Hays Fight Their Corner Over Departed Consultant’s LI Network
Posted by admin in career builder viral, disruptive technology, hays, information age, law, legal, linkedin, monster, online, recruitment, recruitment consultant, social media on 06 24th, 2008 | 2 Comments
Hays vs Mark Ions. Doesn’t quite have the same ring to it as Kramer vs Kramer does it?
I suspect many of you will have noticed this in the press or on the web over the last few days. I don’t want to go over old ground, but very briefly for anyone who’s missed it, here’s what’s...
Barack Obama’s LinkedIn Question - An Update… And A Question!
Posted by admin in barack obama, disruptive technology, drudge report, information age, internet, linkedin, social media, web 2.0, wikinomics on 06 21st, 2008 | No Comments
The Senator now has over 1300 responses.
As per previous posts, I’m very impressed at how Mr Obama has integrated Web 2.0 into his campaign (have you read the post last month on his campaign? Worth a click)
What Obama has done is not only give himself an edge in the Democratic race with Hillary...
Will Web 2.0 Power Obama to the White House?
Posted by admin in barack obama, candidate attraction, disruptive technology, drudge report, internet, online recruitment, recruitment 2.0, recruitment consultant, the west wing, web 2.0 on 06 20th, 2008 | No Comments
www.tiny.cc/cfq70
Click the link above.
Not content with raising stacks of campaign cash from Facebook, Barack Obama is now pushing his plans for keeping the US competitive in the future. So far 590 responses in 12 hours. Bearing in mind that a big portion of that 12 hours has been overnight in the...
So how much is LinkedIn worth then?
Posted by admin in HR, candidate attraction, crm, cv, direct hire, information age, internet, job board, kevin eyres, linkedin, monster, online recruitment, recruitment, recruitment 2.0 on 06 18th, 2008 | No Comments
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7460548.stm
LinkedIn have raised £27 million from investors - valuing the 5 year old business at a billion dollars. Not bad going.
Trick here is going to be what exactly LI are going to use the funds for. Clearly they’re in a great position already with first...
Calling all HR/Finance/IT and Legal Professionals!!! And while I’m at it… there could be space for a graduate or final year student!
Posted by admin in HR, IT, accountant, finance, graduate, internet, legal, linkedin, online recruitment, paid focus group, personnel, recruitment, recruitment consultant, staffing, student on 06 17th, 2008 | No Comments
Hi,
I’m running a focus group for a global professional recruitment firm on Monday. It’ll be held in Central London. There is a cash incentive for attendance, but hey I think the people that this will be of interest to are more likely to be interested in what we’ll be doing as opposed...
What’s A Train Doing On An Online Recruitment Blog?
Posted by admin in delay, fire, google, information age, internal recruitment, internet, national express, online, train on 06 11th, 2008 | No Comments
Today’s post is about a train. Yup a good old fashioned train.
Why?
Great example this evening about how the web and the accessibilty of info has changed our lives.
Sat on the train from London to Leeds this evening. Train stops, the PA systems starts spouting out some staff announcements.
Pretty...
Downturn? Consumer Confidence Low? Not If You’re Online
Posted by admin in candidate attraction, direct hire, google, internet, job board, job flow, linkedin, recession, recruitment, recruitment consultant on 06 9th, 2008 | No Comments
http://www.datamonitor.com/industries/news/article/?pid=8189052D-13E4-4C50-9639-0ECD25525555&type=ExpertView
Link above is to an article quoting recent research in UK consumer buying behaviour. There’s quite a few of these flying around the web at the moment. Crux of it is as follows: we aren’t...
When Virals Are Bad, They’re Very Very Bad - But When They’re Good Its The Simpsons!
Posted by admin in career builder, career builder viral, disruptive technology, internet, iron man, job board, recruitment, recruitment consultant, social media, staffing, the simpsons, viral on 06 7th, 2008 | No Comments
We all love a good viral don’t we?
Cutting edge? Topical… And sometimes pretty close to the bone!
Sometimes it can all go a bit too far… You may have heard of the viral that was withdrawn by CareerBuilder recently. Interesting topic… Its been taken off youtube and suffice to say...
Tight Market? Spare a Thought for the Poor Old Web 2.0 Crew…
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on 06 5th, 2008 | No Comments
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6c968990-2b4c-11dd-a7fc-000077b07658.html
What do you reckon? Twittering for free? Donations to http://www.saveweb2.0.com/
Not convinced Bono will be getting involved mind you!
OK most users are not fans of too much advertising on social media but surely something like Twitter...
Online Recruitment - Full of New Ideas? Not This Time…
Posted by admin in crm, cv, disruptive technology, facebook, internet, job alert, job board, recruitment, recruitment 2.0, recruitment consultant, staffing on 06 5th, 2008 | No Comments
Right, this is really annoying me, so bear with me if this turns into a rant…
For all the cool stuff out there - all the video ads being streamed, all the social media, the networking sites et al - why do firms, and I’m talking all firms big and small, job boards and agencies, persist in...
