Here are some interesting facts:

- In 2008 oldest baby boomers became eligible for Social Security.
- According to bls.gov (United States Bureau of Labor Statistics) in 8 years 22.7% of workers will be 55 or older.
- Computer science enrollments dropped 14% from 2004 to 2006
- According to monster.com survey one third of HR managers expect 20% of employees to retire over next decade.

1. Where do you see yourself in five years?

This one is just retarded.

2. What is your biggest weakness?

Is there really anyone who expects honest answer? The only thing you will ever get will be some canned weakness-that-is-really-a-strength or just some minor stuff not worth hearing.

3. What interests you about our company?

The fact that you were hiring?

4. Can you work under pressure? Are you a team player?

Who is going to say no?

5. How would your last boss describe you?

Very similar to #2. Noone would answer a

Interesting article was published with a list of outrageous things happened on interviews like “Candidate said she could not provide a writing sample because all of her writing had been for the CIA and it was “classified”, “Candidate told the interviewer he was fired for beating up his last boss” and “Candidate flushed the toilet while talking to interviewer during phone interview”.

This one I vote to be the best recruiting ad this year

In today’s tough market the goal of every job board is to increase traffic statistics. More visitors are equal more money they can charge for advertisement and more companies choosing them to post jobs. In my quite recent post I already mentioned big mismatch between official press releases and stats published by internet analysts.
This time I will add 2 more set of numbers that just become public.

According to Nielsen-netratings for the week ending January 8, 2008 standings are:
1. CareerBuilder - 5.6 million users
2. Monster - 5.3
3. HotJobs - 3.3

According to Hitwise situation is quite different. By the end of January standings are:
1. CareerBuilder - 12.96% market share
2. HotJobs - 11.18%
3. Monster - 4.32%

HotJobs marker share is comparable with one for CareerBuilder? Who are they kidding? Monster having only around 1/3 from CareerBuilder’s market size is just not true.

Let’s see… Hitwise is a subsidiary of Experian. Easy googling tells us that “Experian has been the exclusive provider of credit reports, content and resources in Yahoo! Finance”, “Experian Automotive the leading provider of vehicle history reports for Yahoo! Autos”, “Experian Selected by Yahoo! PayDirect to Authenticate Consumers Online”. Sounds like they are good partners.

I vote this to be the worst Super Bowl commercial this year.

Also read this up, quite interesting, looks like they realized how bad it is and are trying to remove it from any place they can. Let’s see for how long YouTube will resist.

I see a lot of quite different stats published on the web about market coverage for these jobboards. Every report has some different one ranked as number one.

Let’s see Alexa ranking (today’s data):
CareerBuilder - #99, traffic rank 639 (all will be 3 mos avg)
Monster - rank, 641
HotJobs - unknown, it’s merged with Yahoo which has rank 1

You can see Monster and CareerBuilder are pretty close. What’s up with HotJobs?
I see Yahoo is spending a lot of money recently on PR. Whole spread of them or have direct information or just have hints about supposedly increased traffic on Yahoo websites. Some of those articles and blog posts tell us that HotJobs became #1 job search engine. Where all that new traffic came from? Wasn’t they complained not that long time ago about Craigslist stealing their employment traffic?

In the middle of 2005 Nielsen//NetRatings rated career related sites and HotJobs were lagging quite a bit. Top3 were rated like this: CareerBuilder with 4.1m visitors, Monster with 3.56m and HotJobs with 1.6m.