A Suitor for MONSTER.com!

Monster CEO and Board Chairman Sal Iannuzzi said, “At a certain price, anything’s for sale.” As to the buyer, Iannuzzi told Bloomberg it is less important and he said at the time, “The real issue is we know we have value, and we know we can go around and look for opportunities to get that.”

Apparently, the social-networking monster (no pun intended), LinkedIn, is considering purchasing the grossly-popular job board/search engine, Monster.com/Monster Worldwide. According to sources close to the situation, LinkedIn and Silver Lake Partners are two of “a broad range of strategic and financial buyers” who are weighing Monster as a potential acquisition target. Now, LinkedIn is only one of many suitors looking to acquire Monster Worldwide. An acquisition by LinkedIn has been rumored as Monster’s stock price continued to produce less than desirable notice. The social network for professionals competes directly with some of Monster’s products (notably the job posting and resume search business) but some Monster’s other technologies like the semantic search product SeeMore and Facebook networking platform, BeKnown might be an attractive piece in addition to an influx new customers.

CareerBuilder - Campaign

This is an older campaign for CareerBuilder but I stumbled across it today from http://adhunt.blogspot.com/ and thought I would pass it along.

Social Media - Simply Hired Facebook App

Simply Hired recently launched a Facebook app listed on their website. You login from Simply Hired to your Facebook account,your activity with them is not posted on your wall or Newsfeeds, and you can then search for jobs by key words or browse the companies that employ your Facebook friends. You can message friends directly or if you click on their employer you are able to see available job listings.

via: http://ecommerce-journal.com/news/28396_hunting-new-job-turn-facebook

VIDEO - Careerbuilder's Super Bowl Spot 2010

Careerbuilder is calling out to people to vote on their favorite video to be played as their 2010 Super Bowl Spot.
Originally they held a contest for users to submit commercials, which had a turnout of 410 videos. They started their contest page on YouTube on April 13, 2009. Three videos were chosen from that group and produced by Careerbuilder to now be voted on again.
via: adrants.com
http://www.careerbuilder.com/tv/?siteid=10_sbhpban

Casual Friday


Job Fairy


Worst Seat


Want to see them before they got remade by Careerbuilder?

Job Fairy


Worst Seat in the Office


Casual Friday

HR - job search will never be the same.

Things are changing for job seekers and more and more sites are popping up simliar to hiremeheadblade.com. Treating a job search like a job is progressing from creating cover pages and resumes to creating websites and social networks to reach out to the desired employer. What are your thoughts on this approach from the HR stand point?

Via:
http://www.brandflakesforbreakfast.com/2010/01/job-search-will-never-be-same.html
http://hiremeheadblade.com/
http://headbladehiredme.com/