A busy news day for Monster.com. Monster Worldwide Reports Second Quarter and Six Months 2008 Results, adds next generation intelligent search technology by acquiring Trovix, Inc., and signs and alliance with HireRight.

It would be great if attracting top talent to your company was a simple process – get prospective applicants excited about the benefits of working for your company, then offer them a private and effortless way to figure out whether the position is the right one for them to pursue. In reality, however, attracting talent […]

By Jason Buss. Online Job Board Offers Job Seekers FREE Listing and FREE Video Resume Posting Until Jan. 1, 2009. One day there is talk about the drawbacks of video resume’s. The next, a new job board, FutureResume.com opens shop. The site is scheduled to go live for employer job listings in August. During that […]

Dayak, the online recruiting marketplace that links employers with professional recruiters, recently launched its full-service innovative site to quickly and efficiently fill employer job openings. Dayak’s new recruiting solution allows employers and recruiters an opportunity to work together to fill open positions in nearly every industry. There are no costs associated with posting a job […]

AllianceQ set to revolutionize the $58 billion recruitment industry by creating a free supply of job candidates for Fortune 500 companies. A group of industry-leading Fortune 500 companies today launched AllianceQ, an organization created to build a free, exclusive and perpetually growing pool of job candidates to drive down its members’ cost of recruiting. Founding […]

The Labor Department reported today another 62,000 jobs lost in June, while the unemployment rate unexpectedly remained at a 4 year high of 5.5%. This is the sixth consecutive decline. Full coverage: Business Week MarketWatch Investment News The Fed will see the July jobs report before its next policy meeting on Aug. 5.

Chris Isidore, from CNNMoney.com today wrote about the overall outlook on jobs and the economy.  Economists predict the bottom isn’t here yet, and expect job losses and unemployment to rise through the first half of 2009. All five component indices in the CEO confidence index fell – current, future, business, investment and employment. Employment and […]

For the first time in five years, more workers are at companies that are laying people off than are at companies that are hiring, according to a monthly survey of worker attitudes released Tuesday. Read the full story from MarketWatch. Online Job Ads Flat, and employment declines are expected to continue through summer, the Conference […]

NotchUp has been testing its’ career agent site for months, and today opens its service to all businesses. Since January, NotchUp has been approached by more than 1,000 companies to test run its service. 12 were selected based on diverse criteria to take an up close look and give it a try. NotchUp has received […]

Verbal Summary launches tool that combines audio and Resume. The new Web 2.0 tool promises unlimited possibilities, including: Resume Presentation Reference Checking Extending a job offer Recruiter training Interview feedback And more… Jerry Albright, Founder of Verbal Summary, shares that Verbal Summary has created the very first presentation tool designed for any desk in the […]

Is an ipo a real possibility in the future for LinkedIn?  Dan Nye, CEO, announced on the LinkedIn blog they have raised another $53 million, after previously raising $27 million.  This brings the overall value estimated at just over $1 billion. Nye stated, “This additional funding will give us even more flexibility to execute on our vision for millions of […]

Congratulations to Shally Steckerl and Don Ramer on the merger announcement between Job Machine and Arbita.  Read the official press release from Job Machine.  As a user of Shally’s training, I am looking forward to seeing the benefits of this partnership evolve.