Via CNN / Careerbuilder … One thing about the hiring process is true: It leaves much room for speculation. Whether you got the job — or you didn’t — most job seekers want to know why. Why were you chosen over the next guy? Or, better yet, why weren’t you? Was it your experience, your attitude, your [...]
February 20, 2010
10 Resume Red Flags
Via Yahoo! Finance … Searching for a job is not always easy, no matter what state the economy is in. And when you’re on the hunt, your best weapon is your resume. This document must emphasize the best of your experience, education and skills and sell you to your future employer. It’s a lot to [...]
February 18, 2010
The job application black hole
Via CNNMoney.com … Ever applied to a job online only to have your résumé seemingly vanish into a void? From crafting a winning cover letter to acing an interview, landing a job is tough enough in this market. But millions of job seekers can’t even get a foot in the door as they apply to [...]
February 4, 2010
HIREBRIDGE DEBUTS NEW UNLIMITED ATS PLATFORM
‘Hirebridge Unlimited’ Delivers Applicant Tracking Without Limits CORAL SPRINGS, FL (February 1, 2010) – Hirebridge LLC, a leader in applicant tracking solutions software, has debuted Hirebridge Unlimited. The novel, flat-rate pricing program is the ATS industry’s first plan that removes limits on the number of users, access or accounts. Hirebridge’s new pricing model allows customers [...]
February 4, 2010
Monster Just Dropped $225 Million For Yahoo’s HotJobs
Via TheNextWeb.com … The online job marketplace Monster has just acquired HotJobs away from Yahoo for a stunning $225 million in cash. Part of this deal is a three-year “commercial traffic agreement,” which will begin on the closing of the deal. This seems to mean that Yahoo will shunt jobs related traffic to Monster for [...]
January 16, 2010
Why You Need A SaaS Strategy
Via InformationWeek … Business technology leaders find themselves in something of a cloud computing deluge, showered by vendor marketing, new services, and even CEO questions about their “cloud strategy.” Much of the exuberance centers on the kind of computing-by-the-hour service that Amazon.com and others sell but most enterprises are only starting to ponder. Amid the [...]
January 8, 2010
More Employers Plan to Increase Hiring of College Graduates
Via WSJ Blogs … More employers plan to increase college graduate hiring than decrease it for the first time in more than a year. The National Association of Colleges and Employers‘ index for college hiring rose to 98.2, up from 87.2 in November. The index, based on the organization of career counselors’ survey of 122 [...]
January 7, 2010
You’ve Got Automated Referral Source Tracking!
We’re more than pleased to announce that we have just launched Automated Referral Source Tracking for all Hirebridge accounts. As with everything we do, this new module is distinctly “Hirebridge” in nature, meaning, it’s incredibly easy to use and it works passively with just about no work needing to be done on the part of [...]
December 30, 2009
Attention Career-Seekers: MyPath Taps Social Network to Plot Your Next Move
Via FastCompany.com … This morning I discovered after taking a 20-minute career assessment test on MyPath.com that, in addition to being a writer (a career I’ve built happily over more than a decade), I also possess the skills to be a teacher or a public speaker. It’s certainly not as far-fetched as the results of [...]
November 11, 2009
Gartner Says Worldwide SaaS Revenue to Grow 18 Percent in 2009
Via Garner Research … Worldwide software as a service (SaaS) revenue is forecast to reach $7.5 billion in 2009, a 17.7 percent increase from 2008 revenue of $6.4 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. The market will show consistent growth through 2013 when worldwide SaaS revenue will total over $14 billion for the enterprise application markets. [...]
