A Short but Informative Newsletter Covering These Topics:
• 2010 Board of Governors Ballots mailed—this is your chance to select our leaders
• IAEWS Web-Site Listing—drive traffic to your products for the U.S. DOL Challenge
• Your IAEWS Member Benefits—take advantage of all of them!
2010 Board of Governors Ballots Mailed
The ballots are in the mail. They accompany your 2009 Annual Member Report and 2010 Annual Dues Statement. The package was sent by postal mail to Members in the U.S. and Canada and by email to Members in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Please take this opportunity to help us select your Association’s leaders for the upcoming year. Ballots must be returned by January 22, 2010 in order to be counted.
In addition, please remember that the Association works all year long on your behalf—planning and programming for our 2010 Member Congresses is already underway, for example—so please pay your dues as soon as you can.
The nominees for the 2010 Board of Governors are:
John Bell* CEO, Boxwood
Ethan Bloomfield, VP, JobTarget OneClick
David Bransilber VP, Beyond
Simon Conroy CEO, Madgex
Ted Daywalt* CEO, VetJobs
Matt Hoffner CEO, JobG8
Dan Honig CEO, WorkplaceDiversity.com
Tony Lee EVP, Adicio
Ken Levinson CEO, CJ Ventures, Inc/Absolutely Healthcare
Aaron Matos* CEO, Jobing
Constance Melrose* Treasurer, Dice Holdings, Inc.
Shelly Mudd* TopUSAJobs.com
Don Ramer* CEO, Arbita
Erik Sorenson CEO, Vault
Mike Tansey CEO, onTargetjobs, Inc.
Peter Zollman CEO, Advanced Interactive Media Group
*Members of the 2009 Board of Governors
The Association elects seven (7) Governors each year. Governors serve for one (1) calendar year. If reelected, they may serve up to three (3) consecutive terms. Typically, they meet with the Executive Director by teleconference once each quarter and at each Member Congress throughout the year.
U.S. DOL Job Search Tool Challenge
As reported in our last newsletter, the U.S. Department of Labor has launched a Tools for America’s Job Seekers Challenge. Its goal is to inventory online job search and career advancement tools, and allow workforce system professionals and job seekers to explore, comment on, and recommend those tools.
Tools must be free of charge to the job seeker and may be provided by either U.S. or international vendors. Five categories of tools are being sought:
• General job boards, listing sites, and aggregators
• Niche job boards
• Career tools such as ladders, transition tools, etc.
• Web based career exploration sites
• Web 2.0/social media sites specializing in job searches or job postings
• Other job matching and career advancement tools
The Challenge will run in three phases:
1. During Phase one (November 30 - December 18, 2009), toolmakers and developers are invited to enter the challenge by submitting their online job tools to the crowdsourcing platform at DOLchallenge.ideascale.com.
2. During Phase two (January 4 - 15, 2010). workforce professionals, including state workforce agencies, Workforce Investment Board directors, and One Stop Career Center managers, as well as job seekers, will be invited to review, comment on, and recommend submitted job tools.
3. During Phase three (beginning in late January 2010), DOL/ETA will share highly recommended tools in each category with the entire workforce development community and job seekers and provide an alphabetical list of all participating online tools—driving even more traffic to your site.
To help our Members gain as much visibility as possible for their job search tools, the IAEWS will be listing them on its Home Page. For phase one of the Challenge, each listing will be linked to the tool, itself, on the Web. During phase two, the entire list of tools will be linked to the DOL Challenge site.
If you would like to list one or more of your job search tools, please:
• Upload each tool to the DOL Challenge site
• Email the name of the tool and its URL to director@employmentwebsites.org.
Finally, better than any other group on the planet, the membership of the IAEWS has the tools and other resources to excel at this Challenge. Make sure that you take advantage of this extraordinary opportunity to showcase your products and services!
Your IAEWS Member Benefits
Your Membership Logo Means Something
One of the key benefits you receive as an IAEWS Member is the opportunity to display the Association’s Member icon on your site and in your promotional literature. Both the media and our customers in HR and among job seekers increasingly recognize the icon and regard it as the “Good Housekeeping seal of approval” when shopping for a job board. So, make sure your site gets the distinction it deserves. Post the IAEWS logo today.
