I have been asked this quite a few time over the last week or so which suggests people want to but don't know if they should.  Here are seven reasons why I think you should. 1. ROT (Return on Time) If as a recruiter you are doing your job well, you will be keeping touch with good quality c...

So many people are jumping into Twitter, including businesses, but how many do it with any thought or indeed as part of a strategy.  OK, so many don't really have a strategy but what if they did?  What would a Twitter strategy look like?  Here's a few for starters - people ...

Jobsite are advertising on TV, Monster are 'investing' $130m to relaunch their sites.  Will this be enough for either of them?  Have Monster gone off on a wild job chase or are they on the right track? According to Hitwise traffic for January 2009 across some of the 'job site...

Seth Godin gets to the point in his post Hubris vs. Humility.  Great companies hire great people (Google, Microsoft, GE, Dell etc) but as Godin comments how many can survive away from the big marketing mother ship?  Can an Oracle or SAP software sales person hack it in the real world?�...

Looks like the finalists of this years Blog Factor have been announced over on UK Recruiter Blog so to cast your vote please click here.  I have to be honest though in saying that some of the finalists make it feel just like X Factor i.e. some of the best have been kicked out early on purely b...

....or so the e-mail suggests!  I received an e-mail today with the link below which is even more amusing when you realise who it is from i.e. my old company that was acquired by Jobs.co.uk plc then ripped away from the shareholders through a phoenix process and is now the (only) jewel in the ...

Google are pushing Adwords for recruitment quite hard these days which I am in support of.  But, one of the biggest errors I still see from job boards to (a few) corporates are crap landing pages. So for those that are not sure here's a basic analogy. Boots are advertising, in an Adword, 2...

A couple of weeks ago I was sent some free gifts from King of Shaves in order that I would try them out and then blog about them.  The first item was the new AZOR razor and having NOT cut my throat and still being around to blog (just been busy then illl!!) here are my thoughts. Kind of the iP...

Every time I hear from someone that they are about to implement an ATS it's like hearing from someone who's about to have their first baby.  On one hand you congratulate them and assuming you are already a parent, you 'pity' them not knowing what it is REALLY like! As any paren...

Broadbean have announced that they have been acquired; more info is on Dan's blog. So is this a real good deal for everyone or is there something else to question? I think Dan has done a fantastic job of growing the Broadbean brand and hope that his 25% shareholding allows him a few of life's luxuri...