Out Now: Episode 415: Registered Apprenticeship Programs in the Clean Energy Sector With Dr. Janell Hills

Recruitment’s Best Kept Secret

Best Kept Secrets of Recruiting

Despite the huge amount of effort organisations make to attract and hire the right people there are a surprising number who are ‘square pegs’ in ’round holes’. How many times have you been into a store and been served by someone who is just not that interested? Contrast that experience with being served by someone […]

When will job boards innovate? (Part 3)

Why job boards innovate? (Part 3)

When will job boards innovate? (Part 3) I am a big Modesty Blaise fan.  Its a comic strip, series of novels, movies (1 awful movie and 1 okay movie) and a failed TV series about a crime boss who retires, but soon gets bored and is lured back into danger on behalf of her government. The books […]

Employment Law, Labor Unions, & Social Media

Social media methods that labor unions are using

Labor unions are using social media in new ways every day.   They are using it for member outreach, for organizing, and for widely sharing their issues and messages.  They are developing new and effective ways utilizing social media to reach out to your employees with a goal of building contacts for future organizing attempts. It […]

Secrets, Twitter Chat Tools & JobHuntChat Anniversary

JobHuntChat 1st Anniversary, Secrets and Twitter Tools

What started as an experiment to help job seekers on Twitter has become a phenomenon. 250,000 (yes, 250,000) #jobhuntchat hash tag tweets later, JobHuntChat has reached its one year anniversary.  Monday, February 21st, JobHuntChat celebrates it’s first birthday. And we’d love for you to join us. Every Monday at 10 PM Rich DeMatteo and I host a […]

How to find out how the job market is (really) doing

Using Indeed's Job Trends tool

How to find out how the job market is (really) doing There are a lot of economic indicators out there to measure where we are in terms of job growth. Well, I am not an economist (nor do I play one on TV), but it seems to me that one way to know for sure […]

HR Blogger Hell & SEO Strategy Tips

SEO Strategy Tips for the HR Blogger

Over the past four months, I have been working hard to implement a more robust and aggressive SEO strategy for Blogging4Jobs.  As a Human Resource Blog and HR blogger, the concept of SEO, is relatively new for our HR Blogger community which for me is a very, very good thing.  You see, SEO or Search […]