in the Hispanic category, we have two or three. In diversity, there are too many to count. How many competitors are in your niche(s)? have you seen the number of competitors changing much recently? Continue
Posted by Eric Shannon on May 8, 2008 at 2:02pm —
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I've always believed a good job description should include keywords at the bottom. Usually I see it in regular text. But this is the first time I've seen it hidden. I don't think Google will appreciate the deception.
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May 5, 2008, sees the launch of telcojobs.eu, a new job board serving online recruitment solutions for telco proffesionals, employers, agencies and service providers in the European Union.
http://www.telcojobs.eu aims to fill a gap in the market and provide a much needed one stop shop for telco recruitment.
While the majority of major job boards tend to bundle telco into the information technology sector, there is at present no hub for exclusively telco related employment around the European Un… Continue
Posted by Benjamin Hurley on May 7, 2008 at 7:00pm —
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2 years, 5 months and 27 days after selling his first job board to media group Trinity Mirror and Mr Secs (a.k.a SecsInTheCity founder Jon Grocott) is back. This time with a new network of niche job boards branded ClearlyJobs.
Barefoot Student has created a channel on YouTube and released its first video production. Duct tape marketing? How about barefoot marketing!
You can see the video at College Job Board or at Barefoot Student YouTube. Continue
Posted by Bobby on May 6, 2008 at 3:30pm —
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Back in March I had read a fantastic article in the Wall Street Journal titled "The HR Department: Give It More Respect." The article was written by Dr. Edward Lawler from the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business.
The article is finally available online and I wanted to share it with you. The points in this article should be conveyed to company executives.
Summary:
The HR Department: Give It More Respect
By EDWARD E. LAWLER III
March 5, 2008; Page R8
Imagine a compa… Continue
Posted by David Mezzapelle on May 1, 2008 at 2:55pm —
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This morning, you may have noticed that an ad for ERE.net is appearing on the right-hand side of JobBoarders.com. This is because as of today, ERE is proud to be a sponsor of this community.
Why are we doing it? It’s pretty simple – we run the leading community and news resource for the recruiting profession, you guys are our customers, and we love you.
My personal feelings aside, I also wanted to get the word out about our new… Continue
It was announced today that Jobster raised another $7M in VC funding from existing investors including Ignition Partners, Mayfield Fund, Reed Elsevier Ventures, and Trinity Ventures. The funding brings the total amount of venture capital invested in the company to a whopping $55M, $18M of which was raised in 2006. No information was released about valuation, but I have to imagine that it was either a flat round or maybe even a down round. Either way, the company has extended its runway and bough… Continue
Posted by TobyDayton on April 28, 2008 at 10:41am —
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Last week I gave a presentation on a career fair aimed at PhDs. AcademicTransfer is a niche jobboard for scientist and researchers, so they are our target audience. I like interaction so asked them a whole bunch of questions, this was one of the latest and allthough it was a save bet, the result surpised me.
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Posted by AlexdenHaan on April 28, 2008 at 9:45am —
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This week whatjobsite, an information site for direct employers, announced that UK job boards are letting down small-to-medium sized businesses. The findings are based upon new research conducted by the company, combining user surveys and a study of 30 popular job sites.…
Jobster, once the darling of the online recruiting industry somehow just managed to get an infusion of seven million dollars. This is a shocker considering their time in the sun has long since passed. Here's the article from Industry Standard which speculates maybe Jobster's owners are trying to revitalize the site.
http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/04/25/jobster-raises-another-7m
This infusion is hard… Continue
Posted by Chris Russell on April 25, 2008 at 6:59pm —
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Barefoot Student, the nations #1 student work portal, is looking for creative achievers to act as brand ambassadors at universities nationwide. Ambassadors will complete an internship of one month consisting of a minimum of five hours a week. The focus of the internship will be on creating marketing buzz and persuading students to join Barefoot Student. T… Continue
Posted by Bobby on April 24, 2008 at 9:16pm —
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Don’t know what you want to do with your life? Try starting with a list of what you know you don’t want to do. Working backward can make it a lot easier to see the possibilities that are in front of you. With this crazy world we live in, there are so many occupations out there. You, however, are stuck with the task of choosing just one—we’ve already got one. Take your time, and know yourself. Now start writing. I’ll do your first one for you: milk man.
