Recruitment advertising in the UK crept up in January, according to the born Job Advertising Index, but only just. The index experienced only a one point rise, up to 90 points from 89 points in December. Surprised? I was.

I’d expected to see a far more significant…

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…

A recent article I read .

A REAL ESTATE SALESMAN AND HIS BOSS

A Real Estate Salesman had just closed his first deal, only to discover that the piece of land he had sold was completely under water.

“That customer’s going to come back here pretty mad,” he said to his boss. “Should I give him his money back?”

“Money back?” roared the boss. “What kind of a Salesman are you!?! Get out there and sell him a houseboat!”

SOURCE:…

I have a contract position open in Memphis, TN, for a RedPrairie WMS contractor with Oracle 8i, 9i or 10G DB experience and PL/SQL. Please let me know if you have anyone that would be interested in hearing about this position. Thank you.

The latest born podcast is out now. Digital recruiting news this week: TMP releases an employer branding whitepaper, we interview Tim Elkington (Enhance Media) and Monster’s US index takes a tumble.

All this news, and more, this week on…

This is a list of my current "hot jobs" open here in the Houston area as of February 6th, 2008. Feel free to contact me directly about these to discuss more in detail.

Kent Sims - Recruiting Supervisor

RSA

kent.sims@rsacorp.com

CONTRACT OPENINGS

Technical Writer with Oil Drilling experience (3 months, possibly longer)

.NET / C# Developer (open ended - long term/perm conversion possible)

CMVC/ClearCase…

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A hearty welcome to all my friends from my Linkedin Network, SixDegreesfromDave.com who were kind enough to take my suggestion and visit RecruitingBlogs.com today and joined.

I was just mentioning to Jason (”Jay Dee”) Davis that it was…

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

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I want to say thanks to Mark Newman who is the CEO of HireVue. Mark has stepped up as the first sponsor (hopefully not the last) for a networking party RecruitingBlogs.com is putting on at the MGM February 28th. It will be in a…

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…

Does anyone have any ideas that they have implemented and found to be successful in sourcing and qualifying candidates for contract opportunities? My focus is IT based jobs any suggestions you may have would be welcomed.

The Hiring Sense recently pointed me to an excellent Career Journal article - -…

Hi, and first of all thanks for your time.

Could you recommend someone for:

1) Medicinal Chemistry, 2)InVivo and 3) InVitro - all roles in Bangalore, India???

On behalf of BMS India we are looking for candidates that could very soon fill the following roles:

1) Head of Medicinal Chemistry (International experience is preferable)**

2) Head of InVivo Screening

3) Head of InVitro Biology

This is a great opportunity to build a team at this one-of-a-kind…

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

(720) 733-2022

Andrew Banever is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of JobTarget, a service many recruiters have used without knowing they have…