age-old practice that many hiring managers have recently chosen to de-value or outright ignore: The Employment Verification.  Some have done […]

The question: does a social networking component weaved into a traditional job board have value?

The answer is not so easy. There’s been much discussion lately around this topic, and some pretty interesting M&A transactions in the space. We all know that networking is still very high on the list of ways that […]

Someone sent this to me today and I honestly just don’t get it! Here’s the email:
I just joined NotchUp’s private beta program and wanted to share it with you.
NotchUp is a new way to manage your career. Instead of YOU having to sort through hundreds of job postings, NotchUp enables top companies to find […]

I have to admit I have always had a very, very, very strong aversion to assessment tests. I took one in high school and it told me I was supposed to be a plumber… and although I am a huge fan of Home Depot and have never met a home improvement project I didn’t […]

Post from Plaxo blog
I was shocked to see that Plaxo has disregarded its own privacy statement with the launch of its new Pulse service. There is no way for users to opt-out of the Pulse service, so their web info is broadcast without their permission to everyone on their contact list.
Facebook tried this with News […]

Is the state of our economy starting to freak you out? Let’s start by saying that I will not profess to know whether we are heading towards a recession, how long our current economic cycle will last and what the overall affect will be. However, it is safe to say that we can […]

Hot off the press. Monster’s latest ad in their new “Your Calling Is Calling” campaign has just been released.
Job satisfaction that makes the world go ’round.
This spot follows the previous ones in terms of an eye catching, visually appealing setup with a nice pay off at the end. In my […]

Growth Rate For Online Job Ads Continues To Slow: The number of online recruitment ads were 3.5 million in December, a 6 percent rise over last year, according to The Conference Board Help-Wanted Online Data Series. But the numbers show that the amount of online help wanted ads are slowing down to a crawl: not […]