Going off to the EREXPO tomorrow. Should be very interesting to hear about the newest techniques and gadgets for recruiting (believe or not... there are recruiter geeks out there!). If I run into something really pretty out there, I'll post it right away. I'll pay particular attention to techniques and technologies that force your excellent resumes to float to the top.

Like most industries, there were a lot of players in the software world during the dot-com boom, all fighting for a piece of a targeted market. After the crash, a number of players died or were consumed leaving just a few leaders to swallow up the remaining customer base. An example would be the CRM software industry. I haven't really seen this consolidation in the recruiting/HR software world. In fact, I would say that there are actually more choices for recruiting folk for Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) nowadays covering a very large range of costs of implementation. I'm excited to see who shows up at the show!

Also, it should also be pretty interesting to get a pulse on the job market out there! The next posting should be from the field. :)