080821 Why Monster Bought Trovix

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(August 21, 2008) Sometimes, a piece of technology emerges that solves a problem you never thought would get solved. When the solution is really good, it opens the door to thinking about other similar problems and their solutions. Shazam is a mind-blowing application for the
 

080820 Big Picture

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(August 20, 2008) It’s like watching thousands of ants close up. You’re sure there’s a pattern. You can only see it by standing back. The
 

080726 Minneapolis Roadshow Recap

Yesterday, the Recruiting Roadshow celebrated its first anniversary.Here are the details. Here’s a link to my
 

080606 Daily Links (June 06, 2008)

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Thought For The Day: Technologies Do Not Die U.S.
 

080602 Daily Links

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The Future Of Social Isn’t Content Spewing (I Hope) Arrington gels the arguments in recent conversations about the future of Social Media. In one utopian view it’s “every single human being posting their thoughts and experiences in any number of ways to the Internet.”  Arrington says, “The future of social media, I hope, isn’t in more […]
 

080530 Daily Links

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Digging Into Recruitingblogs.com V 1.7 Advanced LinkedIn user abandons service. Twitter: Don’t blame Ruby, blame Scoble In the spirit of LinkedIn being passive aggressive with Recruiters, Twitter joins the fray by blaming its users for its problems. Truth is, power users cause technology to fail while communications companies are inherently technical. Part of the risk in […]
 

The Merger of Arbita and Job Machine

If you haven’t noticed, Arbita, the Minneapolis based Internet Recruitment Advertising agency, is undergoing a market changing transformation. Once the
 

What Recession (or Better, Where)?

Take a gander at these unemployment statistics: 70 Metropolitan Areas (out of 369… about 20%) have unemployment rates below 4% 170
 

ATS.3 (Applicant Tracking Systems)

There are seven essential, interrelated components of an Applicant Tracking System. (You might take a look at this great little piece …Animals are Tracked, People have relationships.) The actual functionality is very simple and can all be generated from a single database. The