Seek has announced important internal promotions:
First-up, someone we are all familiar with in the blogashere, Carey Eaton. Carey was given the nod for the recently-vacant role of Chief Information Officer. Carey joined Seek nearly two years ago as Product Director after a very successful career in recruitment at Michael Page and then at News Ltd’s […]

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First LinkMe tested the waters by advertising their internal vacancies on Seek. These ads were swiftly removed by the latter.
Now this job listing on MyCareer (one of forty-four).

What’s interesting about this listing is that - Apply Now - the company placing this job on MyCareer on behalf of their client is a job […]

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Seek is making it easier for your job ad. to be at the top of the search results list with its buy-a-Premium job ad. online service.  Naturally, however, a superior listing will come at a price.

“At […]

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Jetlag’s gone and my brain is returning to the home of the other side of sanity.  I’m in Paris and feeling the spirit of the place.  I even got asked directions from a French person yesterday.  She had mistaken me for one of her own:)
I’ve managed to uncover something interesting about the job scene here.  […]

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The blog might take on an international flavor over the next few weeks.  In the tradition of the middle-class male, I’m off on a European tour.  In between cups of cafe au lait, I’m gonna have a look at what’s going in Paris and a few other cities in Western Europe. There’s some pretty interesting […]

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No real surprises here!
Australia’s recruitment industry celebrated in style last night, as the jobseeker’s favourites were honoured at the SEEK Annual Recruitment Awards (SARAs).The 2008 SARAs, supported by the RCSA and now in their 6th year, were presented at an exclusive cocktail event in Sydney where the value the recruitment industry provides to both clients […]

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When the internet became public property, civil libertarians hailed this as a step towards freedom in the media.  And it’s true, the burgeoning of blog sites like this one have contributed to the dissemination of opinions and information that have not ever been seen before en masse.
However, things may be beginning to change.  Video-sharing site […]

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Seek announced today that it has agreed to acquire a 30% interest at a cost of US$67.5m in two leading employment websites in Brasil. www.Catho.com.br and www.manager.com.br
James Packer’s Consolidated Press Holdings will also invest alongside Seek to hold 5% of the Brasil Online Holdings business.
Better brush up on the Brazilian language ‘cos we know where […]

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This Onrec blog has commented previously about Seek’s relative lack of search engine optimisation.  However, I s’pose this doesn’t matter if you get a job search box in Google’s organic search results.
Let’s say you type in ‘Accounting’ into this search box, you will then be presented with a list of jobs from Seek with the […]

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Back in July, I reported on MyCareer’s search for excellence.  MyCareer were testing a new search box on their home page with keyword and category search versus keyword only.
Seems that the winner is the old keyword and category search. It would be interesting to see the A/B test results to see how the keyword-only search fared.
Update: […]

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