Interview with Paul Forster – Indeed

After another round of expansions, the Indeed job search engine now has a presence in 25 countries. We got in touch with co-founder and CEO Paul Forster to find out where Indeed has the strongest presence, whether he thinks job search engines and traditional portals can co-exist, and what Indeed’s future aims are.
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.jobs Sites Taken Offline

DirectEmployers’ .jobs websites, the first of which were launched in November last year, have been taken down while improvements are made.
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JobServe Expands to Germany

Germany has just been added to the list of countries covered by global job board network JobServe.
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Six New Locations for Indeed

The Indeed job search engine now has a presence in 25 countries after Argentina, Chile, Columbia, New Zealand, Singapore and South Africa were added this week.
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Monster Buys Yahoo! HotJobs

It was only a matter of time. Monster Worldwide has just announced a deal to buy Yahoo! HotJobs for US$225 million.
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Weddles Winners Announced

The winners of the Weddles User’s Choice Awards have been announced, with 30 jobs websites across various fields on the list for 2010.
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Interview with Sachin Shah – Simply Hired

Vertical job search engine Simply Hired had a big year in 2009, with expansions to multiple countries and a $4.6 million round of funding. Simply Hired does not charge companies to add their job feeds, but it does offer a pay-per-click model for sponsored listings.

jobsportalwatch.com recently spoke to Simply Hired’s director of international, Sachin Shah, to find out what challenges the search engine is currently facing, what it thinks of its competition, and what its plans are for the coming year.
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Interview with Gary Zukowski – tweetmyjobs.com

The rise of social media has created a swathe of jobs-related services aiming to take advantage of the social web. tweetmyjobs.com is one such offering – a Twitter-based job posting service that allows users to subscribe to Twitter “channels” and receive text messages on their mobile as soon as positions become available.
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What is the future for job boards and how can recruiters evolve?

jobsportalwatch.com welcomes a guest post from onlymarketingjobs.com editor Simon Lewis.

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2009: The Year in Online Jobs

With the effects of the global financial crisis still being felt as 2009 drew to a close, many were more than happy to mark the start of the next decade. 2009 wasn’t an easy year in the world of online jobs by any means, but there were some success stories, and plenty of market players that refused to take things lying down. Let’s take a look back at the year that was.
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