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A conversation with Bill Vick

How Bill Vick and I put our recent deal together. All on the telephone but first, a video where I interviewed him at BullHorn Live back in 99



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Added by Slouch on July 7, 2010 at 9:36pm — 3 Comments

25,000 members on RecruitingBlogs.com

I remember when RecruitingBlogs.com hit a thousand members. That was a lot. I remember being at a Kennedy show in Las Vegas and there were 30 members on RecruitingBlogs.com and there was a lot of activity. I remember when there were 300 members on RecruitingBlogs.com and the lawyer's letter arrived with a cease and desist from Jobster.

This week we passed the 25,000 member mark and I am proud of that. I want to thank everyone who has taken time, even the smallest amount of time to cont… Continue

Added by Slouch on May 21, 2010 at 2:31pm — 8 Comments

CruiterTalk.com merges with RecruitingTools.com to Expand Offerings

CruiterTalk.com, run by recruiting blogger and HR technology expert Ryan Leary is merging with recruiting and HR directory, RecruitingTools.com. The new sit… Continue

Added by Slouch on May 21, 2010 at 1:47am — 2 Comments

StandoutJobs.com Gets Acquired

It's an exciting day for Ben Yoskovitz who is/was the CEO of StandoutJobs.com. Ben wrote on his blog today about the sale of StandoutJobs.com

I remember walking into their office while StandoutJobs was in development so that Ben and I could talk about the product and brainstorm ideas. That was the first time I met him an… Continue

Added by Slouch on May 3, 2010 at 2:44pm — 1 Comment

RecruitFest! Press Release

On Friday we announced that in partnership with Monster, RecruitFest! will take place in Boston next October. Here is the press release that went out this morning. It's going to be a great event and I hope you all mark early October off on your calendar. I hear Boston is a nice place that time of year.
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Added by Slouch on April 19, 2010 at 1:00pm — No Comments

RecruitFest!

I am really happy that I can announce RecruitFest! today. There are a lot of details coming but essentially RecruitFest will be in the Fall 2010 in Boston. I'm very excited to also say that Monster has partnered with RecruitFest! in order to be a part of what historically has been an outstanding Recruiting event. This says a lot on a lot of different levels. It was not an easy thing to put in place but we did and we wi… Continue

Added by Slouch on April 16, 2010 at 12:00pm — 4 Comments

Recruiting.com sells Jobster - now I think the real game begins

I wanted to put it out there that the day may come when Recruiting.com (the company) sells the domain name Recruiting.com. From my perspective as a guy who has done pretty well in the domain name industry, that domain name is the one to own if you had a choice. Maybe Jobs.com… Continue

Added by Slouch on April 5, 2010 at 10:00pm — 8 Comments

Today At StarBucks with the Recruiting Animal

Animal: JD, where's my money JD: It's close Animal: HOW CLOSE JD: you don't have to scream, we're at StarBucks. Animal: (looks around) JD: like I said, it's close Animal: JD, I want my money. I've kept you in business long enough and now it's my turn JD: (Silence) Animal: (Silence) Animal: you know… Continue

Added by Slouch on January 29, 2010 at 7:42am — 9 Comments

Job Boards for RecruitingBlogs.com

I wanted to tell you about a few new job sites we here at RecruitingBlogs.com have put together with the help of Job Target SemiconductorJobs.com StartupJobs.com SiliconValleyJobs.com VideoJobs.com DirectorJ… Continue

Added by Slouch on January 4, 2010 at 9:32am — No Comments

Bill Vick

I got an email from Bill Vick today and it made me think of this video I did with him a while back. Continue

Added by Slouch on December 17, 2009 at 4:35pm — No Comments

Yesterday On The Phone with the Recruiting Animal

This was the most infuriating conversation I have ever had with the the Recruiting Animal ring ring Animal: Hello me: It's me, I have a question to ask Animal: Go ahead me: How do you say obnoxious little sister in Yiddish Animal: Vahksin zuls du vi a tsibeleh, mitten kup in drerd me: Why do you need to insult me Animal: (silence) (silence) me: Animal, are you there? Animal: Nem zich a vaneh me: ok, enough with the… Continue

