Yahoo! HotJobs has confirmed Chris Merritt, formerly of Monster China, is their new SVP of sales. He replaces Tom Karrat, now at Mimeo, who left HotJobs in August 2007.
According to his LinkedIn profile, while at Monster, he was a “Worldwide Executive from North America currently on assignment in China, tasked with Go-to-Market management in Greater […]

Yahoo! HotJobs has dumped its date-order results when seeking employment in favor of a Web search-like algorithm. We covered it a few months ago. In addition to it being a regular news item, we thought it made sense to call up Yahoo!’s Kevin Krim and find out more.
Most notably, we wanted to find out how […]

Yahoo! HotJobs says job listings will no longer be served in date order. Instead, the job board will deliver results in a search engine-style algorithm of relevancy. They’re labeling it the R.E.A.L. Search Algorithm, meaning Relevance, Engagement, Availability and Location.
Jeff Kinder, Y! Hotjobs senior vice president and general manager, says “Yahoo! has shown that relevance […]

Yahoo! HotJobs is touting a new deal that adds four publishers to their newspaper consortium and expands their network to encompass “one-third of the newspapers in the U.S.”
The additions include Shaw Newspapers and its 25 daily and weekly newspapers covering northern Illinois and Iowa, The Buffalo News and its paper that covers Buffalo, NY, the […]

Unless you’ve been living under a rock recently, you’re aware that Microsoft is doing its damnedest to acquire Yahoo! They want it really, really badly.
Time will tell if the gang in Redmond can pull it off, but I’d take a calculated guess in saying that the employees at HotJobs are hoping it doesn’t happen. ‘Cause […]

According to comScore - data compliments of Yahoo! - December traffic numbers show Y! HotJobs surpassing Monster to assume the No. 2 spot in job seeker traffic stateside for the fourth consecutive month, going back to Sept ‘07. CareerBuilder remains top dog.
Says a Yahoo! public relations rep:
We continue to be the fastest […]

Yahoo! announced today that the New York Daily News - the fifth largest newspaper in the country - has signed onto its Newspaper Consortium. Now, the newspaper’s Web site will be able to provide additional opportunities for advertisers, job seekers and all of its users.
Marc Kramer, CEO of the Daily News, said,
The Daily News […]