Back in the day, online career events were exciting only for their novelty. To tell the truth, as recently as a few years ago, online job fairs were barely … Read more
New Apps and Products, Acquisitions and Politicians, Oh My
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
Game On! LinkedIn Fires Next Shot in War for the Career Social Graph
LinkedIn has cut off access to its data to both BranchOut and Monster’s BeKnown. 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