Do You Have The Ego For Self-Googling? Does “Go Google Yourself” mean what I think it does?
Wub Wubs on What HP’s Acquisition of EDS HRO Means Will the emerging HPEDS change the face of the HRO Business?
How Netfix Keeps Talent Anthony J Meany notes “Don’t give B performers a middling raise. Give them a decent chunk […]

Friend Connect, Open Social, Ning, and the web Ning’s role remains the same — to be the easiest, most powerful, and most widely used way for anyone to create your own social network for anything.
Too Many Choices, Too Much Content A good overview of the major competitive battles in social media
More People Depend Solely on […]

Friend Connect gets a warm reception at Google Campfire One The social software thing is in its infancy.
RealMatch offers a more structured take on the job search You can fool some of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time and some are VCs
CEO Reorganizes Job-Search Pioneer The WSJ […]

The response to the first couple of articles in this series is interesting. Significantly, a number of credible market leaders think that the game is locked. Companies (vendors) who enter the Recruiting Software market will end up having to deliver ATS functionality if they want to stay in the game. Companies (customers) know how to […]

HR’s struggle with Web 2.0 How did I miss this one? Thanks to Wubs for remembering it.
eRecruitment Market Trends Gartner notices that Enterprise vendors in our space usually inflate their marketing rhetoric.
China is Exploding watch this video (suggested by Frank Mulligan)
The Twitter Job Search Experiment Grassroots experimentation from the Daily Machete
Previewing Google Friend Connect: Website […]

Picking up where we left off on Friday, the Taleo-Vurv merger is a yawner. The Applicant Tracking Systems industry, home to a hundred niche providers, is moribund. The closest thing to innovation in the game are the predominantly ridiculous attempts to jump on the Talent Management bandwagon.
The merger takes two lethargic bundles of functionality and […]

Debating the Taleo Vurv Merger Does consolidation at the high end of the business matter?
Tips For Dealing With Information Overload…I have several streams of data of varying signal:-noise and rates (twitter, FriendFeed, Google Reader, email, voicemail, etc.). My strategy is to make sure I see at least the title of everything, and then pluck the […]

The signs are auspicious.

Monster, long the sole provider of industry leadership, turns away from the industry. HotJobs flounders in the midst of employee evacuations caused by merger talk. CareerBuilder, the best blue collar job board becomes the highest trafficked employment destination.
Talent Management, a broadly integrated approach to human capital acquisition […]

The Collision of Marketing and Technology Mark Willaman meets Bill Vick
The Uneven Evolution of Corporate Recruiting Lou Adler says, “One could contend that the Internet has been the reason we’ve lost the war for talent. Turnover has certainly increased, requiring companies to build large recruiting teams where only small ones existed before.”
Agency: Massachusetts puts out welcome […]

Mayday, Mayday. I am writing at a small table in a Kroger’s in Mansfield, Ohio. My last day in the state (following the Cleveland Recruiting Roadshow). It’s an odd experience, different from anything I’ve seen on the coasts.
Kroger’s, an old line grocery chain, is clearly updating itself. More Walmart like than you could imagine, it’s […]