Everyone is now a marketing expert. Anyone can be famous.

This is what social media has taught us over the last few years. A lady flips off the wrong unknown soldier and in less than 24 hours a chunk of the country is screaming for her head. This guy …

You may want to rethink hitting that ‘sell’ button next to your LinkedIn shares. It appearsFacebook’s newest job search app has landed with an unceremonious thud in the recruiting space.

Last week the app launched with much fanfare, probably because Facebook has done little to nothing when it comes to creating job apps.…

Over the last couple of years mobile recruiting has been on a steady incline. But while some companies are jumping in with both feet, for every early adopter there is another 100 companies still on the fence.  Most of what you hear about are the statistics regarding the number of smart phones being purchased and the percentage of overall web…

Yesterday I shared a few data points from our new white paper Smart Phones in the Workplace, which will be published next week. [Click here to read Part 1] It is a survey of professional…

A few weeks ago I wrote about how email has become a key driver of mobile recruiting. I was essentially making an educated guess that a big percentage of email is being read on mobile devices, largely because of the way I read email.  Even before I switched from a Blackberry to…

As Monster Worldwide’s earnings report approaches, rumors that the job site is once again facing a possible buyout are swirling.

Over the past five years, Monster has been the subject of almost two dozen takeover rumors by electronic news services, brokerages or newspapers, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Towards the end…

You’ve got recruiters.  They recruit for you.  If you’re in a competitive space, the candidates who interact with your recruiters consider the jobs they offer as commodities.

I know.  Commodity is a harsh word.  After all, don’t these candidates know how special your company is?  How the most important asset is people?  The values… The…

If you work in Human Resources chances are you have heard the Silo analogy once or twice. Ok maybe more times than you care to remember. But the silo issue is not exclusively an HR issue.  All business functions are potential silos.  Departments are set up so that we can apply concentrated resources and skills to specific types of work in…