CareerBuilder + Monster set to be sold, employees losing jobs. The online employment search sites are reportedly planning to close its U.S. headquarters office in the Loop and lay off staff members later this year. Employees will be let go as of Aug 4th. Rumors are a company has purchased the two sites which merged…
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Monster Says They Are the Largest Job Board in Singapore Despite all the unknowns, government bodies, businesses, and communities in Singapore have invested heavily in upskilling human resources and strengthening the local economy. As Asia’s leading job site, Monster supported COVID-19 impacted employees through specific campaigns aimed at finding alternate employment at the earliest and is committed…
Job Board News: .Jobs, HiringThing, VeganJobs, Monster, Indeed
There was an interesting discussion with one of the original investors of Indeed, Brad Burnham from Union Square Ventures had on a recent episode of This Week in Startups. In it, he attributed their success partly due to the founds Rony Kahan and Paul Forster. He used the word “ruthless” while describing Forster’s business savvy….
News and Notes from Job Board World
HealthcareSource, a leading provider of talent management solutions for the healthcare industry, today announced it has integrated Google Cloud Job Discovery to power its job search. Launched in September 2017, HealthcareSource Job Board℠ has significantly grown to feature over 60,000 jobs, addressing the full continuum of care. “This is a significant milestone for both healthcare…
ZipRecruiter Adds to it’s Affiliate Network
The folks at ZipRecruiter have been busy building up their affiliate network. Last week they officially announced that they have partnered with Gatehouse Media and US News.com. Gatehouse Media currently has hundreds of local newspaper and community sites currently being powered by Monster. As of October, it’s Zip’s turn to be their job board of…
Archives: When Monster Went Niche
This week I have been scrolling through some old videos from my Youtube channel. Some of them are 7+ years old now and it’s amazing how much time flies. I started this site after the great recession hit the country in an effort to monetize the stuff inside my head. It’s been a blast. Here’s…
Monster paid how much to buy the Jobr app?
Back in June Monster.com bought a job search app called Jobr. At the time the purchase price was not released. I have recently learned that they paid $12.5 million dollars. The info comes from this press release put out by their largest shareholder. (I’ll be writing more about that later)… In any case, thats a…
My thoughts on Monster being acquired
In case you haven’t heard Randstad just bought Monster. Click to read my take.
Resumes Want to be Free
I like Indeed’s resume platform. It’s super easy to search and source candidates. And its essentially free for most companies. If you sponsor jobs they throw it in for free. Otherwise its just a dollar to contact any candidate via email. And for job seekers its a great way of being discovered since the resume…
Monster gets the dot Monster domain extension
I’m not sure why they need this but job search company Monster has beat out the Monster cable company for exclusive access to the .Monster domain extension. I guess it could useful for branding content like articles/ job content but its a curious move by the new Monster after rebranding themselves and launching new products. According to…