Okay then. Now you have a list of things y… Continue
Congrats to Shawn Boyer the founder of snagajob.com for their recent award.
WASHINGTON, April 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A young lawyer who
recognized a business niche when a friend had trouble finding an internship
was today named National Small Business Person of the Year for turning his
idea into a multi-million dollar Web site.
The announcement was made during ceremonies at the U.S. Small Business
Administration's celebration of National Small Busin… Continue
Posted by Chris Russell on April 24, 2008 at 8:50am —
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Last year FuseJobs launched to the UK market. The site has an interesting business model, which is a cross between a niche job board and a vertical search engine.
This week we took the opportunity to speak to Director Amanda Lacey about the site, why the company selected th…
Networking is such a hard thing to do. Most every major job advice book or blog out there will tell you to network if you want a new job. And they are right. The reality is that the majority of new employees hired, were done so thanks to either their personal or professional network.
The problem is that maintaining such a network isn’t the foremost thought on your mind when you’re gainfully and happily employed . It’s only when you are looking for a job that you realize you’ve neglected to keep… Continue
Posted by Applicant Tree on April 23, 2008 at 3:49pm —
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I put together a list of big shot job board entrepreneurs -- the ex employees of the large job boards who have started their own boards. Have I left anyone out? Continue
Posted by Eric Shannon on April 23, 2008 at 10:17am —
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We've a great show for you this week, including an interview with Amanda Lacey of FuseJobs, news on Indeed's new search criteria and Borrell's predictions for the recruitment industry growth.…
If you launched your job board in the past year or two and want to be included on this list of job board launches, please add a link to your press release in the comments on the page and I will move it up. Continue
Looks like its powered by Jobtarget.
"Designed to help job seekers find new employment opportunities and provide employers access to our large audience of Interactive Marketing professionals."See it here.
Online career site Monster.com and msnbc.com today announced an agreement which designates Monster as the exclusive job services provider featured in msnbc.com's marketplace - including the popular TODAYshow.com site as well as msnbc.com's Local News section. Consumers can easily access job resources through a new co-branded link at: http://msnbc.monster.com. Under the terms of the relationship, Monster will be the exclusive provider of career tools and services in msnbc.com's mark… Continue
Posted by Chris Russell on April 21, 2008 at 8:54am —
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Most people recognize that we are in the middle of a new media revolution, so why aren’t we seeing more recruitment advertising within online broadcasts?
Ok, from a media consumption perspective I’ll admit my household is a little extreme. 99% of all news, video and audio is delivered via the net…
I proudly present the date for the first Online Recruitment Blogger Meeting in Munich on June 13th.
Since I have been in virtual contact with quite a few bloggers over the past few months, I was wondering how they were like in real life. So I contacte… Continue
Posted by Eva Zils on April 18, 2008 at 3:34am —
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Its been quiet for a couple months now on the job board acquisition front. But I believe the next to be acquired will be JOBS IN THE US.
Here's why.
About 3 years ago this Maine based local job network with several sites based in New England was acquired by newspaper publisher Journal Register Corp for about $10 million. At the time JiUS claimed to be a $3 million dollar a year enterprise.
We kick start our review of job board widgets this week with the AllTheTopBananas widget.
AllTheTopBananas, the name says it all: bouncy, energetic and not too serious. It’s a young site and full of innovation, so it comes as no surprise that it was one of the earliest sites to release a job widget.… Continue
Posted by Julian Stopps on April 17, 2008 at 5:52am —
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On the show this week: online advertising in the UK rockets, Forrester reports career sites are failing job seekers and HayMarket announces two new job boards.… Continue
Posted by Julian Stopps on April 14, 2008 at 3:12pm —
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The way that job boards display search results hasn’t changed much over the years. Traditionally vacancies have been listed in a rather flat textual manner, but that might be about to change.
