“Job Search: New Tool Helps You Find Employment Through Facebook” plus 3 more

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• Job Search: New Tool Helps You Find Employment Through Facebook
• Student Job Search: Lamborghini chauffeur
• Job outlook brightens for new grads — just barely
• Search is on for SHS girls basketball coach

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Job Search: New Tool Helps You Find Employment Through Facebook Posted: 09 Jun 2010 08:54 AM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. CIO — "Facebook" and "job hunting" have rarely been synonymous. The social network, largely regarded as a place to connect with friends and family, has had difficulty bridging the gap to the professional world. Sure, there are a handful of business-focused Facebook apps, but mixing your career with your personal life on Facebook has long been frowned upon. Until now. Simply Hired, a search engine and recruitment advertising network, recently launched a personalized job search tool that integrates with Facebook to help you find jobs based on the current or previous work titles you list on your Facebook profile. It also lets you browse your friends' employers and search for job openings at their companies. "It's an easy way to find a connection to a company when you're job hunting," says Gautam Godhwani, CEO of Simply Hired. "When you see that one of your friends is employed by a company you like, it's up to you to make the connection by sending them a message to learn more about the position or the company," he says. Here's how it works: Visit SimplyHired.com and click the "Login to Facebook" button at the bottom of the page. This gives Simply Hired access to your and your friends' profile information. Nothing is posted to your or your friends' Facebook walls or News Feeds—your activity on the site is kept private. You can learn more about Simply Hired's privacy policy here. Once you log in, you can search for jobs based on keywords and location, or your can browse the companies that employ your Facebook friends. If you find a job or a company that interests you, click your Facebook friend's picture to message them. You'll be redirected to your Facebook message center. Clicking on a friend's employer will display open job listings. Or, if there's a particular employer that interests you, you can type that name into the keyword search bar and available job listings—as well as your friends who work there—will be displayed. Another cool feature: the "fun facts" link on the left navigation bar. Clicking this will show you statistics such as the most popular companies among your friends, the most popular locations, recommended searches and jobs at your favorite companies (which is generated from the businesses you've "liked" on Facebook). "Simply Hired is showing what's possible when you make it easy to find jobs through friends," says Ethan Beard, director of the Facebook Developer Network. "Personal relationships and professional networking have always been the best ways to find a new job. By integrating with Facebook, Simply Hired is bringing this to life online and helping users tap into their social connections to personalize the job search process." Staff Writer Kristin Burnham covers consumer Web and social technologies for CIO.com. She writes frequently on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google. You can follow her on Twitter: @kmburnham. © 2010 CXO Media Inc. Five Filters featured article: Into the Abyss. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.
Student Job Search: Lamborghini chauffeur Posted: 09 Jun 2010 01:25 PM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. Students could not believe their luck when a businessman facing a drink-driving charge advertised on their job search website for a chauffeur to drive him around in his Hummer and Lamborghini. In the ad, placed at Student Job Search in Auckland, Gary Richards sought a tidy and positive student to drive him to "business appointments" for seven weeks. The applicant had to be available in business hours from Monday to Friday - but "can study while the employer is in meetings". Richards is charged with driving with excess breath alcohol of 701 micrograms per litre of breath - the legal limit is 400mcg. He is due to appear in court on June 18, the Dominion Post reported. Richards said he had "filled the job privately" since placing the ad. Student Job Search spokesman Marek Koliandr said three students were referred for the job, which drew reasonably high interest. "It sounds like a pretty sweet job." - NZPA Five Filters featured article: Into the Abyss. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.
Job outlook brightens for new grads — just barely Posted: 09 Jun 2010 01:14 PM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. To get a sense of the job market new college graduates face, consider the latest crop of nurses from Santa Rosa Junior College. Just eight of the 55 students are leaving with job offers — and that's considered good news. Last year, no graduates of the California community college's associate degree nursing program had a job in hand. "We're excited that finally something is happening," said Sharon Johnson, the program director. This year's slightly better performance is one of many signs around the country that 2010 is a better year than 2009 for landing that first job out of college — but not by much. New nurses are looking for something — anything — as the down economy has slowed retirements in their otherwise promising field. Teachers also face intense competition for positions that in their case have been made scarce by state and local budget cuts. Even graduates with sought-after degrees had less than sizzling prospects. Fewer than half of U.S. accounting majors could boast job offers this spring, one study found. There are signs of life. Employers plan to hire 5 percent more new college graduates this year than they did a year ago, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, which also polled the future accountants. The road to recovery appears long, however. In 2007, about two-thirds of soon-to-be graduates in the association's student survey reported having job offers in hand that spring. Just three years later, about 40 percent