2010

Glassdoor posts the 25 weirdest interview questions of 2010

December 31, 2010

Glassdoor.com, a free career community where anyone can find and anonymously share an inside look at jobs and companies, sifted through thousands of interview questions users posted on the site in 2010 to come up [...]

CareerBuilder: one-quarter of employers plan on hiring in 2011

December 30, 2010

Almost 24 percent of employers said in a new CareerBuilder survey that they plan on hiring workers in 2011, up 4 percent from this year. CareerBuilder surveyed more than 2,400 hiring managers and human-resource professionals [...]

MyPerfectGig scores $3.5 million

December 29, 2010

MyPerfectGig.com, a candidate fulfillment service for technical departments such as engineering, software and IT, has secured $3.5 million in funding, according to MassHighTech.com. The Lexington-based tech talent matching site has a planned $8.9 million funding [...]

Employers want experience more than impressive degrees, survey says

December 28, 2010

Internships.com, an internship marketplace with over 40,000 internships, announced the results of their Fall Employer Survey. The results detail employer hiring preferences, average intern compensation, and trends for the internship market in 2011. The survey [...]

Electrocomponents partners with Taleo

December 27, 2010

Electrocomponents, a global distributor of electronics and maintenance products, said today it has chosen to partner with Taleo, a provider of on-demand talent management solutions, to enhance their recruiting tools. Electrocomponents, which serves 1.5 million [...]

Sendouts partners with Operation Homefront for charitable giving initiative

December 24, 2010

Sendouts, a provider of recruiting software for third party staffing and recruiting firms, announced today it working with Operation Homefront to provide four adopted military families with Christmas gifts. Operation Homefront is a nonprofit organization formed [...]

Angelica Huston, PETA slam CareerBuilder for Super Bowl ad

December 23, 2010

Sometimes even the funniest ads can draw ire from viewing audiences. After hearing that CareerBuilder plans on resurrecting chimpanzees for its 2011 Super Bowl ad, actress Angelica Huston wrote a letter to the job board’s [...]

Monster gets into the Christmas spirit

December 22, 2010

Monster has launched a new holiday promotion in partnership with ad agency BBDO, according to an article posted today on Mashable.com. The job board has created the Holiday Harmonizer, an app that allows you to [...]

TheLadders snags MTV exec

December 21, 2010

TheLadders, a marketplace for $100K+ job seekers and $100K+ jobs, announced today it has hired Nicholas Rockwell to become the new Chief Technology Officer. Rockwell will oversee and manage the technology development and operations for consumer [...]

Bernard Hodes Group introduces Social Job Matcher

December 20, 2010

Bernard Hodes Group, a provider of integrated talent solutions, has launched Social Job Matcher, a careers website plug-in that allows candidates to log in via their social media profiles. Bernard Hodes Group is calling the [...]

TheLadders launches Passport

December 17, 2010

TheLadders, a job board that matches job seekers with $100K+ opportunities, has announced a new feature called TheLadders Passport. The service will enable recruiters and HR professionals to use TheLadders for free. In other words, [...]

RiseSmart secures $3 million

December 16, 2010

RiseSmart, a provider of next-generation outplacement and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) solutions, today announced that it has completed $3 million in equity financing led by Norwest Venture Partners, Storm Ventures and angel investors. RiseSmart said [...]

New video resume site launches

December 15, 2010

theJobSight.com, a new video resume site for job seekers and employers, announced its launch today. The site is calling itself “the most innovative, automated and easy to use video resume solution available.” Features include the [...]

Ultimate Software snags HCM leaders for management team

December 14, 2010

Ultimate Software, a provider of unified capital management (HCM) SaaS solutions for global businesses, today announced the addition of two senior HCM professionals to its management team. Cecile Alper-Leroux has joined Ultimate as vice president [...]

Simply Hired partners with PCWorld | Macworld

December 13, 2010

Simply Hired, a job search engine and recruitment advertising network, today announced a partnership with PCWorld | Macworld to create two jobs channels, jobs.pcworld.com and jobs.macworld.com. PCWorld and Macworld, which are sources for technology news, [...]