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…
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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.
A new online career section launched by SOC Exchange.com (thesocexchange.com.au) is enabling unemployed Australians to take control of their job prospects by creating their own job profile on the SOC Exchange Careers website.
For as little as $10 a year, Australians can create their own job website, post a unique job ad listing their skills and qualifications to attract the interest of potential employers.
March 12, 2009 (FPRC) — With the rising need for cost estimators in the construction and manufacturing industries, EmploymentCrossing launched an exclusive website that caters to the career needs of professional estimators. EstimatorCrossing, launched last week, aims to offer a niche service to professional estimators seeking all job openings from their industry.
”We received continuous requests from EmploymentCrossing members to initiate a niche service for professional estimators. This resulted in the launch of EstimatorCrossing. The website allows members to find and apply for each and every estimator job opening in the nation and across the world,” says A. Harrison Barnes, CEO of EmploymentCrossing.
Tech job postings fell 40.4 percent in March over year ago figures, with most of the decline coming from full-time positions, according to a report released Tuesday by tech career site Dice.com.
Dice, which collects its figures at the start of each month, noted tech job postings fell to 54,301 in March, down from 91,080 a year earlier. The decline in job postings comes at a time when the nation’s unemployment rate has worsened, reaching 8.1 percent in February.