My pal – Amybeth Hale was recently interviewed by AdAge (a major publication). The article is called, “The New Way to Network for a Job” and discusses how people are using Social Media to find work. Definitely worth a read. (IMHO) Way to go Amybeth! . Related PostsCOMIC – The Recruiting Life – The Cult of The Research GoddessHappy Birthday [...]

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And now a warm welcome to guest blogger – Amie Ernst ** How the latest SourceCon2008 challenge helped me By: Amie Ernst I want to first extend my kudos to Josh Kahn who won the first of three challenges this year that SourceCon is offering. He fought a good hard race to the finish, as well as Julia coming in [...]

Special thanks to Thabang Motsei for this one! ** New Rules For US Employer Sponsored Visa (H-1B) Written by Thabang Motsei The United States U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has proposed a provisional rule that prohibits US employers from making multiple application for potential employees under the employer sponsored visa which is also known as the H-1B visa. This [...]

I get this question a LOT from people from my friends in India, “How will the US recession affect here in India when my business is centered around recruiting?” I try to be optimistic, but to say that I would be concerned would be an understatement. However, I can offer some cautious optimism based on the article below from Silicon [...]

This reprinted blog post is courtesy of Austin Hill over at Billions With Zero Knowledge. It was written on his blog way back in March 2007, but I thnk the recruiting lessons learned from this is timeless. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Kudos to you Austin! Thanks for letting me post it here. ** Using [...]

Hat tip to Frank Noche over at KnowHr for sharing this one with the blogosphere. I tend to agree with his sentiments. Like him, I felt like I was listening to a Broadway Show and that the good employees of Ernst and Young (which I understand is a great company) were forced to look happy. I would also add the [...]

Here is an announcement from my friends over at “The Social Media Recruiting Show.” Go check them out. (Wow! I wish I thought of this first.) ** The first episode of The Social Media Recruiting Show was a great success. Chris Russell and I had a lot of fun talking about social media recruiting, and we received some great feedback [...]

Here is an example of diversity recruiting you don’t see everyday. Gay Job Fairs are not new but there don’t seem to be too many of them online. Or maybe, I just don’t know where to look? Well, below is a snippet of an article detailing the first gay job fair in Toronto, Canada. ** Police departments, educational institutions, major [...]

I read in InfoWorld about a new bill that would increase visas over the next few years and thought you might want to know. ** A bill introduced in the U.S. Congress would double the number of immigrant worker visas available each year under the H-1B program, earning the legislation praise from Microsoft. The Innovation Employment Act, introduced by Rep. [...]