The dialogue generated around Notch up has been quite interesting. If nothing else there will be lots of eyeballs watching what happens when they move from Beta to Live! So, here’s some final thoughts from the initial post, Joel’s detailed post and the many, many comments that have been shared:

The not so good:
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The question: does a social networking component weaved into a traditional job board have value?

The answer is not so easy. There’s been much discussion lately around this topic, and some pretty interesting M&A transactions in the space. We all know that networking is still very high on the list of ways that […]

Someone sent this to me today and I honestly just don’t get it! Here’s the email:
I just joined NotchUp’s private beta program and wanted to share it with you.
NotchUp is a new way to manage your career. Instead of YOU having to sort through hundreds of job postings, NotchUp enables top companies to find […]

Hot off the press. Monster’s latest ad in their new “Your Calling Is Calling” campaign has just been released.
Job satisfaction that makes the world go ’round.
This spot follows the previous ones in terms of an eye catching, visually appealing setup with a nice pay off at the end. In my […]

Growth Rate For Online Job Ads Continues To Slow: The number of online recruitment ads were 3.5 million in December, a 6 percent rise over last year, according to The Conference Board Help-Wanted Online Data Series. But the numbers show that the amount of online help wanted ads are slowing down to a crawl: not […]

Joel recently showcased the new ad concepts being rolled out by Monster.com. As an ad guy myself, I took great interest in seeing how they would be rebranding themselves.
I know this may be the first positive thing said about Monster on Joel’s blog but I have to say at first glance, the […]

Employers are looking for creative ways of hiring employees. Whether that is due to a competitive market place, or not as many qualified candidates, it depends on the field. One thing in common is some of the outside the box recruiting techniques employers are using.
The various ways of recruiting employees are:
• Specified job fairs
• Internal recruiting – […]

Social networking sites have quickly become the latest tool in advertising, or like Maxim Healthcare Services, they are also being used to recruit potential employees.
Maxim Health Services is a leading provider of medical staffing, home healthcare, and wellness across the United States. They are one of the first to step out of the box, by […]

In case you missed it - a little fun with Craig Newmark and Stephen Colbert

The Journal has a great story entitled “Job-Search Sites Face a Nimble Threat.” It focuses on the growth of niche players.
Now, the hottest names in online recruitment are increasingly specialized job sites. That poses a threat to the growth prospects of the broad-based online job boards and their newspaper partners, analysts said.
A graph tells the […]