HR 2.0

So, there is a not so new phenomena: job podcasting, in which we hear interviews with representatives of a hiring company. There's also video interviews, sometimes with little mini-documentaries of companies, showing images of corporate campuses and offices. Hail the Googleplex in San Francisco. Anyway, let's refer to this family of items as jobcasts , shall we? Pundits will extol jobcasts for utilizing a new medium to break out of the old corporate PR propoganda stream; viewers and listeners can really get inside of the company now. I think this is a bit unfounded. From what I've seen so far, a jobcast is about ... Read Full Story

Zubka.com is a combination job / board referral site, where members can collect a bounty by placing somebody in a job that's posted on Zubka. That is, it's a website where anybody can effectively be a recruiter, and where hiring companies are encouraged to post more jobs because they only pay if a match is made. The success-oriented fee (bounty) solves a big problem in HR, as many companies pay to post jobs on job boards, only to receive a flood of applications from unsuitable candidates. Zubka effectively charges companies to target specific candidates with jobs, by turning its members into job-candidate matchmaking engines. ... Read Full Story

Facebook's new ad service, as has been documented, is a three pronged approach: Company Sites. It allows companies to create their own webpages, where other people can add feedback and become fans of the company, upload videos and pictures (not sure of what -- company parties and picnics? I guess promos.), etc. Really, it's not much more than a tweak of current facebook framework for people. But it's already working. You might even find a Liquid CV Facebook presence... Social Ads. I'm still getting my arms around this, but apparently this is a system whereby facebook has a cookie on your computer, and when ... Read Full Story

So Jobster.com is a jobboard mashup. It displays salary information for jobs from payscale.com , and various job postings via some kind of spider (I think) that pulls them from other sites – if they’re not directly posted to Jobster by members. Read Full Story

Discussions, blogs and articles about online recruiting, HR, job hunting, and professional networking in the Web 2.0 world. Contributions are eagerly invited! Welcome all. Read Full Story