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...receiving 50% more unsolicited contacts from those seeking high-end jobs than in previous years, says Jory Marino, who heads the firm's North American office. And in case it's not painfully obvious, says Mickey Matthews, who directs North American operations for Stanton Chase International, a global executive-search firm based in Dallas, "the supply-demand imbalance certainly favors employers...
Find the right words. Instead of reading all the résumés that are getting dumped on them, many recruiters scan and search the lot for keywords. Which means top-bracket-job seekers--some of whom may not have looked for a new gig in a decade or more--need to update their résumés with the jargon du jour that recruiters are looking for. For accountants, that means phrases like Sarbanes-Oxley, while marketers may need to add terms like search-engine optimization...
...just dialing up old friends and recruiters. They're also digitizing their Rolodexes. LinkedIn, a professional-networking site whose members' average household income is $110,000, has 32 million members. A new member signs up every second; a million join every two weeks. The site, which has new job-search functions in the works, already lets employment seekers figure out what connections they have to people who work at companies that are hiring. Premium, paid features boost the number of listings that searches yield and enable users to contact those outside their social network. At least one executive from every...
Today that statement seems wishful thinking. In the third quarter, for the first time, transactions on eBay's marketplace, a key metric of growth, fell 1%, to $14.3 billion, from a year ago. The strength and popularity of Google's search, Amazon's sales and the sheer number of other Web retail sites have eroded eBay's dominance, making it harder to compete with the same business model that steered the firm through its first 10 years of jaw-dropping growth. Three years ago, eBay boasted 30% more traffic than Amazon, but today its 84.5 million active users scarcely best...
...eBay nickname, had an impressive 10-year run, but when eBay's slowdown began, she tried to buy her way out of the problem, acquiring companies like PayPal, Skype, Shopping.com and StubHub to generate growth. Many were profitable but distracting, as problems like lack of trust and shoddy search technology continued to ail the auction site, the main revenue driver. "Meg was reluctant to expand things like customer service because it would eat into eBay's margins," says Jeffrey Lindsay, senior analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein...