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…

Stan Relihan

President & CEO

eXpert Executive Search

North Sydney, AUSTRALIA

Office: +61 2 9657 1055

Mobile: +61 412 249 924

Email: srelihan@gmail.com

Business:…

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…

10. The writers’ strike ends in favor of the writers once the studios recognize that people are watching Funny or Die (Will Ferrell’s

partnership with Sequoia Capital), YouTube, and almost anything on the

web rather Biggest Loser 13, The Bachelor in Helsinki, or The Next Great American Band 3.

9. Apple’s stock hits $265 per share and, despite the initial…

Monster paid $61 million in cash for San Francisco-based Affinity Labs, a company that develops vertical-specific online communities such as policelink.com and nursinglink.com. Affinity Labs was founded by Christopher Michel, who had also founded military.com which…

Earlier this week, Emap Radio, the UK’s second largest commercial radio operator announced the launched of Key103Jobs, the country’s first recruitment service to offer an integrated radio and online advertising solution.

I…

There’s been some confusion surrounding the direction and topics found on the Peak Performance Blog as we’ve begun 2008.

This was our first full week of posts in the New Year and I thought I would quickly set the record straight on our goals and plans for our Web 2.0 community in 2008.

First and foremost, Peak Performance is a Third-Party Recruiting…

1. Best Overall Recruiting Blog (Prize - Trip to Vegas Thanks to Zoominfo)

Six Degrees From Dave…