Monster announced last week that it has completed its acquisition of Yahoo! HotJobs, a leading online recruitment website, from Yahoo! for $225 million in cash. Concurrent with the closing of the acquisition, Monster and Yahoo! have also entered into a three year commercial traffic agreement whereby Monster will become Yahoo!’s exclusive provider of career and job content on the Yahoo! homepage in the United States and Canada.

The acquisition of Yahoo! HotJobs further strengthens Monster’s position as the market leader in online job opportunities and global recruitment resources. Monster’s expanded customer base will have access to even more talent, with the brand reaching roughly 62 percent of the US internet population (130 million unique visitors.) Monster will also expand its newspaper partnerships from 400 to 1000 with the addition of 600 HotJobs daily and weekly newspapers providing local reach in all 50 states.

At the same time, job seekers will have access to more opportunities, since Monster is now the foremost source of job postings for employers in 19 of the top 20 industries and in 45 out of the top 50 cities as compared to any leading online career site.1

“We are delivering on our strategy with the acquisition of HotJobs and the clear winners are our customers, job seekers and shareholders,” said Sal Iannuzzi, chairman, chief executive officer and president of Monster Worldwide. “We now have a powerful one-two punch of scale and precision – the largest pool of seekers and jobs, coupled with our 6Sense semantic search technology(TM) that allows unrivaled ability to match talent and opportunities.”

“The completion of the acquisition of HotJobs by Monster is great news for users, customers, employees and partners,” said Jeff Kinder SVP, Media Products and Solutions at Yahoo!. “The combination of Monster and HotJobs offers a stronger service for all parties, with more employers, job seekers and opportunities. The traffic agreement also enables Yahoo! to continue to provide users with valued online career and recruiting services.”

Effective today, Monster enters a transition period while the company builds an integrated site and product offering that will deliver the industry’s most complete recruitment and career seeking solutions – and the tools to derive the most relevant results from the most possibilities.

Full Press release.  http://about-monster.com/content/monster-completes-acquisition-hotjobs-and-enters-multi-year-traffic-agreement-yahoo

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It seems that very few organisations have really got this nailed, and maybe there should be more open discussion about this. Possibly even have some industry guidelines.

If you have some guidelines or policies that you can share – drop me a line – I’d be keen to hear about them

Thanks

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Read the Letter from the FDA here (PDF)

http://www.macworld.co.uk/digitallifestyle/news/index.cfm?olo=rss&NewsID=3234596

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Plus there’s a useful link to a number of corporate policies here:

http://socialmediagovernance.com/policies.php

and Roche’s Social Media policy here:

http://www.roche.com/socialmedia

as well as Pfizer’s social media activities here:

http://www.pfizer.com/news/social_media/social_media.jsp

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Here are 5 Free job posting and Spidering sites in no particular order of preference.

Resumark.com (Text is from the Resumark.com website)

Unlike most other job websites on the Internet, we will list your jobs for free. That’s right – you can post as many jobs as you want – completely free.  We are the first website to come up with this idea and here is how it works:

ZipRecruiter.com (Text is from theZipRecruiter.com website)

ZipRecruiter offers a do it yourself web based hiring solution as an alternative to recruiters. Founded in 2010, Ziprecruiter enables companies to post to multiple free job boards with a single submission and vet all applicants through simple-to-setup online interviews. Hiring personnel can toggle between applicants answers and resumes online as they collaborate to rate and select the best candidate.

Jobvertise.com (Text is from the Jobvertise.com website)

Jobvertise basic services are FREE to employers and jobseekers because we generate our revenue through premium services and advertising on the site. As an employer using the basic services you never have to pay a fee to post jobs or search over 800,000 resumes in our database!*

JobZoom.com (Text is from the JobZoom.com website)

To make posting easier, we want to go beyond the norm. You have the option of posting INSTANTANEOUSLY, without lengthy processes, boring signups, or hassle, in under a minute your job is up and running, it activates simply through email. BUT… if you want to easily manage jobs on your very own DASHBOARD where you can edit and delete jobs right there on one screen… we recommend a free member account. click here for the dashboard area We have many more features coming and job posting will only get smoother.

JobSpider.com (Text is from the JobSpider.com website)

JobSpider.com is a free employment information exchange job board actually modeled fromhttp://www.craigslist.org. My name is Chris McGarry and I designed it because I was looking for a network administrator and it was frustrating to not see an intuitive and nicely organized free job board. The response has obviously been overwhelming and my ”small project” has blossomed into a very popular job board that, in many ways, rivals the big boys (i.e. Monster, HotJobs, etc.).

JobSpider.com is FREE to employers and jobseekers. There is no charge to post a resume, post job(s), search through the resumes, search through the jobs, or create a job alert. JobSpider.com is FREE to employers and jobseekers because I generate revenue through advertising on the site. The only fee that I will charge is to bulk import jobs for employers.

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Vacancy Poster is a full featured web application that enables recruiters to post their vacancy simultaneously to multiple job boards. It provides similar functionality to established solutions such as Broadbean and Idibu, but free of charge.

Is this a Broadbean killer? – I’ll certainly be looking into it further.  I will also ensure that PharmiWeb.com is on their list of Job Boards.

http://www.vacancyposter.com/

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