Gerry Crispin and Mark Mehler of CareerXRoads have produced their 8th Annual Source of Hire Study (PDF). It’s a worthwhile read that gives insight into the activities and mindsets of recruiters. During the month of January 2009, we invited our contacts in more than 200 large (5000+ employees),...

A new job board targeted to technology professionals offers ways to make both employers’ and job seekers’ lives a little bit easier. oDesk, a job board for freelance and contract technology work, boasts a “best business model” for both employers and employees. The site offers...

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...

Thinking of quitting your job? You’re not alone. The recent 2009 Job Forecast survey from CareerBuilder found that 19 percent of workers plan to look for a new job this year and the same amount of people plan to leave their current job before the year is out. And, despite the ominous predictio...

It’s been almost a year since Jason Goldberg, one of the most dynamic, albeit controversial leaders in the employment industry, left his post at Jobster to focus on another startup. Whether you liked him or not, one thing is for sure: Goldberg was a journalist’s dream. Whether he was all...

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...

We’ve got 49 Freelance Writing, Editing, Blogging, Translation and etc. jobs to day. The link is to my old site which is becoming my new blog. Yes, today is my last day with The Golden Pencil, but it’s easy enough to find me at www.aboutfreelancewriting.com Some of you will recognize tha...

TheLadders, the premium job site exclusively for 100k+ talent looking for 100k+ jobs, pulled off a really cool branding stunt. They left $100k cash unsupervised in a park and recroded the reactions of people passing by. Check out the video they created. It's way cooler than hanging upsidedown and it...

I read an article/case study this last week about how Fish4 had used a SEO agency to improve their 'vital pathway' to their customers.  And their crowning glory was: Ranking in position 1 out of 81.7 million results in the Google rankings for the keyword 'jobs'. Do they really?  And so wha...

One job board owner has dubbed a recent marketing effort by Jobfox as “sleazy as hell.” Here’s what went down: Every job site I know of has an online application process. This isn’t news. Job seekers click on Apply Here and submit their resume. For competing sites, however, t...