CareerBuilder exec joins corporate boards
Brent Rasmussen of CareerBuilder is going to be one busy guy. In addition to his responsibilities as president for North America at the recruitment site, he’s joined two corporate boards in the past month.
Rasmussen is now on the board of Central Desktop, a collaboration and file-sharing site, and Balihoo, “the premier provider of local marketing automation technology and services.”
“Central Desktop has made amazing strides in collaboration. The company’s SocialBridge online collaboration platform squarely addresses the challenges that creative agencies and marketing teams face daily in their operations by providing solutions to project collaboration needs that have not been effectively met by other offerings in the marketplace,” he said.
As for Balihoo, he said it’s “changing the way companies go to market and connect with consumers. … It’s exciting to serve on the board of a fast-growing company that is redefining local marketing for national brands.”
Both companies are privately held. Balihoo has received more than $17.5 in venture, angel and seed funding.
Rasmussen has been with CareerBuilder for more than 10 years, and has served as SVP of sales and COO before becoming president for North America. He’s considered an expert on employment who speaks regularly at conferences and appears frequently on television business programs. He’s also president of CB Cares, an internal group at CareerBuilder that supports educational mentoring and charitable fundraising.
Before joining CareerBuilder, he spent nine years at Xerox Corp. He’s got an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
The top mobile job apps
The JobMob website has a list of more than 100 mobile apps that can help with a job search or an employer posting a position. Here’s a summary of some of the best (for the full 100, visit the JobMob website). These are specific for the iPhone (although there may be Android versions too; we didn’t check). We’re just going to include names, links and a one-line summary here – otherwise this might be our longest blog post ever!
Job openings
Job Compass – find jobs near you, set a 5-100 mile radius.
Jobs Near Me – uses GPS to find jobs within 30 miles of your location.
Snagajob – see a map of nearby hourly jobs. Zoom in to see details.
Real-Time Jobs – like the name says, search for jobs in real time.
Job Frenzy (paid) – find jobs on your iPhone and mail them to yourself.
Now Hiring (paid) – search from major job sites, filter, email jobs.
Job Finder (paid) – aggregates jobs from major sites by category.
iJobs – find jobs on your iPhone.
Beyond.com Search – mobile app of Beyond.com.
Jobs by Career Builder – CareerBuilder.com’s mobile job app.
Monster.com Jobs – Monster.com’s mobile job app.
Simply Hired – SimplyHired.com’s mobile job app.
Techcareers.com: Search Jobs & Find A Career in IT and Engineering
JobAware: Job search just got smarter – same idea but very pretty.
Legal Jobs Centre – search for law jobs.
BeyondExecutives.com – Search Executive Jobs (paid) – exec level jobs.
Phillyjobs.com: Search Jobs & Find a Career In Philadelphia
BeyondSanDiego.com: Search Jobs & Find a Career in San Diego, CA
JobServe Connect Local – California Jobs
JobServe Connect Local – Georgia Jobs
Retail Moves Job Search – search is for the U.K.
HealthcareJobsite.com: Search Jobs & Find a Career in Healthcare
Craigster (paid) – search Craigslist.
Get Apps Done – a job search app for app developers.
Job search tools
Career Search (paid) – research information on 1,000 careers.
IGetAJob – organizes information during a job search.
Good Job (paid) – set tasks, interviews and follow-ups.
Job Search Manager: Get A New Job With Prospector (paid)
My Jobs: Job Search Organizer (free and paid versions)
Resume App (paid) – streamlines the process of building a resume.
Pocket Resume (paid) – another resume creator.
Job search advice
Job Search: Tips to Find the Best Career for You – videos, career advice.
Interview Pro (paid) – how to interview more effectively.
JobRadio.FM – app to stream this career advice Internet radio station.
Great Career (paid) – helps define what career you want.
vTie Necktie Guide – ever wondered how to tie a necktie.
Job interviewing
What Color Is Your Parachute? Job-Interview Tool – classic is now an app.
Interview Guru (paid) – improve interviewing skills.
InterviewBuddy – focuses on tech interviews.
Social media
BeKnown – Monster.com’s social media Facebook app.
CareerBliss – a career community.
