Posts by Wendy Weber

As coupon sites like Groupon gain in popularity, retailers are becoming more sophisticated about how they structure their offers. According to Elizabeth Baron in yesterday’s WSJ, merchants are carefully negotiating better revenue splits than they previously had, and tweaking their offerings to make deals work in their favor. In typical deals, a retailer splits the…

According to a January survey of 380 recruiters by online networking site and job board ExecuNet, the job market is heating up! About 51% of search firms agreed that the high-level candidates they work with often receive more than one job offer. That is up from 2010, when only 35% of search firms said that…

The Wall Street Journal reports that businesses including Sprint Nextel Corp., Levi Strauss & Co. and Mattel Inc. are sponsoring college classes and graduate-level research to get help with their online marketing from college students. Sprint, for example, supplies a class at Boston’s Emerson College with smartphones and unlimited service in exchange for students working…

Today’s Wall Street Journal printed an interesting piece which articulates the frustration of many executive recruiters: click here. . Positions that typically took two months to fill before the recession are sometimes taking four times longer, recruiters say, as hiring managers are holding out for better candidates. This becomes especially frustrating for us when the…

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In today’s E-commerce Times: JCPenney, Google Shrug Off Accusations of Search Shenanigans.

A stunning piece on the front of Sunday’s NYT Business Section reveals that J.C. Penney engaged in “black hat” search optimization to raise the profile of their website: click here. It was discovered that for a variety of search terms, from “bedding” to “skinny jeans” to “grommet top curtains” to “Samsonite carry on luggage”, J.C.…

The goal of an interview is to determine whether the candidate should get the job. The way that is accomplished varies greatly from one organization to the next. We see it all…from clients that conduct exhaustive psychological and behavioral testing, to clients that have the candidates present before committees of interviewers, to clients that are…