links for 2006-12-09

Studies of the mental processes of chess grandmasters have revealed clues to how people become experts in other fields as well

Scraped Content – Scraped content is taking content from a web site and repackaging it to make it look different, but in essence it is nothing more than a duplicate page. With the popularity of blogs on the internet and the syndication of those blogs, scr

“career” Web site and therefore a corresponding domain name, such as www.companycareers.com or www.company.com/careers. They want recruitment efforts focused on career opportunities, not job openings, and the .jobs domain name can send the wrong message.

While every corporate career Web site has possible areas for improvement (home page music?), Limited has at least recognized that jobs are an important part of the user experience and can be integrated in useful, targeted, time-saving ways for job seekers

Ross is an interesting guy who’s been at the center of a bunch of trends, including Web 2.0, blogging, social media, and boom and bust cycles. We hear what SocialText is up to, and what Ross is seeing from his office in downtown Palo Alto.

Universum Completes Acquisition of WetFeet, Inc. Combined company will help top employers attract, recruit, and retain talent through a global product portfolio including research, consulting, media solutions, software and online career communities.

The content and where you go from there is same old HotJobs, but you gotta give Y! props for highlighting jobs in their primary search interface. Seeing such moves, I can’t help but think HotJobs is far better positioned for the future than their counte

Every mission statement says that a company is good to employees but only actual employees really know the truth. That is the premise behind Jobberwiki, a new job site that lets anyone contribute insight on jobs or companies they have worked for.

Went through and spruced up the Fortune 500 Blog Project wiki a bit. Turns out that there at least 43 Fortune 500 companies blogging right now. I expect that number to rise by at least five or ten as we collectively scour the rest of the Fortune 500 corpo