Recruit Co. Ltd., a Japan-based HR services and consumer internet firm has acquired the job search site leader, Indeed.com.  Indeed will continue to be led by its current management team and operate as an independent subsidiary of Recruit. Indeed launched 8 years ago, and in that time became the #1 job search site with 80 […]

When researching the most effective practices on conducting a job search, job seekers can get a lot of mixed messages on what to do (or what not to do) – depending on the who they talk to. HR and Recruiting professionals can be a great source of information, given their roles in the recruitment and […]

Both job seekers and recruiters have seen many ups and downs over the past 15 years with internet recruiting. With all of the evolving technology, job seekers can find positions and connect with recruiters and connections faster than ever before. And if you are a recruiter you can search and connect with candidates in a […]

In 1999, Monster was born and quickly became the largest and one of the most respected job boards in the industry.  Over the past few years (like most job sites), Monster.com has tried to rebrand itself as much more than a job board, with little success. The site has made a lot of headlines recently, […]

Indeed.com, the leader in the online job search space is crushing other job boards in traffic.  According to comScore, overall traffic to U.S. job search sites grew 27 percent in January to 24.2 million total visitors. Indeed.com ranks as the leader with over 1/2 of these visitors (13.7 million), followed by CareerBuilder.com with 9.8 million […]

Glassdoor is the only site that offers professional networking, job listings and reviews and salary reports in one place – and they represent more than 150,000 companies including 100% of those that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Fortune 500 and the S&P 500.  Minutes ago they announced the launch of Inside Connections.  […]

Ask a job seeker, and they’ll tell you it doesn’t take long before they get lost or frustrated online during their job search. For starters the amount of duplicate job content has, at a minimum, doubled in the past year alone.  From the tens of thousands of job boards, aggregator sites, and social recruiting approaches, […]

The story lines were..  The latest and greatest way for you to find a job (if you are a job seeker) or to source and hire a job seeker (if you are a recruiter). Here are the top 5 recruiting #fails of 2011: #5 – Twesume:  While twesume was just announced, it’s still 2011.  This […]

In yesterday’s post, “The Effectiveness (Or Not) of Job Postings“, we shared an example of what not to do, and also highlighted the non-traditional approach to posting jobs that Deluxe Corporation is taking with the use of video. Deluxe’s feedback from their customers (both candidates and hiring leaders), and their results, speak for themselves. Using […]

As the saying goes, a picture says 1,000 words.. The level of satisfaction with job seekers and recruiters about the effectiveness of job postings in the online recruiting space. From continued high unemployment and never hearing back to record numbers of applications per job posting and employers chasing the next best thing.  Both Recruiters and job seekers […]

Just over a week ago at the Society for Human Resource Management’s annual conference (#SHRM11), blog posts and articles about the latest product from Monster.com, called BeKnown, were swarming the web. Many were calling the app “game changing”. I weighed in and share an alternative point of view, “BeWare of BeKnown“.  Shortly after publishing it […]

You probably haven’t heard about it yet (it just launched), but it’s big news in the human resources and recruiting space.  Writers are enthralled with another new shiny object in the social recruiting space, called BeKnown. It’s almost like building networks, brands, and referrals online or within a social network is a new concept. While […]