Today, we are excited to announce that Monster has entered into an agreement to acquire HotJobs that will provide you with unprecedented access to job seekers and make Monster the leading site for job seekers in the U.S.
\nUpon the close of the acquisition, Monster will also enter into a multi-year strategic agreement with Yahoo!, becoming the jobs and recruitment engine on Yahoo!’s homepage for both the U.S. and Canada.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I\u2019m not overly surprised by this news as I believe HotJobs has been fading fast over the past year or two.\u00a0 I still believe the consolidation of major job boards is less significant than the migration to highly-targeted job boards.\u00a0 Specialization is the future of job boards as they compete with networking sites for the primary channel to source candidates\u2026in my opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Breaking news from the big job board world (via press release): Today, we are excited to announce that Monster has entered into an agreement to acquire HotJobs that will provide you with unprecedented access to job seekers and make Monster the leading site for job seekers in the U.S. Upon the close of the acquisition, Monster will also enter into a multi-year strategic agreement with Yahoo!, becoming the jobs and recruitment engine on Yahoo!’s homepage for both the U.S. and Canada. I\u2019m not overly surprised by this news as I believe HotJobs has been fading fast over the past year or two.\u00a0 I still believe the consolidation of major job… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,15],"tags":[846,1516,165,1514,1513,1761,1515],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiring","category-sourcing","tag-hot-jobs","tag-hotjobs","tag-job-board","tag-job-site","tag-monster","tag-sourcing","tag-yahoo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-Av","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":940,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/a-bigger-monster\/","url_meta":{"origin":2263,"position":0},"title":"A Bigger Monster","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"May 21, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"We are awash in a sea of change in the sourcing options available to hiring companies.\u00a0 Yahoo! news reports in Monster signs up more newspapers that Monster.com has moved into more locally-owned community newspapers. 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