Posted on 10 April 2008 by Fly Guy
Jobfox is a finalist for the Red Herring 100 Award, honoring the most innovative private technology companies based in North America. The job site is one of 200 companies identified by Red Herring as a top tech startup. The Red Herring editorial board evaluated more than 800 companies to choose the top businesses, such as Jobfox, that are leading the next wave of innovation.
Popularity: 33% [?]
Posted on 21 February 2008 by Fly Guy
Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO) today announced that it has expanded its growing network of newspaper partnerships with the addition of four publishers, including Shaw Newspapers and its 25 daily and weekly newspapers covering northern Illinois and Iowa, The Buffalo News and its paper that covers Buffalo, NY, the Times Publishing Company that produces The Erie Times News in Erie, PA, and the Columbian Publishing Company that publishes The Columbian in Vancouver, WA. With the addition of these publishers, the Newspaper Consortium now includes 634 participating newspapers, 425 of which are dailies – 30 percent of all U.S. daily newspapers and 37 percent of all U.S. Sunday circulation.*
“Yahoo!’s continued momentum with the newspaper industry shows that current and new Consortium members value the opportunity to combine the newspapers’ own unmatched local news and deep local advertising relationships with Yahoo!’s leading technologies and extensive online audience,” said Lem Lloyd, vice president, Newspaper Consortium for Yahoo!, Inc. “We’ve already seen tremendous growth and have captured valuable local audience share across every major U.S. region through integration with Yahoo! HotJobs and the newspaper partners.”
Yahoo! has more than tripled the number of member companies in the Consortium since its inception in November 2006, significantly strengthening its Advertiser/Publisher Network and advancing its advertising strategy to be the “must buy” for the most advertisers.
Popularity: 100% [?]
Posted on 07 February 2008 by Fly Guy
In most aspects of their lives, $100K+ earners have come to expect a higher standard of service. But when it comes to finding high-paying jobs online, senior-level professionals have had little choice but to scour the Web’s millions of job listings like everyone else. That is, until now.
Bridging the gap between traditional job boards and the personal attention of a career coach, RiseSmart – a new subscription-based site for $100K+ professionals – assigns each member an expert “Job Concierge” who is responsible for matching member profiles with the most relevant job openings. It’s the first high-end job site truly worthy of the high-end job seeker.
The High-End Job Site That $100K+ Earners Deserve
“Finding the right six-figure job opportunity among the millions of listings online is like searching for a needle in a haystack,” says Sanjay Sathe, RiseSmart founder and CEO. “Most $100K+ earners are too busy to spend countless hours visiting different job boards and poring through the many often-irrelevant positions returned in a typical automated search.”
Other $100K+ job sites, Sathe adds, offer only half-measures to address this problem.
“Other sites claim to have ‘exclusive’ databases that make searching for $100K+ jobs easier. While this may sound impressive, the reality is that these databases exclude many high-paying jobs their members would want to know about,” Sathe says. “And they still require subscribers to sort manually through automated search results.”
Popularity: 87% [?]
Posted on 22 January 2008 by Fly Guy
AfterCollege, Inc., the nation’s largest career network for college students and recent graduates and Adicio Inc., the leading provider of interactive classified advertising software for media companies, today announced an alliance to facilitate access to AfterCollege’s career network for students and recent graduates. Through the alliance, Adicio’s newspaper clients will be able to upsell their job listings to the AfterCollege database.
AfterCollege maintains an exclusive network of over 1,500 partnering academic departments and student groups, as well as a proprietary database of over 19,500 faculty and student group contacts at the nation’s top colleges and universities. Through its network, AfterCollege delivers targeted job listings to a diverse audience of students who range from undergraduates to PhDs, with 84% having GPAs of 3.0 or above. AfterCollege helps the student find a part-time job or internship during school and upon graduation in their specific field.
Popularity: 73% [?]
Posted on 15 January 2008 by Fly Guy
Itzbig has been named to American Venture magazine’s list of 2008’s Most Promising Startups.
n its entry on itzbig, American Venture wrote that the company is “the technology leader in online recruiting,” adding that “itzbig is the first interactive network to allow working professionals to save time while safely exploring career opportunities. By focusing on quality and efficiency, the company’s innovative approach matches the quiet working professional with the appropriate position at the itzbig client.”
