Why I Write

For the past decade, I’ve worked in business development for media companies, the bulk of which was spent with a Recruitment Marketing Media outlet based in New England. During my tenure, our site outperformed Monster and Hot Jobs Combined (interesting considering the recent combination of HotJobs and Monster), and doubled the performance of CareerBuilder, in terms of state-specific traffic, volume of advertisers, and year over year growth.

The past 5 years, I have been devoted to outreach and education in the recruitment space, having developed the largest employment-related event marketing program in New England and the Gulf Coast markets. Our outreach efforts included training and outreach for both job seekers and employers. Through these programs, I had an opportunity to speak face to face with thousands of job seekers from all walks of life, hearing their frustrations, fears, hopes, and desires in the realm of job hunting. I’ve also had the good fortune to engage with hundreds (maybe thousands) of employers directly in a frank and candid way to hear about the issues facing them with respect to the hiring, employee retention and egagement, and the labor market in general.

I started this blog with the idea of sharing the volumes of qualitative data I was collecting. Data that didn’t fit nicely into any report. Data that when viewed as a whole, provided an amazing perspective for the issues facing both employers and job seekers with respect to the job hunting and recruiting paradigm. Over the past couple years, however, my focus has turned more toward developing new technologies and partnerships to provide employers and job seekers with better tools to be effective in their search for candidates and jobs respectively.

In November of 2009, I decided to step down from my post as Director with the regional employment media company, to work for an industry leader in employer services- providing a range of technology along the talent acquisition continuum from cutting edge recruitment advertising technology, to applicant tracking systems, to background screening, to assessments, to hiring tax credits. As I settle in to this new position, my world is changing from working directly with hiring leaders and candidates, to providing the technological solutions to help employers narrow their search, engage the best qualified candidates, and enhance their selection process to ensure they are making the best hires possible for every position, every time.

The economy is coming back, and it’s going to be a better ride this year than it was last year!

I’m relatively active on the social network sites, and hope to see you there as well:
JasonCBlais on Twitter (my personal handle)
HiringTech on Twitter (my professional handle)
Jason C Blais on LinkedIn

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