Diggings
A blog about recruitment advertising, media, publishing, HR, work, & technology, among other things
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LinkUp’s February Jobs Report Shows Modest Gains In Job Listings On Corporate Websites
February’s jobs report from the Department of Labor is scheduled to be released later this week and based on data released this morning by LinkUp, Friday’s report will show that the job market was essentially flat in February, making only modest gains in job growth. LinkUp, a job search engine that indexes jobs from over 20,000 company websites throughout the U.S., reported that new job listings on company websites rose by 10,201 (2%) from January. Total job listings on company websites... |
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Video Highlights Unemployment In The Great Recession
I included an earlier version of this video in a blog post some months ago, but it’s been updated and the picture is even more grim than it was earlier. The sweep of rising unemployment to a rate higher than 10% across the vast majority of the country is startling to see, but mirrors the graph below that details how deep and extended this period of severe joblessness is and will likely be for years to come. |
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LinkUp January Jobs Report: 27 of 36 Industries Show Gains In New Job Openings On Company Websites
Last weeks’ jobs report was certainly a mixed bag with a bit of something for both the optimists and the pessimists. Unemployment dropped from 10% to 9.7%, but that was due more to the quirky statistical factors and the error-prone math and flawed inputs than anything else. The economy reportedly lost 20,000 non-farm jobs in January, smaller than some expected and larger than others predicted. There are signs from the temp/staffing side of the labor market that businesses are adding people... |
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Google’s ‘Parisian Love’ Search On Ad Takes Top Prize In Superbowl
Of course a search engine is going to take the top prize in the annual advertising competition known as the Superbowl. How could they not given the drivel put forward by Doritos, GoDaddy, Skechers, and most of the other advertisers? The ads were generally disappointing this year (Monster and Careerbuilder’s spots were particularly weak), with only a few exceptions. The E*Trade spots were amusing (Dad?!?!?), the Coke ad in Africa with Bolero playing was great, as was the Bud Light Lost spoof,... |
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Look For A Very Positive January 2010 Jobs Report Friday
January’s jobs report from the Department of Labor is scheduled to be released later this week and based on data released this morning by LinkUp, Friday’s report will show that the job market improved sharply during the month. LinkUp, a job search engine that indexes jobs from over 20,000 company websites throughout the U.S., reported that new job listings on company websites rose by 69,082 (18%) from December. Total job listings on company websites in LinkUp’s search engine... |
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Beware of Money Mule Job Listings On Monster, Careerbuilder, Indeed, And Simplyhired
Yesterday, G.L. and I were fortunate enough to have the opportunity to participate in a Careerealism webinar for job seekers organized by career advice expert J.T. O’Donnell. During the discussion about how to effectively use online resources in a job search, we mentioned the risks associated with traditional pay-to-post job sites such as Monster and Careerbuilder as well as job aggregators such as Indeed and Simplyhired that republish job listings from Monster, Careerbuilder, and thousands... |
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The Ladders Is One Gigantic Scam That Preys On Unsuspecting Job Seekers
Nick Corcodilos, aka Ask The Headhunter, has written an outstanding article on his blog about what an absolute scam The Ladders is and how fraudulent their claims are about delivering to job seekers ‘only $100K+ job listings.’ I have written about what a rip-off The Ladders is in the past, and I applaud anyone who helps shine a light on what a disservice Marc Cenedella and the other hacks who work for The Ladders are doing to job seekers, employers, and the entire recruitment advertising... |
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I’m With Coco
Everyone at NBC has completely lost their minds. The ridiculous episode with Conan O’Brien (by far the funniest and most entertaining person to ever appear on late-night TV) is exhibit BB in the ongoing saga that is the largely self-inflicted demise of traditional media. |
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29 of 36 Industries Saw Declines in Corporate Job Listings In December
As we anticipated, the jobs report released this morning by the Department of Labor was far worse than the consensus estimates. According to the DOL report, U.S. employers shed 85,000 jobs in December yet most economists expected to see a net increase in jobs. As the New York Times indicated: The United States economy lost more jobs than expected in December, tempering hopes for a swift and sustained recovery from the Great Recession. The government reported on Friday that the economy lost another... |
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December Jobs Report Will Be Far Worse Than Expected
The Department of Labor will release its jobs report for December tomorrow, and the data will undoubtedly show that the economy is a long way from healthy recovery mode. Economists are expecting that the U.S. economy actually added jobs during the month, marking the first monthly job gains since December of 2007. The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index, which rose again in December, adds a faint glimmer of hope that this might be the case. Not a chance. If LinkUp’s data is... |
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Google On The Road To Looking Like Yahoo
First the Chrome ads popped onto Google’s homepage, and then, as expected, the Nexus One ad appeared shortly thereafter. So much for the clean homepage that was such a part of Google’s identity. My initial assumption is that the new clutter on the Google homepage shows just how formidable an opponent the search giant perceives Apple to be. With Chrome v. Safari and iPhone v. Nexus One, Google is willing to retreat from the sacrosanctity of its homepage in an effort to win market share.... |
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Google Places Ad on Homepage
I hadn’t been to the Google homepage in a while and was surprised to see an ad there…..Maybe the Nexus One ad will pop up later this week. |
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18 Minutes? WTF?!?!
