LinkedIn Moves On Campus
Posted by Jason
As LinkedIn gets closer to its’ 7th Anniversary this May, the professional networking site is picking up steam on College and University Campuses world-wide. The site surpassed 55 million users in December, 2009. Their members span all 7 continents and 200 countries are represented. A new member joins every second.
So what’s next for the professional networking giant? It’s moving on Campus.
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2010 Superbowl Ad Winner: CareerBuilder vs. Monster.com?
Posted by Jason
With air time estimated between $2.5 and $3 million, both job boards are looking to gain traffic and exposure during high unemployment times.
In our poll last year, CareerBuilder won the superbowl ad contest big time with 71% of the vote. After announcing the acquisition of Yahoo! HotJobs last week, the Monster.com beavers hope to take the top spot over CareerBuilder’s whitey tighties.
Which ad did you like best this year? Vote here, and if you didn’t see the ads, you can see both ad spots below the poll.
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Be sure to vote for your favorite 2010 Superbowl ad on YouTube’s ad blitz page before February 14th, 2010.
Monster acquires HotJobs
Posted by Jason
With Monster.com controlling 1/3 of online job postings, they announced their eating one of two main competitors, HotJobs. The deal is expected to close the 3rd quarter of this year.
Monster also plans on doubling the number of newspapers that it works with to about 1,000 for online job postings and advertising.
Background:
Yahoo acquired HotJobs in 2002 for roughly $445 million in cash and stock. One analyst stated that unique users on the HotJobs site in December declined 32 percent year over year, in a note to investors citing data from comScore.
Yahoo’s sale of HotJobs, which had been rumored for months, is the latest example of the Internet company’s reorganization under CEO Carol Bartz who took the helm in January 2009.
Under the terms of the deal, Monster will pay Yahoo $20 million to $31 million a year for Yahoo to redirect traffic to its site. How does the revenue compare between the two job boards? HotJobs generates annual revenue of about $100 million. Monster’s 2009 revenue totaled $905 million.
It is not clear yet what impacts this deal will have on HotJobs’ employees, for Recruiters, or Candidates yet many have stated the consolidation will be beneficial on many fronts.
A Job Board Nightmare?
Posted by Jason
He thought (and hoped) it was just a bad dream. Little Johnny just wanted to find a job, but he got lost in a universe cluttered with a million new job boards.
He woke up, it wasn’t just a dream, as 25,000 will go live this week.
While I have never claimed to be a “jobs” SEO expert, I’ve had several conversations the past couple of months with recruiting industry peers and there continues to be a lot of confusion and questions about what goals Direct Employers is trying to accomplish with the .jobs domain.
2010 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For
Posted by Jason
The 2010 Fortune 100 best companies to work list is here, and most are hiring. How prevalent is social media becoming with these 100 companies? Nearly 40% contain links to groups, pages, and channels to connect on. Check out KPMG’s branded YouTube channel as an example.
Here are some additional stats related to this years top 100 companies to work for:
- 11 are new to the list and 41 dropped from their # spot last year
- Approximately 1/2 added new jobs in 2009, the others remained flat or decreased their employee counts
- 10% still don’t link to jobs or a career site from their home page
- Nearly 40% have dedicated pages or content related to diversity commitment
- Only 10% have updated their career site with the 2010 award
- 20% have “pre web 1.0″ career sites, but hey, they have a lot to be proud of
Top Job Boards for 2010
Posted by Jason
It’s that time of year again - where the top job boards are announced. It’s the annual user’s choice awards, where both recruiters and job seekers pick the top job sites on the web.
Each year, WEDDLE’s conducts a year-long ballot of recruiters and job seekers to determine which employment related sites they like best. The 30 sites that accumulate the most votes during the year are named WEDDLE’s User’s Choice Award winners - and they are coined as the “elite” of online employment sites.
TweetDeck and TwitJobSearch Launch JobDeck
Posted by Jason
Announced early this morning for companies and job seekers leveraging social media, TweetDeck and TwitJobSearch have teamed up to provide a dedicated job seeker platform - JobDeck.
This enables users to leverage the power of social media in job hunting including, searching for jobs, tracking the latest trends in job hunting, and connecting with contacts across Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and more.
The New Standard in Split Recruiting
Posted by Jason
A few weeks ago we highlighted the “Top 7 Mobile Recruiting Apps for 2010“. One of those apps, The Hire Syndicate is making waves with the future of split recruiting.
I had an opportunity to connect with recruiting veteran Allen Ackerman, The Hire Syndicate’s Founder and CEO, to discuss the technology further - and his views on split recruiting.
Simply Hired Goes Social
Posted by Jason
With more than five million job listings worldwide, Simply Hired is the world’s largest job search engine and recruitment advertising network, and yesterday announced it’s going social.
Today’s web-savvy job seekers are turning social applications into professional job hunting tools by embracing social networks to expand professional connections, tapping into twitter for real-time alerts about job openings and leveraging blogs to increase their online presence.
The Sourcer’s Playbook
Posted by Jason
Geoff Peterson, Managing Principle of General Lead has over a decade of in-depth experience sourcing talent for organizations nationally. In the Spring of 2009 I met Geoff online via twitter, facebook, and the recruiting blogosphere; and then later in person at a recruiting conference. At the time, I learned about a book he was writing called The Sourcer’s Playbook.
Since that time, he published “The Sourcer’s Playbook” and I’ve had the opportunity to read it and talk in more detail to Geoff a few times about the gaps and opportunities he sees with sourcing talent and his approach to closing these through his work.
