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April 15, 2008

Tutorial Tuesday

Teach something, learn something...

Chris Russell, President of AllCountyJobs.com LLC, is one of the Recruitosphere's original innovators. He has a number of grounbreaking projects under his belt including the original RecruitingFly and Jobs in Pods. Chris is widely respected for pushing the online recruiting envelope. He uses common sense tactics and strategies, social… Continue

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April 14, 2008

Mendoza’s Monday Member Showcase

Dave Mendoza talks with one of our members...

For those of you who are not Mendoza groupies the fact that he is in Australia presenting at the AustralAsian Talent Conference may have passed you by. Somewhere across multiple time zones your Editor has misplaced this morning's post. Oops, sorry.

If nothing else I am resourceful! So, from the… Continue

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That was the week that was...week ending April 11, 2008

Ami G's round-up from the recruiting industry’s group blogs, portals and individual archives...

RecruitingBlogs.com: The Daily Column...

Mendoza’s Monday Member Showcase: Ryan Leary, Philadelphia's Ambassador of The Virtual Handshake

Tutorial Tuesday: Muareen Sharib and… Continue

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April 11, 2008

TGIS (Thank Goodness, Its Sumser!

John Sumser unravels the world of recruiting and puts it back together again

Today: 'Digging Into RecruitingBlogs.com'

Anyone who has been around the online water cooler -- the community blogs where a caravan of recruiters come to gargle and spit -- will know that Jason Davis [aka… Continue

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April 10, 2008

The Recruiting Animal’s Morning After Show

On Wednesdays he barks, on Thursday he bites!

Following last week's show with special guest Papa John Sumser, Atlanta-based Josh Letourneau posted comments, sent me emails and we even spoke on the phone!

Rather than spoil the fun by giving you my impression… Continue

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April 9, 2008

Claudia’s Wednesday Wisdom

Claudia Faust advises on tricky situations, answers members' questions...

Today, 'Feeling Cheap in St. Louis' asks:

"What do you do when a candidate simply disappears? It’s happened to me twice this month: I screen them up front, they’re all excited about the opportunity, they go to the interview…and then nothing. No returned calls, no emails about taking another job, nothing. It's hard enough to find good candidates at…

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April 8, 2008

Tutorial Tuesday

Teach something, learn something...

Our very own Maureen Sharib, telephone names sourcer and trainer, has mastered a piece of the recruiting process that is often misrepresented, misunderstood, poorly applied and too often poo-pooed by recruiting 'purists.'

Maureens's has built a burgeoning practice generating leads for, well, you name it, Maureen's sourced it! The living proof that… Continue

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In your inbox: April 7, 2008

If you are not a member of RecruitingBlogs.com cut and paste the following into an email and send it to yourself. We don't won't anyone feeling left out...

Greetings!

If you haven’t visited RecruitingBlogs.com in the past week or two you may have missed some new and exciting things.

For one thing we have started a daily column featuring some of our favorite bloggers. Logon to read Dave Mendoza on Mondays, Claudia Faust on Wednesdays, the… Continue

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April 7, 2008

Mendoza’s Monday Member Showcase

Dave Mendoza talks with one of our members...

In the spirit of true networking Dave hooks up with super-connector Ryan Leary who is a Corporate Recruiter at Beckman Coulter.We are spared nothing this full expose which includes pics with Santa.

I’ve been a fulltime recruiter for about 4 years now. I got my start in an agency where I quickly learned the ropes…

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That was the week that was...Week ending April 4, 2008

A round-up from the recruiting industry’s group blogs, portals and individual archives...

RecruitingBlogs.com: The Daily Column...

Mendoza’s Monday Member Showcase: Susan Burns, Talent Synchronicity

Tutorial Tuesday: MarkE. Berger, The Fordyce… Continue

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April 4, 2008

TGIS (Thank Goodness Its Sumser!)

John Sumser unravels the world of recruiting and puts it back together again...

Composed as ever John took yesterday's switch in programming in his stride. While the Recruiting Animal ranted and raved about the perceived snub, having to reschedule his radio show for today to accommodate his guest, our luminary-John continued with… Continue

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April 3, 2008

The Recruiting Animal's Morning After Show

On Wednesdays he barks, on Thursday he bites!

We have a programming change today because this week we have something "Extra-Extra!"

Making one of his very rare broadcast appearances, industry icon and internet ol' timer John Sumser will be sitting down with the Recruiting Animal to talk about, well, its hush-hush so you'll have to tune in. Bearing in mind that… Continue

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April 2, 2008

Claudia’s Wednesday Wisdom

Claudia Faust advises on tricky situations, answers members' questions...

Today, 'Smack Down' asks:

I’m working with a perfectionist hiring manager who always has to be in control, and is never wrong. His mantra is “I’m the customer,” and he says it frequently as he micromanages every detail of my work. We are both under pressure to get this difficult job filled, but every time I talk to him I just want to tell him off --…

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April 1, 2008

Tutorial Tuesday

Teach something, learn something...

In this weekly column we intend to bring you some juicy morsels of high protein training so that you can immediately go back to work, bulked-up and ready to try something new. If it works for you great, if it doesn't then help me help you by sending me an email so we can figure it out together.

We are really lucky to have among us some of the finest trainers in the industry on RecruitingBlogs.com. That is… Continue

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March 31, 2008

Mendoza’s Monday Member Showcase

Dave Mendoza talks with one of our members...

In the very first feature for our RecruitingBlogs.com columns Dave introduces us to Susan Burns. Susan is the brains and the brawn behind Talent Synchronicity. Prior to that she was the brains and brawn behind a number of high-profile talent… Continue

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My very first video post -- RecruitingBlogs.com

Find more videos like this on… Continue

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Passive Candidate Engine: Turbo-charged search

On the Radar: Friday, March 21th, 2008

Miles Jennings who manages the Ning community TalentBar: HR and Recruiting Networking Group has got a powerful tool discretely buried on the sidebar:

We recently added a capability for passive candidate search on TalentBar. Using this search, you can easily search through the Internet and find resumes according to keywords, locations, etc... It…

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10-minute Webinar Snack: Searching for Candidates on Google — March 20, 2008

On the Radar: Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Who said there was no such thing as a free lunch?

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Our BROWN BAG RECRUITER Lunchtime Webinar Snacks are designed to deliver “chunk-sized” training, easy to grab-on-the-go and just as easy to digest – never more than 10-minutes!

This is a primer for… Continue

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Jobster’s 2007 Losses: $11 Million; Out Raising More

On the Radar: Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Off the wires:

Jobster, the much-hyped and heavily funded online-recruitment-meets-social-networking service, is out looking for more money, after burning through most of the $48 million it has raised since 2005. Founder and CEO Jason Goldberg left the company late last year, and has started a new social news site. Jobster, under new management, is now looking to raise more…

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Added by Amitai Givertz on March 16, 2008 at 8:30am — 4 Comments

Creative Recruiting on the Rise

On the Radar: Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

According to a new survey:Recruitment Advertising: Moving in New Directions:

Organizations plan to spend less on print and major job boards, and more on Web 2.0 elements, such as social and business networking sites, referral programs, blogs, video and virtual worlds. The war for talent and the inability of the job board behemoths to find quality candidates are…

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