Having a professional brand is not a new concept for job hunters. It’s the image you present to potential employers wherever you are. In a competitive job market, it’s essential to build your own professional brand so that you will stand out from the rest of the pack and build a consistent reputation. Your brand will also help people remember who you are so that when they…

The time has come to control content, so says Twitter. This month Twitter will be adding new fields to tweet structures on return API calls. What does this mean? It means nothing to 99% of the twitter world however this change will inevitably effect how corporate entities use twitter and it will undoubtedly effect how recruiters, recruitment organizations (namely the…

So as the world turns so goes LinkedIn and so goes your profile links. Have you noticed that you can no longer add links to your LinkedIn profile?

I am not sure how I feel about this yet. Although there are…

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LinkedIn has made news in the last few weeks in a number of stories, some good and some bad (depending on your perception)

I wanted to post this to the group because I think this move shows some value to the corporate groups that subscribe to LinkedIn.

What are your thoughts? Is LinkedIn continuing to head in the right direction?

Story…

LinkedIn is expanding its diversity offering by teaming up with the Professional Diversity…

Facebook today unveiled a few new tools with Social Graph leading the way as the most innovative and potentially the …

TrueAbility announced today that it closed an early-stage seed round to continue evolving their flagship product.  Investors signaled their confidence in company founders and TrueAbility's product AbilityScreen, seeing it as an innovative means of improving the technical recruiting process, and committed $750,000 towards that…

A new change for LinkedIn profiles is coming to a desktop near you starting TODAY! 12-11-12. Take a look at a recent email I received form LinkedIn regarding the changes below.

Now before we all get into a battle with LinkedIn "Doing their own thing" it's important to realize that the services are not going away. The presentation will be different and the services that connect you to the services will be different. That being said, it does look like you will need to connect the new…

This is classic. I needed to post this. Enjoy your holiday season.…

Or did he...

I'll start by saying that I am not an astrologer nor do I understand the first thing outside of the fact that I am a Virgo and that Virgo begins with a V.

I attended a wedding this past weekend and was introduced to a family members "friend". He was a bit older most likely in his 80's.  To start a conversation he asked what I do for a living. I kept it simple and told him that I am a recruiter.

The rest of the night was history as…

A friend of mine forwarded me this article from Yahoo on McDonald's. It's interesting because he said "check out this video from Micky D's. I guess we have to stop saying would you like fries with that and ask if they want an award for cracking eggs...."

Funny thing is that he is unemployed.... Even funnier the people in the video…

Not sure if you have noticed but Talent Communities have been disgustingly sitting at the top of recruitment conversations over the last 12 months. Well, its been longer than that, but the last 12 months has proven to show some return. We decided to bring in someone that does this for a living to share some tactical strategy with the community.…

Tomorrow 11/17/2011 at 2:00 PM RecruitingBlogs will be hosting:

6 Power Boolean Searches and 6 Recruiting Automation Tools (ALL FREE)

We will cover: (No Theory Just Tactical, Real solutions)

• 6 little known / used Boolean powersearches
• 6 completely free and efficient tools that can be used for recruiting
• 1 Very cool free tool that will…