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HoustonJobBoard launches.
Heidrick & Struggles (Nasdaq: HSII), announced a 6 percent increase in consolidated net revenue to $103.4 million in the 2005 second quarter from $97.9 million in the 2004 second quarter.
Google shows 993 mentions of SimplyFired. Simply remarkable.
Although the Washington Post had a negative first half, Classified recruitment advertising revenue rose 4% to $19.7 million in the second quarter of 2005, from $19.0 million in the second quarter of 2004, and was up 7% to $41.3million in the first half of 2005, compared to $38.6 million in the
first half of 2004.
For the third consecutive year, Manpower was named the most admired company in the temporary help industry by Fortune magazine.
Info.com has made a deal with Indeed.com, to power a job listings feature. Indeed.com has also posted
on their blog about new services added to their suite of tools for webmasters.
Nominees sought for pension benefit advisory council: Oct. 1 is the deadline to nominate people to fill five three-year vacancies on the Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans, also known as the
ERISA Advisory Council.
The Greater Brandon Florida Chamber of Commerce is offering its members a new service, the ability to recruit employees via an electronic job board.
Survey Sez
Alexa Rankings of Top Job Boards
From TopJobSites.com
Site Name |
URL |
Type |
Alexa 5/6/05 |
Alexa 8/4/05 |
Change |
% Ch. |
General Sites: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Monster.com |
www.monster.com |
General |
92 |
100 |
(8) |
-9% |
CareerBuilder |
www.careerbuilder.com |
General |
161 |
189 |
(28) |
-17% |
HotJobs.com |
www.hotjobs.com |
General |
376 |
367 |
9 |
2% |
Jobing.com |
www.jobing.com |
General-Local |
1,856 |
1,969 |
(113) |
-6% |
Vault |
www.vault.com |
General |
3,102 |
3,440 |
(338) |
-11% |
America's Job Bank |
www.jobsearch.org |
General-Gov |
3,658 |
3,598 |
60 |
2% |
4jobs.com |
www.4jobs.com |
General |
5,484 |
5,066 |
418 |
8% |
indeed.com |
www.indeed.com |
General-Aggregator |
8,240 |
6,005 |
2,235 |
27% |
Job.com |
www.job.com |
General |
6,662 |
6,586 |
76 |
1% |
RegionalHelpWanted.com |
www.regionalhelpwanted.com |
General-Local |
7,370 |
7,469 |
(99) |
-1% |
Snag A Job |
www.snagajob.com |
General-Hourly |
6,631 |
7,522 |
(891) |
-13% |
Net-Temps |
www.net-temps.com |
General |
9,039 |
7,916 |
1,123 |
12% |
EmploymentGuide.com |
www.employmentguide.com |
General |
10,537 |
9,192 |
1,345 |
13% |
Employment 911 |
www.employment911.com |
General |
9,144 |
13,399 |
(4,255) |
-47% |
NationJob |
www.nationjob.com |
General |
17,052 |
19,168 |
(2,116) |
-12% |
simplyhired.com |
www.simplyhired.com |
General-Aggregator |
61,579 |
19,465 |
42,114 |
68% |
LocalCareers.com |
www.localcareers.com |
General-Local |
18,429 |
20,968 |
(2,539) |
-14% |
CoolWorks.com |
www.coolworks.com |
General-Hourly |
20,157 |
21,909 |
(1,752) |
-9% |
Jobvertise.com |
www.jobvertise.com |
General |
26,347 |
23,345 |
3,002 |
11% |
JobBankUSA.com |
www.jobbankusa.com |
General |
36,215 |
24,175 |
12,040 |
33% |
WetFeet.com |
www.wetfeet.com |
General |
19,439 |
25,999 |
(6,560) |
-34% |
WorkZoo |
www.workzoo.com |
General-Aggregator |
25,431 |
26,252 |
(821) |
-3% |
Sologig.com |
www.sologig.com |
General |
27,410 |
27,059 |
351 |
1% |
Work.com |
www.work.com |
General-Aggregator |
35,019 |
28,889 |
6,130 |
18% |
TrueCareers |
www.truecareers.com |
General |
29,952 |
35,198 |
(5,246) |
-18% |
CareerBoard.com |
www.careerboard.com |
General-Local |
34,032 |
35,552 |
(1,520) |
-4% |
GrooveJob.com |
www.groovejob.com |
General-Hourly |
32,563 |
41,704 |
(9,141) |
-28% |
Careermag.com |
www.careermag.com |
General |
53,428 |
46,325 |
7,103 |
13% |
DirectEmployers |
www.directemployers.com |
General-NFP |
38,301 |
49,305 |
(11,004) |
-29% |
AmericanPreferredJobs.com |
www.preferredjobs.com |
General-Local |
59,968 |
61,470 |
(1,502) |
-3% |
BestJobsUSA.com |
www.bestjobsusa.com |
General |
61,853 |
72,613 |
(10,760) |
-17% |
JobWarehouse.com |
www.jobwarehouse.com |
General |
95,508 |
73,074 |
22,434 |
23% |
Jobs.net |
www.jobs.net |
General |
57,173 |
83,008 |
(25,835) |
-45% |
Jobfind.com |
www.jobfind.com |
General |
99,730 |
107,137 |
(7,407) |
-7% |
SummerJobs.com |
www.summerjobs.com |
General-Hourly |
87,342 |
124,539 |
(37,197) |
-43% |
CareerShop |
www.careershop.com |
General |
114,917 |
127,060 |
(12,143) |
-11% |
Employment Spot |
www.employmentspot.com |
General |
89,677 |
133,352 |
(43,675) |
-49% |
Career.com |
www.career.com |
General |
116,215 |
158,586 |
(42,371) |
-36% |
You Should Know
Canada:
-
There are 6,700 more jobs in Saskatchewan now than there were a year ago, according to Statistics Canada. It is the sixteenth straight month of job growth, but one expert says those numbers could be higher, if it were not for a shortage of workers. (CBC
Saskatchewan)
UK:
-
The status and rights of many agency workers has been thrust into the spotlight recently following a series of landmark court cases. (ICNewcastle)
-
The government estimates that British business is losing as much as £16billion per year due to a system that blatantly discriminates against the very group of jobseekers that could resolve the skills shortage. (50connect)
USA:
-
Job postings on tech-focused Dice.com rose 26 percent between Jan. 1 and June 1, with strong gains in eastern cities. And second-quarter job cuts at tech companies
fell 33 percent from the first quarter. (ZDNet)
-
The Office of Personnel Management issued interim rules this week to make it easier for civilian agencies to recruit workers for federal acquisition positions where there are shortages. (FCW)
-
A very troubling story is enfolding out of the Department of Labor [DOL] over the right for U.S. workers to view, and thus apply for, more than 27,788 possible job openings remaining for foreign workers under the H-1B visa quota system. The problem is the
Department of Labor, to date, has not made these jobs available for viewing on their Web site, according to Kim Berry, president of the Programmers Guild. (infoworld)
-
Businesses increasingly are reporting shortages of skilled workers, suggesting the labor market is improving steadily despite the erratic pace of job creation over the last year. (USAToday)
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