By Vanessa Dennis - A job search expert who writes for About.com recently asked her readers to select their favorite job site. The results might surprise you.
Continue reading...Thursday, October 16, 2008
By Vanessa Dennis - Another job search engine has launched called Nushio, and the folks behind the job site are marketing it as a job meta search engine powered by powerful search engines.
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 14, 2008
By Joel Cheesman - Like you, I’m doing my best to wrap my head around this whole economic, bailout, end of days thingy. I’m especially hoping to gain some clarity in regards to what it means to the employment space. Obviously, companies not hiring means a lot of vendors not making money. The best many players can hope for is holding steady while watching for falling rocks. Having been a victim in the last downturn, I know how ugly it can get. As one industry leader recently put it to me in private, “Our industry is f***ed!” So, here are some of my winners and losers for the year ahead.
Continue reading...Monday, September 8, 2008
By Vanessa Dennis - Jobvite has snagged another ex-Yahoo executive. Tim Lambert, a former VP of Business Development at Yahoo! HotJobs and VP of Sales at Spot Runner, will be Jobvite's new CRO. Rumor also has it that a Yahoo exec will be leaving to join Indeed.com.
Continue reading...Saturday, September 6, 2008
By Joel Cheesman - Indeed.com has opened shop in India at www.indeed.co.in. Aside from its U.S. mothership, the company also has sites in Canada and the U.K.
Continue reading...Thursday, August 28, 2008
By Joel Cheesman - UK-based job search engine Workcircle has launched in the U.S. via Zamzim. The site hopes to aggregate job content from job sites and drive traffic through "contextual, deep-linked, long-tail PPC campaigns across the major search engines." Zamzim and Workcircle CEO Simon Appleton believes there’s space in the already-crowded job search engine market, saying "We’re cheaper, simpler and more effective than buying PPC direct from the major search engines, and it certainly works here in the UK."
Continue reading...Monday, August 18, 2008
By Joel Cheesman - On the heels of Trovix being gobbled up by Monster for a mindboggling $72.5 million, why isn't anyone buying up the vertical job search engines? Surprise! It's not the most traffic that wins. It's the most money (or at least the expectation of driving the most money) that wins. And chances are, the vertical job search engine industry simply isn't attractive enough to prospective buyers.
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Monday, November 10, 2008
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