There’s been a ridiculous amount of coverage lately in the recruiting industry about Twitter’s impact on the space. I am a fan of Twitter and have found it to be an advantageous tool to leverage for specific applications in our business. I also think that it is an interesting and potentially valuable tool for job [...]
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 [...]
1) TechCrunch recently wrote about the worsening situation for daily newspapers and the abysmal 2nd quarter they have had.
2) The Economist reports that daily newspapers in emerging economies are thriving. As Thomas Barnett points out, the logic is that:
The demand for news tends to go up as people enter the workforce, earn more money, invest [...]
Always one step ahead of everyone else, Cheezhead has declared that he has moved beyond ripping Monster, declaring in an early June podcast that he no longer finds it sporting, fun, or even interesting. I still, however, cannot resist. Monster has lost its leadership position in online classifieds to CareerBuilder in large part because the [...]