Chris Russell's Blog – August 2008 Archive (14)

RetirementJobs.com Partners With AARP

RetirementJobs.com, a career Web site for people aged 50+, has formed an alliance with AARP which will provide mature workers the opportunity to search for full time, part time and flexible jobs from age friendly employers. The new online venture will allow AARP's nearly 40 million members and others to have direct access to RetirementJobs.com's job search tools at no cost. As part of this new collaboration, RetirementJobs.com and AARP will identify employers that maintain policies, practices… Continue

Added by Chris Russell on August 29, 2008 at 11:22am — No Comments

CareerBuilder extending brand with CBinstitute

Found today on the press wires...CR

CareerBuilder.com Launches CBInstitute.com to Help Workers Strengthen Their Skill Sets Through Online Courses

CHICAGO, Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- A job candidate's skill set can often

be a deciding factor to landing a new job or getting promoted. To help

workers improve their skill set and make themselves more marketable,

CareerBuilder.com has launched CBInstitute.com, a new site featuring

hundreds of online… Continue

Added by Chris Russell on August 28, 2008 at 10:22am — No Comments

Blogger gets 'exasperated' with CareerBuilder

Here's a story of bad customer service by CareerBuilder. A person in Texas posted 3 jobs which costs more than $1,000. But they 'rejected' his order because it was over a thousand dollars. Frankly its hard to believe they cant take orders that big online. They should be making it easy for employers to do business with them.

At the end he offers CB some advice. This last one cracked me… Continue

Added by Chris Russell on August 20, 2008 at 9:43am — 1 Comment

New survey touts job boards as hiring solutions

I came across this nugget today which you all may be interested in.

-CR

PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Online job boards are the most

often utilized recruiting tool for hiring managers at small and mid-sized

organizations, according to a recent study by the Inavero Institute for

Service Research, a leading provider of employment related research tools.

The study titled "2008 Study of Recruiting Practices -- Insight from… Continue

Added by Chris Russell on August 18, 2008 at 3:41pm — 1 Comment

SimplyHired teams with Jobtarget

I learned today that Jobtarget, which already offers back-fill from Indeed.com is now offering their partner sites the ability to use SimplyHired as well. According to their recent newsletter;

Unlike the Indeed feed, the Simply Hired feed does not send users to Simply Hired's website! It sends them directly to the job. This is huge since you are not sending user traffic away to a job aggregator website.

FYI...

Added by Chris Russell on August 15, 2008 at 9:05pm — No Comments

Voxhire: new matching site for jobs?

Fellow Jobboarder Melanie Blakely pointed me to a new job site she recently discovered. Its called "Voxhire" and it remains a mystery as to who runs it or exactly what it is. The site has not launched yet although they are twittering. The company Voxhire, LLC appears to be based in Texas.…

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Added by Chris Russell on August 14, 2008 at 9:05am — 2 Comments

New job search sites to peruse

Thanks to Melanie Blakely who now send me interesting stuff from time to time. Here are some links worth sharing.

http://www.jobscore.com/ free job marketing platform

http://www.jobstick.com/ matching job site for lawyers

http://www.cleanloop.com/ CleanLoop was launched in June 2008 to be the world's leading destination for cleantech… Continue

Added by Chris Russell on August 13, 2008 at 12:50pm — No Comments

Monster 'off trak' ads on facebook

I noticed an ad from Monster Trak on Facebook yestersday. While I applaud them for tryng to reach the facebook audience I didnt think the ad was particularly good. For one thing the right side was cut off slightly making it look unprofessional and the 3 jobs listed in it were totally unappropriate (for me anyway). They had the wrong location...you would think that facebook would only show me ads that reflected my regional network? guess not...…

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Added by Chris Russell on August 13, 2008 at 12:44pm — 1 Comment

Indeed, SimplyHired, TopUSAJobs: which one works best?

I pay Indeed, SimplyHired and TopUSAJobs to send traffic to my boards. Last night I was checking the stats for each for one of my sites when I decided to take a look at each one's performance. I was curious if other Job Boarders have seen similar results?

As you can see the Traffic from TopUSA seems more valuable in terms of number of page views and time spent on site. Kinda surprised me. I thought Indeed would be better at that...?…

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Added by Chris Russell on August 12, 2008 at 11:30am — 6 Comments

List of eharmony job boards

I've been thinking a lot about these type of sites since Monster bought Trovix. I suspect we will see more of these being purchased by bigger boards.

RealMatch

Trovix

Climber

JobFox

Itzbig

Did I miss any?

Added by Chris Russell on August 11, 2008 at 9:57am — 1 Comment

News from Jobfox

When they say "request employer introductions" I wonder if that means connecting the seeker with an actual human? So I'm a little hesitant to think of this as a 'human element' as they say. -CR

Jobfox launches first-of-its-kind capabilities that helps high-match job candidates get interviews and network with employers.

McLean, VA (PRWEB) August 7, 2008 -- Already the fastest-growing online career site, Jobfox today announced another Web first: Jobfox Intros™,… Continue

Added by Chris Russell on August 7, 2008 at 9:53am — No Comments

This job board gives you money back

There is no shortage of gimmicks or unique offerings in the job board space these days. Witness: MoneyBackJobs.com

It was created by some guy named Mark Thomas, a former staffing industry exec. From the description this appears to be the "iWon" of job boards. We all know what happened to that site.

Here's their press release;

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 05, 2008… Continue

Added by Chris Russell on August 5, 2008 at 1:00pm — 5 Comments

Newspapers using classified stickers

Yesterday my sunday newspaper added a job 'sticker' to the front page...check it out. Its an obvious attempt at trying something new.

Added by Chris Russell on August 4, 2008 at 8:55am — No Comments

Monster buys Trovix for $72 million

According to paidcontent:

"Monster, the incumbent job site, has announced a couple of deals this afternoon, as it looks to fight off upstart competitors, like LinkedIn, Craigslist, Indeed.com and TheLadders first it has acquired Mountain View-based Trovix, a site that applies semantic search technology to job search. The acquisition price was $72.5 million in cash. Monster says it will integrate its technology, which can help scan resumes and job openings for better matching.… Continue

Added by Chris Russell on August 1, 2008 at 9:04am — No Comments