What’s New: IntelliTalent; Aqayo; RecruitingHop; GooodJob; TheLadders; Vestiigo
A new tech company launches today, aimed mainly for the recruiting needs of small and mid-sized companies. It says it has “sliced off the front-end of the recruiting firm.” That, and a new company in...
View ArticleNew Simply Hired CEO Says Innovation, Growth Is His Only Goal
Two months ago, just a matter of weeks after Indeed.com was acquired by the Japanese conglomerate Recruit Co. Ltd. in a billion dollar deal, rival job board Simply Hired announced a change in...
View ArticleDice Unveils a New IT Profiling Tool
IT career site Dice.com is unveiling a new talent aggregation search tool it calls Open Web. Similar to TalentBin, Dice’s new service pulls together bits and bytes of information about candidates,...
View ArticleCareerBuilder Tool Tells You How Well Your Job Ad Is Doing
Quick quiz: Your job postings for customer service reps on average get 28 applications each. Is that good or bad? If you answer is along the lines of “I don’t know,” CareerBuilder has a solution for...
View ArticleMonster Sells China Job Board and Says No Company Sale in Sight
In a financial conference call this morning that was largely devoid of much optimism, Monster officials announced the sale of most of its stake in ChinaHR, and said the company had pulled out of...
View ArticleAs Revenue Soars, LinkedIn Announces Plan to Raise Recruiter Rates
LinkedIn didn’t so much beat Wall Street’s financial expectations, it shattered them. The company earned 35 cents per share on revenue of $303.6 million. That was $24 million more than the average of...
View ArticleSilkRoad Survey Shows Referrals, Job Boards Are Top Sources of Hire
Update: SilkRoad says there are errors in the report it published Thursday on which the post below is based. The most significant appears to be charts on pages 8, 11, and 15 and in the infographic on...
View ArticleCandE Companies Do Better, But Most Candidates Still Hear Nothing
Hard on the heels of the release of the Candidate Experience Awards Report comes word from CareerBuilder that the vast majority of candidates who apply for a job never hear a word after submitting...
View ArticleJob Search Traffic Surged in January, Putting Indeed.com on Top
What’s the most trafficked site by Americans searching for a job? Turns out it’s Indeed. Last month, says comScore, the web traffic measurement company, 17.3 million different visitors from the U.S....
View ArticleTheLadders Sued in Consumer Class Action That Calls Site a “Scam”
TheLadders is being sued in New York federal court in a class-action consumer lawsuit alleging that for years it falsely claimed it offered only high-paying jobs. Brought by an Arkansas woman...
View ArticleSource of Hire Report: Referrals, Career Sites, Job Boards Dominate
CareerXroads released its annual source of hire report this week and, as usual, the report is full of information about the broader talent acquisition landscape. We’ll get to that in a moment. The...
View ArticleLinkedIn Recruiter Unveils New Look, Candidate Matching Feature
New Recruiter Homepage Sporting a new look and with some new features — including a recommendation engine that ‘learns’ the kind of people a recruiter most want — LinkedIn Recruiter is getting an...
View ArticleGreat Places to Work Creating a Career/Culture Info Site
One of the many — and perhaps the best-known — of the many makers of best-workplace lists has created a website for searching for career info. This one comes from the “Great Place to Work” firm, maker...
View ArticleDice’s On Target Q1: A Foreshadowing of Job Board Slowdown?
If Dice Holdings is any kind of bellwether, Q1 is looking like it got off to a slow start for the publicly held job boards. The company reported this morning it earned 12 cents a share on $50.4 million...
View ArticleMonster Beats Market, Gets Rewarded. LinkedIn Blasts Through and Loses 20...
Shares of LinkedIn and Monster moved in opposite directions today, although both careers sites met or exceeded, or, in the case of LinkedIn, blasted through, Wall Street’s expectations. Monster was up;...
View ArticleA Site for Those Who Hire Eye Candy
Those of you who happened to be looking for an attractive date this morning may have noticed you can now find a date and a new employee on the same site. No, not eHarmony — that’s another story...
View ArticleTech-training Site Treehouse Creates Job Board
A website called Treehouse people use to learn app-creation, website building, and other such skills has created a job board for its coders. According to Venture Beat, GE is among the early partners....
View ArticleEmployers Expect No Change in Hiring of Permanent, Fulltimers, But More Plan...
The number of employers planning to hire full-time permanent workers by the end of the year is unchanged from a year ago, though the number expecting to bring on temporary workers is up by half, says...
View ArticleWorkers Underestimate Demand, But Even the Employed Are Looking and Will Look
A survey from Monster shows there’s a real disconnect between what job seekers think of the current employment market and what recruiters say. While recruiters regularly report how hard it is to find...
View ArticleChanges at the Top at Dice as Company Reports Mixed Financial Results
The longtime CEO, president, and board chairman of Dice Holdings, Scot Melland, will step down from at the end of September. He will remain a member of the board of directors. Melland will be succeeded...
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