Even though it's December that hasn't stopped the recruiting headlines from rolling. Here's my latest roundup of who and what is making news. Stay in touch with everything I write here.

LinkedIn Revamps Its Jobs Listings With Big Data Analytics: you can now see more data about the company, who works there, and how you compare to previous applicants. The new look will be rolled out to 10% of LinkedIn’s English audience today, covering the U.S., Canada, India, the UK and Australia. Other regions will get it later. Their goal is a better job hunting experience which in my opion is long overdue. Ive never been a fan of their job search user experience. Now you can get an insider look at the company hiring trends and better see who works there. It sounds like the new features will be quite useful. [article]

Another job matching app has launched...its called JobNow...which is focusing on restaurants and food services, the startup is aiming to compete with online job companies like CareerBuilder, Indeed.com and Craigslist. They are based in Dallas and working with employers such as 7-Eleven, Pizza Hut, and Whataburger for its pilot. Learn more at jobnow.me. [article]

A review site specifically for internships...InternWire is described as "Yelp for internships" according this article. Go to internwire.com to see it.

Indeed has launch Indeed Prime which uses multiple criteria to match engineers, designers and product managers with employers in the major tech cities such as NY, Austin and San Fran...they hold coding contests in order to help you find the best talent...whats also interesting is that Indeed also pays the candidate a 5k signing bonus themselves for taking part. [read the release]

Are job seekers crying out for a recruiter review site? Based out of London, Recfluence wants to become a central platform that lets all job seekers leave feedback and exchange information about their experiences with recruitment agencies and consultants. Its only for the uk right now..go to recfluence.com to check it out. [read the release]

In other news...

• TalentSky Is Building A Professional Network With A Focus On Verified Skills that go beyond Linkedin endorsements...talentsky.com [article]
• Another startup out of Indianapolis is raising $2 million for a location-based mobile application and website that helps people searching for low- and mid-skill jobs. Work Here uses millions of job postings from the DirectEmployers database, employers can launch an ad campaign that targets a specific profession in a certain geographic area. [article]
• TINYpulse which helps companies assess employee morale has raised a $6 million funding round to help fuel growth for its employee happiness platform. [article]
• WorkanGo is a newly-launched job board in the UK dedicated to filling the demand between companies and low-skilled, immediate candidates. [article]
• Free job Postings is a new board for New Zealand that offers free job postings. The site was designed by a team of former professional recruitment consultant in both internal and agency recruitment. [article]
• Talenetic, the latest start-up of Keith, Graham and Eric Potts (the founders of the UK’s leading job board Jobsite.co.uk), has signed their first client in the USA. The Seattle Times chose Talenetic to build and maintain their digital recruitment offering replacing their current provider Adicio. View the new site here.