TheJobBored

There’s a new job site out there that claims to be getting a fair amount of traction.
NotchUp.com wants you to get paid to be interviewed by employees. That’s right: they pay to interview you.
The site is targeting passive job seekers. So, the idea is, if you’re happy at your job but are kind of interested […]

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Ok, I can explain the odd title and the unusual picture. Stick with me. (Tip for younger readers, that’s Laverne and Shirley)
Once again Cheezhead led me to some interesting job search statistics.
This report by the Conference Board samples and outlines the volume of online help-wanted classified postings nationwide. It shows some interesting data pointing to […]

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These are the current top job search web sites (or “job boards”) according to web traffic. For your edification only. I make no judgments and offer no endorsements vis-à-vis one job board over another.
The breakdown, Dec. 2007 vs. Dec. 2006 (’000):

CareerBuilder
13,914 uniques (13,919 in ‘06)
43.2% reach (44.3% in ‘06)

Monster
9,792 uniques (9,518 in ‘06)
30.4% reach (30.3% […]

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This is a Job Search January post.
The first thing most people think of when they think of online job search is Monster. And Craigslist. And HotJobs and Careerbuilder and Job.com and all the others.
But there are other options out there: the niche or specialty job boards. The advantage of these sites is that they focus […]

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This is a company that owes it’s entire success to a dot-com era Super Bowl ad buy. Well, HotJobs too, if you remember your history. Anyway, what do you think? Feels a bit to me like a Nike ad mixed with the ending of Donnie Darko. But without the cool music.
You need to a flashplayer […]

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Chances are, if you’re on a social network at work, it’s probably LinkedIn. Facebook is making major strides toward eating their lunch (I’m mulling a post on this in the near future) but for now, with a recently announced 17 million users, LinkedIn still rules the business networking roost.
This morning LinkedIn announced a slew of […]

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Last night, Yahoo announced a new social web service called Kickstart. This is a social networking deal, in the vein of Facebook, and like Facebook, it’s targeted to college students, recent grads and allumni. But the focus here is not on posting wild pictures of last night’s drunken frat party. This is networking for the […]

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