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Remembering Work, Life, Love Balance

I want apologize for being slow to post the past few weeks, my father had back surgery today. No matter how much I love to share my passion for my chosen career, it doesn’t compare to the love I have for my family and they will always come first, no matter what.

Not only was this the first time in my 36 years that I had to see…

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Added by Recruitnik on September 11, 2007 at 9:22pm — 1 Comment

Where's the Science in HR?

Yesterday, I read an article from Workforce Management on the correlation, or lack there of, between HR and the popular television show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation around failures and successes within various organizations. All this talk of forensic science reminded me of a speaking engagement I attended with Jim Stroud last year on Resume Forensics. The audience was quite taken aback with Jim's insight…

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Added by Catherine Horgan on September 11, 2007 at 9:17pm — No Comments

RSS for Beginners

This post is dedicated to all of the people still “surfing” for information on the web. Common Craft does a great job of explaining how Really Simple Syndication (RSS) and RSS readers can save…

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Added by Chad Sowash on September 11, 2007 at 12:32pm — 1 Comment

The Million Dollar Wiki - Was Only a Matter Of Time

It's The Million Dollar Wiki and yes you can also buy a blogger. I learned about this from a real good domain name blog called the Conceptualist. He says you should avoid the hype but he figures the guy has made 50k or so.

I think this is something that we will see more and more of in the next year or so. There is absolutely… Continue

Added by Slouch on September 11, 2007 at 12:27pm — No Comments

HotJobs makes a Move

They're now number 2. The details.

Added by Chris Russell on September 11, 2007 at 9:03am — No Comments

Global Staffing Perspectives: Part 2 with Brian Janecek, Brno, Czech Republic

By Dave Mendoza, Master Cybersleuth,

Affiliate Partner, JobMachine Inc.

International Staffing Perspectives: Brian Janecek, Brno, Czech Republic, Part 2 of First In A Series

Brian Janecek is a US national, born and raised in Oregon and a technical recruiter developing talent on behalf of corporate and highly-technical positions

at…

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Added by Dave Mendoza on September 11, 2007 at 12:14am — No Comments

The Pinnacle Society

On Oct 4th, The Pinnacle Society will be having their next conference. I'll be going because the Fordyce Letter is one of two sponsors.

From the Pinnacle Society website:

"The Pinnacle Society is the nation's premier consortium of top recruiters within the permanent placement and search industry. For

nearly 20 years, the Pinnacle Society has provided the nation's top

recruiters a… Continue

Added by Slouch on September 10, 2007 at 2:32pm — No Comments

Oh no! Another 'animal'

Looks like our own Recruiting Animal isn't the only animal in town. Ans the new one is also Canadian.

Added by Chris Russell on September 10, 2007 at 2:17pm — No Comments

Career Hub is looking to expand

First it was Cheezhead and how Career Hub is at it. Career Hub is looking to expand their stable of writers and offerings. If you are interested, click on over and contact them.

Added by Slouch on September 10, 2007 at 11:22am — No Comments

Latest Activity Function On RecruitingBlogs.com

Over the weekend, Ning launched a few other functions for the networks they power. One of these new functions is a "latest activity" feed. You can see everything that is going on now on RecruitingBlogs.com quickly. I have put this on the right hand side of the site and it will also appear on every profile page above the Live Recruiting Blogosphere Feeds. If it dives you crazy, let me know

Added by Slouch on September 10, 2007 at 10:30am — No Comments

Thank you, SourceCon2007 and Beyond

As we are on the eve of a new era in recruiting with the first ever conference dedicated to Sourcing and Talent Acquisition, I wanted to say thank you to the organizers. First and foremost, thank you to Leslie O'Connor who combined her a vision and ideas of creating just such an event. Leslie took her passion for sourcing, relied heavily on the assistance of some great friends and colleagues,… Continue

Added by SourceCon Dude on September 10, 2007 at 10:03am — 2 Comments

New RecruitingFly Sponsor

Please welcome...(click here)

Added by Chris Russell on September 10, 2007 at 8:58am — No Comments

Is this the future of Search Engines...I think so!

Maybe, I am a geek but I had to forward this one as I was pleasantly surprised with this new search engines marketing approach to maybe making the search engine a little more personable.

Thanks to Suzy Tonini for putting this on my radar

Enjoy !…

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Added by Rob McIntosh on September 10, 2007 at 7:58am — 5 Comments

SourceCon

I am looking forward to SourceCon next week and hope to see alot of you there.

Added by Dave Copps on September 9, 2007 at 9:15pm — 3 Comments

8,001 on Linkedin - Thank You

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

Yesterday I hit 8,000 connections on Linkedin.

I am stating it not to boast - I don’t throw footballs in the end zone with creative knee wobbling.

I simply want to mark the occasion to publicly thank everyone who has connected with me.

I thought Glenn…

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Added by Dave Mendoza on September 7, 2007 at 11:10am — 3 Comments

Holy web 2.0 Batman!!

Today’s bit of Friday morning humor focuses on two characters in the online recruiting industry. Personally, I think it’s interesting how people view characters in our industry; some as heroes, some as villains, but we all play some type of role somewhere. Like Animal, who I see playing the “Creepy Uncle” role, you know the…

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Added by Chad Sowash on September 7, 2007 at 10:44am — No Comments

Setting The Record Straight

With all due respect to Slouch, he created Recruitingblogs.com, not I. Dave Copps was still very kind in his mention of me in a recent Sourcecon email. More here: Props From Copps

Added by Ben Gotkin on September 6, 2007 at 9:25pm — 2 Comments

roundpegs.com has launched! eharmony + job board + craigslist

After many months of hard work, we are proud to announce the launch of our website, roundpegs.com ! Our ultimate goal is to make finding a job and hiring employes actually work

online. We match job seekers to employers based on skills, preferences,

and intangibles — no more inefficient keyword searching. So you get

quality, compatible matches. All for free! — we are ad-supported. We’ve

built a great product that… Continue

Added by roundpegs on September 6, 2007 at 8:14pm — 2 Comments

A LinkedIn Question

Here you go

Added by Slouch on September 6, 2007 at 5:28pm — 2 Comments

Hitwise, your competitive intelligence answer?

Real analytical data and competitive intelligence is vital in understanding how to better leverage your corporate career site and since Alexa has been unofficially labeled as a…

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Added by Chad Sowash on September 6, 2007 at 7:59am — No Comments