Jobster offers some solid features to employers looking to market a job openings. However, where I think the focus needs to be now is on the recipients of a Jobster campaign. Ultimately the success of employer using the service, and Jobster, will be on the level of adoption from recipients. Jobster just added a new feature that lets anyone post a feed of jobs in their network to any site. This means that any jobs you have linked to your Jobster profile can be pulled onto your website for anyone to view and respond to. I think this is, to ...
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GO HOME!
If you've been wondering why the "silence" of late here on CyberSleuthing its because I bough a HOUSE!
Yeah, that's right! I'm finally no longer homeless.And besides that I am also still on the road. Just got finished with the Seattle EMA which was awesome! Big thanks to the leadership team!I'll be posting a nice photo or two of my new home. We close July 7th, then we will be moving in around mid July. -
Thanks
Don?t worry ? I?ll be back?
Steven ? Re:money, can I have some? Perhaps when the technical issues are resolved (DB, did I ever tell you how much I enjoyed sending you code?) I?m sure I?ll be back. BTW, I love your blog. Folks, read it here.
Sherry ? There?s no sighing in recruiting.
Meg ? I?m not leaving ERE ? especially if I know there are people like you out there. Thank you!
Homula ? Number one, the only difference between us is that I can rhyme just a bit better than you (we won?t even talk ...
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Fred?s Team
I got the email last night.
I?ve been selected in the lottery, and will be running in the 2005 ING New York City Marathon.
If I make it through the training, that is.
I ran the NYC Marathon once before, in 2003, and it was an amazing experience ? months of hard work paying off in a matter of hours. I?m excited to have another shot.
Why am I blogging this?
The first reason is simple - so I won?t back out. The training is tough, and every time I run I think of another reason why it would ...
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Do job postings want to be free?
Now that Red Herring (via Joel Cheesman) has quoted ?sources close to Google? saying that the company plans to get into classified listings as early as next month, the buzz around search has grown to a dull roar.
Which makes me wonder - will Google, Craig?s List, and the whole mess of smaller players commoditize job postings so much that they will be free in the future?
In the late 90s, the job boards, led by Monster, CareerBuilder and HotJobs were able to severely undercut the newspapers print monopoly on their local employment classifieds.
There were clear incentives for employers ...
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Human Capital v. Human Resources
Steve Levy has left the building, or at least the blog page. He objected to the utter rejection demonstrated by no comments on his postings. He is not used to that kind of thing.
To start to explore the new usage of "human capital" and "human resources" I thought to check the new lodestar of those who believe most everything they read: Wikipedia.
The entry for Human Resources is very clear about a contest between the terms;
The traditional but extremely narrow context of hiring, firing, and job description is considered a 20th century anachronism. Most corporate organizations that compete ...
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Last Blog Post
It's been fun blogging here but...
...it gets old when the same people respond over and over and the comments look like a conversation with yourself. Don't know if people actually read these things or if they think I'm too much of a liberal that no one in their ?right? mind would think as I do about recruiting or if many in our profession just aren't open to new ideas (FYI, John Sullivan posts a great article on helping military recruiters with their numbers problem but I blogged about doing just this months ago. I?m ...
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<a href="http://www.dcrecruiters.com/" title="external link">Is this site useful</a>
I will continue to add more links and useful information to this site as I find time. Please let me know what you think of the site and feel free to be critical if you don't like something. I can take it. I would also encourage recruiters to join the DC Recruiters Group on Yahoo. There is a link on the groups section of DCRecruiters.com and a sign-up tool on the home page.
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Jeff Taylor leaving Monster
According to this press release, Jeff Taylor is leaving Monster in August to start up a mysterious new venture.
A bit of history:
Jeff founded Monster in 1994, as a service of his recruitment advertising agency, Adion, Inc. In 1995, he sold the company to TMP Worldwide, which was on a buying spree, snapping up recruitment advertising agencies. He sold just months before the Netscape IPO would ignite madness for all things Internet. In hindsight, its easy to say that he sold out too early to see the big bucks, but I always wonder if the company would have become ...
