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From Libraries to Recruiting Research:
How Practices from Library and information Science
Transfer to Sourcing
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by: Justin Sivey, Research Associate, The Teldar Group
My journey from the Library and Information Science world to that of the so...
Security company Marshal reports that their latest survey found 29% of respondents willing to admit that they have purchased something from a spam e-mail.
While that number seems pretty questionable, PCMag's Appscout points to a related survey ...
Oh, what a time we had!
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Digging for Hidden Treasure: Defining the Role and Maximizing the
Value of A Researcher/Sourcer
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by: Alicia L. Scott
About four years ago, I didn’t even know the search/staffing/recruiting industry existed. I had moved to Atlanta in se...
NewsCred garnered quite a bit of attention in its initial private beta launch where ReadWriteWeb was considered by its users to be one of the most credible news sources to read. With less than 20% of readers really believing what their news sourc...
Google Sites, the Google platform for document sharing and collaboration, has been dubbed "SharePoint Light" by many members of the tech community. However, the platform might be getting a new name soon, and one that won't be so nice. Apparently, ...
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One of our favorite Australians, Lachlan Hardy, twittered an interesting question today: What are the three things online that are exciting you most? Lachlan was asked this question as part of a newspaper article in the Sydney Morning Herald. His ...
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Everything is moving to the cloud. As we enter the third decade of the Web we are seeing an increasing shift from native desktop applications towards Web-hosted clones that run in browsers. For example, a range of products such as Microsoft Office...