From the vendors comes news of acquisitions, product releases, and even a White House appearance. Let’s start with the product announcements. Taleo … Read more
LinkedIn’s Response to Monster and BranchOut: Pay Up
SourceCon’s parent company, ERE.net has learned more details about LinkedIn’s July 1 decision to cut off Monster’s BeKnown and … Read more
Job Board Industry Launches First Benchmarking Effort
For the first time in the history of the industry, a job board will soon be able to see how well it is performing compared to its peers. In a survey … Read more
Facebook Wars: BeKnown & BranchOut Take on LinkedIn
The war to bring career opportunities to Facebook’s over 750 million users is on in a big way here at SHRM Conference. Sunday, Monster launched BeKnown, an … Read more
Pay $2,500. Follow the Program. And Get a $100K Job. Guaranteed
Here’s an offer that’s going to be hard to refuse: For $2,495 TheLadders will guarantee you a job offer in six months. And not just any job, … Read more
Monster Launches a New Facebook App: BeKnown
Monster launched a Facebook app over the weekend that will let the 700 million users of the popular social community build a professional network separate … Read more
Monster Wins Upgrade Over Its Global Business Strategy
Monster got a boost Friday when investment bank UBS upgraded the company’s stock to a buy. In its recommendation, UBS said the job board’s … Read more
Job Boards vs. Social Networking Sites
I follow a number of recruiting blogs as well as many sourcers and recruiters on Twitter and I see a growing trend of job board bashing – typically … Read more
On Lazy Sourcing
In a recent article on Forbes, Dan Schawbel wrote, “Job boards are becoming more irrelevant to the corporate recruitment process every single year. … Read more
Dice Survey: Tech Demand Pushing Up Salaries, Fill Time
Tech hiring is tough and it’s only going to get tougher, says a new report from Dice.com. The IT specialty job board said its survey of IT employers … Read more