businessweek: direct employers assoc. partnering with .jobs

June 27, 2009

We speculated something might be going down on their recent trip to Cleveland and now BusinessWeek is reporting a partnership between Direct Employers / JobCentral and Employ Media, the company behind the .jobs domain.

Bill Warren, the founder of an early job board that morphed into Monster, is now executive director of the DirectEmployers Assn., a consortium of corporate employers. He’s partnering with the owner of the ‘.jobs’ domain and will launch job sites under that domain later this year. Says Warren: ‘The days of the big, expensive job boards are over.’

Stay tuned as we dig deeper ….