Clearly I should have read my email before writing yesterday’s post. Stating that Monster should partner with newspapers quickly to fend off both the recent ascendancy of CareerBuilder and Yahoo’s announced deal with 176 daily papers was obvious enough. But it’s even more obvious when Monster had already announced such a partnership the previous day. [...]
This article, from MediaPost’s Search Insider, provides an excellent commentary on the reasoning behind Yahoo’s recent partnership with 176 daily papers around the country. As Bill Wise states, “Yahoo understands that, at the end of the day, it’s newspapers that have the infrastructure to make themselves a part of the local scene in a way [...]
In the December issue of Esquire, in a small piece entitled “What I’ve Learned,” Mark Cuban shares his views on a bunch of different topics relating to his current and previous businesses. Love him or hate him, there is no question that Cuban deserves a huge amount of credit for having built a successful business [...]
Last Sunday, the Des Moines Register ran a story about the racial divide in Iowa and its impact on people looking for jobs. The story, which appeared on page 1A, featured a picture of a woman with her young children reading a copy of JobDig. Because the story chronicled the problems the woman was encountering [...]
As reported by MediaPost, during a panel discussion hosted by the Society of Editors in England last week, editor Alan Rusbridger of the Daily Guardian predicted that daily newspapers would lose 100% of their revenue from classified advertising by 2020. With dailies losing print advertising at an average annual decline of 9% and web advertising [...]
This is an excellent video from a presentation by Jobster CEO Jason Goldberg talking about Monster.com. The links are to Joel Cheesman’s excellent recruiting industry blog where I first saw the clip and the YouTube video itself. If YouTube is forced to take the video off its site, you can also find it on Joel’s [...]
In a great article on creative strategies to find job candidates in the October 16th edition of Human Resource Executive, a New York travel company with one such strategy was profiled. The travel company was having a difficult time finding people for its call center and grew frustrated as turnover climbed to 35%. With little [...]
Transaction activity in the recruitment advertising spaces continues to accelerate, with the latest announcement coming from Dice.com. Dice announced today that it has acquired U.K.-based efinancialGroup and jobsinthemoney.com. Both job sites focus primarily on jobs in the investment banking, accounting, retail banking, and wealth management industries. While terms were not disclosed, the acquisitions are certainly [...]