The answer is that they are still out there, but they are fading fast. The most recent player to drop out of the free job postings game is The Ladders, which I just mentioned last week. Joel Cheesman is speculating that they are likely to open their formerly free job postings up to clients for […]

I was fairly new to the recruiting blogosphere when I discovered Recruiting.com for the first time a few years back, and once when I re-visited the site after not checking in for a bit was shocked to see an entirely new format. That change, of course, came after Recruiting.com was purchased by Jobster and signaled […]

If you are an active job seeker or someone who is interested in exploring opportunities to advance your existing career – and we all usually fall into one of those two groups – Jibber Jobber can help you take control of your career path. Jibber Jobber is a job seeking and career management tool that […]

As just about everyone who’s looked for a job recently knows, there is a proliferation of specialty, niche job boards out there, as well a number of job sites that focus on specific geographic regions. What is happening in the process has been a “squeeze” of the “Big 3″ job boards - Monster.com, CareerBuilder and […]

C.M. Russell of Secrets of the Job Hunt fame has recently launched a new blog at Blogforjobs.com. Blog For Jobs is a “showcase for those who blog to get jobs” and I believe this site has the potential to provide job seekers with some real value in terms of self-promotion and job networking. Individual job […]

The world of job aggregation got a bit more interesting recently after blogger John Sumser of Electronic Recruiting News ripped Simply Hired and other aggregators for what he alleges is, at best, bad manners, and possibly even copyright infringement. John uses an analogy of a company coming to mow your lawn but doing a […]

Oddly, I just sent an e-mail to Mick about this last night, and then come to read about it on Joel Cheesman’s blog in this post. I can’t blame him for being a bit cynical, because it’s clear that the change from vertical search engine to “Web 2.0 thingamajig” is aimed squarely at the burgeoning […]

Google acquiring YouTube isn’t that big of a deal to the job seeking world, but it does reiterate one important point that we’ve made before: Use technology to your advantage when seeking a job. If that means creating a video profile of yourself (not the MySpace kind, but the professional kind), go for it. Many […]

In the world of Web 2.0, the “personal marketing” tool (web site) is one that serves a useful purpose, but perhaps has not yet come into its own. The Secrets of the Job Hunt blog mentions one such tool, iAdverto.com, and goes on to explain that it has some great features but ultimately loses out […]

One of the best resources out there for job seekers and those interested in the employment industry in general is Secrets of the Job Hunt by C.M. Russell. His recent post linking to the JibberJobber blog offers a great illustration of exactly how savvy job seekers can leverage the power of the Web and […]