Fee-based TheLadders.com takes shots at ‘cluttered’ CareerBuilder and Monster in a new advertising campaign created by the Fallon advertising agency. view article »

CareerBuilder has launched a Norwegian job board in partnership with its Swedish subsidiary, Jobbguiden.se. As part of the launch, CareerBuilder.no and MSN announced a strategic alliance that makes CareerBuilder.no the exclusive job search engine and content provider for the MSN Careers channel in Norway through 2013.

CareerBuilder bought Jobbguiden.se last year, about the same time Microsoft, which owns MSN, acquired a part interest in CareerBuilder. 

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Even Craigslist is not immune from U.S. economic conditions, reports Silicon Alley Insider. Reports SAI: "Employment ads are flat in the first six months of 2008, reflecting a slowdown in Craigslists' biggest and most mature markets - San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, Boston and DC."

But elsewhere, employment ads continue to grow and Craigslist exec Jim Buckmaster says the company may start charging for job postings in Atlanta, Austin, Denver, Houston, Miami, Philadelphia and Phoenix.

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Amazon has OneClick shopping. Now JobTarget has it, too. The service has been around for a while, but now JobTarget says the results are showing and recruitiment advertising agencies are signing on to the service. With a single click recruiters, media buyers and others can place a job posting to multiple, pre-selected sites targeted to the position and client accounts. view article »

TMP Worldwide Advertising & Communications won 14 WebAwards from the Web Marketing Association. view article »

JWT INSIDE, one of the world’s leading recruitment marketing and internal communications companies, is bringing Web 2.0 solutions to hospitals and health care systems. In order to engage the employees of a large health care system that is geographically spread out, JWT INSIDE incorporated PURL technology in their recent internal communications campaign.

PURL stands for Personalized URL, a web address that incorporates the recipient’s name. For example: www.johnsmith.ourcompanysite.com. This technology provides relevant content in response to preferences and engages responders in more meaningful dialogue.

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CKR Interactive has been selected by San Antonio Community Hospital  in Upland, Calif. as the hospital’s new recruitment advertising agency. view article »

Monster (profile; site) has signed a Chicagoland newspaper group to its burgeoning alliance and in so doing has wounded, if not killed, a regional job board that was created, in part, as a response to Monster itself. view article »

The Ad♦Q Studies division of Harvey Research, Inc. found that a recruitment advertising creative designed by CKR Interactive had the highest impact of all the ads placed in a recent issue of NURSEWEEK. The ad was part of a multimedia nurse recruitment marketing campaign launched and managed by CKR Interactive for Phoenix based Banner Health, one of the largest nonprofit healthcare systems in the country.

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NAS Recruitment Communications' Baltimore office developed a new employment brand and career site for Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital.

Focusing on bright, bold close-up photos of infants and children, NAS developed the new brand with the headline, "Every child deserves our very best," and tagline for the logo, "Careers in Caring."

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SilkRoad technology, a provider of talent management solutions, announced it's partnered with Simply Hired, jobs search engine and advertising recruitment network.

Jobs indexed by Simply Hired through OpenHire, SilkRoad's recruiting management solution, will provide customers the ability to distribute and include their jobs in the organic listings on Simply Hired's network of over 5000 new locations, including social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Plaxo.

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A multimedia campaign by CKR Interactive has won awards and attracted experienced candidates for the rural facilities of Banner Health.

The campaign, launched in 2008, has won HealthLeaders Media and Aster awards,

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myStaffingPro now includes free job board integration SimplyHired.com and Indeed.com, allowing users to post jobs to these sites without incurring any integration or posting fees. view article »

Reuters reported Monday that Monster has changed its ad planning and buying from MEC to Omnicom Group Inc's OMD agency. The news agency said Monster will spend $200 million on marketing in 2009.

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Recruitment advertising agency CKR Interactive was named to the Inc. 5000 list, coming in at 2,935. view article »

 "The Four A's of Recruitment Advertising," is a guide to help recruiters track results and make the most of their recruitment advertising.

From job search engine Indeed.com, the whitepaper says that determining your recruitment ROI is not hard if you: Assign someone to the task; Automate the data collection; Analyze the data, and: Adjust your spend. Download the paper here.

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NAS Recruitment Communications announced the promotion of  Anne Lynnette Gallas in the San Antonio office and Jennifer Henley in Baltimore. Currently Directors, Business Development, they will add the role of Talent Strategist, a position fully involved in consultative client services. view article »

Career Athletes, a career education and resource provider for graduating and alumni collegiate athletes, is launching its first television and digital media campaign this fall. 

Coinciding with the height of the college football season, Career Athletes is targeting former and current college athletes via an integrated media campaign, including television, digital and social media extensions.

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