How do myths start?
First, something happens – something unusual or notable, something that prompts a person to file it away in their memory. Next, the person tells a story about what happened. Perhaps they exaggerate or embellish – whateve...

JobScore is improved and tweaked all the time - but we’re long overdue for a formal update. This is a good one. Enjoy & Happy Hiring,

Dan Arkind | Co-Founder & CEO | JobScore
Refreshed Employer Interface

We’ve overhauled & updated our...

A few months back, almost two hundred job board owners, operators, and employees took the 2014 Job Board Trends survey. This project, a joint effort of IAEWS and Job Board Doctor, focuses on what is really going on in the job board and online recrui...

CareerBuilder is buying a key recruiting-technology company you may not know well, part of CareerBuilder’s goal of moving from a job board to a more sweeping software provider. (more…)

What is a brand? Well, I think (at least in the online recruiting world) we’ve moved past the original meaning: to burn a mark on an animal. The purpose of this type of branding was to indicate ownership – and prevent theft.
Jump forward a ...

Winter is fading (kind of) and plenty has happened during the past month and a half. So pull out your t-shirts and sandals, and let’s take a look at the latest in the online recruiting and job board world!:

Surprise! Facebook is going after Link...

Do executive recruiters getting results because of their experience or do they have a secret arsenal of tricks give them the edge? Michael Morell, managing partner at Riviera Partners, says it’s both.

“There isn’t a shortage of talent… there

It’s a fine line between cool and fool – just ask BranchOut or any of the dozens of other services that have launched and flamed out during the past several years. You start out as the hip new kid on the block, promising to ‘revoluti...

In the decade he spent recruiting for Apple Computer, Patrick Burke helped build the iPod and iPhone teams. At HireCamp 2014 he shared the story of how 1 tactic sourced 10% of the team that shipped the first iPhone - before anyone knew the super-secre...

Hiring Managers often think of recruiters as magicians who pull out their wand and PRESTO! amazing candidates appear out of nowhere.
In a past life John Vlastelica  was a recruiting leader at Amazon and Expedia. He’s now the Managing Director of Re...

Recruiting involves assessing people by asking questions… but how do you know if you’re asking the right ones? Michael Housman is the Chief Analytics Officer at Evolv, a firm that’s amassed a huge pile of recruiting data - 100 million assessme...

Hey folks – I hope you can join me next week for a look at the top trends in online recruiting for 2014 – and how they will affect the job board industry. This webinar (sponsored by Adicio) will cover a number of important trends, includin...

What’s the meaning of life? Why do fools fall in love? What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Some questions may never be answered … while others can launch you into the next phase of your career. At HireCamp in 2014 Dan Portillo f...

A large percentage of what is billed as ‘new’ is actually just repackaged. For example, think about LinkedIn: is it really the first social recruiting site, or simply a general job board with a (somewhat) visible resume database and a few ...

Being Kelly Blazek has got to be so hard these days. When other Kelly Blazeks have to change their LinkedIn profiles to say they aren’t that Kelly Blazek, you just know things must be nasty for the Kelly who is that Kelly.
The Kelly who is that K...

Google acquired Meebo in 2012 for $100M. Elaine Wherry is one of Meebo’s co-founders and back in 2005 she was tasked with hiring a team of javascript engineers. So she got creative - and had some great success. Last year Elaine shared one o...

I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. I just don’t know which half.
For many marketers — and recruiters — that famous statement attributed to 19th century department store merchant John Wanamaker is still true, even with...

Competition to hire software engineers who can build iPhone and Android mobile apps is intense.  Some of the best and most used mobile apps in the business are built by Xtreme labs (now part of Pivotal Labs) in Toronto, Canada.  Xtreme grew from 10 ...

What would you do if you were asked to build a world class team of sourcers from the ground up? Would you hire fresh new faces or grizzled veterans? What metrics would you put in place to track success? How would you structure things to make sure the t...

Big change is so sudden. Remember how LinkedIn came out of nowhere and revolutionized the recruiting industry? Oh right – they started in 2004. Well, how about Indeed and the rush to PPC? Oops – they launched in 2005.
Maybe big change isn’t ...