could say that. "It's been a little depressing," said Lauren Wiygul, who will earn a master's degree in secondary English education from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., this summer. She applied to more than a dozen private schools and every public district in the Atlanta area. After someone in human resources for the system in Georgia's Gwinnett County mentioned a possible language arts opening, she took a day off work, traveled to Atlanta and personally delivered her resume to 13 middle and high schools, hoping to introduce herself to principals. She met a lot of sympathetic secretaries but not one principal. She has yet to get an interview. "One principal, she wasn't rude, but she just e-mailed back, 'Positions are posted on our website,'" Wiygul said. "I have worked really hard to be able to teach. I just feel stuck." Education majors have it toughest of the 2010 grads surveyed by the association of colleges and employers. Fewer than one in four had received job offers this spring. The list of least sought-after majors included the physical sciences (such as chemistry and physics), languages, English, history or political science and journalism. Along with perennially popular accounting, the most attractive majors to employers were business administration, computer science, engineering and mathematics. The private sector outlook didn't improve last week when the Labor Department announced U.S. businesses added just 41,000 jobs in May, an indication employers are not yet ramping up hiring despite other signs of economic recovery. The department offered better news Tuesday, saying job openings rose in April to their highest level since December 2008. Some college career counselors report encouraging signs. Trudy Steinfeld, executive director of New York University's Wasserman Center for Career Development, said banks and consulting firms that were invisible a year ago are "staffing up like crazy." But at the University of Texas at Arlington, associate director of career services Cheri Butler is advising students shut out of bank jobs to seek finance department positions in government, health care and education. Wayne Wallace, director of the University of Florida's Career Resource Center, said that regardless of the field, the watchwords for new graduates are patience, flexibility and short-term sacrifice for long-term gain. "Graduates, if they are willing to be geographically mobile and reasonably flexible about what they're willing to do to start out, tremendously increase their odds for success," he said. Indiana University's Kelley School of Business devised a plan to improve the chances for graduates in its residential master's in business administration program. It included a dean's letter to 26,000 alumni, an electronic booklet featuring students' resumes and a job bank run by students with jobs for those still searching. That last effort was dubbed "The Lonely Hearts Job Search Club." "A simple plan, delivered to the right people with a clear objective, can go a long way in helping students during a challenging economy get to where they want to be," said Erik Medina, the school's director of graduate career services. Last month, 74 percent of students had job offers at graduation, compared with 66 percent last year, he said. For nurses, the long-term forecast is excellent. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects 22 percent job growth for registered nurses by 2018 as baby boomers age and nurses emerge as cheaper primary care alternatives to doctors. But for now, jobs for new nurses are relatively scarce. More experienced nurses are putting off retirement or working extra hours, some because their spouses have been laid off, nursing school officials say. "I look at this like an air pocket," said Marla Salmon, dean of the University of Washington School of Nursing. "The fact is we're still climbing in terms of the number of nurses needed. But the recession has definitely slowed hiring." Salmon said she is encouraging graduates to think creatively. That could mean residencies — part of a doctor's career path but a relatively new development in nursing — and mentored job-sharing arrangements. The tough market has caused some nursing graduates to lower their expectations, accepting jobs in long-term care and community health centers rather than top research hospitals. Corey Fry, who will graduate this week with a master's degree from the highly regarded University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing, cast his search for nurse practitioner jobs nationwide. He's joined professional organizations and honed his networking skills. After reading an article by a University of Maryland nurse practitioner, he sent the author an appreciative e-mail and attached his resume. He has a phone interview there this week, and leads in St. Louis and Oregon. "We've talked as classmates and we all agree our first job might not be our perfect job, but we need to get that first job," Fry said. "Then you can move beyond that if you need to." Five Filters featured article: Into the Abyss. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.
Search is on for SHS girls basketball coach Posted: 09 Jun 2010 06:15 AM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it.	The search for a new girls basketball coach at Socorro High School is on. Venetta Perry, human resources director for Socorro Consolidated Schools, said as of noon on Tuesday, June 8, there had been four applicants for the job that came open after Joseph Garcia resigned after 20 years as head coach. The job is listed as open until filled.     Perry said Socorro High School Athletic Director Charlie Savedra is currently in the process of screening applicants. "We'll probably have interviews next week," Perry said. "We want to get that position filled because the girls have camps coming up." Savedra said, on Tuesday, a search committee made up of himself, other school administrators, coaches and parents will be formed. He expected three or four finalists to be selected to be interviewed. The committee will recommend one coaching candidate for hire. Superintendent Cheryl Wilson will make the final decision.   Contact El Defensor Chieftain Reports

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