Kennedy Information’s Recruiting Conference Special Offer
Kennedy Information announces free lodging at the Mirage for paid attendees at the 2009 Recruiting Conference in Las Vegas, NV.
Talent Buzz readers and network members can receive a $200 discount off the registration. Click for conference details and registration.
In an e-mail this week, Kennedy Information shared they understand that budgets are tight and is therefore [...]
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Microsoft and Monster.com Partner to Help Job Seekers and Employers
Microsoft announces Microsoft Office and Monster.com are teaming up to help people maximize their potential for employment in a challenging economy.
How? By giving job seekers access to Office Online Career Center, a new all-in-one portal aimed at helping people find new opportunities and reach their full potential. Users can create resumes by choosing from hundreds [...]
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Job Search Tips with Indeed.com
With job seekers in mind, the search engine for jobs leader Indeed.com launched a video tutorial series earlier this week. The first 3 videos / chapters include search tips, e-mail job alerts, and my.indeed accounts.
As the trend continues to shift from job boards to search engines, sites like Indeed will continue to offering new [...]
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Announcing the $1,000 Blog Post Winner
by @jjbuss.
21 blog posts were submitted for the $1,000 contest, and the results are in! A quick thanks to all of the authors who submitted for the contest.
Congratulations to Seth Simonds for receiving the highest number of unique visitors to his post! Seth wrote “Gosh! Napoleon Dynamite’s Guide To Social Networking“, and has won $1,000.
The [...]
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Voice Screener Telephone Interviewing Service
Small businesses can now identify and recruit talent more effectively and efficiently via high-tough, automated system.
Hiring Managers Can Identify Top Prospects 70% Faster With HarQen’s VoiceScreener™ And Effectively Manage More Candidates With Fewer Resources. HarQen, a leading web-telephony company announced [...]
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Gosh! Napoleon Dynamite’s Guide To Social Networking
If you’re not an idiot, you’ve seen the movie. Now, with even bigger hair and sweeter dance moves, five hints on social networking from the master, Napoleon Dynamite!
1. Give, like, creative and real compliments.
“You have a sweet bike. And you’re really good at hooking up with chicks. Plus you’re like the only guy at school [...]
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Industry Trends to Help Job Seekers and Employers Navigate the Job Market
Last week indeed.com announced their new industry trends research tool to aid both job seekers and employers in navigating through the job market.
Industry Trends is a unique view of job posting and job seeker trends in 12 major industries. With the most comprehensive search engine for jobs, with over 12 million unique visitors per month [...]
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The Monster.com NFL Director of Fandemonium
You watched the Super Bowl. Maybe for the game, or for the ads. Both Monster.com and CareerBuilder were going head-to-head to gain traffic to their sites, build awareness, and get in front of the growing unemployment rate.
This year, Monster was also building awareness for their re-designed site. Late last year, they pledged to revolutionize online [...]
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Announcing the $1,000 Blog Post Contest
By @jjbuss.
Ever thought of writing? Blogging? Had 15 minutes of fame yet?
I am thrilled to announce the 2nd Blog Post contest on The Talent Buzz. This time, the stakes are higher as the winner will receive a $1,000 Visa Gift Card for the winning post. Yep, that’s right, $1,000.
The contest last year was a lot [...]
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Using Twitter to Network and Find a Job
By Jason Buss (@jjbuss).
As unemployment continues to soar, job seekers and candidates are pulling out all the stops and doing everything possible to network and look for new opportunities. This includes using social media and social networking sites as another tool during their search, and while these are not new methods, more and more candidates [...]
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Finance Industry Career and Recruiting Tool – OneWire
OneWire Introduces Better Way For Hiring Firms And Job-Seeking Professionals To Connect In Finance Industry’s Complex Employment Market. New online career and recruitment management tool precisely and efficiently connects talent with companies.
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Using SEO as part of your Interactive Recruiting Strategy
I’ve had the opportunity to explore and test a variety of SEO-based tools and theories in recruiting, and have published a series of posts on this topic with the business results after implementing. And over the past couple of years there has been a lot of buzz about SEO for jobs and recruiting, job seeker [...]
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The Coverage Continues… News, Information, and Blog Posts for the Twitter Community
By @jjbuss.
When it comes to twitter, you might be a twitterholic, a newbie, or still wondering “what’s the point“? Regardless of who we you are and what you think, the twitter community continues to grow at an astounding rate with millions of users and over 1.1 billion tweets.
The micro-blogging leader also continues to get an [...]
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8 Tools for the Twitter Community
Social media and networking continue to get a lot of hype. Twitter, as an example, has grown by over 750% in the past 12 months with an astonishing 1 billion tweets and counting!
Applications and tools for these growing sites and platforms are growing quickly too. If you use twitter, here are 8 newer sites / [...]
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Getting Bombed on Twitter!
@tweetbomb joined the twitter craze on November 19, 2008. And in less than 2 months, tweetbomb already has 4,040 followers.
The point of tweetbomb? Everyday at 3:33 EST @tweetbomb releases a username of one of their followers. To play along, you just need to send a @username message to that person, and watch the carnage unfold [...]
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