The reason: we are beginning to see some new innovation [continue reading]Continue
Apparently the big boards are not passing usability tests. Check out these quotes.Career Web sites such as Dice.com and Monster.com could be making the search for work more difficult for job seekers and causing potential employers to leave positions unfilled, according to Forrester Research, which this week reported the majority of online job sites failed to pass usability and performance tests.
Forrester examined 12 career Web sites in its report. The research firm chose the top fo…Continue
While at the ERE in San Diego this past week I discovered Twitter. I had heard about it before and even took a brief look at what's going on there but never thought of using it as a way to promote my job board postings. Until I saw a job board feeding it's RSS feed through a service called TwitterFeed.
It is was not that hard to setup and it works really well. Twitter users are used to micro blogging 140 characters or… Continue
FYI for all you IAEWS members.The 2008 meetings are as follows:
• The Spring Member Congress will be a half-day event following the Kennedy Information 2008 Conference & Expo on May 16, 2008 from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in Las Vegas, NV.
The Kennedy Conference doesn’t end down until late on Thursday afternoon, so whether you’re an exhibitor or an attendee, this meeting provides the perfect reason to extend your visit in Vegas wit…Continue
Talk about efficiency. A new article makes this claim.
A classified ad industry research firm says Craigslist could "easily" rake in $100 million with a few minor changes to improve service.
The company, Classified Intelligence of Altamonte Springs, Fla., estimates Craigslist's 2008 revenue will be about $81 million this year, a figure Classified Intelligence Principal Peter Zollman called "amazing" in light of the laid-back operations of the mostly-free classifieds Web site.
"They charge…Continue
Reuters has published some new details of the CB/Facebook deal. I bolded some of the more interesting parts. "Resell" appears to be the main component. - CRNEW YORK (Reuters) - Internet jobs site CareerBuilder.com is teaming up with Facebook to help clients run job recruiting campaigns within the online social network, the two companies said on Monday.
Specialized recruiting ads will promote CareerBuilder and employers' sections within Facebook, with the aim of attracting potential…Continue
With the promise of school ending in a few short months, summer vacation can sometimes present tough challenges for teens, who often find job searching tough in an adult-based work world.
A new company – created by teens for their peers – Myfirstpaycheck.com – gives teens a much-needed resource to help them with the job search process. Along with job, internship, and volunteer listings, Myfirstpayche… Continue
Is Dayak.com the Priceline.com of our world where employers name their price for candidates?
Dayak.com is an online recruiting marketplace that lets you set your own price to find new hires. As an employer, you place an ad for free, set your own fees for recruiters and interact with candidates competing to fill the position. You only pay after a position has… Continue
Posted by Chris Russell on March 31, 2008 at 9:45am —
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Over the next few weeks we will be embarking on an investigation into the job board widget, by taking a look at a range of widgets offered by UK job boards. We will present the pros and cons of each widget, finishing up with a comparison of all the widgets we’ve reviewed.
Before we do our first review, …Continue
I'm the President of Absolutely Health Care: http://www.healthjobsusa.com.
I'm sure that just like us, many of you have clients that do a poor job of using your site in terms of taking advantage of all of your benefits you offer, and doing things in a way that will optimize their results.
I just thought up a neat concept, and wanted to share. Please take a moment to read about it on our professional social network, and let me know what you think:… Continue
Posted by Ken Levinson on March 29, 2008 at 5:11pm —
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We have a database of 17,000 job seekers that we email every week. If you would like to sponsor a news letter please email sales@careermetasearch.com for pricing and more information. Continue
Posted by Jason Gorham on March 28, 2008 at 11:03am —
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We have just released Hire-Engineers.com 2.0!
With a complete site re-design, HIre-Engineers.com is looking fresh and provides better functionality to our users. We have also introduced some new advertising opportunities.
Feed back and comments are always welcome! Continue
Posted by Bradley Joyce on March 26, 2008 at 7:55pm —
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"Candidate-matching site itzbig has launched Get Yourself Fired.com. The move is an attempt to generate a viral marketing campaign around the idea of, you guessed it, getting yourself fired. After which, you can run over to itzbig for a new one.
