Job Search
Attack of the Twitter Job Search Sites
It seems that for every new person using Twitter, there’s another new tool to let people use it. For searching for jobs on Twitter, we’ll be looking at the 5 top sites to search for jobs on Twitter. But first and in case you haven’t noticed, there’s been lots of talk about using Twitter to [...]
LocalBacon – A new pay-to-apply job board
What is localbacon? As they put it… localbacon.com solves fundamental problems for both job seekers and employers by flipping the traditional model upside down. On localbacon.com, job seekers receive benefits that no other job board provides including guaranteed feedback, handpicked standardized, full-time available opportunities, and real-time updates about their applications. (Learn more) What does this [...]
The Career Czar Internet Radio Show/Career Blog
The Career Czar® is an educational service providing career information. The goal is to provide relevant career information in an entertaining way for both listeners and guests. Some typical career questions asked are: What is a particular career like? What is the right career for me? How can I get a job in the field [...]
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 [...]
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