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Archive for August, 2009

Case Study For Excellent Use of Facebook And Social Media In Recruiting: Hyatt Hotels and Resorts

Since LinkUp launched its Facebook app last week, I’ve spent more time than usual looking at the ways in which companies are leveraging Facebook (and social media in general) in their recruiting efforts. There are some outstanding examples of best practices and companies are really doing some amazing things. One such company is Hyatt Hotels [...]

SimplyHired Asking Job Seekers To Work For No Pay

SimplyHired announced last week that it was making a greater effort to combat the blight on its site in the form of scam jobs, outdated listings, and duplicate job posts. SimplyHired bills itself as the largest job search engine on the web, pulling the vast majority of its jobs from other job boards such as [...]

LinkUp Named a Tech Crunch/Go2Web2.0 Site

As always, I try hard to refrain from self-congratulatory pats on the back, but once in a while I feel the urge to highlight notable, and even at times not-so-notable, achievements of JobDig and LinkUp. Earlier today, LinkUp received inclusion on Tech Crunch’s Go2Web2.0 site as a member of their highly esteemed web 2.0 canon. [...]