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.Jobs Sites Go Offline
Where have all the .JOBS job boards gone? Gone to enhancements and improvements every one. DirectEmployers took down its job boards a few weeks ago, while it makes changes to the platform. Bill Warren, executive director of DirectEmployers Association, blogged about the changes his team is making to the platform listing four specific areas — social media integration, accessibility, job posting — tagged for improvement. These are in response to feedback DirectEmployers has received... |
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Internal Hiring Dominates 2009 Job Fills
The ninth Source of Hire report from CareerXroads is out and it shows the impact of the U.S. recession on hiring patterns over the last few years while offering some encouraging news about hiring in 2010. The whitepaper’s top-line findings show that, on average, 41 of the nation’s larger companies filled just over half their vacancies in 2009 by internal transfers and promotions. This is the largest percentage since CareerXroads first reported the data in 2002. For 2010, however, 48... |
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Free Job Board Demos? It Happens In The U.K.
Imagine 70 or so of the largest job boards in the U.S. volunteering to disclose their site demographics and user details and have all the data made available to the public? For free. Identifiable by job board. Not going to happen, I agree. But in the United Kingdom, that’s just what has been happening since 2002. Coming together as the National Online Recruitment Audience Survey, dozens of the job boards there participate in an annual survey that profiles their users, segmenting them by... |
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Monster Fiddles to Lead in ERE’s Super Bowl Ad Poll
UPDATE FROM 9:28 A.M. EASTERN ON MONDAY…USA Today has the results of its Ad Panel up online. Monster’s fiddling beaver ad ranked #10. CareerBuilder’s casual Fridays commercial was 51 out of 63 ranked ads. The first place winner was the Snickers ad featuring Betty White. – Peyton Manning? Who dat? Who DAT! The Who Dat Nation has spoken. The Saints won the Super Bowl. Decisively, without a doubt, without a question, and in a game that was one of the rare ones that got... |
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CareerBuilder Reports North American Revenue
CareerBuilder released its North American revenue numbers today, which show that while it has been hurt by the recession, it’s still ahead of its closest competitor. For the fourth quarter, CareerBuilder reported $131 million in revenue, a 30.5 percent decline from the last quarter of 2008. For the whole year, CareerBuilder’s North American revenue was $542 million, down 26.7 percent from the year before. As a privately held company, CareerBuilder isn’t required to report any... |
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Wall Street Punishes Monster; CareerBuilder Has a Say
Monster is getting beat up on Wall Street today. The stock opened down and went lower, and is off 16 percent right now, a clear signal that the markets don’t like what the company announced yesterday. It announced that it had bought HotJobs for $225 million and that it lost money in the last quarter of 2009. The HotJobs purchase brought it a sharp rebuke from Deutsche Bank analyst Jeetil Patel who downgraded Monster from a HOLD to a SELL. He said Monster “overpaid” for the acquisition,... |
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HotJobs Buy Boosts Monster In U.S., Globally
Monster’s acquisition of HotJobs is a major coup for the recruitment firm, catapulting it into the lead in traffic, and boosting its global growth prospects, while also helping it to gain greater entree to the small employers that to this day still turn to newspapers for recruitment. The $225 million deal gives it HotJobs, a presence on Yahoo! sites in the U.S. and Canada, and partnerships with some 600 newspapers and media outlets. No wonder that Monster CEO Sal Iannuzzi told Wall Street... |
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Monster Buys HotJobs
Monster is buying HotJobs. The news of the $225 million acquisition from Yahoo! was announced just moments ago in New York. The deal includes a three-year agreement in which Monster will power the career channel on Yahoo’s homepage in the U.S. and Canada. Yahoo will continue to manage the 600+ newspaper advertising and content consortium it has put together over the last several years. Monster, however, will get the recruitment advertising, giving it a print and online network of more than... |
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.Jobs Universe Project Explained In Meetings
US.Jobs site with social elements displayed In a blog post about yesterday’s DirectEmployers meeting, publishing industry analyst and consultant Peter Zollman called it “a valuable information session.” Recruitment consultant Gerry Crispin, who attended this morning’s second session, described it as a useful meeting that left him “very satisfied that the intent (of the creation of the dot-jobs domain) I have consistently written about … is reflected in what... |
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Colts v. Saints? Nah. Monster v. Careerbuilder
Monster ad from Wired Monster fired the first shot in the ad wars Sunday with a commercial during the AFC championship football game featuring the Boogeyman and a new tagline. Bad at his job scaring children, the Boogeyman searches Monster and finds his perfect fit as an accountant. As he settles into his cubicle, the words “New precision job search” appear followed by the tagline, “Get a Monster advantage.” The new tagline replaces “Your calling is calling.” Precision... |
