On the Radar: Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Simple. You enter your name and your blogs web address. We search google and find links to your blog. We calculate your ego ranking. We show you where your blogs appear in the search engines. Did we mention that we can search in Yahoo, MSN, del.icio.us and Technorati too? Got more than one blog…

As part of their Talent Acquisition Learning Track, The Human Capital Institute will be producing an hour-long webcast on February 14th, 2008 from 1:00 - 2:00PM ET. I will be presenting Internet Recruiting 2.0 - The Flow of Information. The webcast is sponsored by job search engine Trovix and is free to…

On the Radar: Friday, February 8th, 2008

Off the WRAL Local Tech Wire:

Cisco Looks to Train 360,000 Engineers

Cisco’s visionary John Chambers foresees global demand for high-speed networking, video conferencing and other net technologies exploding over the next few years. And the networking giant’s chairman/CEO is ramping up training efforts to meet expected need for engineers to install, maintain and run…

On the Radar: Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Interesting read in the Minnesota Daily:

The bubble of social networks is starting to burst.

Research released from Internet research firm ComScore Jan. 23 confirmed that the top two social networks, Facebook and MySpace, both saw their traffic decline by double-digit percents.

The research, conducted in November and December, surveyed browsing habits of more…

On the Radar: Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

From InformationWeek:

In keeping with its mandate to gather intelligence, the CIA is watching YouTube.

U.S. spies, now under the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), are looking increasingly online for intelligence; they have become major consumers of social media.

"We're looking at YouTube, which carries some unique and honest-to-goodness intelligence," said Doug…

On the Radar: Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

As part of their Talent Acquisition Learning Track, The Human Capital Institute will be producing an hour-long webcast on February 14th, 2008 from 1:00 - 2:00PM ET. I will be presenting Internet Recruiting 2.0 - The Flow of Information. The webcast is sponsored by job search engine…

On the Radar: Monday, February 4th, 2008

On the heels of last week's report that Monster's North American modest growth of 3% was in sharp contrast to international growth of 59%...

US RECRUITING website Monster has said that it plans to acquire in midyear 2008 the remaining 55 per cent stake in ChinaHR that it doesn't already…

And here we go again with a new month and this week's round-up from the recruiting industry’s group blogs, portals and individual archives posted on Recruiting.com...



Browse the archives of "That was the week that was..."…

On the Radar: Friday, February 1st, 2008

Compliments of AIRS:

During 2008, the directory will be distributed free of charge to recruiting professionals from 100 percent of the Fortune 500, in every major industry, including the 250 largest U.S. hospitals and 150 largest federal agencies. Indexed by vertical industries, the directory is available in print or can be accessed online in a searchable…

On the Radar: Thursday, January 31st, 2008

In BusinessWeek:

In its quest for members, the new online job search site managed to create a spam snowball and gain a lot of (not always positive) attention

Great article, worth the…

On the Radar: Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

According to CentreDaily.com:

CareerTours a Web 2.0 recruiting tool that allows career seekers to "experience" their next career, announces the launch of over 1,000 new job boards. The company, which launched in 2007, features interactive video postings and a unique viral marketing system that connects the right careers with the right…

Phone Lookup by Name Includes: Phone number, address, phone type, carrier & more for cell phones, unlisted & un-published numbers, internet (VOIP), and other phone types. Phone Lookup also includes the…

On the Radar: Friday, Januray 25th, 2008

Check out the Internet Public Library for a truly comprehensive list of prominent organizations and associations. While you're there, "grok it!"

On the Radar: Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Courtesy of Lonnie McRorey, a custom search engine for extracting resumes using Google. For an example of software engineers in California, click here.

Imperfect on most searches but helpful for the boolean-challenged, particularly for IT and engineering.

What do you think?

On the Radar: Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Courtesy of Stefan Kiss on Edghunt.com:

Because keeping up to date with RSS is easier than constantly opening into LinkedIn.

Check out these full RSS feeds.

• Administration
• Business Operations
• Career and Education
• Finance and Accounting
• Government and…

On the Radar: Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

From Shannon Seery Gude on EXCERL8ion:

How is it done? Leveraging Google’s ability to pull back search results from a specific URL, use the following methos to build a search string to find candidate profiles: keyword (such as a name, company, location etc) and then the profile URL. For example, all profiles on LinkedIn start with the URL: www.linkedin.com/pub or…

On the Radar: Monday, January 21st, 2008

Reported on CNET Networks:

Social networking costs UK businesses £6.5bn a year, according to a poll conducted by Global Secure Systems and Infosec 2008.

The poll was conducted "amongst 776 office workers, who admitted to spending at least 30 minutes a day visiting social networking sites whilst at work", according to their press release. "The end result is…