At the site, you superimpose your face (see pic) on a variety of compromising images to then e-mail them to your friends (or boss). You can also peruse some humorous work stress tips (click image below). And what viral marketing campaign is complete wit… Continue
Posted by Chris Peterson on March 26, 2008 at 4:09pm —
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On the show this week: Google says "no" to the newspapers, Stepstone acquires Level4 and LinkedIn launch company profiles.
What's more we've news of a phishing scam targeting Guardian Jobs, news of Zubka's expansion over s… Continue
Posted by Julian Stopps on March 26, 2008 at 3:16pm —
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The long tail of job boards is a little longer today. Another niche has been filled for hedge fund jobs.
Here's the release:
Private Equity Jobs was founded by an executive recruiter with more than ten years of experience in the Private Equity and Hedge Fund market. Our business focus is on providing a collaborative and consultative approach to our clients, candidates and business partners, with strict adherence to ethical recruitment practices an… Continue
So long dates, hello relevance. - CR
SUNNYVALE, CALIF., USA: Yahoo! HotJobs, an online recruitment destination, today announced the launch of R.E.A.L., a patent pending search ranking system that is based on Relevance, Engagement, Availability and Location.
R.E.A.L. is part of an overall strategic initiative designed to make the recruiting process more efficient using Yahoo! technology and to provide recruiters with unique insights into job seeker behavior.
Yahoo! said in a stat… Continue
Posted by Chris Russell on March 25, 2008 at 1:34pm —
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I just learned about JobScore, a hosted company career site solution with a host of features including a referral system.
It allows you to post jobs to the major job boards, request referrals, provides reporting and scores candidates, email alerts and assign tasks.
Why its unique: JobScore is free if:
* Yes! You can use JobScore to market jobs and t… Continue
Posted by Chris Russell on March 25, 2008 at 9:19am —
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If you're bored, take a look at http://gareth-executivejobs.blogspot.com/ for some thoughts on the senior end of the executive jobs market and job boards. I'd be interested in any comments. Continue
Posted by Gareth Lloyd on March 24, 2008 at 11:46am —
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McLEAN, Va., March 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An auto dealership's
success hinges on the people it employs. And, with more than 100,000 jobs
available today at the nation's new-car and truck dealerships, there's no
shortage of individually rewarding career opportunities in the retail-auto
industry.
To help auto dealers recruit employees via the Web, the National
Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) has launched a new, online
interactive job board, Automotive Careers Online. The site,… Continue
Posted by Chris Russell on March 24, 2008 at 8:43am —
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hiring remote sales reps
The latest born internet recruiting podcast is out.
2 years, 5 months and 27 days after selling his first job board to media group Trinity Mirror and Mr Secs (a.k.a SecsInTheCity founder Jon Grocott) is back. This time with a new network of niche job boards branded ClearlyJobs.
Guerillla Marketing. No Silver Spoon for Barefoot Student!
The HR Department: Give It More Respect
Jobster Raises Another $7M From Insiders
Where to find your dreamjob?
This week whatjobsite, an information site for direct employers, announced that UK job boards are letting down small-to-medium sized businesses. The findings are based upon new research conducted by the company, combining user surveys and a study of 30 popular job sites.…
Know Thyself. Get a Job By Doing So
Last year FuseJobs launched to the UK market. The site has an interesting business model, which is a cross between a niche job board and a vertical search engine.
Most people recognize that we are in the middle of a new media revolution, so why aren’t we seeing more recruitment advertising within online broadcasts?
I proudly present the date for the first Online Recruitment Blogger Meeting in Munich on June 13th.
Since I have been in virtual contact with quite a few bloggers over the past few months, I was wondering how they were like in real life. So I contacte… Continue
The latest born digitial recruiting podcast is out.
Using Twitter to push jobs
The Most Innovative Job Boards--What are they?
…
Hire-Engineers.com Revamps Site With New Design, Improved Functionality
We have just released Hire-Engineers.com 2.0!
With a complete site re-design, HIre-Engineers.com is looking fresh and provides better functionality to our users. We have also introduced some new advertising opportunities.
Feed back and comments are always welcome! Continue
