And with 80% of applicants to the site's postings getting interviews and 33% getting hired, both companies and job seekers seem happy.
Enter Harleen Kahlon, founder of DamselsInSuccess.com, a Web site featuring job postings, monthly columns and the opportunity for aspiring female executives to mingle online.
He pointed to a recent case in California, where an employee was dismissed from his job because of his personal Web site and his postings to a fiction writers newsgroup.
Postings on site forums suggested that some players might have begun tiring of the format.
Indeed.com, a six-year-old site that aggregates job postings, gathers its information from job listings.
The Missed Connections site allows you to respond to the postings by email.
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The Web site that passively furnishes a vehicle for online postings is deemed to be no more responsible for the resulting content than a phone company is for any criminal conversations that take place over its network.
Postings on Jan Pronk's personal Web site about developments in Darfur led to his expulsion.
By having the most comprehensive and up to date information on active and passive job candidates, LinkedIn will position itself to be a destination site for recruiters looking for highly effective, targeted job postings and advertisements.
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One of the lawsuits is against Copy USA -- to date, Microsoft has shut down 600 postings on the New York company's auction site.
What would make privacy on the site much better, though, is if Facebook would let its users delete friends and old postings en masse.
But the site has classifieds that could generate revenue, as well as local event listings and crime and safety postings that could be monetized.
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