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Craigslist’s Ridiculous Claims…

I was poking around Craigslist today when I came across this Alexa chart of daily pageviews comparing Craigslist to Monster and Careerbuilder. Shockingly, Craigslist (the blue line) has included a chart on its own site which would lead one to believe that it crushes the other 2 mega job boards in terms of daily pageviews.

But [...]

Banking & Financial Jobs Up In December According to LinkUp (Maybe That TARP Money Is Doing Something)

Surprisingly (or maybe not considering the TARP money pouring into the banks), one of the few bright spots in the labor market in December was the Banking & Financial Services industry, at least according to figures released yesterday by LinkUp.com. For the month, new job listings in the Banking & Financial Services sector rose by [...]

LinkUp’s December Jobs Report Is Grim; Delaware and Maryland Show Strength

Surprising no one, LinkUp’s December jobs report, released this morning, shows further deterioration in the U.S. job market. In fact, the data was abysmal, with the total number of job listings from company web sites dropping from 929,000 in November to 777,000 in December, a decline of 16%. LinkUp aggregates and publishes only job listings [...]

The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same

In looking at the pile of headlines to catch up on regarding the daily newspaper industry, it’s obvious that December was another horrendous month for the daily newspaper business. Unfortunately, it’s going to be even worse in 2009 for them. But here’s one last pile of stories for 2008…
• The Seattle Times is freezing non-union [...]