Man, time flies when you're blogging. It's been a while since the last news roundup, and a few things have happened. Like: Monster's for sale? Or not?: Well, I don't know. But rumor (and Sal Iannuzzi) has it that the…
Gerry Crispin and Mark Mehler have been conducting the landmark CareerXRoads Source of Hire survey for over a decade. In my mind, that's useful data. They've just come out with the 2012 edition, and it's absolutely worth a look. The…
Once a week (more or less), I sit down and write about the job board and online recruiting industry. Some of these posts are more popular than others (and honestly, some are complete duds). As it's almost the end of…
The big news in the recruiting world last week was the acquisition of Jobs2Web by SuccessFactors, which had only a few days before been gobbled up by SAP. Why Jobs2Web? Well, I think a part of the decision had to be…
Back in the day - say, 3 or 4 years ago - if you were looking for a job, you typically visited a big job board like Monster, an aggregator like Indeed, a few niche sites, and a few company…
Well, folks, it's official - Indeed is letting anyone and everyone search their resume database. It's free - for now. Sound familiar? It does to me - after all, Indeed used the same playbook during their initial launch: they allowed…
One problem with the internet in general and social media in particular is that you have fewer reasons to leave the office. After all, if I'm swapping Tweets with @Animal or @HRMargo all day, do I really want to spend…
If you're part of the 97% of the US population with a cell phone, you most likely use it for more than phoning. And if you're part of the burgeoning subset with an iPhone, Android, or other smartphone, I can…
This may be heresy - but sometimes I think more communication isn't necessarily better. To wit: here in the U.S. Midwest, we are experiencing - depending on your news source - an unprecedented number of floods, a stunning increase in…
Imagine that you're one of the thousands of job boards that provided Indeed with job postings from its inception. Imagine that in addition to providing those jobs (which turned Indeed into the most visited job site on the web), you…