Thursday, March 18, 2010

“Job search tips offered March 30 in Bernards Township (The Bernardsville News)” plus 3 more

“Job search tips offered March 30 in Bernards Township (The Bernardsville News)” plus 3 more

Job search tips offered March 30 in Bernards Township (The Bernardsville News)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 05:41 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. 

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SimplyHired.com Celebrates Five Years of Online Job Search Innovation with "Dream Job" Contest for Job Seekers (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 06:03 AM PDT

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Simply Hired®, the leading search engine for jobs and recruitment advertising network, today celebrates its five year anniversary of helping job seekers find jobs they love. SimplyHired.com launched in March 2005, and currently indexes over five million job listings from company sites, job boards, newspapers, government agencies, non-profit organizations and other data sources.

Simply Hired reaches over 17 million users monthly, making it a top five job site. The company operates in 17 countries and nine languages on five continents. To reach job seekers in their daily activities, Simply Hired has built a recruitment advertising network powering jobs on 10,000 partner sites, including CNNMoney, BusinessWeek, LinkedIn, The Washington Post, Computerworld, Facebook and Mashable. The company has raised $22M in funding.

"Finding a job is one of the most important decisions in life. Simply Hired's mission is to help people find jobs they love," said Gautam Godhwani, Simply Hired co-founder and CEO. "As far as we have come in the past five years, the job search experience will undergo dramatic changes during this time of unprecedented innovation in job search."

Future of Job Search

Simply Hired sees six key characteristics that will define job search in the future:

  • Comprehensive: Job seekers will access a comprehensive database of online, offline and "hidden" jobs that are not surfaced publicly. Simply Hired indexes five million jobs today, ten times the number available when it started. As more jobs come online, job databases will get larger.
  • Transparent: To make the best decision, job seekers will access "perfect information" about every facet of job search. Today, Simply Hired enables better information access with salary tools, local portals, job trends and company information.
  • Social: Job seekers will tap their professional and social affiliations online to search for jobs. Simply Hired's Who Do I Know?® feature enables referral hiring by surfacing candidate connections on social networks such as LinkedIn.
  • Personal: Jobs will be matched to an individual's specific skills, interests and preferences to surface the most relevant results. Simply Hired offers the deepest job search filters in the industry, including lifestyle filters such as "Eco-Friendly Companies" and "Telecommuter Jobs."
  • Efficient: Repetitive tasks and wasted effort will be minimized in the job search process. Simply Hired's 1-Click Apply™ technology can automate filling out job applications with a single click. Job alerts will deliver relevant jobs directly to job seekers on all platforms.
  • Mobile: The advent of mobile devices will integrate job search for access everywhere. Simply Hired has a mobile offering for users who would like to search for jobs on the go.

"What's Your Dream Job?" Apple iPad Contest

To celebrate its fifth birthday, Simply Hired announces the "What's Your Dream Job?" contest. To enter, submit your dream job title in 140 characters or less in one of two ways:

Option 1: Enter the dream job title on the contest page

Option 2: Tweet the dream job title to @SimplyHired with #shdreamjob

(e.g. "@SimplyHired: Professional Island Caretaker #shdreamjob")

An Apple iPad will be awarded to the winners in the following categories:

  • Most Hilarious
  • Most Creative
  • Most Bizarre
  • Most "Green"
  • Most Noble

For more information, please visit our contest page.

About Simply Hired

With more than five million job listings worldwide, Simply Hired (www.SimplyHired.com) is the world's largest job search engine and recruitment advertising network. The company powers jobs on over 10,000 network partner sites such as LinkedIn, Plaxo, CNNMoney, BusinessWeek and The Washington Post. It operates global sites in 17 countries and nine languages on five continents. Simply Hired has been lauded as one of the "50 Coolest Websites" by Time magazine, a "Top 100 Website" by PC Magazine and the "Best of the Web" by BusinessWeek. Simply Hired has raised $22.3 million in funding from venture and individual investors including Foundation Capital, IDG Ventures and News Corporation. The company is privately held and is based in Mountain View, California.

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Church to offer job search workshop (Suburban Journals)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 12:16 AM PDT

Church to offer job search workshop



Tuesday, March 16, 2010 1:52 PM CDT


A six-hour job search training program will be offered in two, three-hour segments from 6 to 9 p.m. March 21 and 28 at West County Assembly of God, 13431 N. Outer Forty Road, Chesterfield.

This workshop will provide job hunting tools and guide job seekers to resources meant to improve their job search results. Participation is open to all regardless of religious affiliation.

Registration forms are available online at http://www.wcag.org or by calling West County Assembly of God at 314-434-1058 ext. 2. For more information, call Mike Dollard at the church or e-mail him at mike-d@wcag.org.

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Posted: 17 Mar 2010 11:47 PM PDT

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