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google’s integration of ‘talk’ and what it means to online recruitment advertising

When Google launched its IM product, Google Talk, some months ago, it was welcomed with a rather lackadaisical response. Yawn … been there, done that. AOL’s been doing this for how long? Welcome to the party, Google. Google’s IM solution is simple, has little of the bells and whistles its competition deploys, and integrates a VoIP [...]

employers favor online recruitment

A new study by Booz Allen Hamilton, via eMarketer, was released today entitled "Employers Favor Internet Recruitment." According to the story, "51% of new hires in 2005 came about through the Internet, and only 5% through newspapers." Consistent in their findings was that employee referral systems and the company’s own Web site topped all other recruiting [...]

google’s easy and intuitive as hell job application process

Is your company’s online job application process this easy?

msn quietly testing online classifieds system

see your ad here I’ve never wanted to penetrate the market of students and alumni of the University of Washington so badly before. According to a MediaPost story, MSN is quietly rolling out its online classifieds offering to Microsoft employees and alums, as well as current and past students of u-dub. I must admit that I really [...]

see your ad here First Amazon’s A9. Then Yahoo! Now MSN wants to reward frequent users of their search engine. A long list of the prizes reveals a myriad of gift certificates and Microsoft freebies. It looks as though winners are rewarded randomly, and must act when they see "MSN Search and Win." I love seeing the search wars [...]

india to reach 100 million net users in 2007

Holy Schnikes! Talk about opportunity. EMarketer predicts that by 2007, 100 million Indians will be online. And what’s projected to be the No. 2 most popular activity? Yep, online job search.   ~~~~~~~~~~ Blog sponsored by the .jobs domain and URL.

70% of new grads go online for jobs

see your ad here According to a recent MediaPost survey, seven in 10 college grads turn to job sites when looking for work. Of those, 62 percent said they posted a resume on Monster, up from 30 percent last year. Forty-nine posted on CareerBuilder, up from 10 percent last year. And 31 percent went to HotJobs, up [...]