Yahoo to fire 1,000 worldwide

Yahoo are set to let 1,000 people go worldwide in the wake of a period of undeperforming shares and uncertainty. Full article here

Some light reading

Things are pretty hectic at the moment but never too busy to do some reading, here are some blogs I have been reading lately, the first one is from Peter Nguyen who keeps a blog called the Linked User Manual, well worth a read. I believe I mentioned this one before but Techgazing is also well worth reading regularly, and contains information on Ajay Jain's new book on Linkedin that I have not received yet, but when I do, I will post a review. I made some contributions as a Linkediner to some of the questions Ajay posted when conducting research for this book.

New Year, New Challenges!

So, a belated Happy New Year to one and all, thanks for your emails of kind words. I have been swamped since returning to work, and one thing looks clear for the New Year - more of the same. By this I mean more and more technical hiring and fewer and fewer candidates. We are all going to have to get better at automating and identifying candidates quicker than other Recruiters. Here are some more links from just before Christmas in a similar vein - interesting statistics in technical Hiring amidst all this talk of downturns and recession in our local economy and on a Global scale with the recent history in the US. Technology-wise there is a lot of development hiring ongoing but interestingly there are a very high proportion of Linux & Solaris environment open roles in Java Dev, and a slight fall-off in levels of .Net hiring