The San Diego Union-Tribune has joined Monster's network of  co-branded recruitment sites, and will now offer combined online and print services via The San Diego Union-Tribune and its website,  SignOn San Diego.

Monster’s media alliances now include more than 400 daily and weekly newspapers and over 100 television outlets. 

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SilkRoad technology, provider of talent management solutions, is now offering real-time posting of jobs from the OpenHire recruiting management solution directly to Monster.com.

Additionally, Monster's advanced integration components will let organizations view available inventory in real-time without ever leaving OpenHire.

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The Partnership for Public Service estimates that the federal government will need to fill more than 270,000 positions by 2012.

The estimate comes from a survey of 35 federal agencies representing nearly 99 percent of the federal workforce, which was released today in the report WHERE THE JOBS ARE 2009: Mission-Critical Opportunities for America.

The survey was funded by Monster Government Solutions and the AON Consulting.

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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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New York Congressman Ed Towns will speak at the Brooklyn edition of Monster's Keep America Working career fair tour on August 5.

In addition to Brooklyn, the tour stops in Vienna, Va., today, Whippany, N.J., on August 6 and Braintree, Mass. on August 7.

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Monster Worldwide has teamed with leading companies and organizations to offer discounts and free services for job seekers. The job board's new  Job Resource Center offers free resume and business card printing at Office Depot, savings on Pfizer medicines for people without prescription coverage, travel discounts through partner JetBlue and more.

 

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The Monster Employment Index edged two points lower in May, as U.S. online recruitment activity eased slightly following a seasonal rise in April. Year-over-year, the Index was down 29 percent, a slight improvement from the previous month, indicating the rate of slowdown in the labor market may have stabilized. view article »

Monster has named Sanjay Modi managing director for India, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Prior to this assignment, he was the company’s head of sales, India.

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Rainier “Onyx” Herrera has been picked as the “NFL Director of Fandemonium.” In a marketing promotion with the National Football League, Monster launched the search for the position at Super Bowl XLIII. Herrera was selected from among the 32 finalists interviewed for the role over two days last month at the NFL's New York headquarters.

Ironically, Herrera is from Hawaii, which has no NFL team, though the Pro Bowl was played in the island state for the last 29 years. Next year, it will be played in Miami.

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VisualCV, Inc., the company reinventing the resume for the digital age, has been nominated by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences for the best "Employment" website in the 13th Webby Awards.

Other nominees are: Monster, Bernard Hodes Group for the NYPD careers site, TSL Education for Tes Connect, and TheLadders.

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