Do You Use Email Anymore?
I have to admit that I’m not a big fan of email. I get signed up (without anyone asking me if I’m interested) for so many lists from people. As a fairly networked and networking oriented professional it seems like everyone who I meet at a happy hour, conference or event has a list that […]
Hiring Team Quote Of The Day
In response to a question asking for options on which was better: job board on steriods or shared recruiter service for startup companies.”…leave the recruiting field, but build an application that would allow companies to more effectively do the recruiting themselves. I don’t know what that application would do or look like, but the traditional […]
Big Job Boards As Conduits for Spam
Every now and then I’ll post resumes up to big tradtional job boards like Monster, HotJobs, Careerbuilder and Dice just to see what happens. I do this as much for my own curiousity as to understand what job seekers out there are experiencing when they use job boards. I did this last week and what […]
DC Unemployment Rate
The DC unemployment rate inches up to 7%. We are starting to catch up with California.
Featured Jobs & Referral Reward Opportunities
I would like to have your help with what is a surprising surge in job openings here in DC, despite the economic climate. If you know someone please let me know. A few of these have referral rewards attached to them so there may be something in it for you if you help.
Here is the […]
By the numbers, how startups are hiring…
I’ve spent the last few years researching how startup companies hire employees and what I’ve found is that there are a lot of things that they have in common. They all post jobs to job lists including Craigslist. Many of them have tried out online classified services on social networks like Facebook, Doostang and LinkedIn. […]
Gary’s Guide Gets an “F” in Fair Use
It isn’t that often that someone copies and pastes the content of others. When it hapens it is like fingernails on a chalk board. Such was the case when I googled the event that we host (”Social Matchox”) and found that Gary’s Guide copied and pasted our content. Not a screenshot, but full on copy […]
Featured Events
This week and next there are a couple of events that are worth attending for designers, developers and startup entrepreneurs in the DC area. Here they are:
Refresh DC, Thursday, October 23, 2008 (Jason Garber from Mixx on taking things from design to development)
Open Coffee DC, Monday, October 27, 2008 (Two DC based VC’s and a Launchbox […]
Re: Weighting References for Applicants
The following exchange took place on a list that I’m on.
“Subject: Re: QUESTION: References *********** wrote: > > Ultimately, if you can’t find at least three people who can give> strong and enthusiastic references for you, you don’t get hired, no> matter how terrific the interview> > doesn’t that penalize people with longevity/loyalty/seniority, which> […]
Staffing Agency Red Flags Identified
If you are a a company executive, manager or plan to be one anytime soon then you should read this and make sure that your team considers what it means to hire a staffing agency, especially one like this.
This guy, who claims that he’s based in San Francisco, likes spamming my Washington, DC job listings […]
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