Press Release LINKUP WINS ABOUT.COM’S 2011 READERS’ CHOICE AWARD FOR BEST JOB SEARCH ENGINE NEW YORK, March 15, 2011 – LinkUp today announced that it has been selected as the About.com 2011 Readers’ Choice Award for best job search engine. Now in its fourth year, the About.com Readers’ Choice Awards honor the best products, features [...]
The February jobs report comes out tomorrow, and hopes are high that the numbers will finally show that the U.S. economy is truly and firmly in recovery mode. As Ben Bernanke said recently in his semiannual testimony on Capitol Hill, the recovery that seems to be occurring in virtually every economic and financial metric except [...]
It’s funny how things work sometimes. During a recent conversation, I made the comment that the newspaper most at risk from the launch of Rupert Murdoch’s The Daily (Newscorp’s very well-executed daily newspaper released specifically for the iPad) was USA Today. Low and behold, a MinnPost article today is reporting that Gannett is exploring the [...]
The talk all week about the Superbowl commercials leads me to wonder what percentage of the record audience actually tuned in to watch the game itself. It was, in case people might have overlooked it, a great football game and I hate to admit, as a Minnesotan, that I was cheering hard for the Packers [...]
It’s been some time since I’ve written about the decline of the daily newspaper given that it’s about as compelling a story as the White Sox languishing in 3rd place in the A.L. Central and fading fast as the All-Star break approaches. But I cannot resist at least commenting on the latest news concerning the [...]
Similar to the way they were prior to last month’s jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the optimists are out in full force this week, and perhaps for good reason. The ADP report was released today, showing that private employers added 55,000 jobs in May. The Monster Index, also released today, rose [...]
As the recruitment advertising industry continues to evolve at an increasingly rapid clip and job search engines such as LinkUp and job aggregators such as Indeed and Simplyhired continue to grab market share away from the mega job boards such as Monster and Careerbuilder, the underlying details of these newer business models are beginning to [...]
January’s jobs report from the Department of Labor is scheduled to be released later this week and based on data released this morning by LinkUp, Friday’s report will show that the job market improved sharply during the month. LinkUp, a job search engine that indexes jobs from over 20,000 company websites throughout the U.S., reported [...]
Yesterday, G.L. and I were fortunate enough to have the opportunity to participate in a Careerealism webinar for job seekers organized by career advice expert J.T. O’Donnell. During the discussion about how to effectively use online resources in a job search, we mentioned the risks associated with traditional pay-to-post job sites such as Monster and [...]
First the Chrome ads popped onto Google’s homepage, and then, as expected, the Nexus One ad appeared shortly thereafter. So much for the clean homepage that was such a part of Google’s identity. My initial assumption is that the new clutter on the Google homepage shows just how formidable an opponent the search giant perceives [...]