For 14 years, Matt Ferguson led CareerBuilder. As of today, however, his time as CEO is over. In a release, former president and COO Irina Novoselsky will take over as CEO. Ferguson will be relegated to executive chairman, effective today. Novoselsky…
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Recruitology Inks Partnership with Tribune Publishing (Formerly Tronc)
Recruitology has scored a big win in the race to partner with newspaper publishers. Announced last week, Chicago-based Tribune Publishing, owner of the Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, Los Angeles Times, and the San Diego Union Tribune, will have…
New Screenshots Show Just How Serious Google is About Job Search
Still think Google’s not all that serious about job search? Check out the following screenshot. Yep, Google looks like it’s testing the option to provide job-search recommendations directly from its homepage. Clicking on any of the links above, circled in…
CareerBuilder Slashing Office Space, Moving Out of Downtown Chicago Digs
While competitors like Indeed and ZipRecruiter are busy adding space, CareerBuilder is movin’ on out. Crain’s Chicago Business is citing sources close to negotiations that the Chicago-based job board is leaving its long-time downtown home and going west. According to…
Dice Parent Company Reports Quarterly Earnings, Misses on Revenue
The news for DHI Group — parent company to Dice, ClearanceJobs, and eFinancial Careers — for the second quarter last week was split. Earnings per share of 5 cents were in line with estimates, but revenue of $39.7 million, a 2.3 percent…
Here Are The Unhappiest Cities to Work in the U.S., According to Kununu
Glassdoor-wannabe Kununu has released its happiest and unhappiest places to work in the U.S. Here are the winners and losers. Happiest Cities to Work Fresno, California. Sacramento Louisville Los Angeles Omaha Boston Raleigh Wichita, Kansas. Miami Minneapolis Unhappiest Cities to…
Indeed Launching 4 New Ads This Week
Here are four new commercials Indeed is dropping this week. “The Box” “The Dream” “The Wish” “The Drop” These new series of ads, which the company refers to as “Stories,” aim to build upon what it says is the resilience shown…
Dice Exiting Europe
Director of corporate communications at DHI Rachel Ceccarelli has confirmed the company’s tech job board, Dice, will be exiting Europe this summer. Dice sites in the UK and Germany will officially be closing on August 31, 2018. No other European countries or regions…
Meet the Website Indeed Will Probably Kill as Soon as It Reads This Post
There’s spam. There’s trademark theft. And there’s just plain ridiculousness. A site I came across recently fulfills all three criteria. Meet EndeededJobs.com. The site says, “We are the newest Job Search site. We always have jobs hiring Now, changing occupations…
Recruitology Lands Partnership With Las Vegas Review-Journal
It’s not exactly the New York Times, but Recruitology has landed a deal that will make it the job board solutions provider for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the city’s largest newspaper. Checkout the new career site here. “Recruitology’s mission is to…
Watch Out ZipRecruiter: LinkedIn is Coming After Small Business Hiring With ‘Recommended Matches’
LinkedIn’s brand hasn’t exactly been associated with small business employment over the years. The unspoken word for businesses that can’t maintain a robust company page has basically been to come back when you get an applicant tracking system and hire…
Why Did Indeed Acquire Resume.com?
Historically, Indeed’s acquisitions make a lot of sense. Adding Simply Hired, Interview, and Workopolis are pretty easy to justify. Same thing for Recruit Holdings, Indeed’s parent company, which recently added Glassdoor to the arsenal. The recent news that Indeed had acquired…
DHI Group Stock Price Spikes After Hedge Fund Activity
Sometimes, timing is everything. If you’ve been following shares in DHI Group (NYSE: DHX) for the past few years, you know it’s mostly been an ugly nosedive toward oblivion for the once-mighty job board business that includes names like Dice, eFinancial…
Dice’s Parent Company Sells Off Another Job Board
Two years ago, DHI Group announced it was exploring strategic alternatives for the company, which is corporate-speak for for-sale. A year after, when it became clear there would be no buyer, the company got busy shedding its job boards no…
Monster Finally Gets a CEO, Adds Former Dice President to Executive Team
Well, that took a while. So long, in fact, that I don’t even remember who the last CEO was at Monster. Better late than never, I guess, as Monster announced a tech executive from the travel industry as its new…
My Initial Thoughts on The Glassdoor Acquisition
Glassdoor didn’t make much of a splash when it launched back in 2008. Job boards like Monster, CareerBuilder, and HotJobs owned the headlines, while upstarts like Indeed, SimplyHired, and Jobster were grabbing most of the remaining attention. The business model…
Surprise! Glassdoor Sold for More than a Billion
Glassdoor’s plans for an IPO have long been one of talent-acquisition’s worst-kept secrets; 2018 was perhaps finally going to be the year, and the company has even been thought to be interviewing banks. Instead, it was “another staffing company buying…
New Commercials From Monster Push Mobile Apps
Monster has a handful of new TV commercials running nationally. In a world where ads from ZipRecruiter and Indeed are inescapable, it’s a welcome change of pace. If you haven’t seen them, here an example: Click here to see the…
Monster Touts ‘Humanizing’ Job Search With Latest Updates
At its core, the Internet isn’t particularly human. That help-wanted sign in the window of your local convenient store is even less so. Putting help-wanted signs on the Internet is a recipe for ice-cold capitalism, but Monster is rolling out…
New Ownership at CareerBuilder Means Cost-Cutting, Layoffs, and Departing Executives
It’s not 1999 anymore. There was a time when anything with a dot-com at the end of it was akin to a rocket ship blasting to a moon made of money. Job boards like Monster.com were thought to have tremendous…