Monster recently announced an index of online recruitment activity. Given their inventory of 30 million resumes and 30% share of the online job placement business, their modern industry and job taxonomy, and their ability to report trends pretty much in real time if they want to, this seems like a huge step forward over what the Labor Dept. publishes. For businesses that care about these stats — and there are lots of them — this should be very useful and valuable.
Feels like yet another ingenious application of the lessons of the Binge-o-matic.
So when will Salesforce.com offer indeces on deal sizes, sales cycles, close rates, etc.?