Did you know that you can buy searchengines on EBay? The winning bid on an Award-Winning Metasearch Searchengine -Jux2 was US $101,100.00 !!! Wow! I wonder who the confidential bidder was? I wonder if we can expect big things from Jux2. I have played around with Jux2 in the past and although I was somewhat wowed, it managed to slip [...]

I have been talking about blogs a lot this month, so why stop now? Here is another tip for getting the most out of blogs. Are you familiar with Google’s Blog Search tool? If not, check this out…   Say I wanted to find a lead for a C++ developer and I figure that someone who blogs about C++ is [...]

Here is a list of companies that are blogging. Wish I could take credit for the compilation, but I found it here. Fortune 500 Companies that blog GM Sun Microsystems Microsoft Google Yahoo! Boeing CitiGroup IBM HP Time Warner Dell, Inc. Lockheed Wells Fargo Intel Delphi Merril Lynch Disney (hugely, internally) Motorola FedEx Mitsubishi Cisco Raytheon Haliburton Kimberly-Clark UAL Delta [...]

Just a quick note to any and all interested! I am adding a nifty little bonus to all who join my mailing list. Starting today, all who subscribe to my e-list get a copy of what I call Dig’ TV, which is a video of my demonstrating how to use Yahoo to source resumes. Curious? Of course you are! (Well, [...]

A certain Harvard professor unleashed a tidal wave of flack when he suggested (in so many words) that innate differences between the sexes could help explain why fewer women succeed in science and math careers. Wow! I think in retrospect, he may have thought about his statement, slapped himself on the head and gave a Homer Simpson’ “D’oh!� sound. (Click [...]

Are you on my Digability mailing list? If not (and you like what I blog about), then you need to be. I plan on revealing some interesting information in the coming weeks, but only to those on my list. Oh what could it be? Well, that would be telling, yes? (wink) And just for subscribing (now) to my Digability Announcement [...]

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Very interesting article! It made me think of my agency days. As a rite of passage, every software management author has to give their take on the hiring process (Joel’s, Erik’s, Paul’s). This is mine. In an ideal world you would take as long as you want to fill a position. This would allow you to be very picky about [...]

What would happen if you allowed the workers to design their own workspaces? Would you get more comfortable motivated workers who refuse to go home? Could be… Just ask the guys at Pixar who flat out refused to allow cubicles to confine their creative imaginaries. Ain’t it Cool News toured the Pixar facilities and (among other things) posted pictures of [...]

I recently subscribed to an interesting newsletter published by Recruiter-Guru Diane Propsner. Here is a snippet from issue #1. Recently, I’ve noticed much talk (on-line within various recruiting forums) amongst corporate recruiters seeking to understand two, relatively new, corporate recruitment sourcing techniques, e-sourcing and phone-sourcing. In the first issue of Sourcing Success! I’ll define these techniques… Read (and subscribe to): [...]

On an earlier post – “Sourcing Candidates With A TV Guide“, I mentioned how you can use Video Searchengines and Podcasts to find leads on technical candidates. (Actually any type of candidate, I just chose technical candidates as an example.) Well if you have tried it, liked it, and thought “Wowzers, what a neat-o trick!” Here are a few more [...]

Maybe its just me, but I dig Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Their accapella crooning speaks to something down deep into my soul. Maybe it was Joseph Shabala’ singing or perhaps it was the melody of the music (more than likely it was the email somebody sent me), but something was calling me to South Africa. Specifically, I was being summoned to [...]

The United States currently is at almost full employment. Yet, most people still think unemployment is high, possibly because of ongoing headlines about downsizing and jobs moving offshore. The labor shortage in 2004, however, was just the tip of the iceberg slowly heading toward us. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate that in 2010, we will have 10 million more jobs [...]

Check out this new website I found the other day! If you are a booklover then you will love the concept of this site. If you are a sourcer, you will grow to love it even more. Here is a snippet from their website to let you know what they are all about… About ConnectViaBooks.com It is ConnectViaBook’s vision to [...]

Okay, imagine that you are a 3rd party recruiter and anxious to please your potential client. You ask them what they need and they say that they want a PHP Guru. You say “sure,” but secretly you are clueless as to what PHP is. Sure you could search on the acronym, but what about those geeks who spell out the [...]