http://thechad.jobcentral.com Online Recruiting History | Online Recruiting Innovation Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:24:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After nearly three years of operation The National Labor Exchange and it's partnership of state workforce and corporate stakeholders has proven tremendous and widely held success throughout the nation. Improved labor market efficiencies, advocacy, shared information and simply providing more real jobs to job seekers throughout the nation are merely a ... http://thechad.jobcentral.com/index.php/2009/11/02/explaining-the-national-labor-exchange/ Okay so I had a few minutes of fun with xtranormal a really cool text to movie site.. It's easy and a blast! This is my "Jobs are FREE" attempt at comedy ;o) http://thechad.jobcentral.com/index.php/2009/10/29/jobs-are-free-humor-video/ I was HACKED.. but now I'm back! - Chad http://thechad.jobcentral.com/index.php/2009/10/29/hacked-and-bac/ Sometimes mere perception can prove not to be "mere" at all.. Being a non-profit we (DirectEmployers Association) take our knocks every now and again, regarding industry perceptions, although we generally just ignore the ignorance. Generally mind you, not always.. Lately the ignorance has been focused on our new automated SEO ... http://thechad.jobcentral.com/index.php/2009/10/14/directemployers-search-engine-optimization/ Even since seeing the movie Minority Report I've been patiently waiting for touch screen computing. Then Microsoft started teasing me with these incredibly cool Surface videos a couple years ago which about sent my surpressed geekdom over the edge. Then came iPhone.. THANK GOD! But that wasn't quite enough.. It ... http://thechad.jobcentral.com/index.php/2009/10/05/bumptop-windows7/ In the late 90's job boards were a necessity, if you wanted to recruit online. Why? Because many companies didn't have websites let alone career sites. So if recruiting was to be done online it could only be facilitated through the job board, which started a cycle of dependency. How ... http://thechad.jobcentral.com/index.php/2009/09/30/break-job-board-dependancy/ We have all noticed HUGE changes in workforce dynamics over the years comparing generation to generation. Well here's a little story, hiding a rather large rant, I thought I would share. I was having dinner with a group of friends back in March and as the discussion turned away from ... http://thechad.jobcentral.com/index.php/2009/09/22/ranting-about-privilege/ If you're a DirectEmployers Association member company and you haven't registered for the Annual Meeting... http://thechad.jobcentral.com/index.php/2009/09/17/directemployers-annual-meeting-rocky-mountain-high/ I have been asked on several occasions "Why is the Army so interested in young men who play video games?" Answer: Land Warrior http://thechad.jobcentral.com/index.php/2009/07/20/land-warrior-army-recruiting/ The internet has been experiencing a massive amount of duplicate job content over the past couple of years. No question this content has been used to help job seekers find jobs, unfortunately it has also been used to leverage traffic using duplicative content, extract job seeker information and create many ... http://thechad.jobcentral.com/index.php/2009/06/24/cross-pollination-duplication-jobs/