You don’t understand. You updated your résumé, you’re applying to jobs every day, you’ve cleaned up your digital dirt and you network every day. Yet here you still are on the unemployment list. What is wrong with employers?
Unfortunately, many job seekers don’t stop to consider more…
Photo credit: AP | Eric Herzenberg, right, of Mountain View, Calif.
Job hunting boils down to finding an opportunity and convincing the employer you are exactly what he needs. Are you doing both effectively? Here, experts offer 10 suggestions for boosting success. more…
Reg DesRosiers is the founder and president of zipzoom, an innovative communication technology changing the way consumers and businesses find each other.
Let me be clear: I don’t think Craigslist is going anywhere any time soon. Craig Newmark’s ad-listing service operates in over 700 locales and generates roughly 20 billion page views every month, according to more…
“The founders are CEO Lim Der Shing (35 years old), Deputy CEO Huang Shao-Ning (35), COO Michelle Lim (39) and CTO Eric Koh (36). Our immediate plans are to continue to execute upon our growth strategy in Singapore and Malaysia for all our products and services. Basically, it’s business as usual for us while we work out with CareerBuilder the optimal way to integrate our processes and leverage upon their considerable product more…
More companies are using social media to promote themselves, found CareerBuilder’s survey of over 2,500 employers. While around a quarter use social media to connect with existing clients and find new business opportunities, almost as many (21%) use it to research and recruit potential employees. more…
Newspaper consultant Jim Chisholm has looked five years into the future and sees the industry’s best bet for vitality in digital shopping.
Updating a futures report he did 18 months ago for the Newspaper Association of America, Chisholm predicts nominal growth for the industry (3.4 percent, probably less than inflation) through 2014 more…
The recent merger of Honolulu’s two daily newspapers may be irrelevant when it comes to the future of classified advertising. Those making decisions on how to sell cars and houses or find employees have been shifting to online advertising models for the past decade.
Classified advertising used to be one of the big revenue generators for U.S. newspapers, bringing in $19.6 billion to the industry 10 years ago. more…
Fueled by an aging and growing population, hiring in the health care industry has steadily added an average of 20,000 jobs each month over last year.* To help health care employers fill these open positions, CareerBuilder has launched MiracleWorkers.com, more…
Tens of millions of searches are conducted on the job boards every month. These are the active job seekers, drawn to one or another or, as is usually the case, more than one job board because, as Willie Sutton never said, that’s where the jobs are. more…
After one year of activity in the Romanian market, CareerBuilder, world’s largest online job site, still aims at knocking off eJobs and BestJobs from their top spots, in an online recruitment market evaluated at ten million euros in 2008. However, the economic crisis and massive job shedding have pared job sites’ business over the last 12 months. more…
CHICAGO, March 25, 2009 (PRNewswire via COMTEX) — From the editors of CareerBuilder comes a no-nonsense handbook that tells workers of all ages and all stages of their careers everything you need to know about landing a great job and navigating through the workplace. CAREER BUILDING: Your Total Handbook for Finding a Job and Making it Work provides some of the best-kept secrets of job hunting effectively, career troubleshooting and transitioning into new career paths. more…
Margaret Dikel is a Maryland-based consultant who has been helping employers and employees find each other on the Web since 1994. She runs the popular job-hunting gateway rileyguide.com and is the author of the “Guide to Internet Job Searching,” now in its seventh edition.
While Dikel knows the value of Internet resources as well as anyone, she still says most people should spend no more than a quarter of their search time combing through job lists. The bulk of time and effort, she says, should go to developing contacts by phone and e-mail, refining résumés and meeting people face to face. more…