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I'm On The Recruiting Animal Show Tomorrow

Tomorrow, I will be on the Recruiting Animal Show. I'll be talking about RecruitingBlogs.com, The Fordyce Letter, The Recruiting Blogosphere, Domain Names, Recruiting.com and anything else Mr. Animal wants to talk about.

I hope you can dial in and join the… Continue

Added by Slouch on September 4, 2007 at 10:36am — No Comments

Talent Should Not Complain

Hank, A guy like you will always be found by a good recruiter. Nothing now you can do about it.

All this reminds me of the post I referenced about Peter the SimplyHired Software Engineer who is not happy these days with the amount of calls he is getting at work from… Continue

Added by Slouch on August 30, 2007 at 11:00pm — 3 Comments

Remember The Recruiting Wall Of Fame?

I was doing something yesterday and all of a sudden, I remembered. Do you? Look at how old some of the branding on that is. I think i said it would stay live for 10 years or something like that. I need to check.

Added by Slouch on August 30, 2007 at 10:08am — 1 Comment

It's a good problem to have

There is a guy named Peter Chang who is a lead software engineer at SimplyHired. He left an interesting question on LinkedIn. Basically, he is getting called all of the time by recruiters looking to recruit him. It's wasting valuable time and he is not happy because some of the recruiters are calling him… Continue

Added by Slouch on August 28, 2007 at 3:18pm — No Comments

The New And Improved Cheez Factory

When I started blogging in 2003, there was not a whole hell of a lot of choices out there when it came to reading Recruiting Related Blogs. That changed real quick and it did not take long. One of the guys who started and really has not stopped is Joel Cheesman who has a blog called Cheezhead

Yesterday Joel launched a redesign of his site and added…

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Added by Slouch on August 27, 2007 at 11:52am — 1 Comment

Dave Lefkow Update

From Dave Lefkow - The Recruiting Bacon King:

"(at this point all I can say is Craig's List rocks for small businesses, my cost per hire so far is less than $25 and my quality of hire is stupendous)"

Read the article here

Added by Slouch on August 23, 2007 at 11:58pm — No Comments

Jim Durbin Gets His First Blog Sponsor

Now we're talking.

Added by Slouch on August 20, 2007 at 11:15am — 2 Comments

Jim Stroud Sells His Blog

Congrats to Jim Stroud who says here that he reached a deal with the mystery organization. Jim says he will release more info later.

This is great and I bet we will see more of this sort of thing in the years to follow.

Good work Jim

Added by Slouch on August 19, 2007 at 10:43pm — 3 Comments

Just Hit 500 members on RecruitingBlogs.com

See Here

Added by Slouch on August 16, 2007 at 1:00pm — 3 Comments

Gerry Crispin Rants Much Better Than He Plays JJ

Gerry Crispin who is coming to Toronto soon, talks about Video Resumes and as a result, will sleep well tonight. Sweet Dreams Gerry.

Added by Slouch on August 15, 2007 at 9:26pm — No Comments

First week with Google Analytics on RecruitingBlogs.com

I put google analytics on RecruitingBlogs.com at the beginning of this week. The following are stats from the last 4 days.

1,600 Visits…

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Added by Slouch on August 10, 2007 at 3:06pm — 2 Comments

Recruiting Related Ning Sites

I am amazed at how many Recruiting Related Ning Sites have popped up lately. If you have one, please let me know. I would like to do two things.

1. Get a listing here on RecruitingBlogs.com of them
2. Pick up the feed from them and mash them all together so I can offer up one feed.

Thanks

Added by Slouch on August 9, 2007 at 1:44pm — 5 Comments

It's a Rat Race I Tell Ya

I liked this post. It's a funny business.

JR Fent

Added by Slouch on August 3, 2007 at 11:43pm — 3 Comments

RecruitingBlogs.com Maintenance Alert

RecruitingBlogs.com will be in maintenance mode
from 6:00am PDT - 9:00am PDT Saturday August 4. Ning has some updates
to do throughout the network.

Added by Slouch on August 3, 2007 at 11:05pm — No Comments

A Press Release From The Recruiting Animal and Myself

Today John Sumser wrote a post on interbiznet and The Recruiting Animal and myself have decided to issue a joint press release in response.

Sumser Stole My Schtick



JD: Hey, Animal, did you see what Sumser wrote today?

Animal: Who's Sumser?

JD: You know, the guy…

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Added by Slouch on August 2, 2007 at 10:17am — No Comments

Guy Who Has A Recruiting Blog Gets A Job

I have some exciting personal news to share today. Last week I accepted an offer from Dave Manaster to come join ERE and help build the Fordyce Letter.

This is an incredible opportunity for me. I really like the recruiting business and I really like it from a third party recruiter’s perspective. I started subscribing to the Fordyce Letter almost 10…

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Added by Slouch on July 30, 2007 at 12:14am — 22 Comments

Ning Networks

This is an interesting post on the Ning Network Creators Page. It gives some insight into what is going on over there. (RecruitingBlogs.com runs on Ning for those of you who did not know this)

Added by Slouch on July 27, 2007 at 11:17am — 3 Comments

Good Recruiting and Job Domain Names Have Value

Lately, I have been keeping the domain name info off the main page here and putting it in the domain name group I set up but I figured this is too good to only share with the 13 people who are members of that group.

I just saw that Resume.com sold for $300k

Added by Slouch on July 25, 2007 at 9:31pm — 1 Comment