OK, I admit it…I’ve had my head in the sand for months now, brazenly ignoring this space to work on other projects and hibernate through a not-so-brutal Maryland winter. But it’s April now (it’s still too cold), so I decided to pop my head out the door both literally - by doing some yard work […]

In any employment situation, upheaval is generally the norm - just ask the average American worker, who will plow through about 16 jobs during their working years. As a result, predicting that there will be major changes in the “recruitosphere,” that a major company will layoff thousands of employees or that a big name sports […]

It’s been a while since I’ve written - ironically, it’s probably because my own work-life balance is out of whack. Not that I’m slacking, mind you - just been working very hard on other projects! I don’t think anyone would say that this concept, i.e. - the “work-life balance” is particularly new, but it’s certainly […]

For a great many people out there, working for a professional sports team or anywhere in the organization of a professional sports team seems like the perfect job. We immediately start to imagine George Costanza suddenly thrust into his role as the assistant to the traveling secretary for the New York Yankees. If you’ve ever […]

The answer is that they are still out there, but they are fading fast. The most recent player to drop out of the free job postings game is The Ladders, which I just mentioned last week. Joel Cheesman is speculating that they are likely to open their formerly free job postings up to clients for […]

It seems like only a year ago that we started blogging at Insourced - and that’s exactly how long it’s been. We’re still feeling our way around this growing and dynamic industry, but we’ve also made some great progress with the development of our job board and search engine. We are rapidly approaching 200,000 jobs […]

At Insourced, we knew that having a free job board would invite many spammers and scam artists to post fraudulent jobs and other “work opportunities” that are ultimately designed to con responders out of their money. We were notified today of one in particular (thank you, Patricia) that we’ve actually encountered outside of our job […]

It seems that the approach to job search from the perspective of job boards and from the vast majority of the employment industry at large is the same as we find in other areas of our consumption-based economy – Bigger. Faster. Stronger. Everything is about using the biggest job board or the largest resume database. […]

There is a solid and in-depth article at Ask the Recruiter entitled The Secret Handshake: Why Networking is Vital. The article provides a detailed explanation of why networking is important for job seekers and how to build networks of both quantity and quality. The author, Dakotta J.K. Alex, hits on several of the common reasons […]

Over at Career Hub, there is a post about How to Make Your Resume Turn Up in an Employer’s Search Results. There is no new ground broken here, just some reminders about using targeted keyword phrasing and then variations of the same keyword phrases so that you can account for slight differences in search styles. […]