October 2008 Blog Posts (27)

Monster posts up and down earnings

Ah earnings, lets see how the monster fared. I highlighted a few things, North American sales took a big hit.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 2008--Monster Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ:MNST) today reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2008.

Third Quarter Results

Total revenue was $332 million compared with $330 million in the comparable quarter of 2007. Revenue was impacted by approximately $6 million of foreign currency… Continue

Added by Chris Russell on October 30, 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Add jobradio to your career page

Any job boards who want to make their site "stickier" should check out JobRadio.fm

I'm offering a free audio player which you can add to your career advice section for your job seekers. Contact me if interested thru Job Boarders.

Here's what the player looks like;

Added by Chris Russell on October 29, 2008 at 6:03pm — No Comments

What's all the splashing around in Australia and New Zealand....

Recruit Me Now is Australia and New Zealand’s first exclusive Recruitment Industry career site developed to bring job seekers and employers together, experience the most sophisticated site technology and showcase the most impressive range of products & suppliers servicing the Recruitment Industry.

Recruit Me Now provides the industry with access to a mixture of jobs and a pool of experienced recruitment industry candidates and “desk… Continue

Added by Michael Dimopoulos on October 29, 2008 at 7:01am — No Comments

SimplyHired making news

SH has been quiet for a while but not anymore. The #2 aggregator has released a bevy of announcements culminating with four new international sites. Katya White, their Marketing Manager shared the insights with me.

Major Milestones:

* Overall traffic reach of 10 million monthly visitors throughout our 5,000 partner network and the SimplyHired.com website

* Signed agreements with new network partners that bring a… Continue

Added by Chris Russell on October 28, 2008 at 3:17pm — No Comments

Recruitment Directory acquires DigitalIndustryJobs.com

Melbourne based Recruitment Directory Pty Ltd http://www.recruitmentdirectory.com.au has purchased the United Kingdom based niche job board DigitalIndustryJobs.com http://www.digitalindustryjobs.com from its existing UK owner.

Announcing the acquisition, Thomas Shaw, Managing Director of Recruitment Directory described the purchase of DigitalIndustryJobs.com as “…an ideal fit within… Continue

Added by Thomas Shaw on October 28, 2008 at 6:19am — No Comments

Joblighted: as web 2.0 as it gets

I've seen web 2.0 job boards before, but this one is the geekiest of the geek. Joblighted is an "aggregator" which combs all the tech blog job boads like Crunchbase and 37signals. Its sports an interactive map as the centerpiece of its design, oh yes, and they twitter among other cool details.

Reminds me of that Neil Diamond song..."Turn on your heart (job) light, let it shine wherever you… Continue

Added by Chris Russell on October 27, 2008 at 7:30am — No Comments

Tax Preparation: A New Career Option for Displaced Bank & Financial Professionals?

A new career in income tax preparation could be a safety net for some of the thousands of bank and financial services employees who are losing their jobs due to the economic crisis. Many of those being laid off are older employees who would not be able to find another comparable full-time job, but are not ready to retire.

Tax professionals need many of the same qualifications that bankers and financial professionals possess. A tax preparer must be able to conduct a thorough interview to… Continue

Added by Chuck McCabe on October 25, 2008 at 9:21pm — No Comments

Tax Preparation: an Ideal Seasonal Career for Stay-At-Home Moms

Tax preparation is an ideal seasonal career for moms who can't work during the summer when the kids are home from school. Tax professionals work with people and computers either in a professional office environment, or from home. This profession enables moms to maintain their career skills, interact with other adults and earn extra income. Becoming a tax professional is possible after completing just one 10-week online course from The Income Tax School for only $499 including books and… Continue

Added by Chuck McCabe on October 24, 2008 at 11:08am — No Comments

SimplyHired set to announce new initiatives

I just got word from SimplyHired that they will be making a big announcement at ERE next week. According to Katya White, their Marketing Manager, "We plan to make it public the first day of ERE on Oct. 28".

Look for their press release that morning.

Added by Chris Russell on October 24, 2008 at 11:01am — No Comments

IAEWS teams up with ERE for 2009 expo

Kudos to Peter Weddle who just announced that next year's fall IAEWS congress will be held in conjunction with ERE. Here are the details.

