Former HotJobs exec has new post
Mark Marinacci, who worked in sales at Yahoo HotJobs before joining Google, has become chief revenue officer at Edo Interactive, a mobile and digital advertising company based in Nashville.
Marinacci held various sales roles at HotJobs before starting with Google, where he served as a team manager for business and industrial markets, and then became “head of retail industry.”
The news release is here.
Former HotJobs GM Dan Finnigan joins Jobvite
Former GM of Yahoo Hot Jobs Dan Finnigan has a new gig: president and CEO of Jobvite. The company’s founder and former CEO Jesper Schultz will take over the role of chief product officer.
Finnigan is an interactive industry veteran. As CEO of Knight Ridder Digital, he spearheaded the acquisition of CareerBuilder in 2000. Before that, he co-founded and served as CEO for SBC Interactive launching the company’s SmartPages.com. Most recently he was Entrepreneur in Residence for Benchmark Capital.
Jobvite calls itself a Web 2.0 recruitment application and integrates candidate sourcing, team collaboration and social networking. Customers include Advent, Infinera, nGenera, SupportSoft and TiVo.
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‘The future of job boards’ — interesting nuggets, video posted
Kevin Krim of Yahoo HotJobs, Brian Donahue of CareerBuilder, and Terry Baker of Adicio all joined me for a 40-minute discussion of “the future of job boards” at the OnRec conference in Chicago last week. Chris Russell of JobBoarders.com videotaped the panel; you can watch it by clicking on the link below.
I’ve reported a bit about the panel already, but it offered some very interesting nuggets: None of the three panelists, for instance, would comment on Monster’s major site relaunch planned for January, but Krim noted that Monster bought Trovix, a qualifications-matching engine, a few months back, and suggested (but didn’t outright say) that Trovix would probably be a key to Monster’s new platform.
Fun stuff. More important, if you’re in the online or print recruitment businesses (or both), it’s worth watching.
http://jobboarders.com/video/video/show?id=882452%3AVideo%3A33115
“The next big thing” in recruiting? Matching technology
CHICAGO — It was pretty easy getting consensus today on “the next big thing in online recruiting and advertising” among the three panelists at the OnRec recruitment technology conference. “Matching technology” — which ranks, rates and identifies appropriate candidates for employers based on various “hard skills” like degrees and years of experience, and “soft skills” like personality and ethics — will become essential for recruiters during the next few years.
All three panelists said matching technology is in its infancy, but will improve over time so that employers can reach both active and passive candidates. Matching will eliminate unwanted and inappropriate candidates, and allow recruiters to focus on people who are an excellent fit for the job.
Terry Baker of Adicio, Brian Donahue of CareerBuilder and Kevin Krim of Yahoo HotJobs said video has already arrived as a major force in recruiting, and a show of hands among the 140 recruiter-attendees seemed to bear that out. Only one raised his hand when asked if they were looking at video resumes, but about three-quarters of the audience replied positively when I asked if they were using corporate videos in their recruiting efforts.
Another “next big technology:” Mobile. But Krim said the smart way to use mobile in the States, for now, would be to focus on SMS. Curiously, mobile was essentially ignored at the conference. Our panel’s mention of mobile devices was the first at the conference. At 9:30 a.m. on the second day!
At least two exhibitors at OnRec were focused on matching technology: TalentFilter, offered by TalentDrive, and JobStick.com. JobStick won the “2008 game-changing recruiting technology award” from OnRec. At least one other recruitment site, Redmatch, offers matching; it’s the back end of TheJobNetwork.com, a network of newspaper recruitment sites in the U.S. CareerBuilder, Monster, HotJobs and many other sites offer at least some form of matching, as well.
The session was videotaped by Chris Russell of JobBoarders.com. We’ll link to it when it’s posted.
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