Simply Hired Socialises Results

In our recent interview, Simply Hired director of international Sachin Shah told jobsportalwatch.com we could expect to see a focus on partnerships for the company in 2010. The jobs search engine certainly hasn’t wasted any time on this, announcing collaborations with some big names in online social networking over the past few days.
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linkup.com Links Companies with Facebook

US based job search engine linkup.com has launched an application to allow companies to display their job openings on their Facebook profile or “fan” page.
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CareerBuilder Climbs in comScore June Figures

A report from comScore has revealed the top 50 US websites for June 2009, highlighting job websites among those seeing an increase in traffic.

The report points out that the end of the US school year and a rising unemployment rate were contributing factors in the increased traffic to career services and development websites. comScore’s “Career Resources” and “Career Training and Education” categories were both ranked among the top ten gaining categories for the month: Career Resources websites grew six percent to 46.8 million visitors, while Career Training and Education websites grew 13 percent to 6.7 million visitors.

CareerBuilder LLC was the only jobs portal amongst the top 50 US websites for June. The website climbed 6 places to reach 39th position with 21.7 million unique visitors. The only other website linked to jobs to make the top 50 list was Craigslist, which came in at 16th place with over 46 million unique visitors.

These US based figures reflect a trend reported by comScore for France in its May 2009 figures, which showed careers service and development website use was up 45 percent on last year. Those statistics put CareerBuilder LLC at number six in the top 10 career services and development websites ranked by total French unique visitors.

Social media also had gains in June, with Twitter’s first appearance in the ranking at number 46 with 20.1 million visitors – a huge increase compared to June 2008, when it had less than 1 million.

Meanwhile, Facebook climbed to 6th position, up two places to its highest ever ranking. Social network tagged.com also grew, ranking fourth in the comScore list of top 10 gaining properties by percentage change in unique visitors from May 2009 to June 2009 with over 6 million unique visitors.

oodle.com Begins to Tweet

Classifieds website oodle.com has begun integrating with Twitter, utilising the social media tool in a few different ways.
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Employers Prefer LinkedIn

A survey by Jump Start Social Media has found that employers prefer to use LinkedIn over Facebook and Twitter in the hiring process.
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Companies to Move Towards Social Recruiting

Results of an annual survey by US company Jobvite have suggested a shift away from recruiting methods such as job boards, with many companies instead planning to focus their energy on social recruiting.
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bravenewtalent.com Gains New Talent

bravenewtalent.com is a new social networking platform designed to connect the world’s top talent to their employers of choice online.
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