Archive for April, 2009

Mobile Friendly Job Search Sites

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Many HR experts see mobile friendly job search

sites as the future. It seems like only a few years ago, cell phones were the size of bricks and only owned by overly pretentious yuppies a la American Psycho Patrick Bateman . Now, due to new technological advances, phones are about the size of the palm of your hand and owned by everyone from the elderly to children.

According to one article from the San Francisco Chronicle

, cell phone users in America have grown in number tremendously over the last ten years, going from approximately 34 million to 209 million. At the U.S. Census Bureau ’s last estimate, there are around 302 million people living in the country, which means that over one-third of the population owns a cell phone.

With the addition of such “goodies” as video games, e-mail capability and video games, cell phone users have come to expect for from their mobile devices. The creation and popularity of Apple’s iPhone

has shown that cell phones can offer their users much more.

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Boston Jobs

Saturday, April 18th, 2009

Although the number of Boston Jobs (click here for more information

) lost during the month of March has yet to be released, experts expect that the unemployment rate will continue to rise. In February the city’s jobless rate reached 7.4 percent after rising 0.2 percent from the previous month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics . This marked the 5th consecutive month that the figure has risen consistently. During the same month in 2008, only 4.3 percent of Boston residents were without work.

All of this has many concerned about their possibilities of finding new employment if they do happen to get laid off. Conducting a job search

while the economy is struggling can be difficult, but the important thing is to keep at it.

Those looking for jobs in Boston

should utilize multiple sources to maximize their chances of finding work. Newspapers, industry specific job boards, large-scale job search engines and social networking websites are all good places to check out.

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D.C. Engineering Jobs

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Washington, D.C. engineering jobs

and other high-tech positions were recently ranked second among the top in the U.S., according to a report by the American Electronics Association .

The AEA’s Cybercities 2008 report used the data gathered by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

in 2006, which is the most recent information available, to reach its conclusions. The New York metro area topped the list, followed by D.C. and Silicon Valley.

New York had the most positions in the tech services sector, including telecomm, Internet services and computer training services and the Silicon Valley area led the U.S. in high tech manufacturing jobs. Washington D.C., however, had one of the highest concentrations of engineering jobs and computer systems design positions. Overall, there were 295,800 jobs in the area that were considering high tech employment.

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Western Australia Jobs

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

An energy shortage in Western Australia is now causing many to lose their jobs

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A recent explosion at the state’s main gas supply plant has caused the economy to suffer. As a result companies are struggling to pay their workers.

With profits down, employers are having to consider doing away with many jobs in Western Australia. According to UnionsWA

Secretary Dave Robinson, many businesses are now telling significant portions of their staffs to go ahead and take annual leave due to the fact that they can not afford to compensate them for their work.

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Recruiting Software for Small Trucking Companies

Monday, April 13th, 2009

One recruiting software

company is making it easier for trucking companies to find job candidates .

Tentstreet, which supplies services designed to help truck fleets manage human resources and driver pools, is offering a small business edition of its software. According to Truck News

, the Basic Version, which is available free-of-charge, provides fleets with 200 or fewer trucks with basic functions needed to improve driver recruitment .

“Hundreds of thousands of drivers have used this technology, which was previously available only to the larger carriers,” Craig Johnson, chief executive officer of Tenstreet, said in the article. “Now anyone can use it, and we decided now would be a great time to make this available. That’s because we are doing this, in part, to support the smaller carriers that need a better way to recruit drivers but can’t afford it in this down economy.”

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Technology Jobs Created in Virginia and Maryland

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Rising unemployment and constant media attention focused on the national recession has many worried about their jobs. Although many industries have been hit particularly hard, some sectors continue to provide jobs. According to a recent report from TechAmerica, certain areas are still creating new technology jobs

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TechAmerica

’s yearly Cyberstates report found that one of the best areas in the country for jobs in technology is Virginia . The state ranked 5th in the nation, showing that employers in the area added 5,300 jobs in 2007, which was a 2 percent increase.

The most recent data available for many states comes from 2007. The problem with this is the fact that the effects from the recession won’t show up in this information.

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Background Check Info Found through Online Court Records

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

In the State of Minnesota

, a trial that allows people to search through court records – information often contained in background checks – turned out to be successful.

More than 1.2 million searches were conducted during the first year that Minnesota’s district court records were made accessible over the Internet. Minnesota Public Access Remote

became available through the new statewide court records database, the Minnesota Court Information System.

According to an article by the St. Paul Legal Ledger Capitol Report

, the system took five years to complete and cost about $30 million. The system combines 10 databases that are used around the state and includes case records dating back to the 1970s.

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