Take Advantage of the Members Only Area on the IAEWS Site
The IAEWS site offers an array of information and resources for Association Members. Click on the Members Only tab, enter your Member ID and password, and you’ll find:
• The Official IAEWS Member icon. Posting this icon on your site helps to reinforce the quality of your brand and differentiate your site from the riffraff on the Web;
• The Member Newsletter. An archive of the current and past IAEWS newsletters so you can stay abreast of the latest news in our industry and the Association;
• Content from Member Meetings & Congresses. Even if you’re not able to attend these events, this area will give you access to their content;
• Quarterly Research Findings. Tap into data and analysis from WEDDLE’s and the archive of the Association’s Research InSites publication;
• Industry News. Keep an eye on the competition and look for business opportunities by checking out the press releases posted by Association Members;
• Enterprises for Sale. If you’re in the market for an enterprise or want to sell your own, here’s one place to do so that’s a bit more discreet than other public forums.
• Employees in Transition. Post the resumes of those in your organization who have been affected by staff reductions and help them land on their feet.
• Post Your Own Releases. An easy way to send your press release to the IAEWS for posting on its site, which is one of the first places journalists check when writing about our industry; and
• Member Discussion Area. Join an ongoing conversation among your peers or start your own.
Remember Your Member Working Groups
This is just a reminder that the IAEWS currently supports three Member Working Groups. They are:
• The Working Group on Customer Privacy & Security, chaired by Carl Braun, Cross-Post. This group is exploring possible defenses against hacking, malware and other attacks that disrupt business operations and/or threaten customer identity and privacy.
• The Working Group on the OFCCP, co-chaired by Ted Daywalt, VetJobs, and Hope Gurion, CareerBuilder.com. This group is working with the Department of Labor and the U.S. Congress (through the American Society of Association Executives) to redress the onerous data collection and storage requirements promulgated by this agency for online resume database searching.
• The Working Group on Sourcing Problems with Applicant Tracking Systems, chaired by Jason Whitman, Indeed. This group is dealing with the inaccurate identification of candidate sources provided by the vast majority of today’s applicant tracking systems, a situation that undermines customer confidence in our industry and misdirects customer investments in recruiting.
These groups look for strategies and initiatives that leverage the collective strength of the Association and its membership. They are open to all Members and meet (usually by teleconference) at the discretion of the participants and the group’s chair. If you would like more information about any of the groups or would like to join one, please contact the appropriate chairperson. Contact information is in your Member Directory.
Free Visibility for Your Press Releases and White Papers
Please don’t forget that IAEWS Members can have their press announcements, research reports and white papers posted on the IAEWS site.
Why bother? Because the IAEWS site (and its Press page, in particular) is now the first stop for journalists writing about our industry or looking for employment-related topics about which to write.
How does it work? Simply send your press announcement, white paper summary or extract to Peter Weddle (director@employmentwebsites.org) and he’ll see that it’s posted. (To aid in administration, please send Word documents only.)
Are You Prepared for the Rise of M&A Activity in Our Industry?
Cashing Out or Cashing In—The Financial Dynamics of M&A Activity in the Online Employment Services Industry is the first-ever research report on this important topic. Commissioned by the International Association of Employment Web Sites and conducted by Kennedy Information, it looks at everything from valuation formulas to non-compete clauses, from deal breakers to how good will is measured in mergers and acquisitions involving employment Web-sites.
The study surveyed IAEWS Members to collect qualitative data and interviewed principals with venture capital, investment banking and other firms to obtain quantitative data from actual deals. The result is a ground-breaking look at what firms are buying, what firms are selling, and what terms are being negotiated in our industry—one of the most successful in the e-commerce space.
This report is available to Members of the International Association of Employment Web Sites at a special $200 discount. Its cost is $395.00, plus shipping. All orders are shipped by U.S. Priority Mail or Air Mail.
To get your copy, please call the IAEWS Executive Director, Peter Weddle, at 203.964.1888.
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