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“The world’s first dedicated search engine to harness the power of Twitter for job hunting.” That quote comes from London-based TwitJobSearch when describing themselves. To be honest, I hadn’t heard of them until their business development manager, Samuel Lau (@ChairmanSam), began to follow me on [...]
The name change of Peopleclick Authoria to Peoplefluent conveniently comes at the same time the talent management company began promoting a new iPad application. Peoplefluent provides software for talent management, recruiting, vendor management and workforce compliance. The name change is to create a “vision-driven brand,” [...]
Here’s the latest in “thinking outside the box”: Lord Reid of Cardowan, the Former Home Secretary of the UK, has challenged the public sector to start hiring computer hackers. The idea is to develop a world-class security force against skilled hackers who tend toward the [...]
About a month ago, a friend of mine on Twitter spent the entire day threatening to run over a biker who got in her way. It was a good thing she wasn’t job hunting at the time. The Social Intelligence Corporation doesn’t have the same [...]
LinkedIn flexed it muscles today by shutting down API access to developers who were violating services. This includes BranchOut, BeKnown, Visible.me, Daxtra, Mixtent and CRM-Gadget. According to TechCrunch, BranchOut, a social networking app for Facebook, was planning to create a premium enterprise recruiting search tool that would [...]
“Sending resumes just NOT working?” That’s what San Francisco-based One Page Company is asking. It’s a pretty good line for direct response, given the U.S. unemployment figures lately. But it’s also a pretty good question. The One Page Company and its flagship product, the 1-Page [...]
A cartoon example of true genius: Fred Flintstone punches out from his shift at the quarry. He holds out a flat piece of stone (the time card) and it’s strategically bitten by a trained dinosaur (the time clock). If nothing else this shows that for [...]
This may come as a shock to those of you who’ve read my critiques of certain social networking platforms (BranchOut ring a bell?), but one somehow managed to escape my poisoned pen. Incredibly, I managed to find virtually no fault with it. As the story [...]
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that’s the case, LinkedIn should be reveling in it, for once again, another social networking site is trying to compete for job seekers’ affections. On Monday, the omnipresent job board Monster Worldwide launched a professional social [...]
RecruitingBlogs.com sold for $95,000 to Noel Cocca and Tim Spagnola from RecruitingDaily.com on June 21. Its founder, Jason Davis of Toronto, literally announced the winners of the auction just minutes ago. With over 28,000 members, RecruitingBlogs.com has been a top site since 2007 for recruiters [...]
Here’s further proof that getting big means you’re a bigger target. Automatic Data Processing Inc. (ADP) reported a data breach, or “system intrusion,” at Workscape, a recently-acquired subsidiary that provides benefits administration, performance management and compensation planning among ADP’s estimated 550,000 clients. In non-corporate-speak, ADP [...]
Let’s say you’re a business owner or manager. An employee calls in sick at 8:00 a.m. for a shift that starts in an hour. What are you going to do? Get another employee to come in? Not likely. Be shorthanded for the day? More likely. [...]
LinkedIn’s latest competitor, Viadeo, is currently the world’s second-largest professional networking site. Chances are, you’re asking, “Another social networking tool? Who the hell is Viadeo? I’ve never heard of them before.” The answer to that question is probably because Viadeo’s presence has been mainly overseas. Viadeo [...]
LinkedIn? Old school. That’s what BranchOut would like you to think. Many Facebook aficionados have turned to BranchOut when it comes to job and internship hunting, networking and recruitment. Unlike your profile page, BranchOut only shows the user’s work history, education and positive recommendations. Your embarrassing [...]
Robert McGovern, chairman and CEO of Jobfox, may want you to believe he’s the new kid on the block. Actually, he’s the former CEO of CareerBuilder and founded what is now Jobfox as Market10, Inc. in 2005. But its emphasis on social-media-style interaction, and the [...]
Recently, Skip Freeman claimed ZoomInfo is currently the second-most used website behind LinkedIn for professional networking and lead generation. I don’t know if that’s true. But there seems to be quite a lot to like about ZoomInfo. One difference between ZoomInfo and any other business-related networking [...]
Like a couple of sumo wrestlers squaring off, Facebook and Google are at it again. News outlet “Daily Beast” uncovered a smear campaign against Google, started by Facebook, to publish negative articles on the company’s privacy policies. Burson-Marsteller, a PR firm notorious for taking on [...]
This is not an advertisement. This is a true story about saving real money. In a previous life, I was an IT Manager for a 35-branch staffing agency. We made it through the roughest financial periods by pulling together and figuring out ways to run [...]
Naked man runs for the woods at a music festival and falls, fractures his spinal column and the staff move him from the woods. The naked man was Daniel Weaver, of Hudson, N.Y., who was paralyzed from the chest down during last summer’s All Good [...]
Wouldn’t it be great to get a call from someone who wants you? An employer who invites you to leave your present career position and go work for them? It’s fun to do the recruiting, but it would also be nice to be the one [...]
How can a staffing firm engage its employees, raise its profile and help make its community a more vibrant place? Teaming up with nonprofits is one way. Partnerships between staffing firms and nonprofits can take many forms. Sometimes a staffing firm works with one nonprofit, [...]
“Neither candidates, nor companies, really know exactly what they want,” opines Bob Norton, a former business analyst turned information systems search and placement firm founder. “From the client side, it’s figuring out the business problem they have, not the laundry list of skills they think [...]
How do you know how good the company is that you are using to perform background checks? If you use a company that has botched the job bad enough you might hear from the authorities, and/or see your company on the evening news. That’s what [...]
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| Trueblue, Inc. Co | 15.63 | ||||
| Volt Info Sci Inc | 7.19 |
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