We are awash in a sea of change in the sourcing options available to hiring companies. Yahoo! news reports in Monster signs up more newspapers that Monster.com has moved into more locally-owned community newspapers.
Community Newspaper Holdings has 93 daily newspapers and is based in Birmingham, Ala. Under the deal announced Monday, each of the 80 new sites cobranded sites with Monster will be tied to a daily newspaper from Community Newspaper Holdings.
It appears that Monster, CareerBuilder (even though they are owned by 3 newspapers) and HotJobs are attempting to displace the long-standing newspaper employment classifieds. Whether this will be sustainable in the long run is difficult to predict.
I am more intrigued by the niche, online job boards. Our society is moving towards specialization through outsourcing. As that trend continues, I suspect these niche-specific job boards will become the preferred channel for sourcing the right candidates.