Shally introduced me to Exalead some time last year, but I never did give it an indepth investigation which is a shame. Its really a nifty little searchengine and one I think will give the big 3 (Google, Yahoo and MSN) a run for the money one day. (But not today…) In the meantime, I think its definitely worth a [...]

President Bush yesterday called for an increase in the federal cap on H-1B visas, an issue he said he feels “strongly” about and wants to work with Congress to make happen.Bush, who spoke at E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. in Wilmington, Del., is on the road pushing some of the proposals (download PDF)made in his State of the [...]

My fab 15 for the week… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw6xbtt-zTA[/youtube] 1.  This looks like a job for… Job Boy! 2. Or, a superhero of another kind. 3. Wii would like to play. 4. Just as long as you git’er done. 5. The tax man cometh and he taketh away. 6. So is the party over? (I doubt it) 7. Especially when it can make or [...]

Every now and again I get emails from my peers who would like to publicly vent their frustrations about their employer, but decline the opportunity (at least until they secure a new gig). So for now, let’s enjoy the rants of someone I will refer to in cyberspace as “Recruiter X.” Enjoy… Give me a resume. I would like to clear up a misconception of what a researcher does [...]

   Let’s talk about the “D” word… Jim Stroud and Karen Mattonen discuss the social politics of diversity and the signifigance of diversity recruiting in this day and age. 0:30 - A word from our sponsor – Barbara Ling 2:08 – An interesting blog post 2:24 – A chat about Grey’s Anatomy 05:25 – Why should I care if you’re gay? [...]

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Just a quick fyi… My (other) site – The Day In Recruiting is back up and running. Visit now and often. Related PostsI presented at SourcEvent – the Australasian Talent ConferenceVIDEO: Recruiting SingaporeHow geeky is your next hire?I heard a rumor SourceCon was coming backThe H1B dinner bell is ringing. Come and get it!    Send article as PDF   

  Are you familiar with the X-Men? No, not the superhero mutants of the comics, but rather the XHTML users networking under the radar. What’s that? You never heard of XHTML? Well, here it is in a nutshell… From the XHTML Friends Network page: XFN™ (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks. In recent [...]

Because I am one of the owners of CollegeRecruiter.com and my daily work with college and university students who are searching for internships and recent graduates looking for entry level jobs and other career opportunities, I’m often asked by our employer clients for a list of the “top” schools from which to recruit MBA’s, undergraduates, or other types of students. [...]

My (other) site – The Day In Recruiting is feeling a bit glitchy this morning. I expect the problem to be resolved over the nex 24 hours. Sigh… And it was just featured in Workforce Magazine!!!! Oh, the humanity… Related PostsHow to hack your sleep patterns and become an early riserA quiet coincidence?What time is it?The Week In Recruiting (Reading [...]

 If you are a Sourcer and you find yourself losing the passion for recruitment research, chances are you might be good for catching cybercriminals. Just a thought… Check out this article. –snip-snip–   In an effort to better protect the millions of outsourced consumer and business records that find their way to its shores each year, India has begun training [...]

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Now this is interesting. How many sourcers have contingencies for finding people who shun the web? snip-snip– SAN FRANCISCO â€â€? Joan Brady can’t even count the number of computers that friends have foisted upon her over the years. Laptops. Desktops. Monitors. It’s as if they can’t help themselves, as if they just can’t accept her for who she is: a [...]

Check out this neat-o trick (before somebody claims it as their own and charges you for it in a training seminar – wink).   Programmers like to code, else they would not be programmers; however, nobody likes to spend their time doing the same thing, over and over and over again. So programmers help each other out on occassion by [...]

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