Internships
Internship Seeker – does what the name suggests.
CareerRookie – also includes entry level and part time jobs for recent grads.
Freelancers
iFreelancer – includes push notification.
For employers
CareerBuilder for Employers – CareerBuilder.com’s app for employers.
Snagajob – ForEmployers – so does Snagajob.
BusyBee – lets employers post freelance jobs.
JobSpeek – lets you create a 60-second audio hiring message + picture.
Xing in textbook switch of CEOs
By Christo Volschenk
When the 4-year contract of Xing CEO Stefan Groß-Selbeck (44) runs out in January 2013, he will not be available for a second 4-year term. The listed company announced today that Groß-Selbeck elected not to renew his contract and will leave the company in January 2013 “to accept new challenges”. Xing is the leading business network and biggest social recruitment medium in the German-speaking region. Continue reading
Targeting women? Head to Pinterest
By Sharon Hill
If your publication, classified site or firm seeks to target a specific demographic, the latest study by Online MBA would be helpful indeed. The higher-education service site learned the following:
- Women make up a whopping 82 percent of Pinterest users
- Forty six percent of Facebook users are 45 years of age or older
- Of the 90 million Google+ users 71 percent are male, and the largest group are young engineers and other technical professionals. Nearly 44 percent are single.
- The top reason 5.5 million monthly visitors turn to Reddit is for humor. Visitors stay more than 16 minutes on average – more than twice that of time spent on LinkedIn. [Additionally, Reddit recruitment listings launched in 2009; as of today 3360 openings are listed, and 3950 candidates have posted their availability. ]
There’s much more in this insightful infographic. Mashable reported the details, including the graphic below.
LinkedIn revenue doubles, job dollars soar
LinkedIn just reported a 101 percent increase in revenue for the first quarter of 2012, as compared with the same time period in 2011. Its Hiring Solution products accounted for 51 percent of that revenue, with a YOY upswing in job-product dollars of 121 percent. Additionally, those members who opted to buy Premium rather than free profiles increased 91 percent. The economy, and the increasing importance in social networking for job hunting and recruiting might well account for the latter upsell upswing.
“LinkedIn grew over 100 percent for the seventh consecutive quarter and achieved records for adjusted EBITDA, operating and free cash flow,” said Steve Sordello, CFO of LinkedIn, in the company earnings announcement. “We remain focused on investing in our technology and product platform as well as expanding our business in new international markets and customer segments.”
Despite the good news, however, other social recruitment platforms just might be nipping at LinkedIn’s candidate-traffic heels. Facebook-focused BranchOut just celebrated its own upswell in audience, and secured $25 million to keep the competition at bay. For more on this story, see our upcoming CIR.
Here’s the LinkedIn earnings release.
U.K. recruiters most likely to post on social networks
According to recruitment software provider Bullhorn British recruiters are world leaders when it comes to adopting social networks. A survey of 65,000 users showed that 87 per cent of U.K. recruiters post their jobs on LinkedIn, a whisker ahead of the 86 per cent of their Canadian counterparts. 85 per cent of Australians and 84 per cent of American recruiters turned to LinkedIn compared to 75 per cent for the rest of the world.
A review of Twitter usage suggested the same pattern with 53 per cent of U.K. recruiters posting jobs to the micro-blogging site compared to 48 per cent in Australia, 44 per cent in Canada and the U.S., and 28 per cent elsewhere in the world.
Only when it came to Facebook did the pattern change since U.S. recruiters were most likely to use Zuckerberg’s baby with 27 per cent of recruiters posting to FaceBook pages, compared to 24 per cent in Canada, 23 per cent in the U.K. and Australia, and 17 per cent for the rest of the world.
It should be noted that the survey was a very anglo-saxon dominated affair not least since it seems to have ignored Viadeo and its stablemates which are the dominant social networks in France, China and a range of developing countries but it does show that English-speaking recruiters worldwide are keenly aware of the potential of social media.
- New Study Names Edmunds.com Most Popular Car Dealer Review Site
- HomeZada Integrates to Pinterest for DIY Projects
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- United States:
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- Canoe.ca publisher Quebecor reports Q1 2012 results
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