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LinkUp Reaches Impressive Milestone – 1 Million Job Listings Indexed Exclusively From Company Websites

LinkUp announced last week that its job search engine has reached 1 million job openings indexed exclusively from company websites throughout the U.S. This is a major milestone in support of LinkUp’s mission to deliver to job seekers the largest index of high-quality job listings available on the web. By updating the index daily and [...]

LinkUp Named Best Job Search Engine

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 [...]

Impending Death Of The Dailies? Most Are Walking Zombies

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 [...]

Larry Kudlow Is Wrong – Businesses Do Want To Hire

With the disappointing jobs report released earlier today, there is no doubt that my prediction for a far more positive report than most expected was off the mark. According to the Department of Labor numbers, job growth in July was positive but anemic, and far below consensus estimates. Following the weak BLS report, politicians, economists, [...]

Paid Search Pounding More Nails In Daily Newspaper Coffin

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 [...]

LinkUp Featured on CBS News

LinkUp received a nice mention on CBS News last week. LinkUp, one of the fastest growing job search engines on the web, indexes jobs that are only found on company websites. We do not aggregate jobs from other job boards and we do not allow anyone to post jobs directly to the site. As a [...]

FBI Crack Down On Cyber Mules Getting No Help From Indeed, Simplyhired, Or Huffington Post

The Wall Street Journal ran an article this week highlighting the efforts of the FBI to crack down on ‘Cyber Mules,’ people who knowingly or unknowingly participate in money laundering schemes. Cyber mules, or money mules as they are sometimes called, are recruited through classified ads posted on job boards such as Monster.com and are [...]

LinkUp Featured in U.S. News & World Report

In an excellent issue dedicated entirely to career development and job searching, LinkUp received a nice plug in the May issue of U.S. News & World Report. The issue is filled with great articles, excellent advice, and insightful commentary about the changing job market and how people can more effectively navigate through very challenging times. [...]

Mystery Buyer Acquires Standout Jobs

On his Instigator blog yesterday, Standout Jobs CEO Ben Yoskovitz announced that his company had been acquired, although the terms of the deal and the actual buyer were not disclosed. It will be interesting to see what details, if any, emerge in the near future, but the acquisition is further confirmation of the dominant trend [...]

Flaws In Job Board Aggregator Model Coming To Light

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 [...]