Let's face it: there is a reason that there are skills testing sites. If you hire people, at some point you will have to hire for a position about which you know absolutely nothing. Perhaps you're hiring a chief technology…
Ok, it's been a bit more than a month since the last news round up - I blame it on the holiday season. But now I'm working off those Christmas cookies, so here's all the news that's fit to print,…
Despite the belief that growth is good, the last 3 years have been full of challenges for companies were simply struggling to survive. So what about companies that are growing? It's been a while since I've written about the challenges…
I was fortunate enough last week to talk with Peter Clayton of Total Picture Radio about my post a few weeks ago. We talked about the non-death of job boards, Monster, LinkedIn, matching, .jobs, and a bunch of other things.…
I'm a very lucky guy. How so? I have the privilege of working with dozens of job boards and recruiting software companies. I'm not locked into a single site or sector - but I am continually focused on the job board…
Money money money - maybe I should call one of my posts that, eh? Once a week (more or less), I sit down and write about the job board and online recruiting industry. Some of these posts are more popular…
As another year draws to a close, it's time to take a look back at the year that 2011 was (man, that was truly an awkward construction, eh?). As usual, there was much sturm and drang about social media, the…
The big news in the recruiting world last week was the acquisition of Jobs2Web by SuccessFactors, which had only a few days before been gobbled up by SAP. Why Jobs2Web? Well, I think a part of the decision had to be…
It's that time of the month - time to glance back and see if anything really happened in the past 4 weeks. Surprisingly enough, it did. Here's what I noticed: Monster partners with Ogden Newspapers: Monster adds to its bevy…
Back in the day - say, 3 or 4 years ago - if you were looking for a job, you typically visited big job destination sites like Monster, an aggregator like Indeed, a few niche sites, and a few company sites.…