Archives for: August 2007
Mac vs PC – Southpark Style

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The Week In Recruiting (Reading the blogs, so you don’t have to…)

The Day In Recruiting presents… My Fab 15 for the week! 1. He did the mash, 2. The Monster Mash! 3. It was a dancehall smash 4. Now, who’s next? 5. Or maybe, Monster is bringing sexy back? 6. Sigh… is there love for the working-class millionaire? 7. Where else would you go to get a job? 8. One recruiter’s [...]

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Berger Bites: Results Ranking in Live.com

Most search engine enthusiasts know that many resumes we find are quite dated. I see resumes regularly that have not been updated in five or six years. I am a big believer that the date of the last update is not necessarily a factor in deciding whether to try and reach a likely prospect. Many people live and work at [...]

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From Recruiter to Virtual Organization Recruiter

And now, something interesting from the Virtual Organization Management Institute. Enjoy! A Paradigm Shift: VISION for Making the Transition from Recruiter to Virtual Organization Recruiter and Virtual Organization Consultant by: Pierre M. Coupet Every now and then something comes along that revolutionizes an entire industry or brings about a new age. Without having to go all the way back to [...]

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Monster.com took 5 days to disclose data theft

Wow! The hits just keep coming. I just read an interesting article on the latest Monster debacle and here are the highights… 1. Monster.com waited five days to tell its users about a security breach that resulted in the theft of confidential information from some 1.3 million job seekers 2. Hackers launched the attack using two servers at a Web-hosting [...]

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This is what Monster.com should have done after they were hacked (Part 2)

This just in! His Cheeziness just hipped me to a nice before and after shot of the Monster.com homepage. I think it accentuates nicely my earlier rant. As of August 20, 2007, this is what the homepage looked like. And as of this writing (a mere 3 days later), this is what we see now. Not much of a difference [...]

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This is what Monster.com should have done after they were hacked

In case you did not know, Monster.com was hacked yesterday; or rather, it was revealed that 1,000,000+ resumes were exploited by hackers yesterday. This is not a new problem, nor one that I see going away as identity theft is (unfortunately) pretty prevalent. I wondered how Monster.com would reply to the news on yesterday and was expecting… something. Unless I [...]

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How to lose a perfectly good hire

The response is something a GeekTech Hiring Manager would take pride in and their recruiters groan in discomfort. Check out this strange (but true) story… Peter B. was an out-of-work PHP developer looking for contract work in early 2005. A recruiter he’d worked with in the past emailed him some information regarding a possible position. Reading the job description, Peter [...]

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Monster.com was hacked and over one million records exploited

I wonder how this news will affect how often job seekers use job boards? Will they simply use an alias and a disposable email address to protect themselves (as I often suggest), or will they avoid job boards like the plague? Time will tell. -snip-snip- A recently disclosed fraud involving hundreds of thousands of people on the Monster.com jobs website [...]

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VIDEO – Bad day at the office?

Gee, I don’t know. Although this guy was (obviously) frustrated, he did come up with a creative solution to his problem. (Sort of) That has to count for something, yes? Related PostsVIDEO – Why I love “The Office”VIDEO: A classic office prank goes horribly awry…FUNNY VIDEO: MSN Engineers Improve Office SpaceGEEK: Cubicle War 2006 – VIDEO (Funny)FUNNY VIDEO – Life [...]

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