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…
Regional newspaper publisher Newsquest, which owns more than 200 titles in the UK including the South London Guardian series and Brighton Argus, has reported a 7.9 per cent year-on-year fall in advertising revenue for the third quarter, down from worse declines of 10.3 per cent in the second and 12.4 per cent in the first quarters. more…
It was just a few months ago that Digg dropped 10% of its staff. Now the company is making much deeper cuts – 25 employees will be laid off, a little more than 37% of Digg’s total staff.
This comes on top of news that Digg lost their chief revenue officer, Chas Edwards, earlier today.
I spoke with founder Kevin Rose and new CEO Matt Williams about the cuts earlier this morning. The company will be refocusing the Digg product, Williams says, and more announcements will be made tomorrow. more…
To put it mildly, Dean Mostofi is a minor player in the blogosphere. A self-employed loan auditor in Rockville, Md., Mostofi maintains a primitive website where he posts press releases and newspaper articles about the financial industry, the law and other things that interest him. more…
The Salam Business Club (SALAMBC) has chosen the Bayt.com Network as its provider of full-fledged Recruitment and Classifieds technology and content solutions. The Bayt.com Network provides its member companies with a unique platform that includes state-of-the-art proprietary Recruitment and Classifieds tools, technologies more…
Swimming in our ocean of online adverts is not the only exercise Dealfish is doing these days. Have you spotted the new cycle taxis in town? Well, be on the lookout, because Dealfish is about to take you for a ride with a difference. 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…
Chesley, ON (PRWEB) May 5, 2010 — Mid-Western Ontario (PRWEB) May 5, 2010 – As record numbers of local residents are facing minimal employment opportunities and the prolonged crunch of an economic crisis, those who are entrepreneurial minded are leaving traditional employment and establishing their own small businesses. more…
SPRINGFIELD — The founder of monster-sized job-search Web site Monster.com says the country’s employment picture will improve, but not until sometime in 2010.
“I think we are starting to find the shape of the bottom,” Jeffrey C. Taylor said before speaking Thursday at the annual meeting of the Affiliated Chambers of Commerce of Greater Springfield at the Springfield Marriott. more…
CHICAGO — A depressed economy and a shift in consumer behavior have taken another toll on the newspaper industry, with the latest round of job cuts planned at the New York Times and the Washington Post, two of the most widely read and influential dailies in the world.
Francene Cucinello lets employers tout their job openings each Friday on her radio show in Louisville, Kentucky.
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (CNN) — John Barger was devastated when he lost his printing job late last year. With the economy in shambles and many other people looking for work, the Kentucky man says he didn’t know where to turn.
Luckily for him, some of his relatives did: The “Francene Show” on WHAS-AM in Louisville.
Barger’s mom and uncle were listening to the radio station on a Friday, the day each week when host Francene Cucinello transforms her morning show into something she calls “Radio Want Ads.”
They were out of work, but not out of ideas. Mike Trapanese threw himself headfirst into the world of unemployment after getting laid off from a management consulting job last fall. He turned to his old college roommate, Web site designer Chris Merritt-Lish, who was watching his own business slow to a trickle.
Together, the pair picked the brains of headhunters, human resources managers and the unemployed to create a one-stop, online resource for the jobless bluntly named TheCanned.com.
