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SharkStrike CEO Jason Gorham To Present at Technology Association of Georgia Recruiting Event

ATLANTA - Jason Gorham CEO of Sharkstrike, the leading provider of passive candidate strategy, will be a keynote speaker at the Technology Association of Georgia Recruiting event held Sept
15, 2009. Gorham will be co-presenting with Matt Matrone on search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimization (SEO) for recruitment.

"I am glad to contribute. The recruiting market continues to grow at an exponential pace and the use of online tools like ...

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MCLEAN, VA - JobFox, the online job site that matches job seekers with employers via its mutual suitability system, has raised $3 million via debt and options on its securities, according to a regulatory filing.

The company, which has not yet responded to TechJournal South's request for an interview, revealed the financing in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

JobFox raised a $20 million C round in January 2008 and a $10 million B round in May 2006. Investors include Menlo Ventures and New Enterprise Associates.

JobFox matches job seekers and employers in much the same ...

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Multiple recruitment Search Engine Optimization (HR SEO) vendors have sprung up in the wake of HR realizing that they should be branding themselves and not the job boards, which is creating a lot of confusion regarding SEO. I have heard and seen multiple examples of this including check boxes placed on ATS systems that allow you to SEO your jobs, case studies completed where the keyword search has no keyword volume at all, and the list continues. I believe it's unfair to mislead an audience that may not be educated about the SEO space into thinking that a job ...

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I have been working in Google's new beta interface for Adwords and I'm not sure if I like it or not.  Having worked with Google Adwords since 2004 I have seen a lot of changes in their system but this is the first time that they have created a new interface for it. 

The new interface has a much cleaner/newer look and feel to it and it's more analytic and tends to look more now like Google analytics than it does Adwords.  The goal of the new interface is to make it easier for people like ...

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After reading our recent white paper the good people at Elance contacted me to be a guest blogger on their site.  I graciously accepted the invitation/challenge and have posted my first blog with them Why You Need Social Media Bookmarking In Your SEO Strategy.

I have personally utilized Elance for years and respect their brand and look forward to our relationship in the future.  I will be talking about SEO/SEM/Social and not recruiting topics on this particular blog post.

ATLANTA - Sharkstrike, the leading provider of passive candidate strategy, completed and released a new white paper that focused on corporate career sites and their lack of keyword research and prominent placement in search engines to capture the right candidate audience.

"By examining the top 5 companies in the world's careers pages we understood quite quickly that a common marketing tactic is being ignored by human resources and recruiting strategies to capture more candidates to their career portals." Said Jason Gorham CEO of Sharkstrike.

"The white paper examines the application of SEO methodologies within corporate HR departments as part of ...

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Atlanta - GA - June 10, 2009 SharkStike has named Angela Culver as it's new Chief Marketing Officer to head up domestic and international marketing.

"Angela brings a strong technology marketing background to the company that will help us craft and distribute our message across many platforms". Said Jason Gorham SharkStrike CEO.

Angela, brings over 15 years of marketing experience to SharkStrike including working with some of the leading software technology companies in Silicon Valley.

While working at Quova software Angela was responsible for taking IP/geo-location targeting software and introducing it to the market. She headed up the marketing initiative ...

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So you want to move into the pay per click game but not sure where to start, well I think I can give you some insight about the game.

I recently received a quote from a competitor and found it both very insightful as well as very sad. The quote was to perform pay per click management for a client and their jobs and to send traffic to the clients website to generate more candidate flow and receive more applications. The quote just so happens to coincide with another company that we are talking to that is using this recruitment ...

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As I spent the weekend in fairy world with my niece..sorry Disney World I picked up the Wall Street Journal to see two stories about Yahoo. One was about the company not having any focus and being spread to thin (thus the name of the internal - the peanut butter manifesto) and the second story was about Hot Job partnering with 150 newspapers to distribute job ads.

Is their no innovation left in these companies? Aren?t we moving away from newspaper readership as it descends and is documented time and time again? As these sites are losing market share ...

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Kennedy Information Conference & Expo.

Once again Kennedy impressed me with the number of attendees, hospitality and gracious to not only me, my friends but listening and providing quality content that the audience wanted. I try and get as much feedback as I can from people attending not only from my speaking engagement/session but how the conference is overall. As a current and former conference attender I think it's very important to get the value out of something that you pay for.

As far as my panel and presentation the people that I spoke with seemed to enjoy it ...

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If you haven't done so, I would recommend running out and buying this month's Economist magazine - as it relates to the Search for Talent. The article covers every aspect of recruiting, retention, and the current and past states of the world workforce. Of course I was excited to read about passive candidate recruiting, as that's what our product does. But by far this has to be one of the best talent articles ever written.

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Recently I have been getting a lot of requests from people within my Linkedin network about jobs that they are trying to fill.  Some of the most recent requests include:

• Senior software engineer architect
• Vice president compensation & benefits
• Controller & java engineers????

Let me begin by saying I like Linkedin, I think it?s a very powerful tool to network with other people, complete competitor research and find invaluable data about companies and job titles.  The one thing I do not understand is the Linked Jobs and why I keep getting these requests.  First and foremost when you post a job ...

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A couple of new players have entered into the recruitment search space.  As first reported by my good friend Joel Cheesman, Net Temps has launched a new job engine called Searchjobs.com.  Not a lot of information is presented on the site, or about the product, but Joel has done some searching and looked up the Who is and found out it is net temps.  NAS recruitment has just announced a product called Jobs 2 Web. I saw this product advertised via ERE.

According to NAS, ?Jobs2Web? Search Engine Optimization (SEO), ensures its nearly 5,000 clients the latest in ...

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First and foremost, I am very flattered Yahoo Hotjobs is following our products and strategy.  As they say, imitation is the best form of flattery.  If you didn?t have a chance to see this as you were preparing for your Fourth of July, I will be happy to update you.  Hotjobs came out with this press release.

A new advertising program from Yahoo HotJobs uses the portal's broader network to help recruiters reach passive job seekers, a sought-after category of candidates.

The Yahoo Recruitment Advertising (YRA) program helps employers and staffing agencies find candidates who are not actively ...

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I noticed that my good friend Shally is offering a linkedin webinar which looks pretty intriguing to me on a couple of fronts.  I have been reading a book called the ?The Little Red Book of selling? written by Jeff Gitomer.  My new outsourcing neighbor from Sumpraxis who is in the technology incubator with me, gave me this book to enhance my people skills, to better articulate our products, and to get a better close ratio.  The book discusses a lot of selling skills however, a majority of it speaks about  networking, personal brand, and people skills.  The personal branding ...

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