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Job Seekers Posting Their Resumes
Online Potential Victims of Phishing Attacks
Friday, August 24, 2007
Brian Bergstein, from the Associated Press, relates details
regarding a recently disclosed fraud involving job seekers who
posted their resumes on Monster.com. Con artists were able to get
the username and password of recruiters to search for job candidates
on Monster. With the information they found, they were able to
draft personalized e-mails to job seekers. Those who took the bait
had spyware and other malicious programs secretly installed on their
computers.
* The article warned that this could happen for social networking
sites such as Facebook as well.
In order to avoid this, try not to reveal too much personal
information on the Web.
The Craigslist Model
Thursday, August 09, 2007
The Globe and Mail has an interesting article on Jim Buckmaster, the
head of Craigslist. Notwithstanding its basic design, Craigslist
is one of the top 10 Web companies in the U.S. and is mainly a
classified board allowing users in most locations to post
things online for free, including jobs.
Monster to Cut 800 Jobs
Tuesday,
July 31, 2007
The place where people go to look for jobs is the place where jobs
will actually be lost. Monster Worldwide Inc. will cut 800 jobs
after its earnings forecast for 2007 fell below analysts'
expectations. Monster expects revenues for 2007 to range from $1.34
to $1.37 billion, down from $1.36 to $1.4 billion previously.
Monster Announces Site Modifications
to Allow for Better User Experience
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
In a press release dated January 17th, 2007, Monster announced
changes to its website allowing job seekers to:
- compare themselves to others who applied for the same job;
- monitor where they are in the application process;
- track job postings to see when they are modified or refreshed;
- make personal notes on specific openings;
- search for jobs more effectively by refining, modifying, and
augmenting their searches using new options; and
- have a better experience through a more user friendly site.
Monster Enhances Site Functionality and Design to Empower Job Seekers
and Foster More Quality Matches, Business Wire
Google to Reform Its Recruiting Method
by Using Algorithms to Screen Applicants
Wednesday, January 03,
2007
Initially, Google only wanted to hire top notch "straight A"
students with stellar SAT scores. It seems that it has now come to
the conclusion that grades are not a perfect indicator of future
performance.
Overflowed with applications (with more than 100,000 received each
month), Google has partly automated its recruitment process by
screening applicants using algorithms. Starting next month, all
applicants will have to fill out a detailed "online survey that
explores their attitudes, behaviour, personality and biographical
details going back to high school." The answers will be fed into a
series of formulas to come up with a score ranging from 0 to 100 - a
measure of how well the person will be expected to perform at
Google.
Announcements from Monster and
TheLadders.com
Tuesday,
November 28, 2006
One week after Yahoo HotJobs announced a partnership with more than
150 newspapers, Monster followed suit with a similar announcement.
Freedom Communications Inc. and North Jersey Media Group are
Monster's newest partners, which means that Monster will build and
manage their career section, as well as integrate their job listings
to its global recruitment database.
On another note, TheLadders.com hit its "one million member
milestone" as announced in a press release. TheLadders.com is an
online service catering to people earning over $100,000. Commenting
on this announcement, Marc Cenedella, President and CEO of
TheLadders.com, stated: "The meteoric growth in our membership - to
one million! - shows that we're doing something right. We're
providing more and more executives with the critical job information
and resources they need to make major life and career transitions.
It's so fulfilling to create a community where one million
professionals can come and find their next great role in life."
Two trends are emerging in the world of online recruitment. Major
job boards are aiming to be even bigger and specialized job boards
are trying to create a niche for themselves.
Yahoo Partners with 170 Newspapers to
Extend Its Reach
Tuesday,
November 21, 2006
Yahoo has announced that it will join forces with seven major
newspaper companies, including MediaNews, Hearst, Belo Corp., Cox
Newspapers Inc., Journal Register Co., Lee Enterprises Inc., and
E.W. Scripp Co., in order "to form an online network offering
search, graphical and classified advertising features to readers." (Newspapers
& Technology)
The first phase of the partnership, expected to begin next spring,
will allow advertisers who list their openings with any of the
newspapers, the ability to also post their jobs on Yahoo HotJobs and
throughout the Yahoo network. In addition, Yahoo will co-brand the
career section of the newspapers.
This initiative comes a few weeks after Google also announced a
partnership with newspapers in which it would act as a central
broker for selling ad space on those newspapers.
Google Not Attracting as Many Talents
Tuesday,
November 07, 2006
The "Google Effect" has disappeared now that Google, the "corporate
giant," has become so huge. As such, it no longer
"necessarily" attracts the best employees (creative &
entrepreneurial) as many applicants have turned down their offers of
employment for other firms/companies, including Yahoo.
Google's stock options are no longer as attractive now that its
share price is so high. Add to that the rigidity that comes with
size and the lengthy and arduous application process that applicants
must go through to be hired. Job seekers see greener pastures
elsewhere... and why not? If they have what it takes to go to
Google, they definitely have the capacity to go somewhere else.
Jobster and JobCentral to Join Forces
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Jobster and JobCentral have agreed to enter into a partnership in
order to provide job seekers with a more exhaustive list of
openings.
The Internet Can Be a Dangerous Place
for Job Seekers
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Ainsley Earhardt reveals a growing practice among employers of
surfing the Web to get information about candidates. They go on
social networks such as MySpace.com or Facebook to have an
inside look on candidates, i.e. what else aren't they revealing?
So if you have a personal blog out there with doubtful pictures
or content, you might want to rethink what you post.
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