With this year's financial reporting season nearly over, it is now clear the best performing companies are operating online, with many traditional retail and services businesses being left behind.
Following a number of disappointing results from companies across all industries including JB Hi-Fi, Foster's and Woolworths, digital companies like Seek and WebJet have been able to produce solid financials due to a focus on bargains and customer-driven research.
LinkedIn has become a go-to starting point for recruiters scouting out candidates for search assignments.
Finance professionals have been quick to hop on the site. About 3 million financial professionals have posted profiles on the online network, according to the site.
Looking for a job as a chef in the Antarctic? Try looking here. Or if you’re a recruiter looking for an experienced vuvuzela sales person, then this South African job site is one place to start.
Talk about global recruiting. In the last couple days, both Indeed and SiumplyHired have announced country-specific (or, in the case of Antarctica, continent-specific) job search sites.
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.
Here’s the latest data by Compete.com. Updated: May 24, 2010
In today’s economic situation an unemployed person must wear many chapeaus in order to obtain a career. These various skills and talents are necessary because of the significant unemployment rate, a competitive job market and the reduction of companies hiring employees - thus, making it more difficult for job seekers.
If you want a job, take down the Facebook photo of you sucking a joint on your birthday and delete that blog post about how you’d like to torch the house of your boss.
As Kean reaches the middle of the semester, students are anxious for it to come to an end. Many students are planning extravagant summer vacations, while others will be taking summer classes or interning. The summer brings lots of fun to everyone: the parties, the beaches, the sunny days and breezy nights are all very attractive.
Info Edge (India) Ltd, the owner of jobs classifieds site naukri.com, expects to end the current fiscal with a marginal negative sales growth despite a better March quarter, a top official said.
Avue Technologies has unveiled the new "Avue Central(TM)" -- featuring a new look and several revolutionary new applications that guarantee the fastest, most efficient and user-friendly Federal job application site available.
"Hundreds of thousands of hard working highly qualified Americans need jobs, while hundreds of thousands of Federal jobs need hard working, highly qualified Americans," said Linda Rix, Co-CEO of Avue. "Our mission is to make this connection better, faster and much, much easier."
For most job seekers, the routine is numbingly familiar: See an ad, respond to an ad, wait for a response, repeat. It happens every day in every market across the United States. Unfortunately, it's one of the least efficient ways to get a job, says Richard Deems, a career coach and organizational expert.
It’s all about information.
Odds are, you have a computer, or at least access to one. Go to your local library if you don’t and jump on the internet highway. When you’re out of work, the internet is your best tool for amassing information that can help in your job search, provided you utilize it effectively.
MILWAUKEE — With little relief in sight on the employment scene, job hunters have to be savvier and more careful than ever about what they choose to spend money on as they search.
Luckily, one of the best ways to find a job — networking — is practically free.
The key is to stay focused on your goals, experts said. Here are some tips on ways to keep spending down while looking for the job you want.
Ohio Cox Media in partnership with Yahoo Hot Jobs launched an online virtual career event on August 31st.
The site contains job postings for various companies ranging from logistics company Warner Enterprises to Dannon, a dairy product manufacturer and distributer. The event is scheduled to end Oct. 14.
It's a recession, so few things are booming and no city is exactly thriving. But within the tech industry, some cities clearly have more job opportunities than others. Although tech employment overall has suffered along with the rest of the economy, there's been variance: High-tech manufacturing jobs have been shed more rapidly, while IT service jobs—in engineering and in software services, for instance—have fared better. And one future bright spot: Over the next three years, the federal government is projected to make 11,500 new hires in information technology jobs, according to a report by the Partnership for Public Service.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
0 Comments