ERE Expo to Host the 2009 IAEWS Annual Member Congress

Event to take place in Hollywood, FL in conjunction with ERE Expo 2009 Fall

New York, NY. November 20, 2006 – The International Association of Employment Web Sites (IAEWS) has announced that its 2009 annual member congress will be taking place on September 9 at the… Continue

Added by Chris Russell on October 23, 2008 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Contrarian Hiring - Plucking Top Talent from the Droves of Job Seekers

Recent article on this great topic:

Rick Fecteau runs a chain of automobile dealerships in New Hampshire & Massachusetts. One would think that his dealerships are suffering like many other dealerships during this tough economic time. However, there is a light at the end of the tunnel that is causing his business to hold it’s own and even improve - the availability of top performers from other dealerships that lost their jobs.

Instead of waiting around for the market to… Continue

Added by Jennifer Porter on October 22, 2008 at 10:27am — No Comments

Monster announces new launch date

Looks like January 10th is the official launch date for the "new" Monster, I saw this ad in Workforce magazine.

Added by Chris Russell on October 22, 2008 at 9:34am — 3 Comments

Monster on TV

So Monster is getting into bed with the cable companies and will soon have a monster channel on those "on demand" sections of your cable box. I dont know too many people who hunt for jobs on their tv, ...I may be wrong but this isnt the kind of 'new' monster I was expecting.

MAYNARD, Mass. & NEW YORK (Business Wire EON) October 20, 2008 -- Monster will be the exclusive provider of job listings on Comcast's Searchlight ad-supported VOD platform, as well as the… Continue

Added by Chris Russell on October 20, 2008 at 9:37am — No Comments

Need Advise On Job Board software

Hi,

I'm currently looking for a Job Board software for me site www.JobHost.ca which will be the leading job site.

I recently cam across www.AtlantaJobs.com and I find the site very appealing, and ultimately I'd like JobHost.ca to look and feel the similar to AtlantaJobs.com.

I like the features of ejobsitesoftware.com, however the $1500 is a bit to much as of now.

Do you guys know of other job board software? or are any of you selling your… Continue

Added by Sadmir on October 19, 2008 at 10:00pm — 11 Comments

the view from HR Tech - Chicago

A few of my friends in the biz are at HR Tech in Chicago this week for that conference. I asked Ethan Bloomfield from Jobtarget to send back a few pics and tell us what its like.

He writes: "HR Tech is a big show, with tons of exhibitors. Lots of Talent Management systems, training and development tools, etc. Monster was there – but I didn’t see CareerBuilder – Monster’s presence was less pronounced than other shows we see them at.… Continue

Added by Chris Russell on October 17, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments

Crawling Indeed is overkill

I thought sites like Indeed and SimplyHired were the pinnacle of job searching techniques. After all they crawl the job boards so you dont have too. But watch out! Now there's a site called Nushio that crawls the major job search engines such as Indeed, Jobster, CareerJet, Flipdog & Juju.

This is overkill in my opinion. Indeed always backfills Jobster, Flipdog… Continue

Added by Chris Russell on October 15, 2008 at 5:06pm — 1 Comment

Atlanta Area Job Board Launches..AtlantaJobs.com

Atlanta Area Job Board Launches

New local job board to connect local employers and jobseekers.

Posted: October 13, 2008

Atlanta (GA) – AtlantaJobs.com and numerous newspaper affiliates have announced the official launch of www.AtlantaJobs.com. AtlantaJobs.com is the newest online job board dedicated to connecting local employers and jobseekers in the metro Atlanta area.

The site's easy-to-use navigation and advanced features for candidates and employers will… Continue

Added by Joe Shaker Jr on October 14, 2008 at 9:42am — 2 Comments

Job Board software

I am looking for suggestions on a back end software package to run our job board - what suggestions would people have? I am hoping to hear about excellent software packages and packages I should avoid. Ideally the package will have the ability to support up to 30 different sites from one or two servers.

Any feedback would be greatly apprciated.

Added by Simms on October 13, 2008 at 10:32pm — 4 Comments

What is our competitive landscape?

Does anyone know how many sites there are that are actively selling online job postings to employers and recruiters? (i.e., companies that have at least one sales person making calls on their behalf). I know that there are tens of thousands of job boards, but how many of them are actively selling?

Thanks,

Brendan

Added by Brendan Delaney on October 13, 2008 at 12:03pm — 2 Comments

Job boards and domain names

I have always believed in keyword based domain names. They should describe your site to a tee. After attending SMX East in NYC this week my thoughts were confirmed. I attended a session by a Yahoo engineer on what you should do with your domains. I also learned that sub directories are slightly better for seo than subdomains.

Check out the pic below, it says:

-URLs should be easily readable and describe your content

-Shorter the better < than 5 words

-Clean… Continue

Added by Chris Russell on October 10, 2008 at 8:30am — 4 Comments

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