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 15, 2012
Affidata.co.uk, the U.K. arm of Dutch property portal Affidata has hit on the idea of launching geolocalised searches showing English-speaking agents in the desired area to help English buyers looking for second homes. Given the notorious unwillingness of the English to speak another language, combined with their love of homes abroad the move seems entirely logical. Naturally if...
May 13, 2012
Evenbase‘s latest quarterly review of the U.K. recruiter market shows that job boards remain the means of choice for companies looking to hire, with a 6 per cent drop in the use of agencies to find staff, a result which Evenbase attributes to HR departments aiming to minimise recruitment spend.
The review also reveals a 27 per cent fall in the number of...
Zoopla has just turned another page in the history of British property portals with the acquisition of UpMyStreet – one of the earliest property sites in the country.
UpMyStreet dates back to 1998 and survived the original dotcom boom before running into financial troubles in 2003. It was sold to uSwitch which was in turn bought by EW Scripps and then passed on to the Forward Internet group in 2009 but the company that now finds itself in Zoopla’s hands is a bit of a...
May 10, 2012
Brent Rasmussen of CareerBuilder is going to be one busy guy. In addition to his responsibilities as president for North America at the recruitment site, he’s joined two corporate boards in the past month.
Rasmussen is now on the board of Central Desktop, a collaboration and file-sharing site, and Balihoo, “the premier provider of local marketing automation technology and services.”
“Central Desktop has made amazing strides in collaboration. The company’s SocialBridge online...
May 3, 2012
Four investors, including Moscow-based Baring Vostok and U.S.-based Accel Partners, have poured $75 million into Avito.ru, a Russian free-classified site that competes directly with Slando.com and other regional and national classified sites.
Avito is a classic “freemium” business model...
May 2, 2012
As we reported on Monday, Zillow has agreed to acquire RentJuice, a rental management software company for landlords, brokers and agents.
We were off a few bucks on the purchase price; Zillow is paying $40 million in cash. (We had heard $45 million. What’s a few bucks like that among friends?)
RentJuice has 31 employees and has been around since 2009. It’s the third acquisition by Zillow (Nasdaq: Z),...
May 1, 2012
Data geek Soren Macbeth (now at Yieldbot) and I met over tea several months ago and he said something to me that I have thought of many times since. He said that though data science is getting all the hype, great designers might be even harder to hire. I was just thinking about that again this morning and thought I’d ask on the Twitter. Below you’ll find the interesting conversation that emerged in response. I’d love to know what...
April 29, 2012
This will be a terrific new job for someone: international business controller for Schibsted Classified Media.
We think Schibsted is the smartest media company in the world these days, and it’s planning to invest heavily in its classifieds businesses during the next few years. What could be better?
The job’s posted on Finn.no, the company’s first classifieds site. Reporting to the CFO at Schibsted...