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...

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...

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...

It is virtually 10 years to the day when I first started looking into e-recruitment software and here we are again; but this time it is social media technology.  So what can I take from the last 10 years? ATS vendors E-recruitment systems, generally now referred to as applicant tracking systems...

I came across Zuzzid today that is a social network type site for people to 'Speak about your insurance'.  Hardly the most riveting subject on the planet but surprise, surprise there is a insurance broker comparison section and even bigger surprise (not), the site is 'owned' by none other than ...

It is a pretty interesting view of you or anyone else; and it may be quite scary! It could also be very useful if you think about it for a while....

When I was a young apprentice mechanic, page 3 had a very particular meaning in the workshops.  I can't say I ever expected to be on page 3 of ANY publication yet this week, there we were, on Page 3 of Personnel Today. OK, so it wasn't exactly a picture of me posing but it was a useful article ...

With Jason Goldberg out and former investment banker Jeff Seely in as CEO, Jobster is heading down a new path. It will be interesting to see what a company so well funded does competing with a class of companies marginally funded in comparison. In December ’07 on Jobster’s blog Goldberg made a r...