All-new LIjobs.com reboots

HAUPPAUGE - Online employment board Lijobs.com has a new look, a new business model and a new chief

Joseph Monaco, a principal of Hauppauge-based employment agency Elite Technical Services Inc., is the new chief executive of the three-year-old job site backed by Invision.com Inc.

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The cost will be $250 to employers who want premium services such as featured postings with more visibility and a company logo, or an "Lijobs blast," in which e-mails are sent to qualified prospective employees in the database.

"If you have urgency in filling jobs, we have proactive tools to make the jobs more well known," he said.

Tyler Roye, CEO of Invision.com, said the site also would generate revenue by forming alliances with staffing companies in vertical markets.

In addition to Elite, which specializes in IT staffing, Lijobs.com has formed partnerships with StaffWriters Plus, which provides editorial professionals, and Magill Associates, which focuses on the insurance industry. Monaco said additional staffing companies specializing in a specific vertical market would be added.

The site, which was given a facelift, relaunched on Nov. 4.

"We're trying to become all things to all companies on Long Island," Monaco said.

The chief executive post at Lijobs.com has been vacant since June 2001 when Scott Passeser exited after less than a year at the helm. Passeser later went on to lead LIA Staffing. The formation of that for-profit unit of the Long Island Association stirred controversy when LIA members in the staffing business complained that it presented a competitive threat.

Invision.com hosts the Long Island Business News Web site as well as the sites of Lijobs.com, the Long Island Association and LIA Staffing.

Among the employers listing jobs on Lijobs.com are Fedex, JetBlue and Geico.

"It's already making a pretty good splash out there," said Monaco.