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IN THIS ISSUE
Newsletter Sponsors
A Note from the Editor
Breaking News
Today's Recruiting News Headlines
Featured Recruiting Jobs
Weekly
Article:
New Domain Extension .JOBS
Employment and
Economy Stats
Special Trials and Discounts
Employment Studies and Trends
Layoffs and Downsizing
Report
Recruiting Essential Bookmarks
Upcoming Conferences
Site Of The Week:
AIRSDirectory.com
Final Note - On The Lighter Side
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A Note From The Editor
.Jobs
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The Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers today approved a petition by
HR managers to create a new Internet extension for the
sole purpose of posting corporate jobs. Technically a
top-level domain, the new extension is appropriately
named JOBS, and Internet addresses using it as a suffix
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Breaking News
Yahoo! HotJobs (Nasdaq: YHOO),
a leader in online recruiting and HR technology, today
announced a distribution relationship with 4Jobs.com, a
unique and diverse network of niche web sites, which
will add more than 6,000 local and industry-specific
sites to the Yahoo! HotJobs network. Effective
immediately, Yahoo! HotJobs job listings will be
exhibited across this network of sites, providing
companies with broader exposure to local and
highly-specialized talent.
“This agreement creates significant benefits for both
recruiters and job seekers,” said David Brensilber, vice
president of business affairs at Yahoo! HotJobs. “By
adding more than 6,000 web sites to our network,
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while at the same time, target specific subsets of job
seekers. Also, job seekers using any of the 4Jobs.com
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them.”
The relationship with 4Jobs.com provides a single point
of access for Yahoo! HotJobs' customers, while
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Yahoo! HotJobs and the listings will now also appear on
PhillyJobs.com, Nurses.com and hundreds of other local
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Weekly Article
New Domain Extension .JOBS
What is .Jobs?
Employ Media has joined forces with the
Society
for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and
VeriSign,
Inc. to create, by way of application to the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN),
a new Top Level Domain: .jobs.
The .jobs TLD would be a Sponsored TLD, or sTLD. An sTLD
is created for the purpose of serving a specific
Community. In the case of .jobs, the Community is
defined as the people who deal in the human element of
an organization, notably recruitment on behalf of their
employer organization.
 To
serve this Community, domains within the .jobs sTLD will
be in the format of:
www.companyname.jobs , such as
www.exxon.jobs
or www.sony.jobs.
This format provides the Community with an exact
destination, or digital identity, to communicate or
otherwise interact with the labor market. The scope of
.jobs, in terms of functionality and visibility, is
global.
What is .jobs for?
Simply put, .jobs would provide to those charged with
recruiting responsibilities on behalf of their employer
organization the ability to communicate the exact
destination of their organization's employment-related
content.
Complete Frequently Asked Questions >>
From a Bloggers Point
of View -
View Complete Article Here >>
.jobs domain is alive,
alive!
It's official.
The .jobs domain is now a reality.
There is so much I have
to say about this that I don't know where to start, but
here are a few immediate thoughts:
- Don't underestimate
the potential of this occurrence greatly
putting the current Internet recruiting industry on
its head.
- Employers will
actually have to buy into this idea and promote these
URLs in order to achieve success. HR people have a
major herd mentality, so the early adopters are going
to have to buy into this idea and spread the virus.
- Job seekers will have
to get used to using .jobs when searching employment
opportunities (see No. 2).
- Signing-up and buying
the domain will need to be incredibly easy, so a
non-technical person can obtain a .jobs domain.
- The .jobs folks need
to start lobbying Google and selling them on the
relevancy of URLs with .jobs as opposed to .com-type
domains. For example, .edu and .gov domains carry
greater weight on Google because of their guaranteed
relevance. If the .jobs domain carries similar weight,
the game really changes.
- The data is going to
have to stay pure. If engineering.jobs, marketing.jobs,
etc. ever get sold in conjunction with statefarm.jobs,
.jobs will have no greater benefit than a .net.
-
Employ Media, the
organization managing the .jobs domain, will need to
police submissions efficiently and effectively.
- The cost will need to
keep out potential spammers.
- It increases the
significance of the corporate career center as the
destination site for job seekers, as opposed to other
mediums like job sites.
- Search engines are
primed to become king of the job search process.
View Complete Article Here >>
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Employment and Economy Stats
|
Current Stats
Unemployment Rate:
5.2% Mar 2005
Payroll Employment:
+110,000(p) in Mar 2005
Average Hourly Earnings:
+$0.04(p) Mar 2005
CPI:
+0.6% in Mar 2005
ECI:
+0.7% in 4th Qtr of 2004
Productivity:
+0.8% in 4th Qtr of 2004
Source:
BLS.gov
(p) = projected |
Trends Unemployment Rate
5.2% Mar 2005
5.4% Feb 2005
5.2% Jan 2005
5.4% Dec 2004
5.4% Nov 2004
Employment Cost Index
+0.7% in 4th Qtr of 2004
+0.9% in 3rd Qtr of 2004
+.9% 2nd Qtr of 2004
+1.1% 1st Qtr of 2004
Change in Payroll Employment
+110,000(p) in Mar 2005
+262,000 in Feb 2005
+146,000 in Jan 2005
+157,000 in Dec 2004
+112,000 in Nov 2004
Source:
BLS.gov |
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Employment Studies
and Trends
CFOs Determine Top Priorities
for 2005
Executive Recruiter News reports that a survey of
1,400 CFOs across the US suggests they are most
concerned with their organizations' revenue growth and
the containment of employee healthcare costs. The survey
by accounting and finance staffing company Robert Half
Management Resources also finds that recruiting and
retaining qualified staff ranks among their company's
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Layoffs and Downsizing
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Recruiting Essential
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