'Net Features : careerbuilder

How to Weather the Dog Days of Summer

Allison Howen — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 04:30:00 GMT

Twenty-six percent of employers think that workers are less productive in the summer, according to a CareerBuilder survey.

A few reasons attributed to the loss in productivity include nicer weather, vacation-fever and kids being out of school.

But despite the less productive summers, 30 percent of employers think that workers are more productive since the recession began. According to employers, reasons for increased productivity include fear of job loss and downsized staffs.

A possible reason for the summertime decrease in productivity could have to do with the actual workload. Seventy-seven percent of employees said they were burned out at their jobs, while 43 percent said they were stressed out.

But when it comes down to it, summertime is no time to slack. This is a time when businesses can be focusing on big projects.

Here are a few projects to focus on: checking how your host is performing by load testing, accessing your advertising campaign’s effectiveness, retooling social profiles, conducting user experience surveys or training employees how to do new tasks like managing content production.

Monster No Longer the No. 1 Jobs Site? Indeed

Linc Wonham — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:54:00 GMT

Job search engine Indeed.com officially became the largest jobs site in the U.S. by passing longtime leader Monster.com in October, according to the latest data from comScore.

A total of 12.3 million users visited Indeed in October, a monthly increase of 19.6 percent. Monster had 12.1 million visitors while CareerBuilder was third with 11.3 million. The numbers, however, reflect the sites’ main jobs sites only and not their entire networks – in which case larger properties Monster and CareerBuilder would still have the edge.

But Indeed has steadily built Web traffic by adding nearly one million new jobs to its index each week, and it could very well become the consistently popular choice for U.S. job-seekers. Indeed actually attracts more monthly pageviews devoted strictly to job searches than Monster, CareerBuilder and HotJobs combined, but the other sites offer additional content such as resume-building tips and career advice.

Monthly traffic to HotJobs, which was purchased by Monster from Yahoo! in early 2010, has fallen 67 percent in the past year.

WM Morning Wire: 10-22-08

Pete Prestipino — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:15:00 GMT

Welcome to Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008! It's a bit of a slow news day, perhaps because as over 1500 are being laid off from Yahoo!, no one wants to make any sudden moves. But as always, below are a few press release that caught our attention this morning that you too might find interesting. We'll be covering some of these releases throughout the day directly and indirectly. If you have a news announcement you would like to share with the Website Magazine community, please contact Website Magazine editors now. If you're not yet a subscriber to our print or digital edition, sign up now - it's free and is the smartest thing you can do as a Web professional.

Business.com Helps Businesses Find Real Solutions to Today's Biggest Challenges With $30,000 Contest
Business.com, the leading business search engine, directory and pay-per-click advertising network, today launched The What Works for Business Contest. Open to all North American businesses, the contest is designed to help businesses shift the focus from what's wrong with the economy to what businesses can actually do to survive and thrive in 2009.

One-Third of Workers Called in Sick With Fake Excuses in the Last Year, CareerBuilder.com's Annual Survey Shows
CareerBuilder.com's annual survey on absenteeism shows 33 percent of workers have played hooky from the office, calling in sick when they were well at least once this year. While the majority of employers said they typically don't question the reason for the absence, 31 percent reported they have checked up on an employee who called in sick and 18 percent said they have fired a worker for missing work without a legitimate excuse. The nationwide survey included more than 6,800 workers and 3,300 employers.

ThinkFree Unveils Complete Office Suite and Online Collaboration Offering for the Emerging Netbook Market
ThinkFree, Inc., a leader in next-generation office productivity solutions, today announced the latest addition to its ThinkFree Mobile offering, ThinkFree Netbook Edition. ThinkFree Netbook Edition delivers word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications that have been optimized for the small screen dimensions and limited hardware resources of Intel Atom chipset-based netbooks.