There's little doubt that the last year has been a miserable one for most employers and employees. Hundreds of thousands of jobs have been shed and virtually every sector is hurting. About the only sector that has seen any employment gains is government hiring.

The layoffs and lack of new hiring make for difficult times for the job board industry. Although most outside of the industry assume that it is good for job boards when more people are looking for work, the opposite is actually true because the vast majority of job boards generate revenue from sales of recruitment advertising to employers. And when those employers aren't hiring, they aren't spending money on recruitment advertising.

Despite the problems in the industry, we just hired two new sales people. Caddy Rowland will be our second National Account Executive and working alongside Mike Palmquist in helping our employer clients. Betsy Larson will be our Consumer Marketing National Account Executive. The advertising that she will sell will be used by organizations to help sell their products and services to the college students, recent graduates, and alumni who use our site. Welcome aboard!!