Archive for September, 2009
Win The View – Interview Success
I was in Annapolis, Maryland last week at a resume writers conference and met Ken Diamond. Ken is a seasoned recruiter and has created Win The View based on systems he developed as he helped his candidates prepare for interviews.
Ken is a nice guy… but what was more impressive is the amount of interest he [...]
HireVue 3.0
HireVue, the recruiting industry’s first, and leading, Internet-based employer driven video interviewing solution, has a redesign – and lots of news. HireVue recently announced its integration with Taleo (Taleo customers can include live and virtual HireVue video interviews in their hiring), Human Resources Executive Magazine just named HireVue the HR Product of the Year, and a variety of new companies from diverse industries like Dish Network, CDW and Murphy Oil are now using HireVue for interviewing.
United We Work
UnitedWeWork.org is a way for small and medium sized companies, and job seekers, to connect via the AllianceQ network.
MonsterCollege
Founded back in the old days, 1988, one of the first college job sites started by sending faxes to college career offices. As the Internet grew, JobTRAK did, too, eventually becoming a full service college site providing job and internship listings, a college recruiting system, and a communications system to career offices around the country.
JobTRAK was [...]
Koda.us
Koda.us, the social recruiting start-up, completed $3 million in angel investing last month. For both job seekers and employers, Koda provides an interesting twist on social media and social recruiting hiring.
Like Facebook it’s friendly – photos, info about yourself, videos, if you want to upload one. Like LinkedIn, users can connect with companies, view open jobs, and apply [...]
AllianceQ Fortune 500 Recruiting
AllianceQ is a group of Fortune 500 companies that have collaborated to create a pool of job candidates that members can access. Job seekers who register with AllianceQ are then accessed, confidentially, by the companies. There are a lot of major employers on the AllianceQ roster, including Starbucks, ADP, Bank of America, AT&T, Bayer, Siemens, Intuit, Mercer, and Oracle, for [...]
Career Tools on Job Boards
As hiring slips away from the job boards to LinkedIn, niche job sites, social media, company web sites (direct and via the job seach engines), the job boards are continuing to move into content, adding tools, and expanding resources, to help job seekers determine career paths and job options, and to cement their user base.
New Job Search iPhone App
Job search engine LinkUp.com’s app searches for jobs on company web sites by keyword, location, company, and category.
Holiday Hiring Projections
Challenger, Gray & Christmas has released their projections for seasonal hiring for this year’s holiday season. Holiday hiring might be up a bit, but that’s only because 2008 was the worst year for seasonal jobs since 1989.
“Holiday hiring might improve slightly over last year, but only because 2008 saw the lowest seasonal employment growth in [...]
Glassdoor Adds Interviews
Glassdoor.com, the company research and review site, where you can get the inside scoop on companies and salaries from the people who work there, has just added interview information to the mix. Glassdoor’s new Interviews section enables job seekers to search for interviews by job title or company. From an overall perspective, you’ll see most active [...]
