Archive for October, 2009
LinkUp Canada
LinkUp, the fastest growing job search engine in the U.S., has launced a similar job search engine for Canada. The site, Canada.linkup.com, includes job listings throughout Canada that are only found on company and employer websites. As a result of this unique approach to job listings, jobs on LinkUp.com and Canada.linkup.com are always current, often unadvertised anywhere else. LinkUp [...]
LinkedIn – 50 Million and Counting
LinkedIn just reached huge milestone – 50 million members and it is growing by leaps and bounds. In fact, it’s amazing how quickly LinkedIn is growing, CEO Jeff Weiner says “When LinkedIn launched in 2003, it took 477 days — almost a year and four months — to reach our first million members. This last million [...]
LinkUp Facebook App
Job search engine LinkUp‘s Facebook App - Current-Jobs-at-Our-Company - provides a way for companies to automatically publish jobs from their corporate websites onto their Facebook Fan pages. Recent additions to the list of companies using the App includes USA Today, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, CentraState Health Care Systems, Medtronic, and Hyatt Hotels and Resorts. Staffing agencies, recruiters, and [...]
True Path: What Should You Be When You Grow Up?
Remember the question “what do you want to be when you grow up?” How about, what SHOULD you be when you grow up? I met Mike Ballard, the owner of Turning Points and True Path, online and our paths have crossed about once a year. He gave me a demo of True Path last year [...]
CareerSuccessRadio.com
CareerSuccessRadio.com offers free career tips for job seekers, career changers, HR professionals & recruiters. The site is created with Ning, an online platform for creating your own social networks, and comes with a personal page where you can post your own blog, discussions, photos, and videos. The Career Success Radio Community page has upcoming events; [...]
Everyone (Really) Uses LinkedIn
I’ve written a lot about LinkedIn and about how everyone should have a profile on LinkedIn and should be actively using the site to connect, to build their career, and to job search. LinkedIn is the site for professional networking and it’s an invaluable tool for job searching. That’s why I was thrilled to read that the White [...]
Mylatch.com
Mylatch.com is a new search engine with social media bells and whistles. The job search engine is powered by SimplyHired.com, so there’s nothing new when it comes to job listings. Getting at them is easy though – there’s a Google map you can click on to see postings. There’s also a list of new postings.
Site and Product Reviews
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