When Monster bought Trovix in the summer of 2008, the blogosphere popped with wonder at how the job board would make use of Trovix’ job matching technology. Forrester Research analyst Zach Thomas suggested that, “By making this acquisition, Monster is putting a real emphasis on search and they believe it will help them leap-frog the competition.”... [full article »]

With the recruiting industry stuck deep in the recession rut, it’s no surprise that companies are looking to diversify. The RightThing, an RPO, acquired AIRS, a technology and training firm, in 2008. About the same time, CareerBuilder launched Personified, a recruitment consulting and outsourcing business. Two months ago, recruitment technology vendor Taleo acquired Worldwide Compensation, a... [full article »]

In the wake of ERE’s Social Recruiting Summit Monday comes a contest to expand job seeker use of Twitter, while another quarter counsels caution in how job seekers use social media, but says it’s a must for 21st-century workers. TweetMyJobs, one of the first job distribution services to use Twitter, is now using the service and... [full article »]

Despite mixed results with HR outsourcing, outsourcing parts or all of the recruitment process is growing as companies discover the flexibility and scalability that external worker provisioning can offer. A new study from outsourcing research firm Everest Global suggests that while the recession is reducing the size of RPO contracts, interest is growing, especially among employers... [full article »]

The global recession has taken a toll on workers everywhere, but except for a few high-profile departures and bonus forfeitures, CEOs have seemed mostly immune. Now comes a report from Compdata Surveys that says CEO base pay declined an average of 9.3 percent since 2008. In fact, most of the C-suite has seen their base take... [full article »]

A deal announced Monday  between Twitter and LinkedIn makes it a snap now for users of both services to cross post status messages. You can choose to have some or all your tweets posted to your LinkedIn groups and vice versa. This is a boon for recruiters who now can more easily reach their entire network... [full article »]

When Chad Sowash said tens of thousands of new jobs sites were on their way, he wasn’t kidding. Millions of new job boards is the goal, says a new website from DirectEmployers and Employ Media, the registrar and driving force behind the .jobs addresses. “Soon hundreds of thousands (and, eventually, millions) of geographical .jobs domain names... [full article »]

The Conference Board is predicting that the monthly job losses that have hammered U.S. workers since January 2008 will end early next year. The Board’s Employment Trends Index rose for the second consecutive month in October, and is now at 89.3, up 0.7 percent from the revised September figure. It’s still down significantly from a year... [full article »]

October pulled a trick on economists who had expected the U.S. would be treated to a slowing job loss. Instead, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said this morning that 190,000 jobs were lost during the month, helping push the unemployment to a surprising 10.2 percent. Surveys of economists had predicted the numbers would be closer to... [full article »]

What do you get when you search your name online? Aw, come on. Of course you’ve looked yourself up on the Internet. Almost half of all Internet users did in 2007. The latest survey puts the number at 59 percent. And if you really, really haven’t then you may want to retake recruiting 101. Just as companies no... [full article »]

In what is by now an open secret, Google is hiring 200 recruiters and sourcers for a one-year gig. Details are sketchy, but Dave Mendoza did post an email about the hire to his site Six Degrees From Dave. The email is from a recruiter for Nelson Staffing and says the firm got a contract from... [full article »]

Two labor-related reports this week offer no evidence that the recession Wall Street believes is over really is, at least so far as workers are concerned. The Conference Board’s monthly Help-Wanted OnLine Data Series reported that online job postings dropped by 83,000 in October. The number of newly posted jobs dropped by 24,000. [full article »]

Financially battered Workstream has changed leadership again, bringing back its co-founder and board chairman Michael Mullarkey as chief executive officer. He replaces Steve Purello, whose resignation was announced this morning. [full article »]

Aided by a $32 million income tax adjustment, Monster Worldwide reported it earned $33 million or 27 cents a share. Without the tax benefit Monster earned 1 cent a share, beating the Street’s guess the company would just break even. Revenue, however, was $215 million, $8 million below what analysts expected. Sales in North America continued... [full article »]

In a joint venture with the manager of the .jobs domain, DirectEmployers has launched the first of what might become tens of thousands of new geographically and occupationally focused job boards all sharing a .jobs extension. The new sites, identical in design and structure, made their appearance earlier this month. Among them are Atlanta.jobs, Boston.jobs, Mexico.jobs,... [full article »]

The British newspaper whose job board was hacked over the weekend is advising the half-million users whose information may have been accessed to buy identity insurance and notify credit reporting agencies. An indignant Twitter post by one of those whose account with The Guardian jobs site was compromised says she received an email from the newspaper... [full article »]

When Dr. John Sullivan said last week that employers have lost control of their brand, he likely wasn’t thinking of Sidewiki. Why should he? When the article was published Monday Sidewiki was not even three weeks old; Google launched it on Sept. 23rd. But Sidewiki’s potential for deconstructing a brand is enormous. Unlike all the networking... [full article »]

Two new tools have debuted recently. One will help with your sourcing research and the other promotes the passive candidate who may be overlooked by tech recruiters seeking fresh candidates. Dice.com, the IT job board, introduced a new search result report that allows recruiters to toggle between the results that meet their criteria and other candidates... [full article »]

Shares of Dice Holdings, owner of IT job board Dice.com, closed up almost 5 percent today, following news this morning that the company had a better quarter than Wall Street expected. [full article »]

RiseSmart, a self-described disruptor of the “the $3 billion-plus corporate outplacement market,” announced this morning that it got a $4.6 million infusion of venture capital. Norwest Venture Partners, a $3 million participant in an earlier round of financing, put in $1.8 million. The balance of $2.8 million came from new investor Storm Ventures. Originally based in Dallas... [full article »]