Added by Slouch on December 10, 2009 at 6:44pm — No Comments

Recruiter Houseparty Tonight at 8pm

Tonight there is a new radio show about recruiting of course and it's hosted by Geoff Webb. It's the first show of this series and he will be talking about online recruiting communities and the things to think about when building them. Geoff asked me and Dave Manaster who runs ere.net to join him for the discussion. Dave's a smart guy and a good friend so I'm not too nervous… Continue

Added by Slouch on November 11, 2009 at 5:16pm — No Comments

The Stay At Home Conference - coming soon to a couch near you.

When it's time to shut the computer and go to bed, if you force yourself maybe a couple of extra minutes, sometimes you find something that made those extra few minutes worth it. Like tonight for instance, I don't know how many other people will find this interesting but if you look at this page which looks like a Onrec/Kenned… Continue

Added by Slouch on October 28, 2009 at 12:56am — 8 Comments

I can't take it anymore

Ring Ring Animal: Hello? JD: It's me. Animal: (silence) JD: you know what just happened to me? Animal: (silence) JD: I just threw up and it came out of my nose. Animal: good. JD: Yeah, anyways, you want to know why? Animal: (silence) JD: You made it to the list of the 21 HR leaders in web 2.0 that people m… Continue

Added by Slouch on October 26, 2009 at 9:00pm — 6 Comments

Today's phone call to The Recruiting Animal Inspired by Lance Haun

Ring Ring Animal: hello? JD: It's me. Animal: (screams) JAY DEE JD: You know, you have not called me in 3 weeks. Animal: I have not talked to Anthony Meaney or Jim Durbin for years. JD: I know because if we don't call you you would never call us. Animal: (silence) JD: It's doesn't matter. Listen, I'm calling to tell you that twitter has gone to shit? Animal: (screaming like a maniac) JAY DEE, I AM THE MOST INFLUENTIAL RECRUI… Continue

Added by Slouch on October 24, 2009 at 3:30pm — 5 Comments

A list of 21 HR people places you should know about according to Icims

Icims put out a list of 21 HR people and sites worth following/knowing about. Thanks for including RecruitingBlogs.com Continue

Added by Slouch on October 21, 2009 at 3:00pm — 2 Comments

RecruitingBlogs.com Acquires PunkRockHR.com

I love days when I can share good news and today is one of them. I am happy to be able announce that RecruitingBlogs.com has acquired PunkRockHR.com and even more excited about being able to work with Laurie Ruettimann. Laurie has a great spirit and she knows how to make things work. If you have not been to her blog in th… Continue

Added by Slouch on October 19, 2009 at 7:00am — 13 Comments

Good news before morning coffee

I love waking up to an inbox that says you now own 20 new great domain names. Good old @milesJ Continue

Added by Slouch on October 14, 2009 at 10:42am — 2 Comments

interesting view on the difficulties of innovating in the recruiting Industry

From the reason SnapTalent.com closed it's doors. "The online recruitment space has its own unique market dynamics that restrict innovation on the company side. From the outset, online recruitment spend is huge. Its a market with the right fundamentals from the outside looking in. Its a large market ($10B/year spend), with rich customers, and poor innovation. It sounds like an entrepreneur's dream. The truth is that there are barriers to adoption of newer technologies which come down to the pos… Continue

Added by Slouch on October 8, 2009 at 6:35pm — No Comments

HashLove

I love twitter for a lot of reasons. I'm happy that I am alive in the same era that twitter arrived in because I love it that much. What I love the most about twitter though is how it works and how it enables a lot of possibilities and how it works with job distribution but the great thing is that twitter works I think with almost everything. About a m… Continue

Added by Slouch on September 2, 2009 at 12:30am — 2 Comments

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