HotJobs officially became part of Monster today, completing the $225 million purchase announced last February. The acquisition — and arguably its … Read more
Job Boards Still Evolving After all These Years
Job boards have been declared dead or dying so often that keeping track of the pronouncements is about as easy as counting the number of job boards in the … Read more
Have Your Problem Employee Removed and Get a T-Shirt
What does it mean when a recruiter in Texas announces a line of recruiter fashion and another one in Santa Monica launches a website offering … Read more
Facebook Launches ‘Places’
We wrote an article yesterday on location-based services, and a new one has just been added to the mix: Facebook yesterday announced the launch of its … Read more
.JOBS Expansion Vote had one Opponent
A preliminary report on the ICANN board meeting earlier this month shows that the decision to expand the use of .jobs Internet addresses had at least one … Read more
Unemployment Claims Data Adds More Uncertainty
Data, data everywhere, But what of it to think? Data, data everywhere, It makes the markets shrink. My apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, but the … Read more
Talentag: the Social CV Site for “Friends” Only
There’s an FAQ on the new site, Talentag, that asks the right question: “What is Talentag and why do you need it?” Precisely what I was … Read more
Ideas Sought For Using the New .Jobs Names
Employ Media is looking for a few — or more — good ideas for how best to make use of the newly expanded addressing possibilities of the .jobs … Read more
RPO 2010 – Part 1: An Inflection Point…What’s Next?
RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing). Seems fairly easy to make an educated guess as to what this really means, but think again. I myself own an “RPO” … Read more
Economic Trends Index Rises, But S-L-O-W-L-Y
Another sign of the weak U.S. recovery: The Conference Board’s Employment Trends Index, released this morning, added three-tenths of a point in July, … Read more