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July 31 HRchitect WebMingle Featured Indeed, Next Up is nowHIRE

July 31, 2009

Our weekly web mingle is designed to give you some insight into the puzzling world of HR technology, discuss news from around the world that we find interesting, talk about upcoming events in our industry, and provide insightful interviews with people of our industry – who they are, what they do and why you should care. The WebMingle has become the most popular live weekly Internet show in the HR technology industry!

So what is a WebMingle? It is a meeting over the web where we do some business, socialize and yes, we mingle over the web. Thus, a WebMingle.

The 50-minute WebMingle on July 31st, the 29^th in our WebMingle series, featured Paul Forster, CEO and co-Founder, and Jason Whitman, VP of Client services with Indeed. It was another fantastic WebMingle as Paul and Jason have tremendous insights and passion around online job search and the technology behind it. We touched on a number of issues related to that including:

The difference between a search engine (which Indeed.com is) and a job board
How Indeed is helping companies with their recruiting
The types of companies that are gravitating toward Indeed and their formula for success
Kinds of information and analytics on traffic that companies can see about their jobs
How companies are measuring the ROI of their advertising on Indeed
What some of the challenges are with shifting companies’ mindsets from pay-per-post to pay-per-click recruitment advertising
Great information about the composition of the Indeed.com site’s overall traffic and how different industries are doing
…and more

About Indeed

Indeed, Inc. was founded in 2004 with the aim of radically improving online job search. The company pioneered the application of a true search engine methodology to jobs and, with the beta-launch of Indeed.com in November 2004, immediately became the most comprehensive job search service on the Web. The company was quickly recognized as an industry leader both in trade and business media. Indeed.com was selected by Time magazine as one of the “Top 10 Websites” for 2007. The company and its impact on online job search have also been profiled in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, The Boston Globe, and Money Magazine.

About Paul Forster, CEO and Co-Founder

Paul Forster is CEO and co-founder of Indeed, an award-winning search engine for jobs. Since 2004, Indeed has given job seekers free access – instantly, in a single search – to millions of jobs from thousands of company websites, job boards, newspapers, blogs and associations. Paul previously co-founded Jobsinthemoney, the leading finance jobsite.

About Jason Whitman, VP of Client Services

For more than 10 years, Jason Whitman has specialized in recruitment marketing and technology, working with clients to develop award-winning recruiting campaigns and career Web sites. At Indeed.com, Jason focuses on client education, measurement and tracking, helping clients monitor the ROI of their online recruitment advertising and understand the performance of their Indeed pay-per-click advertising campaigns.

If you missed this past week’s WebMingle, or any of our past WebMingles, please visit our web site at www.HRWebMingle.com. You will see a complete list of upcoming guests and will be able to listen to past shows.

Our next WebMingle will take place on August 7 with Joseph Impastato, President of nowHIRE, an Applicant Tracking Systems vendor. We look forward to welcoming Joseph to the HRchitect WebMingle next week.

We hope to have you join us!

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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Don’t Miss This Week’s WebMingle with Paul Forster and Jason Whitman of Indeed

July 30, 2009

As we hope you know by now, the weekly WebMingle is designed to give you some insight into the puzzling world of HR technology, discuss news from around the world that we find interesting, talk about upcoming events in our industry, and provide insightful interviews with people of our industry – who they are, what they do and why you should care. The WebMingle has become the most popular live weekly Internet show in the HR technology industry!

This week’s guests will be Paul Forster, CEO and Co-Founder and Jason Whitman, Vice-President of Client Services of Indeed.

Visit www.HRchitect.com/Knowledge/WebMingle to listen live on Friday, July 31nd at 1pm CST to the 29th show in our WebMingle series. If you missed any of our previous WebMingles, you can also access them from that page.

Below is a list of some of our upcoming guests:

Aug 7 – Joseph Impastato, President of nowHIRE, a talent acquisition systems vendor

Aug 14 – A.G. Lambert, VP of Marketing with Saba, a learning and talent management systems vendor

Aug 21 – Samantha Hanson, EVP of Products and People for Verifications, Inc., Onboarding and background screening specialists

Aug 28 – Fidel Baca, Principal with ExponentHR, an HR systems and payroll provider

Sep 4 – Dimitri Boylan, Founder & CEO of Avature, a Talent Sourcing vendor

Sep 11 – Peter Brasket, co-Founder and SVP with Jobs2Web, a Web 2.0 Recruitment Marketing Provider

Sep 18 – Samantha Hanson, EVP of Products and People for Verifications, Inc., Onboarding and background screening specialists

Sep 25 – Barbara Levin, Sr. VP of Marketing & Customer Community with Onboarding specialists, Enwisen

Oct 2 – Julia Friemering, Marketing with MyStaffingPro, a Talent Acquisitions Systems vendor

We look forward to welcoming Paul Forster and Jason Whitman from Indeed to the HRchitect WebMingle this Friday and hope to have you join us as well.

