“Job Search Engine with Social Graphing : JIBE Secures Seed Funding (Search Engine Journal)” plus 3 more |
- Job Search Engine with Social Graphing : JIBE Secures Seed Funding (Search Engine Journal)
- HFCC conducting free job search skills workshop (Dearborn Press & Guide)
- Job search doesn't age gracefully for seniors (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
- Job search tips offered March 30 in Bernards Township (The Bernardsville News)
| Job Search Engine with Social Graphing : JIBE Secures Seed Funding (Search Engine Journal) Posted: 22 Mar 2010 08:41 PM PDT JIBE, a job search engine with a social networking powered component announced that it has received $875,000 in seed funding. Formerly known as LocalBacon, JIBE "Opens Up The Social Graph of Both Employers And Job Seekers To Place The Most Trusted & Qualified Candidates with The Right Positions." Great idea, and sure to be an acquisition target of LinkedIn or Monster.com. Here's the press release : JIBE Inc., the first who you know job search site, raised $875,000 in seed capital funding led by Polaris Venture Partners. Now in private beta, the new funding will enable the company to further develop its platform, fueling sales, marketing, and partnership programs in the highly dynamic online employment market. Designed to bring the power of social networking to the online career search, JIBE integrates Facebook Connect and LinkedIn to enable employers and applicants to leverage the overlap of their social graphs. From previous co-workers to friends who work with a specific company, JIBE recognizes matches between networks as they apply to a job opportunity. JIBE empowers employers to efficiently search and evaluate relevant candidates who are connected to other employees in their company. By creating a referral-based recruitment process, JIBE helps ensure a more satisfied employer, as well as the new employee. JIBE's "employment networking platform" gives applicants benefits that no other job site provides, including the relevancy of job postings to their social connections and real-time status updates about their applications. This level of transparency and feedback gives job seekers the insight needed to get hired for the right job. Posting jobs and browsing JIBE's job database are free for employers and applicants. On JIBE, employers only pay when they want to retrieve contact information for candidates who meet both their qualifications for a trusted reference, as well as relevant experience. The JIBE team includes CEO and Founder, Joseph Essenfeld, who was previously COO for late-night cookie delivery company, Insomnia Cookies, Peter Margulies, former Co-Founder of BtownMenus.com, an online menu guide and food ordering site and Lead Developer, Toby Matejovsky. "What is really exciting about JIBE is the innovative platform the company has built that leverages the existing social networks in the creation of a more efficient process for job seekers and employers to connect. Additionally, JIBE's business model has already proven that better qualified applicants will pay to apply for higher quality jobs, and the 'pay for performance model' for employers creates an ROI that makes much more sense than paying for listings," according to Peter Flint, General Partner of Polaris Venture Partners. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| HFCC conducting free job search skills workshop (Dearborn Press & Guide) Posted: 23 Mar 2010 08:15 AM PDT News
DEARBORN -- As a community service, Henry Ford Community College will present a free workshop on job search skills from 10 a.m. to noon March 24 at its Michigan Technical Education Center, located at 3601 Schaefer in Dearborn. You must be logged in to post a comment. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Job search doesn't age gracefully for seniors (Memphis Commercial Appeal) Posted: 22 Mar 2010 10:00 PM PDT Kennedy Burroughs used to eat out most of the time. Now he has learned to cook. He recently cooked up a honey-maple chicken recipe that he liked better than most restaurant meals, yet it was cheaper than eating at McDonald's. 
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Kennedy Burroughs, 59, searches for job prospects Friday at the Memphis Career Center. After years of job-hopping for betterment, Burroughs has hit on hard times. It's one of the money-saving skills he has practiced since waking up about two years ago and realizing he didn't know where his next job was coming from. Burroughs, 59, an Army veteran and one-time philosophy major, had worked dozens of jobs from marketing and promotions to selling insurance and computer backup systems. "I was always looking for more money," he says of a résumé that makes him sound like a restless soul. It meant moving from job to job, until the economy took a nosedive and he found himself in a desperate search for work along with more than 11 percent of Shelby County residents and about 9.7 percent of the rest of America. The job search is complicated by Burroughs' age. According to the AARP, people over 50 have longer searches. The group is holding job fairs across the country to help those workers in 18 states with unemployment rates higher than 10 percent. The Memphis fair will be Wednesday at Memphis Botanic Garden, with three free sessions at 10:30 a.m., noon and 1 p.m. It typically takes workers over age 50 about 35.6 weeks to find a job, up to twice as long as the job search for younger workers, says AARP Tennessee communications manager Karin Miller in Nashville. At the fairs, AARP community outreach director Tara Shaver said, baby boomers learn that an "old-fashioned handshake" is still a good thing, but that an old-fashioned résumé is often filed in the garbage can now. Those old résumés with chronological job histories can be time-consuming for employers looking for specific job skills. More and more employers prefer résumés submitted online, so they can use keyword computer searches to look for words like "sales" or "communications." Burroughs' résumé would include both of those skills. It might try a hurried job recruiter's patience to read about his stints as copy clerk and obituary writer for The Commercial Appeal, a walk-on football player at Memphis State University, with the U.S. Army in a classified computer and electronics command, a speech writer, an insurance agent, in promotions and sales for a computer data startup company, and a campaign worker for Sen. John Kerry. The jobs became less lucrative in the last few years: usher, throwing tires in a warehouse, poet and essayist. It would then turn to current realities like food stamps and a subsidized apartment. He once drove a BMW, but now uses city buses. "I tried McDonald's. I even applied to be a dishwasher. I've had everything from, 'You're over-qualified,' to 'Sorry, we don't have anything.' ... "I don't want to lazy my way out of life. I'm still a viable entity on this planet if I can just find a place to plug in." In a recent poem called "The Unemployment Rate," he wrote: Everybody's looking for a job, and if you're older it's twice as hard. It feels as though I've been put out to pasture too soon. I still have a family and a wife, and an appreciation for life. And a note that's coming due on the 3rd of June. -- Michael Lollar: 529-2793 AARP JOB FAIR The AARP job fair in Memphis will be Wednesday at the Memphis Botanic Garden. Three free sessions will be at 10:30 a.m., noon and 1 p.m. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Job search tips offered March 30 in Bernards Township (The Bernardsville News) Posted: 23 Mar 2010 03:49 AM PDT Ruth Lufkin, supervising reference librarian, will feature creative ways to find opportunities through mining the library's resources. She will demonstrate online tools that allow discovery of useful magazine, journal and newspaper information on specific companies, key personnel and particular industries. Resources that are available remotely to every library cardholder in New Jersey will be highlighted, as well as those specifically available at Bernards Township Library. The meeting will be held in the Program Room located on the lower level. All are welcome at this free program. Pre-registration is suggested but not required; those who register in advance using the Program Calendar at www.BernardsLibrary.org will receive an email reminder before the program. For more information call the Library at (908) 204-3031, ext. 4, or email rlufkin@bernards.org. Members of the Career Forum and Career Networking Group are especially invited to attend these meetings. Both of these local support groups offer programs of interest to those looking for work or contemplating transition and opportunities to network with other members of the group. The Career Forum meets at the Somerset Hills YMCA from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday evenings. The Career Networking Group meets on the first and third Thursday evenings of each month at the Bernards Township Library. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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