Tag: Job Search

LinkedIn’s out with its 2019 list of “Emerging Jobs” to watch
— Read on www.marketwatch.com/story/the-no-1-job-of-2019-pays-140000-and-its-hiring-growth-has-exploded-74-2019-12-10

There’s probably never been a better time since the Great Recession to start looking for a new job.
— Read on www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-the-no-1-highest-paid-and-fastest-growing-job-in-every-us-state-2019-08-20

Google’s fast-growing tool for searching job listings has been a boon for employers and job boards starving for candidates, but several rival job-finding services contend anti-competitive behavior has fueled its rise and cost them users and profits.
— Read on www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-google-antitrust-exclusive/exclusive-googles-jobs-search-draws-antitrust-complaints-from-rivals-idUSKCN1V30IX

Online job engine Indeed had over 57 million visitors in May. With the sheer volume of applicants and job postings listed daily, it has become increasingly harder to fill open positions with the perfect candidate. Conversely, new hires are selected through word of mouth three times more often than they are through career websites, according to SilkRoad. What’s the best way to find a new job? The answer, like most things, is probably somewhere in the middle.
— Read on www.cnbc.com/2019/07/05/indeed-monster-and-linkedin-how-job-sites-work.html

To compile the Monster 100—our weekly roundup of the employers making the biggest staffing pushes—we use data provided by the Gartner TalentNeuron tool to identify the 100 companies with the most new online jobs on Monster in the past seven days. Here’s our list of companies hiring this week.
— Read on www.monster.com/career-advice/article/companies-hiring-now

PERHAPS THE oldest management cliché is that “people are our most important asset”. If that were true, companies would rigorously assess their own hiring practices, and their record, to ensure that they are indeed recruiting the best people. Remarkably, many fail miserably at this task.
— Read on www.economist.com/business/2019/05/09/why-companies-are-so-bad-at-hiring

Glassdoor analyzed its vast database of job listings and discovered that these 14 companies have dramatically upped their number of open positions this month, indicating that they’re on a hiring spree and eager to secure new talent.
— Read on www.cnbc.com/2019/05/02/glassdoor-14-companies-are-hiring-like-crazy-in-may-2019.html