May 21, 2012
By Sharon Hill
Monster Worldwide, one of the last major job sites to come to the social recruitment table, has finally announced the ability for job candidates to see which of their socially-networked friends have connections to the hiring firm, right from the Monster.com site. Candidates won’t be searching Facebook or LinkedIn - they’ll be searching BeKnown, the Monster-Worldwide-owned Facebook app. If a candidate tries the search and is not...
May 18, 2012
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May 16, 2012
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Joel Cheesman, formerly known as Cheezhead, is one of our favorite observers of the recruitment scene (along with John Zappe of ERE and formerly CIR). He’s just restarted a regular blog; you can sign up at bit.ly/notsfw. Here’s the latest installment, about the potential sale of Monster Worldwide including Monster.com. We may disagree — actually, we do — but this is an interesting viewpoint.
Wall Street...
May 9, 2012
The JobMob website has a list of more than 100 mobile apps that can help with a job search or an employer posting a position. Here’s a summary of some of the best (for the full 100, visit the JobMob website). These are specific for the iPhone (although there may be Android versions too; we didn’t check). We’re just going to include names, links and a one-line summary here – otherwise this might be our longest blog post ever!...
May 8, 2012
By Christo Volschenk
When the 4-year contract of Xing CEO Stefan Groß-Selbeck (44) runs out in January 2013, he will not be available for a second 4-year term. The listed company announced today that Groß-Selbeck elected not to renew his contract and will leave the company in January 2013 “to accept new challenges”. Xing is the leading business network and biggest social recruitment medium in the German-speaking region....
May 4, 2012
By Sharon Hill
If your publication, classified site or firm seeks to target a specific demographic, the latest study by Online MBA would be helpful indeed. The higher-education service site learned the following:
- Women make up a whopping 82 percent of Pinterest users
- Forty six percent of ...
LinkedIn just reported a 101 percent increase in revenue for the first quarter of 2012, as compared with the same time period in 2011. Its Hiring Solution products accounted for 51 percent of that revenue, with a YOY upswing in job-product dollars of 121 percent. Additionally, those members who opted to buy Premium rather than free profiles increased 91 percent. The economy, and the increasing importance in social networking for job hunting and recruiting might well account for the latter...
April 26, 2012
In its Q1 2012 earnings report, The McClatchy Company reported a loss of $2.1 million, with classified revenue down more than 8 percent year over year. While much of the classified losses were in print advertising, digital dollars suffered as well. The only classified vertical whose YOY ad revenue increased was automotive, showing a 12 percent jump. Real estate and employment dropped nearly 9 percent and more than 6 percent respectively. California and Florida newspapers drove the downward...
April 25, 2012
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