Jim Durbin's Page

I should probably be more upfront about this on the sidebar, but if you're posting links to drugs, or sex, or making money through google I'm just deleting and banning you without a second thought.

Let me know if someone is doing this in their profile - this is for real people, not the scum of the internet. And yes, if that's you, you're the scum of the internet. I do sometimes make mistakes, or run into someone who writes me, and I reinstate them, but I just don't have time to chase them down.… Continue

I had the distinct pleasure of joining Michael Kelemen on the Recruiting Animal Show yesterday to talk about Facebook. If you've never listened to the show, prepare yourself. It's a call-in show of rowdy miscreants and the occasional unsuspecting guest, all run by the Recruiting Animal himself. Yesterday's show had some technical difficulties, but the callers jumped in and grilled me, argued with me, and asked a lot of great questions.

There's a segment of the online recruiting world that just… Continue

One of my clients is looking for a search marketing manager in Minneapolis - a job that incorporates a lot of social media, as this practice has impacted search in a big way in the last few years.

Basically you're looking at a search manager skilled in PPC, Organic Search, analytics, and conversion, who knows how social media can amplify those efforts. This is not a sales position, but a management position overlooking a staff that will add four more employees in the coming months.

If you're t… Continue

I've been toying with the idea of a conference call for social media candidates. This would be a monthly call where people looking for work in the industry get on and ask questions or share information on their job search.

Is that something we'd be interested in doing? I have a free conference line, but like all ideas, it only makes sense if there's interest.

Comment or email me below.

The following is a job posting. It goes here because I can't figure out how to give myself free job postings on the job board to the right. Read carefully if you're interested. I won't reply to obvious mismatches. Feel free to discuss your thoughts on the position in the comments

A white-label social media company is looking for a set of social media engineers to work in Chicago and New York in tandem with sales account executives. We call them social media engineers because the position… Continue