Continuing from yesterday’s post, another portion of our recent employer survey examined how companies are using job boards in their recruitment advertising. We asked employers (see yesterday’s post for the data on the mix of employer sizes in the survey) which, if any, of the major job boards they used regularly. If they checked the [...]
We just finished a pretty extensive employer survey on a variety of topics. The response was very high, such that I think the findings are a fairly legitimate representation of not only what employers are doing in their recruiting activities, but also the results they are generating from their various strategies and tactics. I’ll be [...]
…You have to hire and post a cop full-time in your customer service locations. This photo (sorry it’s a little blurry but the photographer didn’t want to cause any unnecessary agitation) was taken in a Comcast customer service facility in Minneapolis. There is a full-time police officer posted there during the hours the location is [...]
Montreal-based Standout Jobs announced that it has raised $2M from INovia Capital and is launching its site today. Standout Jobs helps clients build corporate recruiting sections for their company web site. The service costs $149 per month. The functionality included in the templates (that I assume companies can customize) includes job postings, blogs, photos, [...]
After being fired from his post as the editor of the L.A. Times (the 2nd editor to be fired in the past 15 months), James O’Shea wrote a memo and an email that was distributed internally among the paper. It’s a blistering attack on the industry and summarizes poignantly the fatally flawed thinking that is [...]
The New York Times and a group of venture/private equity firms, including Polaris Venture Partners, True Ventures, and Radar have invested $29.5 million in Automattic, the commercial arm of the popular blog platform WordPress. The New York Times’ stake is reportedly the smallest in this new round, and the other 3 firms invested $1.1 million [...]
Ever since watching Leonard Nimoy’s ‘In Search Of‘ as a kid, I’ve casually followed but been thoroughly entertained by stories related to the topics he explored on the show; Bigfoot, aliens, UFOs, Easter Island, the Loch Ness monster, etc. So I cracked up this morning when I saw the story and photos purporting to show [...]
In another sign of the implosion of the daily newspaper industry, the Orange County Register announced that it was folding its business section into the main section of the daily paper. This basically means that the business-related content will be so weak and anemic that it cannot support its own section. In other words, the [...]
Google Blogoscoped has a great post today about Google’s most recent recruitment advertising campaign currently being run in Seattle. Google wrapped a bus with one of their infamous internal brainstorming whiteboards (real or fake) and included on it a URL that links to a Google recruiting page for their Seattle office.
Brilliant.
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John Sumser has written an interesting post about Personified, apparently a new recruitment ad agency started by CareerBuilder. I had not heard of it and am thankful to have heard about it through John’s blog (another good reason everyone should be reading blogs about their industry). The following are my comments to John that I [...]