In “All Job Sites Are Becoming One!”, veteran job board entrepreneur Bill Warren talks about the blurring of lines between job boards:

Post a job on your corporate web site, or on any commercial site, and follow that job through its Internet journey. Regardless of where you post your job it will end up on many of the same sites. The power of craigslist, Google Base, and vertical search engines Indeed, SimplyHired and others — often called “aggregators” — are redefining Internet recruiting. In my opinion, three things are happening.

Heidrick & Struggles Establishes Hispanic Marketing Practice to Help U.S. Companies Tap Into Fast-growing Hispanic Market

CHICAGO, Oct 05, 2006 -- Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc., the world's premier executive search and leadership consulting firm, today announced the formation of its Hispanic Marketing Practice.

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"At this stage in my life, I simply can no longer dedicate the number of hours required by Monster's rapid global growth and the additional demands of time associated with the ongoing historical stock option grant review," McKelvey said. "I believe that these managerial changes will assist the company in addressing the challenges that it faces today."

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The recruit.com domain goes to auction on October 27th at a domain conference I'm attending in Miami (TRAFFIC). And this could be the CHANCE OF A LIFETIME for someone. There are only a couple of domains in the employment market with similar power. Let's say jobs.com, recruiting.com, hire.com, staffing.com, and hr.com all belong in this family of blockbuster employment domains.

In John Sumser's Job Jackers II he outlines the basis for calling job search verticals and aggregators "vandals" and it's the copyright issue:

The question of the meaning of copyright law is very far from settled. Typically, the courts around the world (except, perhaps, China) have tended to rule deeply and conservatively in the favor of the individual copyright holder. Our sympathies lie in that direction (we get pretty significant benefit from the various search engines, however and don't want to bite the foot that stomps our grapes).

It's true there's an issue there, but it may not be a crucial one. A detail that he's obscuring is that a great deal of the content in the verticals databases is delivered by xml feeds FROM the job boards that he says are being vandalized.

eFinancialCareers Sold to Dice.com for £48m

Have a look at the story on Onrec... I don't think the news has made its way around the US job board market yet.

The sale is a pity because we really enjoyed working with eFinancialCareers at www.NicheBoards.com and when companies are acquired they are usually ruined. On the other hand, it's exciting for everyone in the industry to see acquisitions on the rise.

Vertical job search engines have hit the job board world like a tornado - there has been  heated discussion about the future of job search engines (also known variously as job aggregators and job metasearch sites) but this is the only list that I am aware of.

Aaron Wall just wrote about the boost Google gives exact match domains and speculates on the logic behind the extra boost:

It's true the search engine boost you get from an exact match domain is significant - but just as important is the credibility and memorability of such a domain. DiversityJobs.com is a case in point and perfect example of an exact match domain name.

Exact match domain names put the wind at your back! Here's how Rick Schwartz puts it: