By Joel Cheesman - Drill Sergeant Chad must've forgotten to take his meds before our podcast this week, following up the SHRM conference. Either that, or the coffee was particularly strong that morning. Not happy with Monster.com's apparently feeble attempt to keep America working by issuing complementary job postings at the show, Chad said, "[Monster's promo] was the biggest load of crap I've ever heard. If Monster really cared, they would have changed their damned business model a long time ago and they wouldn't have been shedding 150 people yesterday." We also get around to things like Twitter's impact on jobs and the cesspool of duplicate job content on the Web. It's good to be back.
Continue reading...Thursday, July 9, 2009
The Wall Street Journal enlisted two professionals to test the capabilities and accuracy of four job sites that use matching technology to connect job seekers: Jobfox, CareerBuilder, Bintro, and Trovix.
Continue reading...Saturday, June 27, 2009
It’s a sobering day as we look toward this week’s SHRM conference. Reports out of Indianapolis say Jobfox CEO, Rob McGovern, has suffered a serious car accident.
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Thomas Watkins has left his position as regional director of sales at Jobfox to lead the Cox Business sales team in Hampton Roads, Va.
Continue reading...Thursday, June 4, 2009
Some Cheezhead readers emailed in this morning saying that several Jobfox employees on Facebook and LinkedIn noted on their profiles that as of yesterday, they are unemployed.
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Jobfox is asking their members to pony up for another feature called a Personal Job Market Explorer. A Cheezhead reader wrote about her experience with the new service.
Continue reading...Monday, April 6, 2009
By Joel Cheesman - The ERE Expo went down last week. Judging by the turnout, you probably weren’t there. That’s not to say the show was a failure; it just means it was a bit more intimate than the past few events. A brief discussion with ERE head David Manaster brought a positive outlook when he reminded me that attendance at the most recent show was about the same as it was a few years ago with about the same overhead. They’ll no doubt survive the economic storm. Which might be saying more than most companies in our industry these days. Rumors of death, destruction and downturn were abundant.
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
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