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10 Ways Personal Branding Can Save You From Getting Fired
Mashable! — ... people are searching, especially where your unique audience is searching. I don’t think it’s revolutionary that you brand yourself on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, but I would like to offer you a few other sites that may connect you with other passionate and ambitious brands, such as VisualCV.com and Jobfox.com. I think it’s imperative that you advertise your brand on the “old skool” job boards as well, including Monster, Careerbuilder and Yahoo! Hotjobs. 7. Make your brand so visible that people can’t avoid ...

Interview: New NYT.com GM Denise Warren: Tip-toeing Into Aggregation With Guarded Optimism
paidContent — ... reach many more affluent women, who influence the purchases of others." (The NYT hasn't been unscathed: the paper halted publication of its Play magazine this fall.) -- Not hiring for new help wanteds: At the UBS Global Media and Communications conference last week, execs from Media General (NYSE: MEG) and E.W. Scripps (NYSE: SSP) expressed gratitude for their partnership with the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Newspaper Consortium and Hot Jobs for boosting online revenue, while Gannett (NYSE: GCI) praised ...

CAREER TOOLBOX: 100+ Places to Find Jobs
Mashable! — ... categories.  Allows you to post your resume and promote yourself. Locanto.com - Classified ads for all the major cities in the United States with sections dedicated to employment. Monster.com - Probably the best known of the career sites, Monster allows you to search for jobs, post your resume, sign up for job fairs and more. RealMatch.com - Fill in a profile and within minutes you will start seeing jobs that you are best suited for. Yahoo HotJobs - Yahoo’s job site allows you to browse by category, ...

Five Best Online Job Search Sites [Hive Five]
Lifehacker — ... is the oldest job search site on the list (founded in 1995). Also like Monster, CareerBuilder's pages boast millions of job postings, hundreds of thousands of employers on the hunt for potential employees, and a whole lot more. Although many commenters have secured jobs from both Monster and CareerBuilder, others have also commented on receiving a fair amount of spam "opportunities" from them as well. HotJobs [image] HotJobs is another age-old job search engine that first started in 1996 (under another name), went through a few other changes, and was eventually purchased by ...

Tech Workers Third Most-Anxious About Job Security
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — One-third of Americans feel anxious about losing their jobs, but 61% of employed Americans said they have resolved to find a job this year, according to a report released this week. Yahoo HotJobs found that older workers and those in health care were the least anxious among the 940 people who responded to the annual survey in December. Younger workers and those in manufacturing had the most anxiety related to job security, according to the report, released this week. Just 6% of healthcare workers said they are anxious about their jobs and none said they are very anxious. ...

5 career sites to help you in your job search
Webware.com — ... Yahoo Hotjobs Yahoo's job search service, Hotjobs, doesn't offer any unique extra features. But as a job search, it's outstanding. Much like Yahoo's other pages, Hotjobs features an annoyingly cluttered design. Sure, it has a prominent job search field at the top of the page, but below it, the site is overrun with ads, job categories, and featured career articles that combine to create a page that detracts from an otherwise useful service. ...

Yahoo Plans More Layoffs; HotJobs On The Block
paidContent — ... pay increases for most of its employees. New CEO Carol Bartz has said that the company needs to "streamline" its business. Under Bartz, Yahoo has cut its FareChase travel engine and online-storage service. NYT reports that the company is now also shopping around Hotjobs, its jobs site. ...

Apple Hiring Home-Based Support Staff: New Product, Or Growing Popularity?
Cult of Mac — ... can get the cream of the crop instead of the average high school graduate and trying to train them. I see it as a real plus.” Apple plans to recruit 150 At Home staff every month from July through September, in and around Orlando, Florida; Charlotte, North Carolina; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Orem, Utah; among other cities. Apple has been advertising for “Apple At Home Experts” on Apple’s website and at various online job sites like Monster.com, Yahoo HotJobs and MySpace Jobs. According to the ads, applicants need a private ...

For Yahoo Newspaper Consortium Members, Targeting Is Now The Draw, Not Job Ads
paidContent — ... ) Newspaper Consortium and quadrantONE, the appeal is in the targeting and ad assistance—not the job listings. For the Yahoo Newspaper Consortium, HotJobs was initially a main selling point, but with unemployment currently at 9.1 percent, job ads aren't so hot these days. None of the five new consortium members have signed on for the HotJobs service. Instead, the newspapers all cited a desire to access Yahoo's targeted inventory and online ad saleforce training. ...

Americans hitting second-tier job search sites a lot more
VentureBeat — ... ever. Many mid-level job sites like SnagAJob have had 30 to 60 percent growth between June 2008 and 2009. But a new report from comScore reveals a mixed bag of results that varies from site to site. Top-ranked CareerBuilder, as well as the third-place Monster, both had no growth in the past year, according to comScore. The total sector has only grown 10 percent since last June, before the barrage of layoffs that threw so many out of work. CareerBuilder, Yahoo! HotJobs, and Monster are the top three sites, with 21,704, 17,861, and 14,472 unique ...

Indeed Now Gets The Most Pageviews For Job Searches In The U.S.
TechCrunch — ... But the one that seems to be growing the fastest is Indeed. In July, Monster’s job search engine was up 33 percent in U.S. pageviews, CareerBuilders’ was up 56 percent, and Indeed’s was up 90 percent (comScore). Not only is Indeed the fastest growing job search engine it is also now the largest in terms of pageviews. In July, it passed CareerBuilder, with 171 million pageviews in the U.S. versus 159 million for CareerBuilder. Yahoo’s HotJobs had 96 million (which Yahoo is reportedly abandoning), Monster had 73 ...

Yahoo! is unlaoding Zimbra, HotJobs, other properties
Download Squad — ... It seems like just two years ago that Yahoo! bought open source communication platform Zimbra for $350 million. Oh right, that's because it was. But today it looks like Yahoo! is looking to sell Zimbra, along with a number of other properties that don't fit the company's streamlined mission statement including HotJobs. While Zimbra's advanced email tools certainly made their mark on the recently updated Yahoo! Mail web client, but Zimbra's real strength lies in the fact that you can deploy the software on your own server and create a corporate ...