Slouch's Blog – November 2010 Archive (4)

A Counter Offer of Biblical Proportions

So imagine you are a recruiter who calls Facebook a really good client. You probably find it easy to get permission from your candidates to send their resumes in for review. You know that google is a great place to recruit from so that's where you recruit from.

I read on Techchrunch the other day that Google counter offered a staff level engineer there to the tune of $3.5… Continue

Added by Slouch on November 12, 2010 at 8:48pm — 10 Comments

CareerBuilder Says - Social Networking Shall Not Be Cheap

I was finally happy to see that CareerBuilder is building something for recruiters and it's going to be expensive. I read about it on ERE and essentially, Careerbuilder will build you a talent network. It seems they are the first to admit that it can be done without their help but of course if someone wants to help, why not. Help can be good.

I'm not going to describe what it is they… Continue

Added by Slouch on November 11, 2010 at 2:00pm — 7 Comments

Rebecca Sargeant on The Recruiting Animal Show 12pm EST today - Good Luck

My not so good friend the Recruiting Animal who I meet every Friday morning with as somehow gotten Rebecca Sargeant who I have met once at a Starbucks in downtown Toronto. She is a nice lady and very passionate about what it is she does for a living. She is a recruiter and she recruits recruiters. It's why she likes RecruitingBlogs.com so much.… Continue

Added by Slouch on November 10, 2010 at 9:17am — 3 Comments

The Change today on RecruitingBlogs.com

So far so good, the feedback I have gotten directly and have seen on line about the new look of RecruitingBlogs has been positive. I have not gotten any negative feedback yet so if you have any, this would be a good place to let me know so we can fix any issues.

We have a lot of stuff we are working on now and it's good because the Recruiting industry is good and we just want to make a place for recruiters to be able to network better and to have a place to share ideas.

It… Continue

Added by Slouch on November 9, 2010 at 4:30pm — 2 Comments