FORECAST: Looming clouds on the horizon in China with definite signs of wet weather, and not even the remotest connection to the presence of bears.

This is self-inflicted rain.

The Chinese Ministry of Labor and Social Security is apparently working on a new law that encourages employers to pay higher salaries. It has not been announced as specifically mandatory, with compulsion for employers, but the fact of it’s consideration is problematic, to say the…

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On the Radar: Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Courtesy of Stefan Kiss on Edghunt.com:

Because keeping up to date with RSS is easier than constantly opening into LinkedIn.

Check out these full RSS feeds.

• Administration
• Business Operations
• Career and Education
• Finance and Accounting
• Government and…

I’m not sure of the actual number of times, but in the recent past (6 months or so) it seems that this (“I made them laugh”) is a typical response from my candidates when I ask them how they think they did on the interview.

Sure this could be a good (but isn’t necessarily)…

The latest online recruitment news podcast is out. This week we report on Trinity Mirror's 1.9 million pound acquisition of TheCareerEngineer, Reed's record breaking start to the new year and our summary of new site launches.

All this news, and more, this week on…

Is video compression outfit DivX finally shedding the lingering taint of being tool for content pirates?

It appears so, based on two deals the San Diego company announced this month.…

Here’s a quick tip for Recruiters.

If your search for top talent includes any of the many Job Boards there’s an easy way you can find some excellent candidates.

Before you focus your attention on those candidates who recently created their account and added their Profile/Resume (or those who recently edited it) you might want to first check out all the qualified candidates from 1,2,3 and maybe even 4 years ago if the Job Board you’re using gives you that option.

You’d be…

On the Radar: Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

From Shannon Seery Gude on EXCERL8ion:

How is it done? Leveraging Google’s ability to pull back search results from a specific URL, use the following methos to build a search string to find candidate profiles: keyword (such as a name, company, location etc) and then the profile URL. For example, all profiles on LinkedIn start with the URL: www.linkedin.com/pub or…

The Recruiting Animal Radio Show may have some competition.

I just saw on Chad Sowash’s blog a link called Chad 'n Cheez I clicked on it and it is a password protected page.…

Young upstarts, LocalHelpWanted.net, take a couple swings at Jobster, or their fictional version “Employster“. It’s a poorly produced (maybe by design?) although entertaining little video which begs the question……

Yesterday Forbes’ Matthew Kirdahy released their Best Cities For Jobs In 2008, which ranks the Top 100 cities…

Here’s an interesting bit of information from this past weekend.

“More employers are catching on to the benefits of hiring older workers. They recognize the fact that mature workers bring good experience and skills to the workplace,” said Deborah Russell, Director of Workforce Issues for AARP in Washington.

First things first, clearly, it’s not surprising to hear this type of thing from a political…

On the Radar: Monday, January 21st, 2008

Reported on CNET Networks:

Social networking costs UK businesses £6.5bn a year, according to a poll conducted by Global Secure Systems and Infosec 2008.

The poll was conducted "amongst 776 office workers, who admitted to spending at least 30 minutes a day visiting social networking sites whilst at work", according to their press release. "The end result is…

Today marks the end of the first week since we launched The Fordyce Letter blog. I’m really happy with it. I mentioned before that we launched it with only three years worth of archives. Now we will start

inputting the rest of the articles that have appeared over the last 25 years.

We are on a two year lag so you can only get up to 2005 on the site.…

On the Radar: Friday, January 18th, 2008

From Michael Policano, RecruitingBlogs member nine hundred and fifty-something:

LiveHire, a Unique New Concept in Human Resources, was created by Recruiters to improve the hiring process for both employers and candidates. LiveHire is where the Interview Process meets Web Communications.

There are…