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Jobs Numbers Improve, Even As Unemployment Rate Edges Up

The unemployment rate rose for the first time in four months in August, while private sector employers added 67,000 jobs. Overall, the U.S. economy lost 54,000 non-farm jobs during the month, almost all of it attributable to the continuing layoff of temporary census workers. The numbers released by the U.S. Labor Department this morning continue [...]

RecruitingBlogs Founder in New Venture

The company behind recruiter blogging site RecruitingBlogs.com has joined forces with the owner of Recruiter.com to launch a new company and eventually turn the long-dormant site into a multi-featured portal. The announcement was made today via press release and — appropriately — blog posts. Jason Davis, the founder of RecruitingBlogs, has also relinquished his CEO title, [...]

For Recruiting, the Use of the Cloud, and the Crowd, Are Growing

It’s not a new phenomenon, but watch for the use of the cloud, and also the crowd, to grow in the coming months as more vendors vie for your cloud/crowd-recruiting business. Hajo Engelke is trying it out. Engelke has started up an unusual company in Durham, North Carolina. It’s a website where you build your [...]

Navigating the Fast-moving Credit-check Laws

In the next Journal of Corporate Recruiting Leadership, I take a four-part look at credit checks in the employment process. I outline the current federal limitations on an employers? ability to obtain and use information regarding an applicant?s or employee?s credit history. I delineate the current proposed amendments to federal statutes. I look at recently [...]

Wall Street Discounts ADP Job Loss Report

The U.S. lost 10,000 private sector jobs in August, according to the ADP National Employment Report. Released this morning, the report says the loss came from small and medium sized employers (those with up to 499 employees). Large employers added 1,000 workers. Adding to the bad news, the report also adjusted the July numbers down. [...]

More Consolidation in the HR Space: Kenexa Deals for Salary.com

HR software maker Kenexa will have a lot to talk about at its annual Kenexa World Conference later this month in Philadelphia. That?s because Kenexa announced today that it has agreed to acquire compensation specialist Salary.com in an all cash offer for $80 million, or $4.07 per share. According to a press release from Kenexa, [...]

Beyond.com Becomes Network Partner

With the acquisition of HotJobs by Monster, Beyond.com now becomes the U.S. affiliate of The Network, a worldwide group of job boards that distributes employer ads globally. Beyond, itself a network of some 15,000 employment sites, replaces HotJobs. The former Yahoo job board joined The Network in 2004 as the affiliate for the US and [...]

Consumer Confidence Improves, But Jobs Numbers Hard to Predict

It’s numbers week in the U.S. again. The time of the month when the official government employment data makes its appearance, influencing stock markets worldwide, and corporate hiring decisions nationally. Predictions of what Friday’s labor report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics will show are already beginning to appear. A Dow Jones Newswire survey [...]

Coalition Asks Internet Board to Reconsider Its .Jobs Vote

A group calling itself the .JOBS Charter Compliance Coalition is asking the Internet addressing authority to reconsider its decision to allow the use of almost any name in conjunction with a .jobs extension. Composed of several high-profile organizations and companies, the Coalition claims the .jobs expansion and the plan for allocating the new names violates the [...]

Employment Branding: Satisfy the Psychological Contract

In the September Journal of Corporate Recruiting Leadership, I write about branding in a way that, hopefully, you haven?t thought about before. There has been a lot of talk about employment branding recently and how organizations are dedicating more and more of their resources toward their branding intitiatives. In all the noise and in the [...]

Real Time Location Recruiting: Using Emerging Technology to Meet Prospects

Dr John Sullivan and Master Burnett The smart phone and the applications associated with it are radically changing the game for advanced, technically savvy recruiters (others need not read on unless you like shaking your head in disbelief). For those not afraid of evolution and innovation, an emerging class of ?location aware? social networking applications [...]

Prepping Candidates and Taming Hiring Managers

Most candidates — even high-level executives — need to be prepped before the interview. The reason for this is obvious: they all think they?re great interviewees. Most aren?t. Making matters worse, the hiring managers they?ll be meeting think they?re endowed with some special instinct that allows them to accurately assess candidate competency. Most aren?t. Since [...]

Global Recruiting in 2010: Trends and Best Practices

Kevin Wheeler joined us this week to discuss the global trends that have been reshaping the recruiting industry. In this webinar we covered how to effectively recruit across a variety of cultural barriers as well as how new technology and social media is affecting the global marketplace. For more podcasts, webinars, and articles on recruiting [...]

.Jobs Opens RFP Process

The operator of the .jobs domain opened the competition today for the bulk assignment of new Internet addresses. The RFP process announced by Employ Media solicits plans from third parties for the quantity use of addresses incorporating geographic, occupational, industry, dictionary, or combinations of these in conjunction with the .jobs suffix. The 10-page RFP application [...]

Work/Life Balance and Labor Day

Labor Day in the U.S. is almost here. Many other countries also celebrate a labor day, which has always seemed an unusual event to me. We didn?t celebrate such a day at all until Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City. Interestingly, this is a date that coincides well with the world?s entry into [...]

Spherion?s Temp Life Is A Branding Phenom

Have you ever gotten a video resume where the candidate brags about her gorgonzola mashed potatoes? Or another where the candidate declares his faults, one of which happens to be that he lies? Trouble has. His given name is Nick Chiapetta. (Think about it. You’ll get it.) His job is to screen all the video [...]

SEO Manager Wanted. Bots Need Not Apply

If you were looking for an SEO manager, where would you advertise? Even if you follow all the rules Lou Adler laid out, it would be hard to top what the Daily Mail in the UK did. The newspaper embedded an ad in its robots.txt file, a place there is no reason for any human [...]

How to Show You?re Working at Capacity

Is there anyone who could help me build a business case that we are working at capacity? That question came in August 17. I sent it along to Richard Newsom for an answer. Richard is leading a discussion about “Managing Req Loads” at the Fall conference in Florida. He also wrote a killer article for [...]

Monster Closes Deal For HotJobs

HotJobs officially became part of Monster today, completing the $225 million purchase announced last February. The acquisition — and arguably its most important part — makes Monster the exclusive provider of jobs and career services on Yahoo North America for the next three years, with a prime position in the portal’s navigation bar. According to Monster, the [...]

Finding Your Edge as a Corporate Recruiter

The relationship between the corporate recruiter and the hiring manager is not always a good one. True, in some organizations the working relationship between the two is strong. In others, however, there is a schism between them. And in still others, the schism became a chasm. In the latter two situations neither the candidate, the [...]