Hey, fellow bloggers out there, what are the free blog tools that you would recommend for recruiters that want to start a blog? What are the best aggregator tools for people that want to read blogs? Us recruiters, we tend to be non-technical folks...

Andrew Coates blogs about words that are over-used at Microsoft . I guess I do know what he is talking about. One of my beloved co-workers starts most sentences with "Hey!", but I'm not telling who it is ; ) I've taken to using the non-word "anyhoo" a...

I recently noticed something in the vending machine that really disturbed me in a major way. It's a bag of pork rinds with a packet of hot sauce inside (as if pork rinds themselves aren't nasty enough). I swear I am dry heaving just thinking about it...

Rebecca is leaving monster.com and is handing her blog over to her co-workers . Gosh, I don't know if I could ever do that! I feel too personally connected to my blog. I know I don't post that much about my personal life (you don't really want to hear...

Now that I have had my Tivo for a few months, I have been getting used to a life with less advertising. My ability to fast forward through commercials plus my use of software that blocks pop-up advertisements, has really limited the number of marketing...

I've already told you how important the right key words are in terms of getting your resume/bio/blog found by a recruiter. But lately I've been thinking about what some of those words mean during the interview process . <Taking off my Microsoft hat>...

Back when I started my recruiting career, job fairs were a staple of the recruiter role. I lived in Chicago and, being a big city, with lots of people and lots of job openings, I knew that many people would be matched up with potential opportunities at...

You decide... Here's some background: http://ilovebees.blogspot.com/ And here is the site: http://www.ilovebees.com Here's discussion about it in the Bungie forums: http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=364518&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1...

Here are the top 100 . Might make you think about including some of these key words in your resume if they match your background and if you are posting your resume to monster. But you'll need to think differently if you are trying to attract recruiters...

Most recruiters looks at hundreds, possibly thousands of resumes a week. As much as I'd like to tell you that a recruiter thoroughly reviews your entire resume before making a decision on whether to contact you, that's usually not true (hint: the top...

I've always loved doing research. OK, well, not always, but ever since I became a grown-up. One of the things that I like most about my job is that I am often given a problem to solve, the resources to solve it and the autonomy to get it done. There's...

I have a basket in my office that I dump articles, business magazines, long e-mails into. I don't want my desk to get all cluttered up with stuff and there doesn't seem to be an obvious time to tackle the reading I need to do. Once or twice, I've grabbed...

Good article today on MSN: Online Social Networks Go To Work . Most of the articles I've read so far have really only introduced the idea of social networking and highlighted its "coolness". In this article Xeni does a good job of peeling back the onion...

So I presented my blog site yesterday to that group of staffing industry folks. And while I got many comments about how cool it was, I doubt that there will be a bunch of recruiting blogs popping up next week. We talked about how I use my blog to share...

OK, blame Zoe for this one. I read Chris Sells' blog regularly so I saw this a while back, but Zoe has it up on her bulletin board. I went into her office today and noticed it and now I can't get that darn song out of my head. And for that reason, I must...

Niall Kennedy's weblog ... Alcohol Without Liquid . If this thing becomes popular, I'll eat my hat. Or maybe I'll have to smoke my drink (OK, so I know it's vapor, not smoke).

Michael Swanson posted about his experience applying to Microsoft by sending a life-size foam cutout of himself. Cool story. It makes me think about having a "most interesting application" contest. You know...I don't want anything of monetary value, but...

This Sunday, I am doing something that I have wanted to do for a VERY long time. I am going to see Earth, Wind and Fire at the White River Amphitheater . Actually, it's Chicago with Earth,Wind and Fire, but I think it should be the other way around. I...

You know how sometimes when the bagger at the grocery store calls you “sir” or “ma'am”, you start to doubt your coolness (if the checker cards you for alcohol, it lessens the sting though)? If you are under 30, just wait, it's...

news stories about blogging. I'm trying to find good media quotes about blogging for my presentation (then I get to call my slides "done" and work on something else!) but there's too much noise in google for me to find it quickly. If you have a good media...

Yikes! (Read her blog here). I'm not sure what she said that was against some Friendster policy, but nobody wants to see this happen to a fellow blogger. And hey, could they have reprimanded her first? Warned her? Or is she supposed to be an example?...

One of the highlights of my day today was getting an opportunity to imitate Jessica Simpson in front of a room of staffing industry leaders. If you ever have a chance, try to find a way to say something really stupid to a group of really smart people...

One of the things I am focused on in my work is creating a positive experience for applicants and candidates. Part of that is working in a content overhaul on our marketing careers site . I worked on this the last time we updated the content and that...

There are many so-called "rules" out there about discussing salary during a job search/interview process. Stuff like "don't talk about compensation on the first conversation". It's a bunch of bunk. You think there are 2 sides to negotiating salary? Well...

I love shopping, especially when I get a deal, but this is just weird and morbid.