By Vanessa Dennis - Both Monster and CareerBuilder, two of the biggest job boards in the nation, have announced that they are purchasing coveted Super Bowl air time.
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1. Impact of Recession on Search Firms 2. Performance reviews are bogus (and this is why) 3. Should Job Seekers Post Their Resumes On-line? (Umm… yeah) 4. Industry stats are quoting a click [...]
By Vanessa Dennis - While most people are celebrating the holidays with family and co-workers this month, Taleo, the provider of talent management software, has little reason to rejoice.
The company has experienced a steady string of setbacks, beginning with their Q3 financial call and continuing with a bevy of lawsuits that threaten to rattle the core of this globally renowned company.
Let's take a look at the timeline of events and hear an expert's advice on what this means for the software giant in the long run.
By Vanessa Dennis - JobCompass is a new application for the iPhone that claims to be the only application that searches millions of jobs and plots them on a map in relation to your location.
By Blake Helppie - A few weeks ago Steve Levitt, the co-author of Freakonomics, blogged about a recent study published by our company, JobApp Network, on how web-only applicant tracking, talent acquisition and hiring management systems may be unwittingly hampering diversity at hourly employers, particularly in retail and restaurants.
Rarely have I seen such a torrent of controversy unleashed by what was originally intended to be just another quarterly white paper. Academics were asking questions and bloggers revived a largely dormant Digital Divide discussion. I think the last time that the Digital Divide generated any real political or economic debate was somewhere around the time that I watched Detroit Rock City in theater (voted the worst movie of 1999 by the other 6 people who actually watched it).
Recently, I’ve written about layoffs and downsizing because I expect massive layoffs will continue into 2009. With sales down, companies are cutting expenses and people are losing their jobs. (I...
First Thursday presents…
Layoffs, Salaries and Sex in Second Life
In this episode: Karen is all doom and gloom about the economy, while Jim looks for the silver lining for Recruiters suffering from the econoclypse (get it? like the apocolypse?); by referring them to different industries to recruit for. Or at least Jim tries to, Karen won’t [...]