Jim McGovern, the CEO of itzbig, noted that “it is a tremendous honor to be recognized by a prestigious third party, such as American Venture. Our employees have worked very hard to create a value proposition that is unique and effective in the online recruiting industry.”
That value proposition has resonated with dozens of companies in Texas where itzbig launched in 2007.
“itzbig is different in that it allows us to find high-performing employees who would otherwise not feel comfortable exploring jobs on the Internet,” said Gary Thompson of Kimbia Software, Inc. “itzbig is attractive to these candidates because it offers privacy, security, and anonymity as well as the ability to see exactly how they match up against the specific job opportunity.”
“We were using more traditional recruiting methods for hiring a developer when we decided to go with itzbig. Immediately, we found what we were looking for. There’s no reason to go back to the old way of hiring new employees.”
Joel Cheesman, one of the most widely-read bloggers on emerging recruitment issues in the world, added that itzbig had it right from the start.
“Founders Jim Hammock and Hank Stringer are industry veterans who launched Hire.com almost a decade ago,” said Cheesman. “Add that experience with founder Asad Khan’s supply chain industry expertise and you have a winning combination that can reshape the recruiting industry.”
“This is a company that has plotted its growth in a very responsible way, expanding step-by-step out of its home state and doing its best to ensure both employers and applicants have an opportunity to connect in a meaningful way. itzbig has a sound strategy and is gaining momentum with some of the tech industry’s most dynamic employers.”
Popularity: 77% [?]
Posted on 08 January 2008 by Fly Guy
Job site Jobfox has secured another $20 million in funding. According to sources:
DFJ Growth Fund led the round, with partner Mark Bailey taking a board seat. Return backers Menlo Ventures and New Enterprise Associates also participated.
Additionally, this should free-up the company for further growth nationally and globally, including top U.S. markets and possible acquisitions in places like Australia.
Popularity: 50% [?]
Posted on 02 January 2008 by Fly Guy
Jobacle.com, the career advice and employment news Web site, has released its second annual Official Sick Day Calendar. Available as a free download, the 2008 calendar highlights days that have “optimal sick day potential.” Notably, days that bridge standard holidays into longer leaves of absence.
Popularity: 38% [?]
Posted on 28 December 2007 by Fly Guy
Help Paris!
That was the response of Shimmering Resumes to Black Wednesday, the day Paris Hilton learned that her grandfather is giving 97% of his fortune to charity. To ease her distress, Shimmering Resumes has offered to write her a resume absolutely free, for any job she chooses to seek.
“Leaping to the rescue of the world’s best-known heiress is not everyone’s gut response,” said Paul Freiberger, president of Shimmering Resumes, a professional resume-writing service. “I’ve heard a lot of less-than-generous comments.”
“This young lady just had over $2 billion snatched from her future. Show a little compassion,” Freiberger added. “It may not be so easy for her to create another perfume line or promote a movie, CD, or line of handbags. Can’t we all relate?”
Freiberger said he is not seeking Hilton’s endorsement for a line of resumes or CVs. Should she offer one, Freiberger has not decided what he would do.
Popularity: 26% [?]
Posted on 27 December 2007 by Fly Guy
While resolving to lose a few pounds in 2008 is probably not a bad idea, you should also give some consideration to your career as well. “The employment picture in the New Year is shaping up to be quite volatile,” said WallStJobs.com founder, Robert Graber, “so making yourself more marketable, no matter how secure you think you are, is just prudent career insurance.”
Graber suggests putting some of these job focused self-improvement ideas on your New Year’s Resolution “to-do” list for 2008:
Popularity: 25% [?]
Posted on 24 December 2007 by Fly Guy
More than two-thirds of respondents in The Adler Group’s 2008 Recruiting and Hiring Challenges Survey believe that hiring top talent is harder today than it has ever been. According to Lou Adler, author of the bestselling book Hire With Your Head (Wiley, 3rd Edition, 2007), they’re right.
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