CollegeGrad.com, an entry-level job site, has released its list of Top 25 Cities for Entry-Level Job Seekers. New York, Houston, and Los Angeles top the list, respectively.
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Houston, New York Top List of 25 Best Cities for Entry-Level Job Seekers
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008Midwest, Northeast Companies Closing Doors to New Hires in Q3
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
A recent survey conducted by Harris Interactive in partnership with Careerbuilder and USA TODAY forecasts a hiring decline in the third quarter most prominent in the Midwest and Northeast regions. Results suggest the recruiting slump was brought on by a mixture of lethargic economic growth, high oil prices, and subdued consumer spending.
About 2,900 hiring managers and HR reps and 7,900 workers in private sector companies responded to the survey, which was conducted May 22 through June 13.
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Bullhorn CEO: $26M Earmarked for Staffing, Global Expansion
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008Bullhorn, a global provider of recruiting software for search firms, recently announced the completion of $26 million in new financing, led by venture capital firms Highland Capital Partners and General Catalyst Partners.
The investment comes after Bullhorn achieved a 400 percent revenue growth rate during the past 3-year period. Bullhorn CEO and co-founder Art Papas discussed why the achievement was so important for Bullhorn, especially in their market space.
“With regards to the funding, I think it might be a record for the staffing and recruiting space,” Papas said. “I don’t know of any other company in our space that’s created this much capital, even inflation-adjusted, so it should have a real impact.
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Virtual Events Leader Launches Online Job Fair
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Unisfair, the leading provider of virtual event platforms for marketing, product development, and internal collaboration is partnering with recruiters and job seekers to host Virtual Job Fairs for Businesses.
This online recruiting tool was created in response to a growing demand by HR leaders to explore more efficient, cost-effective methods of talent acquisition.
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Jobfox is Named Red Herring 100 Finalist
Thursday, April 10th, 2008Jobfox 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.
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Yahoo! HotJobs Lands 4 New Publishers
Thursday, February 21st, 2008Yahoo! 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.
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Risesmart Looks to Take On TheLadders
Thursday, February 7th, 2008In 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.”
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AfterCollege and Adicio Form Strategic Alliance
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008AfterCollege, 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.
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Itzbig Named a Most Promising Startup
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008Itzbig 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.”
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