German recruitment giants Monster.de, Jobware.de and Stepstone.de have announced steps to focus on new sub-segments and have launched freestanding portals.

Over 100,000 CVs were uploaded to the database of the U.K. job site CV-Library.co.uk during October pushing the total to over 1.2 million.

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Guardian Jobs has won the National Online Recruitment Award for the Best Online Recruitment Section by a Consumer Publication. It’s the second win in two years for the Web site.

You got to hand it to these guys. Craigslist earned almost $4.5 million in recruitment advertising from Oct. 25 to Nov. 25—almost $637,000 of it new revenue, the direct result of adding eight new cities to the list of markets in which it charges per listing. 

Recruitment blogger Joel Cheesman writes on Cheezhead that there are rumors circulating that Yahoo is interested in buying Monster—or maybe even vice-versa.

A New York Times’ columnist who wrote about careers for the paper has lost hers. 

In addition to its existing “pay to list” model, U.K.-based Fish4 has now adopted a “pay per application” model for its Fish4Jobs.co.uk recruitment Web site.

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Monster.com and TMP Worldwide founder Andrew J. McKelvey has died at 74 after battling pancreatic cancer.

Newspaper advertising revenues totaled $8.9 billion in the third quarter of 2008, down 18.1 percent from the same quarter last year, according to figures released Wednesday by the Newspaper Association of America.

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Monster Worldwide will re-enter the Australian market with a purchase of 50 percent of News Digital Media’s CareerOne jobs site. Details, at this time, are a little sketchy and the consideration paid has not been revealed.

A U.S. judge has approved a $47.5 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit against Monster Worldwide and former officers for backdating stock options.

The Chicago Tribune’s bold experiment to minimize print classifieds seems to have gone awry.

A Texas company, NGenera, finds most of its new hires through networking sites.

Former Monster exec Lori Erickson has changed industries and joined First Wind, a North American wind power company. 

Online advertising growth is slowing and will dip into single-digit annual growth for the first time in 2009, according to eMarketer. Online classifieds have the poorest outlook: advertising revenue is projected to fall 5 percent over the next five years.

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Three online classified advertising sites made it into ComScore Media Metrix’s Top 50 U.S. Web properties.

Monster Worldwide says it will be an official sponsor of the National Football League in a new multiyear marketing agreement. Deal terms weren’t disclosed.

Jobvite may turn the recruitment industry on its head with social e-mail powered job “invitations.”

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Job portal StepStone returned to the London Stock Exchange, seven years after it delisted in the wake of the dot-com crash. 

The latest user numbers from Guardianjobs.co.uk show 69 percent year on year growth. In October 2008 the site had 1.1 million unique users.

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