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Best HR Blogs of 2007

sucharith — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:03:30 +0000

RecruitingBlogs has just published the top HR blogs of 2007. The best Overall Recruiting Blog takes home a Trip to Las Vegas sponsored by Zoominfo!

Any guesses… If you guessed it was a Dave… You got it rite! Dave does win the Overall Recruiting Blog Award and the trip to Las Vegas…

The Other winners are as under…

Best Recruiting Blogosphere Personality :Recruiting Animal

Best Third Party Recruiting Blog : Hiring Revolution

Best Recruiting Technology Blog : I, Donato

Best Job Hunting Blog : Wired & Hired

Best Corporate Recruiting Blog : WirelessJobs.com

Best Sourcing/Research Blog : CyberSleuthing (My Favorite Sourcing Blog)

Best Group Blog : Xtra Cheezhead

Best Recruiting Industry Blog : Six Degrees From Dave

Best HR Blog : Gautam Ghosh (My all time favorite HR Blog )

My hearty Congratulations to everybody out there and I’m glad to see Gautam here ! You truly deserve a mention. I have a couple of people out here whom I have’nt read… So let me do the catching up.. C you guys soon Congrats once again!!

HR Jobs Portal

sucharith — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:06:20 +0000

HR Professionals sometimes have to get themselves a job too. Jobs4HR just does that for you… Jobs4Hr is a portal where you can help you with you to look for HR Jobs / Recruiting Jobs or helps you search talent for your team & also helps you get updated on various HR topics…

Jobs4HR is quite unique and heres a list of what it can do for you! Njoy

Jobvite manages a 7.2 Million $ Funding

sucharith — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:15:58 +0000

Jobvite, an innovative on demand recruitment solution provider has attracted a whoppin 7.2 Million dollar investment from CMEAVentures. Jobvite provides an on-demand recruitment application that manages the entire recruiting and hiring process. Built on Web 2.0 technologies, Jobvite is radically easy to use for everyone involved in recruiting. Social networking, collaboration and Outlook integration engage all employees productively in their hiring tasks. The Software as a Service application solves the problem of coordinating hiring activities and data across departments, so companies can identify and hire the best people.

Its interesting to see that that Jobvite also has roped in TiVo and Tellme Networks as their partners and this is surely going to turn heads around! Innovation does help and at this talent war we would surely want to see some innovation

All the best guys..!!

SuzyTonini wins SourceCon 2007’s Sourcing Challenge #2

sucharith — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:45:57 +0000

If you have’nt heard it yet, Suzy Tonini has won the Round 2 of the Sourcing Challenge organized by SourceCon 2007.

Suzy Tonini began her career with internet sleuthing back in 1996 when she uncovered a scam involving treasure hunters and a very prominent investor. Online forums involving these shady characters led her to the real scoop, and long story short, the investor flew her up and promptly stopped the whole operation, saving him possibly millions of dollars.

When Suzy joined MRI back in 1999 as an Internet Researcher, she quickly was nominated to be among the top 5% of the researchers in the industry. In 2001, she co-founded MTR Executive search and then later InfoSourcer, diligently searching for IT candidates when the IT industry was in the doldrums. In August 2006, Suzy accepted a contract assignment with Deloitte Services and was tasked, initially, with finding great SAP Consultants. Her success and strengths of her internet research skills have since been utilized in various areas of Deloitte, and she joined them full-time as a Manager of Internet Research in April 2007. Suzy truly enjoys her sleuthing work and loves being a part of a great team.

Suzy has also posted how she won the challenge on her post “How I Won SourceCon Challenge #2”

The Challenge #3 is all set to be launched on August 13, 2007 at 12.00 PM EDT… So tune in to SourceCon… Till then my best wishes to Suzy and also the winner of Sourcing Challenge #1! Great show guys… Great work!

The Rise of Vertical Job Search Engines

Sucharith Menon — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:23:56 +0000

Vertical Job Search Engines are Job Search Engines with a Difference. Vertical Job Boards is a new way to Index Jobs freely from employers sites, Manpower Consultant Websites, Traditional Career sites etc all at the same time. Like any other search engine, a vertical search engine also is a door to information, but vertical search engines tend to streamline information easier and most importantly at one stop.

The success of Indeed, Simplyhired, Jobster evokes introduction by many players with respect to Asian / Indian context as well. Recruit.net, adopted job aggregators / job metasearch site first in Asia and later followed up by creating the Indian Version as well India.Recruit.net. Bixee founded by ex-Yahoo employees which is now a part of MIH.

Yesterday, I came across another IT Vertical search engine, Gladoo which is currently in Beta Testing Phase. Gladoo has struck the right notes by targeting the IT Industry and this site offers one stop search access to jobs by aggregating job listings from all major job portals, classified sites, recruitment agenc ies, and corporate websites. The look and feel is very Web 2.0ish and has been created by Avake, a Technology company who have their roots from the Silicon Valley. Gladoo can also collect Job Listings from your Career Site, all you have to do is fill this form, their spiders will do the rest.

I am also glad to see that India’s leading Portal, Rediff has also started its Jobs Search Engine, which I will be covering in the future posts.

If you are asger to know the best Job Search Aggregators, you will find them on The Job SearchVertical’s list and Eric Shannon if you are reading this post, you now have few more to add in your list.