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Guests Invited to Hear of Million Job Board Plan
A group of recruitment and HR leaders and professionals has been invited to a meeting in Indianapolis to discuss the Direct Employers plan to build tens of thousands, maybe even a million, of new job boards using the .jobs domain. Although the program has been underway since October, the meeting later this month is described as an informational session. The invitation that was emailed last week says the intent is to answer questions that have come up. In an email Q & A, Direct Employers Executive... |
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Free Sites Grow, But Monster, CareerBuilder Most Popular
Job posting distributor eQuest says CareerBuilder and Monster are still the most requested sites for advertising openings, though Craisglist and the free job boards were among the fastest-growing posting destinations. The company’s customers got more than 15 million responses from ads placed on free job boards and with the job aggregators in 2009. Google Base was the most requested free board among eQuest’s 20,000 clients. That makes sense since the help-wanted listings are integrated... |
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Jobfox Gets a Loan
Santa came a day early for Jobfox. The job matching service got a $2 million infusion the day before Christmas. It’s debt funding, which means what it sounds like: it’s a loan. ERE community member Michaela Prebbleton was the first to notice and posted a comment to an article about the first loan the company got last summer. According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Jobfox got $3 million in debt financing just six months before this latest round. There’s... |
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Bungee Jump Into the New Year With HFI Execs
As we count down the final hours of 2009 — an “Amen” seems in order here — there are a few fun, and even one or two useful pieces of recruitalia that have turned up to help us close out the year. The first reminds me of that expression about drinking your own Kool-Aid. It’s a video starring Human Factor International’s Managing Director Jeffrey Jones. Human Factor International is an executive coaching and transcultural leadership training firm. The company... |
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Monster Director Resigns Suddenly
Ronald J. Kramer, an almost 10-year member of Monster’s board of directors, resigned Sunday. The only mention of his departure came in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The 8-K report (a reference to the SEC provision requiring publicly held companies to report unscheduled material events and changes) says Kramer’s resignation was effective immediately and “did not involved any disagreement on any matter relating to the Company’s operations, policies... |
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Yahoo Recruits On Google; HotJobs Officially For Sale
The technology insider website TechCrunch says Yahoo has launched a curious recruitment advertising program that involves buying keywords against the names of former employees. Just before Christmas, TechCrunch reported that Delicious founder and former Yahoo executive Joshua Schachter discovered that searching on his name on Google brought up a recruitment ad for Yahoo. He announced in a tweet saying “yahoo’s running recruiting ads against my name. classy.” Schachter joined Yahoo... |
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A Video, A Video Game, And Vault
Today brings news of the U.S. Army’s $38 million recruiting video games, a recruiting marketing video that is surprisingly fresh and entertaining and should be required watching for anyone considering an HR career as a recruiter, and a change at Vault. America’s Army When you’re recruiting for an organization where the expression “taking potshots” is no mere idiom, you have to be innovative in your approach, not to mention cutting edge to reach the 17-25 year olds... |
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Help Defray Hiring Costs, Monster CEO Tells White House
Monster CEO Sal Iannuzzi, who was in a breakout session at the recent White House jobs summit, is telling the Administration that employers should get help to mitigate the expense of bringing on a new employee. While such help could vary, Iannuzzi gives the example of a job candidate currently getting $15,000 annually in unemployment benefits. If the government instead contributed that $15,000 to an employer who could provide, say, a $50,000-a-year job, it would, he says, reduce the cost and risk... |
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CareerBuilder CEO Discusses Monster, Social Media, Job Board Future
Matt Ferguson doesn’t see pay for performance replacing the pay to post model for job boards anytime soon, if ever. Nor have the job aggregators had much of an impact on the business. Rather, says CareerBuilder’s CEO, it’s social media in all its forms that poses the biggest threat to the job board industry. The “biggest threat and the biggest opportunity,” he said in a conference call Wednesday with a group of analysts and others. Arranged by Stifel Financial Corp.,... |
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Recruiter’s Recruiter Launches Twitter Job Site
I don’t personally know Carmen Hudson. But I’d like to. I heard her speak at a conference a few years ago and last month caught her presentation at the Social Recruiting Summit. Both times I came away with two thoughts: How am I ever going to remember everything she shared, and what’s the secret to her energy and enthusiasm? She’s a stylish dresser, says Dave Mendoza, with a special love of shoes and a dream of entering the World Series of Poker. She’s on Facebook,... |