To my knowledge Don Firth runs the largest family of profitable independently owned and self-financed job boards. His boards have a utilitarian look and are designed with the single purpose of helping
just launched a new website today that aggregates Internet recruiting news (and opinions of course) so please have a look at www.InternetRecruitingNews.com.
Here is a list of big shot job board entrepreneurs -- the ex employees of the large job boards who have started their own boards. Have I left anyone out?
Classified Intelligence is estimating the RegionalHelpWanted acquisition at $100 million. My guess? Cut the purchase price and revenue estimates in half.
Rony Kahan is one of the brightest sparks in job board industry . So the splash he's made with Indeed.com came as no surprise. It's also true I’ve said there are too many new job ventures...
Great post today on Kawasaki's blog about the mind-set of successful people. Whether you are hiring, managing a team or raising kids, this is key: Search for people who love to learn and grow. Praise effort not talent.
Matt Marshall writes about the spate of new job sites: "the noise is terrifically loud. Very little new technology here; merely refinements of social networking strategies that are the rage." I say, YEP.
Today DiversityJobs.com surpassed 1 million job postings. We also launched our Employer's Information page to promote our posting partners. Traffic grew 65% to 41,000 visits in January.
If you ever wondered why Applicant Tracking Systems seem so counter-productive to recruiting real talent, John Sumser explains it today in a column about a recent ATS acquisition. This may explain wh
First of a series of interviews with the pioneers of Internet recruiting -- Bill Warren is first because he was creating job boards before most of us knew what the Internet was!
We just launched a new website for The International Association of Employment Web Sites. The site is powered by Drupal, a state-of-the-art cms that I believe also powers Recruiting.com... Jason? The
Do you have a recruitment brochure? We don't, YET. But ours will take shape starting with our recruitment page. Have a look at this phenomenal example of a recruitment brochure -- it could have been written for us, in fact.
In “All Job Sites Are Becoming One!”, Bill Warren talks about the blurring of lines between job boards -- But, if the job listings themselves are less valuable in today's online recruiting environment, what factors are becoming more important? Well, don't forget that in the late nineties when the online recruiting market was born, unemployment was much higher and recruiting talent much easier.
Interesting study exploring how typical Applicant Tracking Systems use a self-select drop-down box method to track source data and why this results in drastically flawed outcomes.
The suggestion of incorporating tracking tags instead is a good one - but I am used to working with Tracking or action tags that utilize cookies - that doesn't seem to be what they are talking about here since they are suggesting 100% accuracy.
The recruit.com domain goes to auction on October 27th at a domain conference I'm attending in Miami (TRAFFIC) -- the CHANCE OF A LIFETIME for someone. There are only a couple of domains in the employment market with similar power...
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