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Career Blogs

by Steven Rothberg

RSM McGladrey Joins the Blogosphere
RSM McGladrey, one of the nation's top accounting firms, is fortunate to have a number of highly skilled recruiters who understand that recruiting is about selling and therefore marketing their opportunities is critical to their ability to hire the best...

Banner Ads -- Maybe They're Not So Bad
I've never been a fan of traditional banner advertising. From the time they were introduced in the mid-1990's through their standardization at the urging of Proctor & Gamble in 1999 through today, banner ads have typically been sold based on...

Recruiters Are Flaky
Well, some recruiters are flaky, but what occupation doesn't have its fair share of flakes? A tip of the hat to Lee Charles of The Hire Sense blog for summarizing 10 mistakes that employers make when trying to hire new...

Catch the Spirit in St. Louis
I'm looking forward to spending a couple of days in beautiful St. Louis next week. I'll be there with national account executive Mike Palmquist for the Midwest Association of Colleges and Employers (MwACE) annual conference. It is at the Millennium...

Hybrid Cars and Fuel Efficiency
One of the beautifies of being a blogger and being an owner of the web site on which the blog is published is that you have a lot more flexibility about what you write than you would if you worked...

Sure College Students Are Entrepreneurial But Where Can They Get Funding?
There's little doubt that Gen Y is entrepreneurial, especially the males. A lot of would be entrepreneurs of all ages figure that they just need a good idea and they'll be successful. As someone who founded and runs CollegeRecruiter.com, I...

We're Helping College Students and Grads Get LinkedIn
One of my biggest frustrations with helping college students searching for internships and recent graduates hunting for entry level jobs is that many don't yet know how to network. It isn't that they're stupid or lazy. They simply haven't been...

July Minnesota Recruiters (un)Conference Almost Sold Out
One of my buddies in the recruiting industry is Paul DeBettignies of Nerd Search. In addition to being a huge University of Minnesota Golden Gopher football fan, having a last name that is pronounced completely different from how it is...

Our Bitchiest Employee Has Surgery
We're all pretty relieved over here as one of our favorite yet least productive employees had successful surgery yesterday. Seems that Maggy K. Neign had bladder stones but the surgeon was able to take care of the problem and Maggy...

Community Service Applications Way, Way Up
Job applications from college students to federal community service programs such as Teach for America are way, way up. The explanations vary, but it is clear that far more of today's college students are applying for positions with AmeriCorps, the...

Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Since moving to the U.S. in 1988, I've grown to love football. Not football like just about everyone outside of North America thinks of it. That's soccer. My kids play and love it. I get the game enough to know...

Job Postings No Longer Cutting Edge: Finally!
Late June and July are great seasons for college job boards to connect with their largest employer clients and help them plan and budget for the upcoming college hiring year. One of the big changes that I've noticed this year...

Employers Valuing Internships
It is amazing and most gratifying to hear employer after employer and client after client telling us that their organizations recognize the strategic value of a strong internship program and how they're taking steps to build or enhance their programs....

Happy 4th of July
I was born and raised in Winnipeg, Canada and moved to the U.S. to attend grad school. I became a naturalized U.S. citizen a few years later. Since then, the first week in July has been quite significant to me...

Jason Davis Weds Dave Mendoza
Well, not a wedding in the traditional sense but still a match made in heaven. Jason Davis -- founder of Recruiting.com, later founder of RecruitingBlogs.com, owner of dozens of great recruiting domain names, and master poker player. Dave Mendoza --...