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Our first blade server

August 5, 2011
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Yes, I know we should be on the cloud floating around in heaven with everyone else! But we have a brainy team that enjoys the challenge of getting top performance for every dollar.  And that’s why we will be installing this sexy server soon. during assembly: assembled: installed:

Rob Symington on Escape the City

July 6, 2011
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If you’ve ever taken the road less traveled or dreamed about it, you’ll appreciate what partners Dom Jackman and Rob Symington launched in March of last year at EscapeTheCity.org.  First, here’s Rob’s bio: Rob is the co-founder of Escape the City. The community for corporate professionals who want to ‘do something different’. He is interested [...]

Need a vacation!

March 25, 2011

I read almost every book that Verne Harnish recommends so when I saw this in his recent newsletter, I ordered do more faster a couple minutes later. Verne wrote: “Brad Feld Saved His Marriage — last month I read Brad’s outstanding book Do More Faster. Aimed at tech start-ups, there are plenty of lessons for [...]

Top 100 job search websites and categories

January 24, 2011
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This is the 2011 guide to the top 100 US job search categories. For each top employment category it lists the top 3 or 4 niche job search websites. This guide excludes: job sites that lack top Google rankings sites with high Google rankings but low credibility, authenticity or integrity. most sites which always require [...]

Job boards will lead the next productivity boom

October 14, 2010
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I’m as disappointed as anyone about the weak economic recovery we have experienced in 2010.  And I could not be more disappointed about but the piss-poor state of education and culture of indulgence in America.  We do face a long-term structural problem in the economy as a result of our mixed up priorities. However, as [...]

OnlineRecruitingNews.com redesigned

September 2, 2010

We started publishing daily about three weeks ago at OnlineRecruitingNews.com and redesigned the site last week. Some small tweaks still to come… The September OnlineRecruitingNews.com roundup is now online. This is just the top news for those of you that are too busy for our daily news.  And no, we won’t replace Cheezhead — but [...]

OnlineRecruitingNews.com now publishing daily

August 15, 2010

We relaunched OnlineRecruitingNews.com August 1st on WordPress and have made good progress working out the bugs — so, if you haven’t seen it already, check out our August news roundup. While you’re there, please subscribe to the ORN rss feed.

Fear

July 16, 2010

Many job board operators are fearful of the .jobs expansion. The value we provide to job seekers and employers flows through our domains whether we like it or not. Many of us chose those domains long before we knew what we were doing or where our businesses were going. But we know domains are important. [...]

.jobs – Gerry says it all

July 14, 2010

Does anyone know more about .jobs than Gerry Crispin? He called me yesterday with a bone to pick about my blog post. It is not really accurate to say that SHRM has been championing diversity.jobs. He was right, that’s too strong a statement. Nevertheless, Gerry is opposed to the .jobs expansion. There are a number [...]

Will ICANN step on a land mine with .jobs?

July 12, 2010

Ever since SHRM started pushing the benefits of allowing Employ Media to launch http://diversity.jobs, I feel differently about the .jobs expansion initiative. Why would SHRM pick on my small company? Over the years, my company has advertised in SHRM’s magazines, on its website and exhibited at its conferences. So, why would SHRM want to throw [...]

.jobs domain expansion – all over but the clapping

June 11, 2010

Now that the ball is in ICANN’s court, you can consider this a done deal (great reporting by John Zappe). ICANN has been trying to launch new TLDs like .books, .games, etc for ages. Their goal is to maximize the number of domains worldwide – that’s how they pay their salaries and that’s why .jobs [...]

New .jobs video

May 12, 2010

Some new videos supporting .jobs are available at the universe.jobs website.  I have expressed my concerns about the long-run scenario for these domains as I believe that eventually the interests of SHRM, Employ Media, Direct Employers and employers will diverge. Nevertheless, I take my hat off to the Direct Employer’s team. This looks like an [...]

The .jobs tax – will you pay it?

April 27, 2010

As a consequence of lending its name to Employ Media for the promotion of .jobs, SHRM has an obligation to prevent .jobs domain auctions or the sale of those domains through the sale of Employ Media itself. It cannot avoid damaging its constituents if it fails to do this.   If SHRM itself were proposing to [...]

How bank fraud hurts job boards

April 2, 2010

I say bank fraud is when your own bank steals from you. What am I talking about? Picture a scam artist somewhere in the Internet underground stealing a credit card in the real world.  He uses this credit card to buy a job posting on your job board. You review all jobs by hand but [...]

The career advice bubble

March 22, 2010

Having seen a few bubbles inflate during my job board career, it’s clear we are in a career advice bubble. I’m sure this one is mostly harmless and won’t send the economy reeling when it pops. In fact, it probably won’t pop until the economy recovers anyway. Still, there are too many new career bloggers [...]

Floating in a sea of garbage

February 16, 2010

I always wondered why Seth Godin did not accept comments on his blog. But, I finally turned off comments on my own blog (not because I’m popular like Seth). Sure, every once in a while there is a gem that makes you smile. But, really folks,  those gems are just floating in a sea of [...]

Job search 2010 — looking 5 years into the future

January 4, 2010

‘Next’ is a fun science fiction movie about a guy who can see just two minutes into the future. But it reminded me of the importance of looking five years into the future. Because seeing the future, changes it. As Abraham Lincoln said "The best way to predict your future is to create it." Here’s [...]

Honest job ads – THANK YOU Google

December 10, 2009

A big thanks to the Google team for cleaning house. Do a Google search for jobs, and you will see a remarkable difference compared with results from two years ago. This helps everyone doing honest work in the job search business! Thanks to CollegeRecruiter.com for catching this.

Employers to go jobboard-free?

November 24, 2009

An HR blogger said something interesting in a recent job boards-are-dying type post: "We will be job board free in 2 years." In a follow-up post to explain how this would occur, this anonymous blogger says (problem areas in red): "When you need something, you go to Google, so why not use it to find [...]

Job boards with dictionary domain names

November 16, 2009

If you could afford a domain name for your job board that contained a single dictionary word, your category keyword or some related keyword, would you do it? These folks did: care.com caterer.com climber.com experience.com idealist.org Judging by compete.com traffic graphs, it’s a relatively high flying group… Know of any others?

InternetRecruiting.us becomes OnlineRecruitingNews.com

October 27, 2009

In the past few days I’ve been remaking InternetRecruiting.us with a new purpose and a new domain at OnlineRecruitingNews.com. This new site will be a cooperative of 25 dues paying job boards who want to increase their visibility. Whether or not you become one of our managing members, you will still be welcome to maintain [...]

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