Online Recruitment News

Jobs: year in review and prospects for 2012

2011 was a tough year for job seekers. We’ve battled high unemployment, stagnant home prices and a global financial crisis, centered on Europe. But we’ve also started to see green shoots of growth, and there are reasons to be hopeful as we enter 2...

2012 ERE Recruiting Excellence Award Finalists

This eighth year of the ERE Recruiting Excellence Awards brought applications from big corporations, small companies, government agencies in the U.S., and consultancies in India. In some categories there were runaway winners, and in others, there were kno...

Energy job trends

Indeed’s recently updated Top Job Trends, a list of the fastest growing keywords found in job postings, consists entirely of information technology and social media terms. New specialties typically emerge in information technology faster than in ot...

Super Bowl 46: Great Game; So-So Ads

It’s a good thing that this year’s Super Bowl game lived up to its name because the 50+ commercials were mostly just OK. Dogs and babies came out on top. They were the stars of four of the top five favorite ads in the USA Today Super Bowl Adme...

Indeed: seven years on

This month marks Indeed’s seventh anniversary. Indeed.com was launched in November 2004 as the most comprehensive search engine for jobs, enabling job seekers to search millions of jobs from thousands of job boards and corporate career sites. By f...

25 Ways That “No-recruit” Secret Agreements Can Damage Your Firm

This “think piece” is part of a series of articles I wrote to expand your thinking about strategic HR. If you haven’t seen it in the news lately, there has been an uproar over the practice of secret “no-recruit” agreements between ma...

Indeed Military veteran job search

In honor of Veterans Day, Indeed is proud to announce the launch of Indeed Military veteran job search at military.indeed.com. Veterans can now enter their Military Occupational Code (MOC) to search for civilian jobs on Indeed that match their skills and...

Unemployment Rate Drops Again as U.S. Adds 243,000 Jobs

Strike up the band. Break out the confetti. The market’s going to love this. The U.S. unemployment rate dropped to 8.3 percent and non-farm jobs grew by 243,000 in January. This morning’s monthly report from the U.S. Department of Labor blaste...

Top job trends on Indeed

We recently analyzed millions of job postings to update Indeed’s Top Job Trends – a list of the fastest growing keywords found in job postings. Indeed’s Top Job Trends of 2010 provided a clear picture of fast growing employer demand for ...

Sleeping Interviewers, Stale Resumes, and Social Analytics

What would you do if the person interviewing you fell asleep? What Irwin did turned out to be worth $100. You’ll find out more if you read through this week’s roundup. And, as a little incentive to make it to the very end, there’s a link...

Harnessing Indeed’s Data for Recruiting – an HR & recruiting trends webinar

New technology and emerging industries are transforming the roles of HR and recruiting professionals, the skills critical to their success, and the talent they must recruit and develop. We’re pleased to announce the launch of a new educational webinar t...

Dice Reports Strong 4th Q, Less Certain About 2012

Dice this morning became the second job board in a week to see its stock price drop after reporting a profitable quarter and a year of growth. Hours after the company reported it nearly doubled its fourth-quarter profit over the same quarter in 2010, meet...

Indeed Military resume search

In April, Indeed attended a White House ceremony to announce our commitment to Joining Forces, First Lady Michelle Obama’s initiative to support military families. With the recent public launch of Indeed Resume, we are happy to announce Indeed Milit...

Grocer Freshens Up Website

That grocery store chain popping up all over Arizona, Nevada, and California has launched a new careers website with a good main-page video talking about jobs at the British-owned grocer. On the Fresh & Easy home page — the company home page, n...

Fast, simple, free resume search

Our goal at Indeed is to help job seekers find the perfect job. For seven years, our focus has been providing the world’s best job search experience. Today we are excited to introduce Indeed Resume–fast, simple, free resume search. We built In...

Programmer Nesting Rituals

I just read that the average Silicon Valley tech salary is over $100,000. I’ve seen starting salaries for CS graduates come pretty close to the magical $100,000 mark. Google recently had to give a 10% raise to all its employees just to stay competitive....

Steady job posting gains in August

Healthcare After reaching a record high in July, job postings for healthcare increased 7% in August to establish another new high for Industry Employment Trends. Job seeker demand was strongest for allied health positions such as medical assistant, pharma...

Employer Review Site Makes a Facebook Connection

When Glassdoor launched its Facebook connection a few minutes ago, the company that’s the Yelp of employment jumped full-on into the scramble for dominance in the world of careers social networking. Among the players already in the ring are BranchOu...

Writing effective job titles and descriptions

One of the best ways to get the most from Indeed and receive truly targeted job seeker traffic is by using detailed, job seeker-friendly job titles and descriptions. Because Indeed is a search engine, effective job titles and detailed job descriptions hel...

Aussie Military Launching New Recruiting Campaign

The Australian defense department has started a new campaign with a “Superman” motif to recruit reservists, the first big effort like this in seven years. Its plans includes TV ads, movie ads, billboards, newspaper and magazine advertising, an...