A SHRM advisory group is being asked to approve changes allowing non-company names to be awarded a .jobs Internet address. The approval is a crucial step … Read more
Monster Downgraded By Analyst
Monster’s stock closed slightly up today, despite being downgraded by Goldman Sachs. The company’s shares gained 2 cents a share to close at … Read more
Zapoint Buys Jobster
Jobster, the company most famous for burning through almost $55 million in venture capital while it searched for a business model, has been sold to … Read more
At Five-year Mark, Job Search Engines Are a Success
A week ago SimplyHired celebrated its fifth birthday. That alone is a momentous event, considering how many recruitment-focused startups have come and gone … Read more
CBS Pantses CareerBuilder Over No-Pants Ads
This is a story about pantsing: the yanking down of someone’s pants in front of others. In this case, there are two someones and they self-pantsed … Read more
Startup Leverages Networks to Help Candidates and Jobs JIBE
Blogging from the ERE Expo last week I mentioned a social recruiting startup that was pretty ingenious in its utility. It wasn’t ready to uncloak … Read more
Ladders Subscribers Now Can Get Jobs By Recruiter
Today, The Ladders is turning loose MyPipeline, an interesting new service that seems inspired by Twitter. The announcement will be made this morning at … Read more
.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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more