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 of...

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...

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 ...

All but given up for dead when it failed to sell itself, Monster today showed there’s life yet in the venerable job board.
The company announced it bought recruiting startups TalentBin and Gozaik. The terms were not disclosed, but whatever the de...

You read about the site whose niche is IT jobs for veterans.
Now, there’s one across the Pond.
Armed for I.T. has information for veterans, employers, colleges, and training programs.
CompTIA, representing the technology industry, is behind the s...

Fifteen months in the making, Florida has consolidated a hodge-podge of workforce boards and career centers into one brand called CareerSource Florida. (more…)

A few weeks back I conducted a webinar (courtesy of RealMatch) on what job seekers want and do. Lots of you attended – and there were many more questions than I had time to answer. Jane Serra of RealMatch carefully collected the questions for ...

LinkedIn made a sort of history today. For the first time since going public three years ago the company’s stock price dropped even though LinkedIn beat Wall Street’s expectations for earnings and revenue, and, for good measure, announced ...

Global job board operator Monster Worldwide reported a stronger finish to 2013 than analysts were expecting, beating their average earnings estimate by 5 cents a share and their revenue estimate by $3.4 million.
The company reported this m0rning it ear...

Recruiters often define wining as closing candidates.

For many, however, closing remains mysterious art… something you get better at through trial & error while managing the hiring process for 100s of people over many years.
Boris Epstein (@boz...

Despite missing on earnings, investors gave Dice Holdings a bye this morning, liking the revenue numbers it posted for the fourth quarter of 2013 as well as what the company sees for this year.
Some slowing in the niche job board company’s securi...

The economy is slowly but steadily rebounding (more or less), and this seems to be driving more activity of all types in the online recruiting space. Let’s see what’s happening!:

Dice starts a buy-back: Dice Holdings, Inc. today announc...

Since I began working in the job board industry in 1997, I’ve heard many discussions about pay for performance {PFP} (as opposed to pay to post or pay to access resumes). At one point, CareerBuilder launched a PFP service, but over time it disap...

By now you’ve crawled out from the piles of emails and messages accumulated during the holiday break (I hope), so it’s a great time to talk about buying and selling. As recent headlines have shown, there is still money to be made in the jo...

There’s a new job board for the hiring of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics professions.
The Women of STEM job board postings are part of a larger group of sites called TheJobNetwork.

The food and drink industry has a new job board aimed at the U.S., UK, and the rest of Europe. (more…)

The U.S. organization Enable America has launched a jobs board.
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