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Webnode.com: Project management for your web-based projects

On the Radar: Friday, January 11th, 2008

A new and handy tool:

Webnode brings you a brand new innovative way of creating and editing advanced websites by just using a web browser. The system is very easy to use and is fully interactive. Real-time fast editing as you see it in the browser. By using Drag-and-Drop from the toolbar you can add new content such…

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Added by Amitai Givertz on January 11, 2008 at 7:12am — No Comments

Could Monster be marrying MySpace?

There is a rumor in the M&A world that Rupert Murdoch sent a letter
to Monster.com's board offering $4.8 billion for the company. Could
Monster be marrying MySpace? Yahoo could be the other suitor.

Read the article here -

What could this do the recruiting space? Any thoughts?

Added by Mark Newman on January 10, 2008 at 9:58pm — No Comments

Sourcer's block

Kind of like writer's block I guess? I'm at my wit's end right now

trying to figure out some new ways to source. I keep on running across

the same people, either qualified and not interested, or

super-interested but not qualified.

A friend suggested to me that perhaps I should think about a career change, after all, I am a

psych major, IT might not be my interest and I'm just fooling myself

into thinking this is my dream job :-(

Things took a down… Continue

Added by Yvonne Wong on January 10, 2008 at 6:52pm — No Comments

Recruiting Certifications?

What types of Recruiting Certifications are available? What is the advantage of having a certification?

Added by Holli Maestas on January 10, 2008 at 4:14pm — No Comments

Social Networks - A Job Seekers Disaster

In the last few year since Myspace launched it's social network more and more social networks have begun to appear on the web. These websites

have become more and more popular to teenagers as well as GEN-Y whom are just entering the work force and are starting to make up more and more…

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Added by Samara Bowling on January 10, 2008 at 1:50pm — No Comments

Faux Facebook Campaign The Future Of Recruiting?

The big social networking story from yesterday was how the French press fell for a major Facebook prank. Specifically, how a single Facebook user managed to pull off one of the biggest pranks and how the press bought it.

In case you missed it, everything started a few weeks ago when a simple…

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Added by Jeffrey K. Radt on January 10, 2008 at 10:47am — No Comments

From LinkedIn to TheLadders: Robbing Peter to pay Paul?

On the Radar: Thursday, Januray 10th, 2007

From the Silicon Alley Insider reporting Brendon Cassidy's move selling for LinkedIn to climbing TheLadders:

TheLadders stands by its revenue forecast of $60 million for 2008, while LinkedIn appears to have reduced its own from $100 million to $75-$100 million. Perhaps that's because the executive recruiting business that LinkedIn…

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Added by Amitai Givertz on January 10, 2008 at 7:00am — No Comments

'Emerging Adults' - The New Challenge

In a study that will be published in the Journal of Family Psychology, researchers have just discovered that 80 percent of parents in the US do not consider their 18-25 year-old college students to be adults. At least in the group of people they surveyed.

Strangely enough the students had the maturity to agree with their parents assessment, so that’s a start.

The conclusion of the study was…

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Added by Frank Mulligan on January 10, 2008 at 4:34am — No Comments

Shally Steckerl Webinar! “Guru’s Guide to Sourcing on LinkedIn” - Register Today

By Dave Mendoza, Master Cybersleuth, Affiliate Partner, JobMachine Inc.

(720) 733-2022

Elvis is tan and rested …. actually since last gracing the virtuality of SixDegrees… he’s become a daddy. He enters 2008 a global sensation.

Given my passion for global staffing practices and social networking, I found the January 17th Webinar event sponsored by…

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Added by Dave Mendoza on January 9, 2008 at 10:44pm — No Comments

Local Online Advertising, For Local People

The intricate manner in which online advertising constantly evolves, not just from a technology perspective but a business perspective, never fails to impress me. At the moment geographic concerns seem to be important... <more>…

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Added by Julian Stopps on January 9, 2008 at 4:57pm — No Comments

Divx soars on Sony distribution deal

NEW YORK

Shares of Divx Inc. soared Tuesday after the video technology company announced a distribution agreement with Sony Pictures Television Inc.

Sony said the deal was part of its attempts to find legitimate ways of distributing its content online.

Sony Pictures Television oversees digital distribution for parent company, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., responsible for selling major Hollywood titles including…

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Added by Michael Krug on January 9, 2008 at 11:37am — No Comments

Hump Day Humor 1/9

I'm a sucker for jokes. Love hearing them, love telling them even more! Even the bad ones.

Here’s a Sales Joke from Basic Jokes…

Good Points And Bad Points

“This house,” said the Real Estate…

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Added by Jeffrey K. Radt on January 9, 2008 at 10:24am — No Comments

LinkedIn: My Company's Hiring on Facebook

On the Radar: Wednesday, January 9th, 2007

It is what it is...

Added by Amitai Givertz on January 9, 2008 at 7:02am — No Comments

How Job Searchers Can Use RSS

Added by Willy Franzen on January 8, 2008 at 10:31pm — No Comments

Recruiting Animal Show Tomorrow About Blogging

Tomorrow at Noon EST, The Recruiting Animal has invited the winners of the RecruitingBlogs.com Best Recruiting Blog Awards on to the Recruiting Animal Radio Show to talk about Blogging an 2007 and, well, who really knows what my Aunty Charisima will talk… Continue

Added by Slouch on January 8, 2008 at 2:18pm — 7 Comments

Microsoft Seeks To Patent System To Spy On Workers

Here’s an interesting news item from over the weekend that I forgot to post about yesterday in our weekend wrap-up edition.

An invention described in a newly published Microsoft patent application aims to make sure workers meet their deadlines and do what they’re supposed to…

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Added by Jeffrey K. Radt on January 8, 2008 at 1:54pm — No Comments

Put Me In Coach

While a great lyric to a classic John Fogarty song, I’ve found that this is the mindset of many Peak Performers in Sales.

While many of these first-class sales professionals are sales leaders within their organization, there still seems to be this inherent desire to be led and/or motivated by another great leader above them - - to an extent.

That brings…

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Added by Jeffrey K. Radt on January 8, 2008 at 1:54pm — No Comments

Mash your search...

Since we are off to a new year I have been revisiting some of the search engines that had been introduced in the last year. As I did so and I became re-acquainted with SearchMash some of you may remember it, it was launched late 2006.

I ran some searches and It appears to have changed quite a bit from last year. Some great features still remain though. In case you didn't know this is a google testbed for new features…

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Added by Moises Lopez on January 8, 2008 at 12:28pm — No Comments

The New Boy - whats going on ?

What can I say ?

New shiny boy kev started with me today , well he was in training last week for one day!

Shiny Boy as Ill call him has surprised me , no rec experience at all , he goes and gets cv's fresh ones from the deli counter ( aka - social network site ) and ends up with 6 new shiny new candidates to market plus shiny boy gets a job order from dubai !

6 possible hires from one client , now I have now idea…

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Added by tom on January 8, 2008 at 12:09pm — No Comments