On the Radar: Wednesday, Januray 16th, 2008

Following up on Techcrunch's report that LinkedIn has now joined Facebook, Google, Plaxo in joining the DataPortability Work Group...interesting.

The latest born internet recruiting podcast is out. We've quite a show for you this week, including a fantastic interview with Jonathan Turpin of Emap Radio and news of two job board revamps.

This week's headlines:

On the Radar: Tuesday, January 15th, 2007

As reported on CNET.com:

A representative from business networking site LinkedIn has denied a claim from contact management service Plaxo pertaining to last week's controversy over transporting data from one social network to another. According to LinkedIn, it doesn't approve of Plaxo scripts that import LinkedIn contact information.

Last week, Facebook blocked…

Ever since Paramount Recruiting Partners, LLC began exploring the potential benefits of joining the Web 2.0 world we’ve been simply amazed by the sheer innovation and endless possibilities that exist for the Recruiting industry.…

It's tough when you have two blogs! But I want to ensure that my blog entries are at least viewable at Recruitingblogs.com...so the full blog entry is here:

A Case study in recruitment advertising optimization.

As a recruiter, a good percentage of my job is to review resumes in efforts to find the best candidates. Though this would seem simple in theory, I cannot begin to tell you how true this is not! It is no wonder why the majority of job seekers in the market place today have an extended job search. A resume is the single most important tool you can have in your arsenal; after all it is your introduction to the hiring manager.

With a shelf life typically lasting no longer than 10-15…

Carl Karcher, (Carl Karcher, 1917-2008) parlayed a single hot dog pushcart into a chain of more than 1,000 fast-food restaurants bearing his name, past away today. He was 90.

The affable, burly entrepreneur, known to millions as the jovial television pitchman for the Carl’s Jr. chain, died of complications from Parkinson’s-related pneumonia at St. Jude Medical Center in

Fullerton, according to Beth Mansfield, a spokeswoman for parent

company CKE…

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Recently there has been much talk in…

On the Radar: Monday, January 14th, 2008

Diversity.com has partnered with e-JobFairs.net to a live, fully interactive electronic job fair in LA:

Electronic job fairs are complete and fully interactive live job…

For those of you who may be looking for sourcing tools. I did a highlight on the search engine "exalead" on my blog. I featured some of its unique commands. If your interested you can read it at http://www.sourcingcorner.com/2007/05/31/interesting-searching-thru-exalead/. If not, feel free to take a look anyway. I have some capuccino brewing today.

BTW, Slouch if you read…