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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 [...]

The Ladders TV Commercials Set A New Low For The Recruitment Advertising Industry

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 [...]

Great Insight on Job Boards From Google

In one of the most interesting profiles on Google I can ever remember reading, a writer for Wired spent some time watching the monitors in Google’s lobby that display real-time searches from the search engine. The writer commented that there was perhaps no better way to gain insight into the depth and breadth of the [...]

Job Listings On Company Sites Plummet In February

LinkUp reported this week that total job listings from over 14,000 company web sites around the U.S. plummeted in February, dropping 13% from January. New jobs posted to company web sites dropped even further, declining 15% from January. The total number of job listings dropped by more than 127,000, while new jobs posted to those [...]