Workhound Job Search Engine Blog

New power rankings have been released for HR related blogs and The Recruiter’s Lounge ended up on top.  The list of finalists provides a great resource for keeping on top of the latest trends in recruitment.
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It’s being floated that Microsoft is set to acquire Powerset for £50 million. By adding to their capabilities in turning unstructured data into structured data using better semantic search capabilities, it is hoped that they can improve their search engine results and maybe ad serving tech.  More thoughts on Semantic Search here.
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Danny Sullivan of the search engine land site does a nice job of parsing May search data here.  His analysis nets out that in several cuts of the data, Google is continuing to dominate the search business.  There is much speculation about whether threats to Google’s dominant market position will bubble up or be met [...]

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Businessweek looks at a new startup, Glassdoor.com, here. The company has an impressive pedigree and a nice looking site, but we think these types of “review your teacher/company/cafe” products provide anecdotal but not really actionable data. Fine for selecting a muffin but less useful for negotiating a salary.

The use of self-reported survey data [...]

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One of the challenges for a search engine is looking at unstructured data and providing structure for it. At Workhound, we have made a real investment in this capability. Just as we explore other means of presenting search results, we are always exploring other ways of making use of the technology that we’ve [...]

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Business Week is putting together an upcoming piece on the twitter CV and put out a request on one of their house blogs, blogspotting for ideas on what a twitter CV might look like. I tried my hand at a couple
For me: Current: http://tinyurl.com/5rcnmb Past: http://tinyurl.com/5khjbs Bio: http://tinyurl.com/6hn9kp Contact: @wmfischer
For Al Gore: Harvard, [...]

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Broadcasting Online Recruitment News BORN, has an interesting post speculating that newspapers can win the battle for recruitment advertising if content remains “king.”  To back up the post, there are some charts for the Guardian, the Telegraph, and the Times that show, after seasonal variation is removed, modest growth in their number of online ads.
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A podcast, I really enjoy is econtalk. This week the interview was with Robin Hanson, an economics professor, who was being questioned on his notion of the importance of understanding signaling - “the ways people spend resources to convey information about ourselves to others.” Although I think his premise has some falsifiability issues (signaling [...]

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Joel Cheesman, a leading journalist/visionary in the recruitment space, has a blurb on Walmart’s Oodle powered entry into free classifieds. Oodle was an early pioneer in vertical search solutions and this is an interesting business play. The Walmart implementation is free. But as Oodle built solutions for many verticals, the recruitment offering [...]

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The Social Networker blog has an interesting post on how corporations might use Twitter for Customer Support.  As a tool for “listening” to customers, open facing social facilitators like twitter.com and friendfeed.com, are invaluable for getting insight into the mind of users. The challenge for using them for customer support is the current lack of [...]

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