Are you a job board expert?

1. What does Dice stand for?

a) Nothing. It's just a name.
b) Digital Interface Cooperative Effort
c) Data Processing Independent Consultants Exchange
d) Data Innovators Consultant Experts

2. There is a job board for every interest. Which of the following does NOT exist?

a) VeganJobs
b) BrewingJobs
c) HumanPie
d) MP3Jobs

3. Which major job board routinely featured chimpanzees in their ads?

a) Monster
b) CareerBuilder
c) HotJobs
d) Indeed
e) None of the Above

4. Which job board has gone public - twice?

a) CareerBuilder
b) Dice
c) Monster
d) SimplyHired
e) None of the above

5. Who founded OCC (Online Career Center)?

a) Lloyd Linn
b) John Sumser
c) Bill Warren
d) Jeff Hunter
e) None of these

6. What is the name of the organization that first owned the 'career.com' domain?

a) Darpa
b) Intellimatch
c) Dice
d) HEART Advertising Network
e) None of these

7. What name did CareerBuilder change from in 1998?

a) OCC
b) CareerBump
c) NetStart
d) CyberHire

8. Which job board had their SuperBowl ad (featuring an elephant and janitor) rejected in 1998 for being in 'poor taste'?

a) Monster
b) CareerBuilder
c) HotJobs
d) None of these

9. Which job board was ranked #1 in the year 2000?

a) HotJobs
b) Monster
c) CareerBuilder
d) JobsOnline.com
e) None of these

10. Where did the name "Monster" come from?

a) The brainchild of an ad agency
b) Via a dream of Jeff Taylor
c) The URL was available
d) None of these

11. Which company founded CareerMosaic?

a) TMP Worldwide
b) Ogilvy Advertising
c) Bernard Hodes
d) None of these

12. When was Indeed.com founded?

a) 2004
b) 1999
c) 2006
d) 2008
e) None of these

13.

Des Moines is home to Dice.com, NationJobs, and MEP Jobs, all founded prior to 1997.

Which city is home to three of the oldest job boards still operating?

a) San Francisco, CA
b) Cambridge, MA
c) Des Moines, IA
d) Norcross, GA
e) None of these

14.

A Trojan horse stole over 1.6 million job seeker records in the summer of 2007.

In 2007, which major job board suffered from stolen job seeker data?

a) Monster
b) CareerBuilder
c) HotJobs
d) Indeed

15. In which major job board does Microsoft hold a minority stake?

a) HotJobs
b) CareerBuilder
c) Monster

16. Marc Cendella founded TheLadders in 2003 after leaving which job board?

a) Dice
b) Monster
c) HotJobs
d) JobsOnline

17. After America's Job Bank closed in 2007, which job site was designated its successor?

a) America's Hire Solution
b) America's Direct Employ
c) America's Job Exchange
d) America's Job Solution

18. What is the most popular Canadian employment site?

a) CanadaJobs.com
b) CareerBuilder.ca
c) Workopolis.com
d) Indeed.ca

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