I'm a visual learner, and I get excited by good charts that communicate a lot of data in a simple way. In fact, every month I look forward to the last page of the Journal of Corporate Recruiting Leadership's last page of data.

I just got a preview of next month's issue, and here's  are a couple that I found interesting:

The first is from the Employer Brand Institute’s Employer Branding Global Research Study of 2,025 employers around the world.  I find it interesting that only 16% of them feel that they have a ...

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In a comment on RecruitingBlogs.com, Josh pointed out that I have not posted there much, if at all.  His comment was an eye-opener for me.

I have always been a supporter of RecruitingBlogs.com, and given the connection that I feel to the community on that site, it was a pretty big shock to see him point out that I had not posted there in over a year.  It made me think.

And the more I thought about it, the more it made sense.  My professional social network is not about ERE.net, RecruitingBlogs.com or any other single ...

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Since getting started in this industry over 10 years ago, I've been amazed by the never-ending stream of companies trying to build better mousetraps in the Talent Management (aka Applicant Tracking) space.

I understand why it's a tempting niche - customers routinely report that they are unhappy with their existing software and want better alternatives, but somehow the profits never seem to arrive for most.  Industry watchers have been predicting consolidation for years.

Today, Taleo (profile; site) announced that they acquired Vurv Technology(profile; site) for $128.8 million in cash & stock.  The deal combines two of the strongest ...

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It's a long-term goal of mine to expose more independent recruiters to the 30 year old gem that is The Fordyce Letter - the bible of the profession.

A big part of making that happen is FordyceLetter.com.

At the end of March, Jason left the FordyceLetter.com to go spend more time with his true love.  I don't blame the guy - RecruitingBlogs.com is a great site and he is doing some very creative things with the community there.

We've seen some amazing things happening on FordyceLetter.com in the last few weeks - in particular blog posts ...

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O'Reilly's Web 2.0 conference is in San Francisco this week.  For those living in a cave for the last couple of years, there is a huge amount of excitement, confusion, and sometimes hostility over the new tools and possibilities that have arrived with these new technologies.  How useful are they today?  How useful will they be?  Which ones are the "good" ones?  Inquiring recruiters want to know.

To me, it's beyond debate that we are experiencing the biggest burst of creativity on the Internet since the bubble burst in 2000 (arguably before).

ERE is sending one ...

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I am in Nashville for the SMA Conference. I am heading down to the event in a few minutes, but I've already heard that they had to stop accepting registrations at 1,500 attendees.� SHRM is a machine!

I will try to post some thoughts from the show over the next couple of days, but in the meantime here are Chad & the Cheez sounding off about the ERE Expo.� Thanks guys!

Last week I did an interview with Bill Vick , and he just put it on his site.  Bill's a smart guy, and in the course of the interview he had a great observation about social media favoring independent recruiters vs. corporate recruiters that I intend to blog about some more.

I'm pretty goofy-looking on my best day, and that headset didn't help.

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I got an email from Neal Bruce yesterday saying that he would be leaving Monster and moving on to bigger and better things.

For those of you who have not met Neal, he has been Monster's public face to the industry.

I'm not sure how much - or even if - Neal's departure will affect Monster's bottom line, but it's a big loss for the company nevertheless.  He did a great job of humanizing what had become a huge faceless organization. 

Before Neal, Monster was effectively estranged from it's customer base, who only heard from the ...

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At ERE Expo we ran a session for startups in the space to give their elevator pitch to the crowd.

The four presenting companies were:

• Charlie O'Donnell, Path 101
• Ben Yoskovitz, Standout Jobs
• Clint Heiden, VisualCV
• Dan Arkind, JobScore

I was disappointed that more people did not choose to attend the session, but those who were there got the chance to hear some solid new ideas. Matt is saying that Path 101 and VisualCV were the two most likely to succeed, and the folks at Workforce agreed.

Watch the presentations and judge for yourself!

The latest ERE Expo is over, and the reviews are starting to come in.

