The final two months of 2008 resulted in a precipitous decline in job posting activity on our site as the economy began to tumble off the cliff, to paraphrase Warren Buffett’s sentiments. Since the beginning of 2009, I’ve been focusing my attention on identifying and developing new programs and services that will add value to the users of our company’s web service- namely HR professionals, small business owners and managers, recruiters, and job seekers- in [...]
Upon reading this internal communication, I realized just how much negative press has been devoted to exposing the dark underbelly of corporate greed through the acquisition of private and revealing emails. Rarely does one encounter a news bit that begins with, “Our station has acquired a copy of the internal email…”, and is followed by a feel-good or uplifting story. Normally, this type of exposure ends in a story about some type of insidious and [...]
Why would you want to keep a two billion dollar industry a secret? I hope the answer is that no one would want to, but that sometimes these things happen. The aerospace and aviation industry represents a two billion dollar piece of the Vermont economy, and employs thousands of Vermont residents…who knew. In a previous life, part of my job was (this statement has been revised since I have changed employers) to identify and develop [...]
I have been bombarded over the past few months by email solicitations to attend presentations or webinars, buy books, and contract consulting services from “leading social media experts”. As someone who regularly spends time in the Social Media world, I’ve learned just enough to know when people are selling me snake oil. I’ve also gained just enough insight to know which questions to ask, and to identify very questionable proclamations made by these s0-called experts. [...]
Sent to me by Robert Ayers, Senior Acct Mgr for JobsInME, from Peter Weddle’s recent newsletter: The Scourge of Bureaucratic Correctness There is today a scourge of bland communication oppressing the performance of corporate and staffing firm recruiting teams. While social media have captured their imagination, the vast majority of recruiters continue to rely on job postings-placed on commercial job boards and in the Career area on their own sites-to reach and reel in top [...]