Posts Tagged with ‘job-search’

Not everyone who has browsed a job board is actually unemployed. In fact, some people who peruse listings of available jobs online are quite intent with their current positions, but would just like to see what's available.
That is the theory behind itzbig's new job search tool, which allows working technology professionals to privately explore the other career opportunities that are available around them. Essentially designed as a sort of employment matchmaker, itzbig targets, as the company calls it, the “Quiet Working Professional, [...]

For some time now professionals in all areas have had social job boards for their profession.  The granddaddy of them all is Monster.com, a job site that is less social job board than classifieds and handles a broad spectrum of professions.  Then you have sites like Elance, a social job network for creative professionals, Rent-A-Coder, a social job board for computer professionals and more.  Now HireTrade steps into the fray, providing a social job board network for legal professionals.
Offering jobs [...]

There's no doubt that the Web 2.0 communities springing up everywhere are creating cool new ways for niche-skills to gather and collaborate. I mean, who would have thought of an online Knitting community? But even with all of these communities out there, the “killer Web 2.0 Jobs site” has yet to be born. A lot of folks are trying and millions of dollars are being poured into it, but no real results yet. Feel free to try to talk me [...]

Whilst stationed at your cubicle, desk, or general place of work, do you ever let your mind wander? Perhaps as you stretch those fingers you silently question whether you’re more talented or overall better at your job than your colleagues are at theirs. (You know you do it.) Perhaps you already know the answer to that question. If so, you tend to end up curious about your place on the salary scale.
If you’re like many people around the world, you [...]