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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