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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 [...]
How do you keep up with change? I can tell you that for me it is not as easy as it used to be. When I look around at the projects going on at TempWorks, I realize I have to sprint faster than ever to [...]
How many resumes do you receive a day? Twenty? Fifty? Two hundred? How nice would it be to interview the candidate without actually interviewing the candidate? To Jerry Albright, founder of Verbal Summary, the answer is simple: real conversations. The Indiana native has been in the [...]
“Don’t you have, uh…ray guns? Show me a piece of future technology.” – Doctor Silberman, “The Terminator” Okay, doctor. Let’s do that. While the latest web-based applicant tracking software systems don’t have any ray guns, they do have a lot of cool features that will [...]
How many of you are bored with regular reality? Who wouldn’t like to have their reality augmented? No, I’m not talking about designer drugs, I’m talking about Augmented Reality technology. Imagine you are looking for a job. You live very close to downtown and really [...]
This is Part Two of a two-part article featuring TalentRooster, a video resume service. Part One focused on David DeCapua, the founder of TalentRooster, and the benefits of using his video resume service. This part will focus on David’s response to the naysayers. If you Google ‘video resumes’ [...]
Everybody hates meetings. History is littered with stories of meetings from hell, and you’ve probably been in one of them. So what can you do? Take your meetings offline. There are many online meeting websites, but none of them have commercials as funny as Join.me. [...]
Today, 10:30am EST here on Staffing Talk. How should search work for the staffing and recruiting websites? How to respect privacy yet get people the information they want? What is the role of mobile search in staffing – and how are the big dogs, Apple [...]
This has been a dream fulfilled for me to see Staffing Talk morph from a personal blog to a true staffing industry news site over the last couple months. Editor Paul Phipps and his writers have done a great job. However that leaves those of you [...]
At TempWorks we spend a lot of time arguing about the future of mobile apps for recruiters and staffing companies and there is no sign that those arguments are coming to a close anytime soon. In this last Monday’s Staffing Talk Show video you get [...]
Five medical centers in California brace for a two-day union strike [Wall Street Journal] Monster employer survey finds demand for engineering jobs is higher in 2013 [Fort Mill Times] Rising CEO confidence indicated by a variety of surveys and indexes, suggesting a boost in executive recruiting [Bloomberg] [...]
It’s not often that I get the opportunity to chat with one of the many talented developers here at TempWorks (they’re always so busy working on the next new and exciting tech project), but when I do I always come away thinking we just mentally [...]
(This post was originally published July 2, 2009.) Amazon is reinventing the book industry with its Kindle product and cannibalizing its own printed book market along the way. You should be thinking the same way about your recruitment company. As much as I’ve been a [...]
I don’t know if it’s because it’s officially blockbuster season and a barrage of superhero movies are lining up, or if I just had too much fun doing the Classic WWF Wrestler post, but today I want to debate which superhero would make the best [...]
What I’ve learned from the media about job-seeking Millennials is pretty unflattering. Apparently, we don’t have a clue how to interview (let alone how to dress for the occasion), and we exhibit all kinds of casual, oddball behavior in professional contexts. Yet paradoxically, the internet [...]
