SimplyHired announced last week that it was making a greater effort to combat the blight on its site in the form of scam jobs, outdated listings, and duplicate job posts. SimplyHired bills itself as the largest job search engine on the web, pulling the vast majority of its jobs from other job boards such as [...]
These headlines are just from this morning…
• The Nation: Future of the newspaper is just as bright as it is for the telegraph
• Tribune cuts 53 jobs from newsroom and asks bankruptcy judge for approval of $13 million in bonuses
• Ad revenue for McClatchy in Q1 is down nearly 30%
• The New York Times’ foundation [...]
In honor of Paul Dailing, I am going to continue to be lazy on occasion and simply dump a pile of stories and headlines into a blog post regarding the death of the daily newspaper (and maybe on the recruitment classified front as well). It continues to be fascinating to me to watch an industry [...]
Starting this month, we will be running a monthly report of the top 50 job titles found on LinkUp during the previous month. The report lists EXACT job titles, so you will see things like Registered Nurse as the top job title for March, with RN (the exact same position) listed as #5. We will [...]
Not surprisingly, very few industries showed job growth in March. In fact, only 5 of 37 industries reported an increase in the number of new job listings, and only 2 of 37 showed an increase in total job listings.In total, new job listings declined by almost 110,000 postings, and total job listings by well over [...]
There’s a great presentation on TED by Jacek Utko (here) on how design revolutionized a number of European newspapers. It certainly makes one realize how uninspired and unimaginative U.S. newspapers are and how badly those business are being run today.
Thanks Jim and Eric for the video.
I am not sure whether I should be delighted or disgruntled that Diggings was not included in Paul Dailing’s mocking of bloggers that write about the death of the dailies. It’s actually a very amusing piece, and my initial reaction was that there is more truth to his meta-commentary than not. I have actually intended [...]
Thanks to Chris Russell of JobBoarders for organizing a really entertaining discussion yesterday on a variety of topics relating to the job board industry. Also participating were Joel Cheesman, Eric Shannon, and Joe Stubblebine.
During the conversation, I went off on a slight rant (not quite meds-worthy in my mind, but that might be up for [...]
A day ahead of Friday’s jobs report from the Department of Labor, LinkUp reports that total job listings from over 16,000 company web sites around the U.S. plummeted again in March, dropping 19% from February. New jobs posted to company web sites dropped slightly less, declining 18% from February. The total number of job listings [...]