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
HR Jobs, Searches on the Rise
Private industry job growth may have stalled last month, but HR jobs continued to grow. New job trend numbers from Indeed.com show that human resource job … Read more