Jason Gorham
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Online Job Searches Get a Raise
As more layoffs force workers to clean out their desks for good, the online content site category growing fastest is job search. According to comScore Media Metrix, the number of category visitors grew 51% to 18.8 million in 2008. November and December, typically slow months for search, had some of the heaviest traffic. CareerBuilder.com led the online job search pack, with 9.1 million unique visitors in December 2008 versus 5.1 million in December 2007—78% growth. Yahoo! HotJobs and Indeed... |
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Dice.com Posted a Net Loss Of $2.9 million
Dice Holdings had a rough Q4: the online job board provider for careers in the tech, government contractor and financial industries posted a net loss of $2.9 million, or $0.05 per diluted share. That’s down from the $1.8 million profit in Q407, and down sharply from the $6.4 million profit the previous quarter. Revenues came in at $35.5 million, down 10 percent from $39.5 million in Q407—and down 10.4 percent from the previous quarter. The company said currency conversions between the pound... |
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Adult Internet Users Grow To 35%
The share of adult internet users who have a profile on an online social network site has more than quadrupled in the past four years -- from 8% in 2005 to 35% now, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project's December 2008 tracking survey. While media coverage and policy attention focus heavily on how children and young adults use social network sites, adults still make up the bulk of the users of these websites. Adults make up a larger portion of the US population than teens,... |
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Sharkstrike.com Gets New Digs
We just did a complete redesign including a new content management system for Sharkstrike.com and I wanted to invite you to our new site. Any feedback is appreciated. |
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S^3 Helps Companies Combine Web 2.0 To Recruit Passive Candidates
Full Release BOCA RATON, FL — Sharkstrike LLC™ (www.Sharkstrike.com), just released it’s S^3™ offering which encompasses search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO) and social media/social networking consulting and product offerings that will enable companies to reach and recruit passive candidates. “Human resources, staffing and recruiting companies that want to be in the web 2.0 space but aren’t sure how to get there or where to start now have a partner for... |
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Analyst: Half of 'social media campaigns' will flop
As seen on Cnet Adam Sarner, an analyst with market research firm Gartner, has projected that over 75 percent of Fortune 1000 companies with Web sites will have undertaken some kind of online social-networking initiative for marketing or customer relations purposes. But, he added in an interview with CNET News, 50 percent of those campaigns will be classified as failures. Sarner plans to present his results at the annual Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2008, which takes place October 12-16 in Orlando,... |
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Free Resume Mining & Profile Sourcing Tool Reachs 500
I wanted to let everyone know that we went over the 500 user mark today for our free resume mining & profile sourcing tool. Recruiters, HR, Human Resources Managers and Staffing Professionals can now get for free what they have been paying for in years past!. No more need for cheat sheets, or resume mining tools to create boolean strings for you. Just register and use our free tool. |
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The Seattle Times Co Shutting Down
Jason, You've likely heard the announcement that the Seattle P-I will be sold or closed in the coming months. We have no further information about this to share at this time, but we will be in close communication with you and all of our valued advertisers as more details are known. In the near term, both newspapers and Web sites will continue with no interruption. We are confident that The Seattle Times Company will continue to provide you the strongest reach and connection to the Seattle marketplace. Thank... |
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How To Source An Animal Trainer
Animal Trainer SourcingView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: resources hr) |
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Banner Exchange
We are looking for banner exchange partners to swap banners and impressions. If you have a blog, microsite, website, email list or any other property whose audience includes recruiters, staffing or hr professionals than let's talk. Here is the banners that we would like to exchange. The format needs to be in 468x60. Here are the two banners that we want to exchange. BANNER 1 If interested please email sales at sharkstrike.com with the subject banner exchange. |
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Note To Employers - Time To Get Off The Bench & In The Game
Gartner Says HR Organizations Must Adopt and Exploit Social Networking Despite the fact that social networks and software are significantly changing organizations' marketing and Web strategies, relatively few human resources (HR) organizations have grasped the effect that they have on the employer brand, according to Gartner Inc. It is essential that organizations understand how social software is altering the recruitment landscape and adapt recruiting strategies and systems accordingly. Gartner... |
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Microsoft getting ready to lay off 17% of staff
Worldwide cutbacks The rumor that Microsoft was set to lay off people on January 15th, 2009 is no longer a rumor but a fact. Staff at Microsoft have been informed that the company is readying major layoffs to its worldwide operations and it's not a small cut, either. Currently Microsoft employs about 90,000 people across the world and from what we're hearing, some 15,000 of those are expected to be giving marching orders come January 15th. That's almost 17 percent of Microsoft's total work force,... |
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Next Generation Recruiting
Sharkstrike.com & CareerMetaSearch.com Next Gen RecruitingView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: hr recruiting) |