Last Wednesday, LinkUp issued its 60-day jobs forecast based on data from its national job search engine. Our forecast for August and September is based on the number of new and total job listings indexed from over 22,000 corporate websites throughout the U.S. in June and July. The increase and decrease in these job openings [...]
The polls have closed on About.com’s Reader’s Choice Awards, and the winners will not be announced until next week, but in advance of final certification and the official announcement, LinkUp received the most votes as the best job search engine, beating Google, Indeed, and Simplyhired. As a result of the voting, I couldn’t help but [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In attempting to emerge from one of my more protracted blog-writing slumps, I’m going to simply work through a list of posts, news items, clips, and blurbs that I’ve collected over the past few weeks and make a few comments. I realize it’s a bit lazy, but I seem to have let my blog writing [...]
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 [...]
Marty Brack, in a recent ERE post, provides an excellent case study in rethinking traditional methods of recruitment advertising. In the test, he analyzed the cost per quality resume using both Careerbuilder and LinkedIn. Not surprisingly, given how horrendously Careerbuilder and Monster (the 2 most bloated, polluted, antiquated, pay-to-post behemoths) typically perform for employers, LinkedIn [...]