Jason Gorham Chums the Waters
July 27, 2008
Member Jason Gorham who is the Founder and CEO of Lake Worth-based CareerMetaSearch.com and Sharkstrike.com is getting ready to launch a hybrid service in September:
CareerMetaSearch & Sharkstrike have evolved into the world’s first and largest job keyword engine. Our patented job keyword technology has been in development since 2003, including search engine marketing for various jobs around the world, and now we are bringing our results to you…
Our job keyword engine contains over 30,000 job keywords that are relevant to passive and active job seekers looking for work in technology, entry level, executive, and accounting and finance jobs. Our job posting keyword extraction software captures targeted keywords from your jobs to be displayed to passive candidates throughout the Google network reaching over 80% of internet users. Our database is a collection of CareerMetaSearch.com historical keywords, crawled job keywords, and shared keywords from users of our system.
Sounds nifty, don’t it? Stay posted…
MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Seminar September 4, 2008 in Miami
July 27, 2008
Maureen Sharib, the undisputed authority on telephone names sourcing, will be hosting a full-day training session in Miami. The session is being sponsored by local search firm: Confisa International Group.
| What: | MagicMethod Phone Sourcing All Day Seminar |
| Time: | 8:00AM Networking breakfast 9:00AM – 4:30PM |
| Date: | September 4, 2008 |
| Place: | Ronald W. Shane Center 6500 Indian Creek Dr. Miami Beach, FL. 33141 |
| Cost: | $325.00 (includes 3-month three month subscription “Magic in the Method” telephone names sourcing course) |
| Registration: | Email bob@techtrak.com for registration form or call him at (513) 899-9628 |
Ask for the 10% for South Florida Metro Recruiters!
SourceCon 2008, September 2—4 in Atlanta
July 20, 2008
I’m pleased to be involved in helping organize this year’s SourceCon Conference. Last year’s inaugural conference was a huge hit. This year promises to be even better.
If you are involved with sourcing or research in any shape or form you should make arrangements to be in Atlanta from September 2-4.
Check out the site for details, updates and registration.
Aerotek expands its South Florida operations
July 18, 2008
As reported in the South Florida Business Journal:
Technical and professional staffing agency Aerotek has opened in an office in West Palm Beach, the Business Development Board of Palm Beach County said.
The company, which already has offices in Fort Lauderdale, Miramar and Miami, has been looking for a West Palm Beach office since early this year. Aerotek said the additional office will create 10 internal positions and hundreds of contract and contract-to-hire positions over the next year. As of February, it had 76 internal employees and 675 contract employees in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
BROWN BAG RECRUITER: August 19 in Orlando
July 18, 2008
In mid-August our friends in Orlando are in for a BROWN BAG RECRUITER treat, a full-day interactive recruiter training session…
| What: | BROWN BAG RECRUITER, Orlando | No Cost/Low Cost Sourcing Workshop and Clinic |
| Time: | 8:30AM |
| Date: | August 19, 2008 |
| Place: | Jobing.com Community Room 2290 Lucien Way Suite 350 Maitland, FL 32751 |
| Cost: | Alumni $185.00 Others $205.00 |
| Registration: | Online |
Web 2.0 Trends and Stats: Separating the Hype from Reality
July 18, 2008
In the spirit of marketing optimization, The Florida Direct Marketing Association and American Marketing Association-South have partnered with South Florida Interactive Marketing Association to bring us a sit down dinner, networking and presentation by eMarketer CEO Geoff Ramsey.
This could be worth checking out…
| What: | Web 2.0 Trends and Stats: Separating the Hype from Reality |
| Time: | 6:30PM |
| Date: | August 14, 2008 |
| Place: | Riverside Hotel 620 East Las Olas Blvd Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301 |
| Cost: | Members free Others $45.00 At-the-door $55.00 |
| Contact/RSVP: | membership@sfima.com |
Give me your B-players and I’ll give you mine
July 18, 2008
Allison Ross reports in the Palm Beach Post that FPL and a few other area employers have decided to cast their lot with recruiting solution de jour AllianceQ. Oh, my.
Buying into the old “more cost-efficient way to recruit people for jobs” codswallop it seems the employers you’d expect to be the most savvy can still leave one scratching their head wondering, “What the hell are they thinking?” Of course, I could be missing something but the AllianceQ sales-gotcha that drawing from a pool of other employers’ rejects somehow delivers better quality candidates is hard to understand.
AllianceQ rationalize it like this:
Say Company A spends $2 million a year to advertise, and that brings in 500,000 job applicants. They can only hire about 2 percent of those people…Then they take the rest and put them in a pool. Now the companies can leverage each others advertising spends.”
I would have thought that if a company can only hire 2% of the people it attracts something is fundamentally wrong. It could be profiling, employer branding, sourcing strategy, screening, assessment and/or selection but whatever it is, I cannot imagine why anyone would want to compound the problem be adding more B-player fuel to the fire.
The Human Capitalist has an interesting follow-up post with some alternative points of view. As for me, I think someone in procurement needs a follow-up of their own, don’t you?
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