We were very pleased to be able to host a ’sold-out’ event for HR professionals and recruiters on Monday night featuring Jason Alba. For those who may not be familiar with Jason, he is the founder and CEO of JibberJobber, a ‘reverse applicant tracking system (ATS)’ for jobseekers. He is also a highly regarded commentor [...]
It’s a rare and interesting phenomena when two very separate topics that I follow closely on this blog are contained in a single news story. It happened today with a daily newspaper and their internal policies regarding smoking. The Tribune Co. announced that they are abandoning their policy of a $100 per month penalty or [...]
Buried deep in this month’s Harper’s Index was a startling factoid:
Chances that a story in a British newspaper is a reprinted or rewritten press release: 3 in 5
While developments in the European media world often migrate to the U.S., I sincerely hope this isn’t one of them. Though given the delapidated state of U.S. [...]
It was announced today that Jobster raised another $7M in VC funding from existing investors including Ignition Partners, Mayfield Fund, Reed Elsevier Ventures, and Trinity Ventures. The funding brings the total amount of venture capital invested in the company to a whopping $55M, $18M of which was raised in 2006. No information was released about [...]
In an excellent article this week (Lexington|Help Not Wanted), The Economist argues that the absurdly low cap on H1B visas is proving to be devastating to the U.S. economy. Allowing only 85,000 qualified immigrants to enter the country per year to start companies, practice medicine, advance science, etc. makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. As the [...]
Once again, there are too many stories piling up on my ‘blog ideas’ list, so I have to resort to a list of one-liners and links to the full stories. I know it’s a little lame and doesn’t make for a great read, but it’s late in the day on a Monday, so…
1) Lee Enterprises [...]
It’s been a humbling experience trying to keep up with G.L. - fellow JobDig blogger and critically acclaimed author of What Would Dad Say (WWDS). His daily traffic numbers crush mine, as do his Technorati rank and authority, his Career 100 rank, and his RSS subscribers. An already sizable lead will be infinitely expanded when [...]
If it’s not already, YouTube may eventually end up being recognized as the most entertaining web company of our era. If you’re at all into the web and SEO, you may have already seen this video, but if you haven’t watch it. Pretty amusing.
Tags: SEO, Search Engine Optimization, Rapping, How Many Words [...]
The annual screening of the British Television Advertising Awards reminds me every year of not only how phenomenal good advertising can be, but also of the somewhat depressing fact that most U.S. advertising is excruciatingly boring and entirely uninspired. As I sit in the Walker Art Center’s theater each December and watch about 90 minutes [...]
JobDig launched in Amarillo, Texas this week, with our first print edition hitting the streets on Monday morning.
Tags: Texas, JobDig, Multimedia Recruitment Advertising, Multi-channel recruitemtn advertising, Free Weekly Jobs Papers, Who Will Buy The Employment Guide?