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CareerBuilder Launches Social Network

CareerBuilder has announced it has launched BrightFuse.com a social networking site geared towards professionals. To clarify CareerBuilder originally launched BrightFuse in February 2008, but in its announcement it does not mention this detail. WebProNews contacted CareerBuilder for a comment but did not receive a response before publication.

Visits To Career Sites Jump In June

More than 65 million Americans visited career sites in June, representing a 10-percent increase over the previous year, according to a new report from comScore. CareerBuilder was the most popular site with 21.7 million unique visitors, followed by Yahoo HotJobs with 17.9 million visitors (up 23% over a year ago), and Monster with 14.5 million visitors (up 6%).

Career Development Sites See Surge in Seniors

While visits to online career development websites continue to grow, fuelled by fears of job security and increased layoffs, there’s one particular age group that has grown faster than others. Visits to career development websites grew 20% YoY, according to Nielsen, rising 41.5 million visitors in January 2008 to just under 50 million in January this year.

Big Company Exploiting Twitter?

Twitter can be gamed too? Who would have thought? If there is a way to get promotion from a popular social site, you know that it will be taken advantage of. It just becomes a matter of competition at some point, perhaps even with people being paid to help with that promotion (right Diggers?).

More Employers Using Social Networks To Screen Job Candidates

More employers are screening potential job candidates by looking at their social networking profiles.

Gannett Takes Control Of CareerBuilder

This development can be seen as something that's either good for the Internet sector or bad for the economy in general.  Or both.  Regardless, Gannett has paid $135 million for another ten percent of CareerBuilder.com, which brings its total stake up to 50.8 percent.

Facebook, CareerBuilder Collaborate On Ads

For most people, Facebook is still a social network - more about palling around than seeking a new job.  Yet it never hurts to have an opportunity dropped in one's lap, and a new Facebook-CareerBuilder collaboration aims to let employers do some advertising.

CareerBuilder Takes Monk-E-Mail Mobile

CareerBuilder is expanding its popular Monk-e-Mail to mobile phones. Over 100 million Monk-e-mails have been sent since its launch in 2006.

CareerBuilder Adds Apps To Facebook

Online job site CareerBuilder.com has announced that it is now offering job and internship matching applications on the Facebook Platform.

Social Networks Positive For Job Recruiters

Sixty-eight percent of staffing and recruiting professionals say they use social networks at least occasionally to source candidates, according to an online survey from Bullhorn, "Making the Most of the New Tools: How online resources impact placement ratios, time-to-fill and profitability."