LinkedIn has released an update to Groups that allows managers the opportunity to create subgroups. Members of a subgroup must be members of the main group, but can participate in more narrowly focused discussions or collaboration. Create a Subgroup for your group here.

What does this mean to recruiters? 

Arbita's flagship job posting software, OnePost, is now available for free directly from our website!

Why is this such a big deal?

I had pretty much abandoned Internet Explorer some time ago (after I left Microsoft, of course) in favor of my long-time favorite browser for over 12 years, and one which is simply a researcher's dream come true, Opera (yeah its free). Frustrating as it is, I do have to use IE for certain websites that are "designed to work only with IE," so I opted to download IE8 which is now out of beta. The new features are a dramatic improvement, and in fact I am warming up to it so much that I now have it open along with Opera.

At this upcoming Fordyce Forum in Las Vegas I’ll be presenting a half-day pre-conference workshop on the topic of “How to Effortlessly Increase Your Billings and Reduce Cost with the Top 20 Fast, Free, and Easy Super-Sourcing Secrets.” If you plan on attending the Fordyce Forum This is a session you just should not miss. Yes, I’ll be revealing to you my top 20 research secrets, but that’s not the only treat you get.

Thank you! We received at least 10 excellent questions in the month of February so you must be virally spreading the word about our “Ask the CyberSleuth” feature. Questions were so good that we had a tough time picking one that stood out above all others. So… we declare it a tie! 

In collaboration with Glenn Gutmacher and Maureen Sharib, I wrote an article ERE considered worthy of their front page today.

Why, you may ask?  

Are you in or near the Bay Area? If so then you should come to this event. Its specific to Bay Area recruiting strategies and how you can increase your hiring success! You need local strategies to solve some of the challenges created by this recession.

March 19th - San Jose Hilton 

This is the first event of it's kind. Presentations will revolve around local demographics, local advertising resources, geographic "selling points" and more to bring the best talent into your organization for the long term. 

A dear friend from Venezuela sent me this memo (its a joke of course) and it was so funny I decided I just had to translate it from Spanish and post it here. My appologies to the author - since this is one of those chain emails I have no idea who you are as your details were not included. If anyone knows the origin I would love to append that to the post.

Sourcing with Semantic Search: The Holy Grail of Recruiting Researchers

Right now, we're only ankle deep into the Deep Web.  When a sourcer uses a search engine, we're only seeing a fraction of the content that exists on the public Internet, because much content is dynamically-generated pages from online databases that web crawlers / bots are unable to spider.  While search engines and various other software companies work on that problem, there's another huge opportunity right under our noses that is being