human resource management

US NEWS: The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported there were 12.8 million unemployed, but 3.7 million unfilled positions. Despite the fact that there are approximately 40,000 job posting sites online, job seekers are challenged to find the best opportunities for them, and employers struggle to identify the best candidates.

MARKET WATCH: ower Resume Search(R) and SeeMore(TM) delivering precise talent matches for companies large and small

MARKET WATCH: Job seekers across 34 countries now have access to millions of jobs, unparalleled search technology and professional networking, all within Monster

WSJ: The hunt is on for a killer job-search app.

Technology was supposed to revolutionize the courtship dance between employers and prospective hires, matching the right candidate with the right job in just a few clicks. Instead, Web-based job-hunting tools have left human-resources department with too many résumés and have given job seekers the sense that applying online is a waste of their time.

NASDAQ: Monster Worldwide Inc.  ( MWW ) continues to improve its semantic search technology, thereby enabling recruiters to staff projects and quickly fill vacancies with quality candidates in a much swifter process.

Monster is continually improving its search related products to help recruiters do more with fewer resources in a recessionary environment.

Monster Worldwide is an online recruitment firm of the parent company Monster.com, the leading career website in the world.

MARKETWATCH: Serial entrepreneur Arik Filstein, founder and CEO of Jobookit Technologies, one of the most interesting HR's start up companies in the Silicon Valley, presented the world's most advanced and refined semantic engine today at a press conference in Tel Aviv.

RANNANA, Israel, March 6, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- At the press conference, serial entrepreneur Arik Filstein commented that many resources have been invested in the company to explore the reasons why keyword searches fail to successfully match talent with potential employers.

MARKETWATCH: NEW YORK, Apr 17, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Agio Technology, a managed IT services provider for the world's premier hedge funds, today announced its ability to track employee satisfaction using Thinkfuse status reports. Thinkfuse developed the analytics by incorporating language used in movie reviews as a barometer of positive and negative words. Running a semantic analysis on the language used in Agio's status reports, Thinkfuse measured how people were feeling over the past 6 months.

MARKETWATCH: New Personalized Job Search Experience Launches at DEMO, Finds Opportunities Based on Personality Type, Past Experience and Skills

MARKET WATCH: NEW YORK, Feb 13, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Online careers and recruitment provider Monster has signed a contract with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to provide a managed online vacancy taking, filling and automated job matching service. This is part of the DWP Digitisation Programme aimed at providing easy online access to appropriate Government Services and will ultimately enable jobseekers to find more suitable job vacancies more quickly.