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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Because I’ve written in the past about how bastardized the math is behind unemployment rate (seriously, read my March ’09 blog post if you’re even remotely interested in the U.S. unemployment rate) I had to laugh at the comedic, animated rendition of how the Department of Labor calculates (or fails to accurately calculate) the nation’s [...]