Monster Buys HotJobs

John Zappe at ERE reported that Monster is buying HotJobs. The news of the $225 million acquisition from Yahoo! was announced Wednesday in New York.

The deal includes a three-year agreement in which Monster will power the career channel on Yahoo’s homepage in the U.S. and Canada. Yahoo will continue to manage the 600+ newspaper advertising and content consortium it has put together over the last several years. Monster, however, will get the recruitment advertising, giving it a print and online network of more than 1,000 daily and weekly newspapers across North America.

Read John's article here.

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Job Cuts Rise to Five-Month High

Wednesday, 03 February 2010
Employers Announce 71,482 Layoffs To Start 2010 John Challenger Chicago, February 3, 2010 – Employers last month announced plans to reduce payrolls by 71,482 workers, the highest job-cut tally in five months. The surge was due primarily to heavy downsizing in the retail and telecommunications sectors, according to the latest job-cut report released Wednesday by global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. The January job-cut total was 59 percent higher than December 2009, when announced layoffs fell to a 24-month low of 45,094. This is the first increase in monthly job cuts since last July. It is the largest monthly total since last August, when employers announced 76,456. While layoffs increased from December, the January total was 70 percent lower than the 241,749 planned job cuts announced the same month a year ago. January 2009 marked the peak of downsizing activity in this recession, with job cuts hitting their highest level in seven years. Write comment (0 Comments)
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Jack Welch: Six Deadly Sins

Tuesday, 02 February 2010

Leadership In The 21st Century – Six Deadly Sins

Jack Welch Management Institute

There is much to be learned from exploring what leaders commonly get wrong, for it is in their failures that leaders often have the most impact, both on individuals and organizations. - Jack Welch

Jack Welch

Thus, we ask you to consider the following material with a critical eye. Do any sins apply to your own behaviors? If so, such new self-awareness is the first step to corrective action. And for those of you who are not yet leaders, again, careful scrutiny is advised. Understanding where your own leaders, now or at any earlier point in your career, might have gone awry is an insight that could serve you well in the future. Because this information is built on the belief that being a leader is perhaps the hardest challenge any of us will ever face. No matter how long we work at it, practicing the right behavior is a never-ending task. Knowing – and avoiding – the wrong behavior is a never-ending task, too. Thus, we offer the following:

Leadership Sin #1: Not Giving Self-confidence its Due

Self-confidence is the lifeblood of success. They try new things, offer ideas, exude positive energy, and cooperate with their colleagues instead of surreptitiously attempting to bring them down. When they lack self-confidence, it's just the opposite. They spread negativity with every word and gesture.

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New VimeoVideo Channel Promotes TotalPicture Radio Advertising Partners.

Given the phenomenal growth, importance, and reach now possible through social media, new opportunities are continuously becoming available to create influence and awareness. We all have the ability to engage with our friends, peers, clients and prospects through social media. "Engage" is the operative word here. Think about it: with a little hard work, anyone can build an audience online. As we spend more and more time using Internet connected devices, and less time passively watching television, traditional forms of interruption based advertising continue to diminish in importance, acceptability and relevance. TV commentators are all excited about the latest Super Bowl commercials. Are you? After 23 years sponsoring the Super Bowl, Pepsi decided to invest its $20 million in social media this year. When was the last time you watched TV without your smart phone or laptop - in you lap?

On the Internet we are all creating meaningful relationships though blogs, podcasts, webinars, online videos, and social media sites; allowing all of us to create communities of interest. Allowing all of us to have a voice.

Through consistent participation in Linkedin, Facebook, and Twitter, TotalPicture Radio has attracted many new listeners over the past year. Our podcasts are supported by ouradvertising partners. Primarily through event sponsorships like ERE Expo, SourceCon, and SHRM.

A number of TotalPicture Radio's guests have found our unique, turnkey premium seo press release service) highly effective in attracting new business; for a fraction of the cost of a traditional media campaign.

TotalPicture Radio is creating new avenues to promote, leverage, and re-purpose our "digital assets." We strive to continuously amplify our value for our advertisers. We think our new Vimeo Video Channel will do just that.

One of our very first Vimeo Videos features Mary Claire Ryan, principal of Riviera Advisors, a premier global human resources consulting firm. Their web site is best-in-class, featuring exceptional photography by Michael Calas.

We are thrilled to have Riviera Advisors as a new lead sponsor of ERE Expo 2010 Spring San Diego! Please check out the new TotalPicture Radio Career & Leadership Acceleration Channel on Vimeo, and please let us know what This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Mary Claire Ryan: Understanding the Role of Recruitment Process Outsourcing in the Hiring Process from Peter Clayton on Vimeo.

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Onward Search Career Cast

Saturday, 30 January 2010

Online Marketing Industry Forecasted to Double Over the next 5 Years

Onward Search Career Cast Inaugural Episode Now Online.

Onward Search Career Cast on RecruitingPods.com

"The online marketing industry is forecasted to literally double over the next five years, and one of the big challenges that companies have right now is finding the talent that can power their online marketing initiatives."

"If you look at the trends, print and traditional marketing, advertising budgets are literally being slashed and marketing dollars are being spent online and these answers are pretty simple; (1) it’s because that’s where people are going and (2) it’s such a quantifiable and measurable form of marketing. I can look at a number of reports online right now and I can tell you exactly how much every lead is costing us, and that’s what companies are doing all across the country." Ken Clark

Produced by RecruitingPods.com, The Onward Search Career Cast brings listeners the latest insight and career advice from experts within the internet marketing and creative space, and is a leading, nationwide provider of web-based talent. Onward Search offers a full range of recruitment and staffing solutions.

Chris Russell and I are thrilled to have both the Onward Search Career Cast, and Travel Nursing Insider from Onward Healthcare on RecruitingPods.com

Want to get your firm on RecruitingPods.com? If you're a staffing/employment agency, executive recruiter, or third-party recruiter, contact us at sales AT recruitingpods.com

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