From the Harper’s Index in the current issue: Average number of minutes unemployed Americans are spending looking for a job each day: 18 While extending unemployment benefits is no doubt justified for millions of Americans, this shocking statistic (if true) raises serious questions about the manner in which states are administering those benefits and the oftentimes lax requirements they impose (or don’t) to receive them. By the way, the source for the statistic is the Department of... |
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Harrison Barnes and Hound.com – The Scourge Of The Job Board Industry
Finally there’s another voice from within the job board industry to add to the tirade against Hound.com. Congratulations to Chris Russell for calling out Hound for being one of, if not THE, worst, most fraudulent job boards in the industry. This company is not only the spam king of job boards, it’s a gigantic scam all the way around. Sites like Scam.com and Ripoffreport.com have had postings and long, long corroborative threads about Andrew Harrison Barnes, Employment Crossing, and... |
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A Good Case For Rethinking Your Thinking…
Marty Brack, in a recent ERE post, provides an excellent case study in rethinking traditional methods of recruitment advertising. In the test, he analyzed the cost per quality resume using both Careerbuilder and LinkedIn. Not surprisingly, given how horrendously Careerbuilder and Monster (the 2 most bloated, polluted, antiquated, pay-to-post behemoths) typically perform for employers, LinkedIn delivered far superior results. LinkedIn provided almost as many applicants as Careerbuilder, but a higher... |
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3 Ideas From The Washington Post To Create Jobs
Charles Lane wrote a good piece in The Washington Post recommending 3 ideas to help facilitate job creation: 1) End federal protectionism and price supports for sugar 2) Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act 3) Reduce the federal minimum wage I’m not sure I completely agree with his argument for reducing the minimum wage, but I’d certainly acknowledge that it’s worth considering. At a minimum, there are solid arguments on both sides of the minimum wage debate. And in any event, these 3... |
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The Bastardized Math Behind The U.S. Unemployment Rate Calculations & Why Monster Should Be Embarrassed About Their Invitation To The White House
Because I’ve written in the past about how bastardized the math is behind unemployment rate (seriously, read my March ‘09 blog post if you’re even remotely interested in the U.S. unemployment rate) I had to laugh at the comedic, animated rendition of how the Department of Labor calculates (or fails to accurately calculate) the nation’s unemployment rate. One of the things the White House should incorporate into their ‘Jobs Program’ is restoring the integrity... |
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27 of 36 Industries Saw Increase In Total Job Listings On LinkUp In November
Continuing last Friday’s post about November’s stunningly positive jobs report (in which new job postings on LinkUp rose by 9% from October and 35 states reported an increase in the total number of jobs listed on corporate websites), there is also positive news on an industry by industry basis. In November, 22 of 36 industries showed an increase from October in new job listings on LinkUp, while 27 showed an increase in total job listings. LinkUp, the fastest growing job search engine on... |
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LinkUp Reports Significant Improvement On The Jobs Front In November
As further evidence of an improving economy, LinkUp reported today that new job listings in its job search engine rose 9% in November, while the total number of job listings in its search engine rose 4%. The Department of Labor reported this morning that in November, the U.S. economy only lost 11,000 jobs, a stunning development given the consensus estimate from economists that 125,000 were lost during the month. Unemployment dropped to 10% in November from a 26-year high of 10.2% in October. According... |