CareerBuilder boosts Gannett classifieds Q1
Gannett Company, Inc. has just reported that digital revenue was up nearly 7 percent the first quarter of 2012, primarily thanks to recruitment revenue boosts at CareerBuilder. Sales and marketing for the career site were up as well, however, and the overall classified outlook for the media group is still bleak. As the graph below clearly shows, U.S. real estate and legal advertising saw the biggest drops in classified ad dollars.
Here’s the earnings release:
Gannett Co., Inc. Reports First Quarter Results Continue reading
Making life easier for international recruiters
by Christo Volschenk
The Network, an alliance of 49 job boards operating in 125 countries, launched a website last week aimed at making skilled labor recruitment across borders easier and more effective. Continue reading
Experteer poaches top salespeople from competitors
by Christo Volschenk
Experteer.de, the Munich-based job portal for top managers (with jobs paying annual salaries of more than €60,000 only) poached ten senior salespeople and managers from recruitment agencies and competing German job portals to beef up its business partner sales teams for Switzerland, the Netherlands, U.K., France and Germany. Continue reading
CareerBuilder shuffles priorities in Europe
By Christo Volschenk
CareerBuilder, one of America’s biggest job portals, has made a small (but not insignificant) adjustment to its growth strategy in Europa. Continue reading
Scout24 to help CareerBuilder grow JobScout24
By Christo Volschenk
Little will change at German job portal JobScout24.de in the immediate future, after its acquisition this week by U.S.-based job portal CareerBuilder. It’s appearance won’t change, the platform won’t change, listings on the new sister site CareerBuilder.de will not be duplicated on JobScout24.de, all people who worked on it will be retained and so will the Munich office they worked from. Continue reading