Here are a few of my thoughts from the show:

• It's been said before, but can never reall be said too many times.  Networking, networking, networking is where some of the most valuable and unvarnished information gets passed along at these conferences, and it's why the ERE Expo gets more valuable as it gets bigger.  As a company, it is our challenge to make sure that the events don't lose their intimate feel as they get larger.

• Twitter was one of the experiments ...

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Here's an ERE Excellence Awards photo that we just uploaded to Flickr.

Check out the rest!

Only one day left here at the ERE Expo in San Diego, but for those of you who coldn't make it, we have posted a bunch of articles and videos to our Expo Blog, and there are some moreover at RecruitingBlogs.com. 

We've also been experimenting with Twitter at the show. We are almost at 100 followers, and have had some really good thoughts & comments go back and forth between the attendees.  I'll have some more thoughts on Twitter in a future post, but for now check it out and follow ereexpo!

We've been taping lots ...

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Seriously, that guy's a genius.  He spends all of his time thinking about things that have nothing to do with recruiting, and still has these great insights into our business that I rarely hear inside of it.  Oh yeah - he's also built two billion dollar businesses and is working on a third that's a total winner.

From Marc's blog:

I think it was Andy Grove who said that for every goal you put in front of someone, you should also put in place a counter-goal to restrict gaming of the first goal.

So, for example, if ...

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...and Dennis <3s the ERE Expo!

When I posted about our launch of Vendor Watch the other day, I left out some important details:

1. The editor who developed all of the profiles in Vendor Watch is John Zappe.  Some of you may recognize his name from the excellent work that he did over the years covering the recruitment beat for Classified Intelligence. 
2. If you know a vendor that should be included in endor Watch, you can submit it for John's review here.
3. If you spot an article or blog post that should be in a profile, you can let John know here.

I'm proud to introduce ERE's latest service for recruiters, Vendor Watch. 

Vendor Watch is an experiment in developing a new kind of database of recruiting industry vendors, combining the best of crowd-sourced intelligence and an editorial filter to fact-check and select the most relevant information.  If we've done our job well, it will become the place to find the most succint, up-to-date, relevant information on vendor.

The best way to explain what we have done is to just show you, so check out this profile for CareerBuilder.  It has a rich pool of data on the company ...

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JobFox has been doing presentation for recruiters in the New York areas all week.  I attended one this afternoon and heard a marketing presentation by CEO Rob McGovern.  The following are my notes from the presentation, with a few notes that I made immediately after:

Jobfox is intended for passive job seekers.

It has a huge empasis on their matching technology and conceives of itself as the next major job board, with Monster, HotJobs  and CareerBuilder (Rob's first baby) squarely in the crosshairs. The of a "candidate-centric" board that gives the candidate the ability to pick and choose employers ...

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According to Silicon Alley Insider, The Washington Post Company has invested in ex-Jobster CEO Jason Goldberg's new startup, Social|Median.

I regularly get asked by Jobster alumni if I think that their shares in Jobster will be worth everything once the music stops for that company.  I always tell them that I don't know. 

The old Jobster spent a lot of money and had phenomenal PR - I have never seen a company in this space garner so much attention in such a short time. But once the hype passed, some of the customers realized that they were not ...

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I got an email this morning from Docstoc.com, which bills itself as "a user generated community where you can find and share professional documents."

They were pitching their services for the ERE Expo, and I am not really sure how they can help us with that, but I do see their service as a very useful tool for recruiters.  There are already a number of documents on the site that are tagged as being relevent to recruiting.

For an example, take a look at the phone script below for checking candidate references:

Sample Script for Checking Employment References - Get ...

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Recruiter Life was at the ERE Expo , and they spent some time filming the exhibitors about the show.  Here's what they said:

The tradeshow floor at the upcoming ERE Expo in San Diego is full -- there's just no more room on the trade show floor -- but our doors are wide open for more attendees.  We have a great speaker lineup, and I hope you can make it and see in person what the buzz is all about!