Monster.com socializes job search at last
By Sharon Hill
Monster Worldwide, one of the last major job sites to come to the social recruitment table, has finally announced the ability for job candidates to see which of their socially-networked friends have connections to the hiring firm, right from the Monster.com site. Candidates won’t be searching Facebook or LinkedIn - they’ll be searching BeKnown, the Monster-Worldwide-owned Facebook app. If a candidate tries the search and is not set up on BeKnown, she or he will be prompted to create that free BeKnown profile and account.
There’s nothing really innovative here. However, the fact that it’s Monster means that 100 million monthly visitors – most of whom have not set up a BeKnown profile – will be encouraged to do so. That’s good for BeKnown, which in the social recruitment battle is way behind both fellow-Facebook-app BranchOut, and LinkedIn. For more on what each of these big three social recruitment sites offer, what Monster told us about the socialization and why it waited so long, and where each firm is headed, see our upcoming CIR.
Here’s the Monster Worldwide announcement: Continue reading
Online recruitment suffers downturn in France
Despite gains for Europe as a whole of around ten percent year-on-year, France is experiencing a decline in online recruitment, according to the latest monthly reading of the Monster Employment Index. The Monster Index shows online recruitment dropped four percent from Febr. 2011 to Febr. 2012. In January the drop was still only one percent. So, the negative trend seems to be picking up speed. Continue reading
Breakthrough for Monster in global government business
By Christo Volschenk
Online careers and recruitment provider Monster signed a $20 million U.S. (€14 million) contract with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in the U.K. to provide the state department a “managed online vacancy listing, filling and automated job matching service”, Monster.co.uk announced on its site today. Continue reading
Monster India launches talent-management service
Major Indian jobs portal Monsterindia.com, has launched a talent-management service that can be customized to the needs of different businesses in the country.
“Monster TMS (Talent Management Suite) is customizable and scalable for any size of business, regardless of industry, complexity, geography and budget,” the company said. Continue reading
New CIO at Monster; rough summer for stock
Monster Worldwide today announced that SVP of technologies Mark Conway has been named chief information officer, replacing Darko Dejanovic, who left to pursue other opportunities, according to the company.
A company statement said that VP of global user experience Andrea Facini and VP of product management Matt Mund will continue leading Monster’s product development. Continue reading
Monster takes semantic search to the cloud
Monster has thrown open the door to its patented 6Sense semantic search engine, leveraging it in a new product called SeeMore — which allows employers unparalleled views not only into Monster’s talent pool, but their own.
With it, employers can pull candidates off of Monster (whether or not they’ve applied) or of their own applicant-tracking systems, our out of their own employee databases to manage all their talent resources in a single dashboard.
With 6Sense driving it, the dashboard can suggest best matches to specific jobs with a granularity, accuracy and speed we’ve not yet seen anyone match.
Because SeeMore can apply 6Sense analytics to employers’ own data, they get views into their own systems they wouldn’t normally have. If you’re a recruiter, it could be your perfect candidate is already in-house, and you didn’t know it.
(More in our upcoming Classified Intelligence Report.)
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