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On commencing a blog
I figured I could probably write a passable piece on the process of starting a blog; it seems enough people do it every day that only one question seems to continually present itself; do I have anything to say? It's seductive to think that pearls of fascinating insight will suggest themselves often, and that entertaining worthy connoisseurs of such jewels will just take care of itself. But things tend not to take care of themselves, and so many blogs bloom in their volume one, issue one promise only to wither in the quantity of days and paucity of things ...
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The next Google or the next Pets.com?
Search is the hottest thing going, and a new crop of companies have decided that it?s the way that thy will change the world.Or at least get acquired and make the VCs very, very happy.One of the most fertile areas for this innovation has been the vertical search market. Inspired by Google?s company-of-the-moment status, companies like WorkZoo, indeed, oodle and Simply Hired (and more specialized ones like TESall.com and Fetchster.com) seem like they?ve been popping up almost daily. There is also constant speculation about how easy it would be for Google itself to ...
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<a href="http://www.jobcentral.com/" title="external link">Direct Employers Association</a>
Jobcentral.com - Employment Network
I recently had a discussion with the folks at the Direct Employers Association. We spoke for a few minutes and I agreed to look the possibility of becoming a member. For my part, I reached out to a few people who I know used the service and I respect. I received a variety of feedback, including some thoughts from my peers on ERExchange. My biggest concern is that the service is ONLY available on an annual basis. So if I want to give it a try to see what kind of results I get, I'll ...
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Lying and firing
Today I posted a new discusson on sourcing techniques and methodologies. It made me think of the Ombudsman who's office was not too far down the hall from my own while I was at Coke. The post is an Open Letter to Jim's Blog, Jobseekers Revenge. Check it out. -
Military recruiting
Regardless of where you stand on the war in Iraq, this is the toughest job in recruiting in the US - and it's getting tougher.There does not seem to be a lot of back and forth between military and civilian recruiting, but does anybody out there personally know Brigadier General Walter E. Gaskin?We could learn a lot about building a recruitment brand from the Marines, and I'd love to have him speak at an ER Expo... -
ATS Survey
Every year at about this time, we conduct a survey of customer satisfaction with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS). It is the beginning of a months-long process of survey analysis, technical analysis, and compiling information, and the final result will be our Applicant Tracking Systems 2006: Industry Analysis and Buyer's Guide (Enterprise Edition) - the 2005 edition is available here.
If you are an end-user of an ATS, please tell us what you think here. We promise not to release the data with any identifying information to any party not involved in the direct writing of the report (definitely none of ...
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Email kills more brain cells than smoking pot
So I've been on a rampage about spam. I though my unrestrained spam hatred originated from its interference in my daily flow. I was wrong. According to The Guardian its a drug additction which is lowering my IQ. According to their article dated April 22nd, email poses a bigger threat to your IQ than smoking cannabis.What?Yes, they wrote "The distractions of constant emails, text and phone messages are a greater threat to IQ and concentration than taking cannabis, according to a survey of befuddled volunteers. "Read on...Emails 'pose threat to IQ'
Martin Wainwright
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Singled out
Blogs have been the ?new new thing? for at least three years now, but generally speaking, recruiters are not early adopters of technology. (I know - you Sourcers love your Slashdot.)The first time that I saw blogging by recruiting professionals, it was from the team at Microsoft. Heather and Gretchen (and her erstwhile blogging partner Zoe, who has moved on to bigger & better things) were using the format to communicate with their peers and potential candidates, and I was so impressed that we begged Heather to speak at the ER Expo in San Diego that year. Since then, their example ... -
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I need a name for this blog.Recruiting-related, but not boring.Cute, but not too cute.Any suggestions? -
Hello, world!
For those of you who don?t know me (i.e. most of you), I?m David Manaster, President of Electronic Recruiting Exchange, Inc. (ERE), the leading information provider for the recruiting industry.
The company has been around for around 7 years now, which means that I?ve seen some (unbelievably) good times and (horrendously) bad times for recruiters.
I?ve always thought that it?s ironic that even though we?re a media company, we don?t have a direct voice. We at ERE rarely write articles in our own publication or speak at our own conferences - we prefer ...
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<a href="http://www.dcrecruiters.com" title="external link">Site improvements</a>
I'll be making several improvements to this site this weekend. However, I welcome comments from anyone that cares to make a suggestions or voice a concern.
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