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by Steven Rothberg

CollegeRecruiter.com is 1,403 on the Inc. 5,000 Fastest Growing Companies
Inc.com, which bills itself as the daily resource for entrepreneurs, each year releases its list of the 5,000 fastest growing, privately held companies in the U.S. This year, CollegeRecruiter.com made the Inc. 5,000 list as the 1,403rd fast growing company,...

Blog Comments Should Come Full Circle
A question from several of the 500+attendees to our free webinar last week on how employers can and should use Facebook for recruiting was whether employers would encourage negative comments about their organizations if those employers started blogging, using Facebook,...

How to Create a Facebook Fan Page
A number of recruiters and other human resource professionals asked what might seem to be a stupid question both during and after last week's free webinar on how employers can and should use Facebook for recruiting. The question was how...

Cell Phone Text Messaging Embraced by Barack Obama
My daily newspaper reported this morning that Barack Obama's campaign is using cell phone text messaging (SMS) to better connect and motivate his supporters. Want periodic updates on the campaign? Text "obama" (without the quotes" to 62262. Want to know...

Hypocritical Oath
One of the tenants by which I try to run CollegeRecruiter.com is not to make strategic decisions based upon tactical problems or vice versa. For example, if an employee is taking an lunch break that is too long, don't fire...

Free Webinar: Best Practices for Using Cell Phone Text Messaging to Recruit College Students
Yesterday we had well over 500 attendees to our first free recruiting-related webinar. The topic was how employers can and should use Facebook for recruiting. It was such a success that we've already scheduled the next webinar. Join us. Date:...

Is Facebook Poisonous to Employers?
One of the questions sent to me after today's free webinar on how employers can and should use Facebook for recruiting was the following: The resistance we tend to get about Facebook and MySpace (and this is often the extent...

Recap of Our Facebook Webinar
We had well over 500 attendees to our free webinar on how employers can and should use Facebook for recruiting. Within minutes, HR Search Marketing posted a fabulous recap. A tip of the hat to Nicole Bodem! Our next free...

Text "College" to 95495
We've all seen billboards, television shows, print ads, and on-line ads urging us to use our cell phones to text a keyword such as "college" to a cell phone short code number such as 95495. In fact, do just that....

Pay Per Click and Pay Per Lead Job Postings
Since job boards essentially came into existence 14 years ago, the pricing model has overwhelmingly been a flat rate for a specified period of time. For example, we charge $175 for a job posting ad for 60 days. Many sites...

Best Cities for College Graduates
The ten cities with the best combination of high starting salaries, low costs of living, and strong employment markets are:...

LatPro Launches JobBoardBlogs.com
Eric Shannon and the rest of the LatPro team recently created a new site, JobBoardBlogs.com. It promises to deliver career tips, job-search tips and other news from top job boards to readers -- updated every 15 minutes and available to...

Alexandra Levit Video: How Employers Should Attract Gen Y
Two of my favorite recruiting experts recently teamed up to shoot a short video. The topic? One which is near and dear to my heart: tactics and strategies that employers should use to attract the best Gen Y / Millennial...

The Best Recruiting Video
You've heard the express that "a picture is worth 1,000 words," right? Well, if that's true, then how many words is this recruitment video from Whirlpool worth?...

400 Registrations for Free Webinar on Using Facebook for Recruiting
We'll likely hit 400 registrations later today for next week's free webinar on how employers can and should use social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace for recruiting. Some good friends of ours such as Jason Davis at RecruitingBlogs.com...

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