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Quick Update Firefox Session March 15th, 2pm San Diego SourceCon 2010

The current state of job boards and online recruitment is one of the most discussed and debated topics in our industry. There is no doubt that job boards are changing, the only question which remains is what direction they need to go in order to satisfy the needs of both employers and job seekers alike, particularly given the shifts in job seeker behavior that our Recruitment Genome Report has identified. This is a question that my friend and mentor Peter Weddle is very interested in exploring.

Do you keep hearing about great recruiting and sourcing industry conferences and wondered if they'd ever bring those world-class presenters and best practices to your area?  That way, you wouldn't have to deal with the costs and time lost from travel.  Not a webinar, but an actual, in-person event.

If you were arming a group of sourcers today what would be the top Firefox Add-ons you would want to ensure they were equipped with Day 1?

You will want to consider adding these tools to your personal toolkit so they are present and ready to serve you when needed.

Our selected submittors  are being notified and they will begin the process of creating their own screenshot videos that will showcase their submission with their own narration.

If you get good sourcing and competitive intelligence data from patent search, why go to various individual countries' patent search sites or pay for a consolidated one?

In today’s job marketing my guess is you’re probably receiving a lot of contacts from many unqualified candidates or even from candidates that are outside of the country.

Unfortunately there’s not a way completely weed out the unqualified candidate using any recruitment marketing channel. However, when it comes to recruitment PPC
if you are targeting appropriately and catering your ads to only those candidates that you want to attract, you’re likely to get far fewer unqualified candidates.

Below are some 5 tips to consider when launching your recruitment PPC ads.

Here's another People search engine that may help you in your search efforts. While Pipl.com remains one of my favorites I thought I'd introduce you to another new people search tool called Whoozy

Here’s a cool new tool that helps you visually see recent connections to a person’s twitter account.  This can be particularly useful to find say others of maybe same group/titles/or even interests.   For example you know of a particular engineer/architect – this can visually show other twitter folks whom are connected and also shows mutual connections.  I feel this could be a great way