Posts by Wendy Weber

The First Half of 2010 Executive Search and Recruiting Survey Results are in… In an ongoing effort to stay abreast and keep you informed of the Executive Search Industry trends, The Executive Recruiter’s Roundtable surveyed 3,797 Executive Search Firms in the United States. The questions on the survey ranged from your company’s history and the…

Now you have 30 seconds to change your mind and Undo a send in Gmail! http://mashable.com/2009/03/19/gmail-undo-send.

Over the past few years, I have heard a variety of opinions about Search Engine Optimization, and the staff required to keep a site properly optimized. Obviously, a major internet retailer will have SEO pros on staff. But you would be surprised at the number of companies that rely on ecommerce as a substantial part…

Any loyalty marketing professional who isn’t aware of the relevance of location based social networks should read this piece regarding Foursquare in the Wall Street Journal: click here. I talked about the explosion of location based mobile networking in an earlier blog post, and its use has been growing at an impressive rate. Foursquare alone…

Interesting to hear of 2 stories yesterday regarding disgruntled workers quitting their jobs in dramatic ways. One was the Jet Blue pilot who, upset with a customer who wouldn’t follow directions, cursed out the entire plane on the public-address system, activated the inflatable emergency evacuation slide, then slid down it, escaping into John F. Kennedy…

Chris Erickson wrote an article in this week’s New York Post called Unemployed:  The Scarlet U.  It talks about the frustrating experience many unemployed job seekers have of being eliminated from consideration for job opportunities because they are currently unemployed.  One posting actually read, “Must provide proof of current W-2 income.” There is a certain mentality…

I am a big user of social media sites for networking.  In fact, I utilize them on a daily basis. They are great way for recruiters to identify, and reach out to,  candidates that they would not otherwise be aware of. But I encourage direct marketers…in fact all working people, to do a better job…

Just when I thought I had seen it all, resume wise, I received a resume with a QR Code. I didn’t have a clue as to what to do with it.  I learned that although initially QR codes were used for tracking parts in vehicle manufacturing, they are now used in a much broader context,…

What makes it so hard for a new site to rise to the top of SEO rankings, and what allows some sites to get away with more unnatural behavior than others. One of the most misunderstood SEO and link building factors is authority. What makes it so hard for a new site to score and…