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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HRchitect ‘Hearts’ Community Involvement

July 23, 2009

Community involvement is something we hold very dear in our hearts here at HRchitect, although we don’t blog about or promote it regularly. Here at the Frisco office, our employees have held City Council positions, sit on various city committees and also hold board positions of community organizations. One of my favorite organizations is Frisco Women’s League®, which Karen Cunninghamand I are members of. Frisco Women’s League (FWL) supports numerous charities and organizations in and around Frisco by providing volunteer support for so many organizations and the City.

Karen Cunningham & Tiffany Appleby

Most recently, as part of our work with FWL, Karen and I participated in the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life® event. Most everyone has been touched by cancer in some form or another, whether it be themselves, family members, friends, coworkers or neighbors. We were both inspired to participate in the event because of this reason. The mission of Relay is to Celebrate those who have battled cancer, Remember loved ones lost to the disease and to Fight Back and in support of this message, Relay teams walk all night to fight back against cancer, one step at a time.

Our team began the Relay at 7 PM and was on the track, non-stop, until thunderstorms blew in and shut down the event, around 4 AM. I was truly amazed at the energy of those participating, not only from our team, but from the dozens of others. It was inspiring to be amongst so many survivors and caregivers of this horrible disease that were there celebrating their win against Cancer and fundraising to help find a cure.

I enjoyed the Relay for Life event immensely and know that Karen did as well. We’re looking forward to next year’s event and hope that some of our readers will get involved as well. I definitely encourage it!

If you would like to learn more about the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life Event, or to get involved in a local event, visit their website: RelayforLife.org.

Stay tuned to future blog posts to learn more about other organizations and charities that HRchitect supports.

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July 22 HRchitect WebMingle Featured AIRS, Next Up is OutStart

July 22, 2009

So what is a WebMingle? It is a meeting over the web where we do some business, socialize and yes, we mingle over the web. Thus, a WebMingle.

The 60-minute WebMingle on July 22nd, the 28^th in our WebMingle series, featured Chris Forman, President of AIRS. It was another fascinating WebMingle as Chris has tremendous insights and passion around recruiting processes and technology. We touched on a number of issues related to that including:

The acquisition of AIRS by The RightThing and how well that relationship has been going
Some of the key trends in recruiting technology these days
Social networking and recruiting
What’s new at AIRS
What is the next big thing in recruiting
…and more

About The RightThing and AIRS

The RightThing is the number one enterprise recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) provider. Harnessing the power of unmatched proprietary technology, The RightThing continues to lead the industry with innovative, scalable solutions that help clients find, recruit, hire and retain top talent. Dedicated to recruitment leadership, technology and outsourcing, The RightThing offers recruiting solutions to small, medium and large organizations serving many of the world’s leading companies. The RightThing is also parent company to AIRS, the leading provider of recruitment training. Founded in 2003, The RightThing has grown exponentially since inception and has ranked in the Top 25 Best Small and Medium Companies to Work for in America for three consecutive years.

About Chris Forman, President of AIRS

Chris Forman serves as Chief Development Officer of The RightThing and President of AIRS. Over his 15 year technology career, Forman has become a seasoned business executive and one of the HR industry’s most dynamic speakers and thinkers on recruiting technology, talent development, and OFCCP compliance. Mr. Forman has spoken at more than 75 HR and recruiting industry events and has been quoted in publications such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, HR Executive, Government Executive, SI Review and Purple Squirrel. Prior to joining AIRS in 1998, (acquired by The RightThing in 2008), Mr. Forman held a series of leadership positions at fast-growth technology firms including Centricut (acquired by Hypertherm in 1998) and Direct Imaging. He is a graduate of Colby College and lives with his wife Angela and their four children Emma, Noah, Will, and Sara in Meriden, NH.

Our next WebMingle will take place on July 29 (rescheduled from July 24) with Jeff Whitney, VP of Marketing, at OutStart, a Learning Management Systems vendor. We will have a second WebMingle that week on Friday, July 30, with Paul Forster, Founder of Indeed, an online job search provider. We look forward to welcoming Jeff and Paul to the HRchitect WebMingle next week.

We hope to have you join us!

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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Don’t Miss This Week’s WebMingle with Chris Forman, President of AIRS

July 18, 2009

Our weekly WebMingle usually takes place each Friday but the episode scheduled for Friday, July 17 had to be moved to Wednesday, July 22 due to my travel schedule.

This week’s guest will be Chris Forman, Chief Development Officer of The RightThing and President of AIRS.

Visit www.HRchitect.com/Knowledge/WebMingle to listen live on Friday, July 22nd at 1pm CST to the 28th show in our WebMingle series. If you missed any of our previous WebMingles, you can also access them from that page.

Below is a list of some of our upcoming guests:

July 24 – Jeff Whitney, VP of Marketing with OutStart, a learning management systems vendor

July 31 – Paul Forster, Founder of Indeed, an online job search provider