Award-Winning Job-Hunt.org Selects "Best of the Web" for Job Hunting.MARLBOROUGH, Mass. -- The bellwether Bellwether A leading indicator of trends. Notes: A bellwether stock is a stock that is used to gauge the performance of the market in general. General Motors was an example of a bellwether stock, hence the saying "What's good for GM is good for America. site for job seekers job seeker also job·seek·er n. One who seeks employment. , Job-Hunt.org, announced the best Websites for job hunting. Editor Susan Joyce, whose site has won awards from U.S. News & World Report U.S. News & World Report Weekly newsmagazine published in Washington, D.C. U.S. News was founded in 1933 by David Lawrence (1888–1973) to cover important domestic events; he founded World Report in 1945 to treat world news. The two magazines were merged in 1948. , Forbes and many others, said, "Rather than hitting the same old sites, Job-Hunt.org suggests better options for the New Year in our first selection of Job-Hunt Best of the Web." Best Job Search Engine: Indeed.com For a quick snapshot (1) A saved copy of memory including the contents of all memory bytes, hardware registers and status indicators. It is periodically taken in order to restore the system in the event of failure. (2) A saved copy of a file before it is updated. look at the job market, Indeed.com is a great job search starting point Noun 1. starting point - earliest limiting point terminus a quo commencement, get-go, offset, outset, showtime, starting time, beginning, start, kickoff, first - the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the . Indeed is an "aggregator" -- on a daily basis, collecting job postings from hundreds of job sites (Monster, CareerBuilder, etc.) and employer Websites. Try the user-friendly capability to sort search results by full-time, part-time, contract, internship internship /in·tern·ship/ (in´tern-ship) the position or term of service of an intern in a hospital. internship, n the course work or practicum conducted in a professional dental clinic. , or temporary status as well as by company or location. Honorable mention: SimplyHired.com. Best General Job Site: JobCentral.com Created by an association of large employers, JobCentral.com is an excellent resource, offering filters (such as age of posting) and also many additional job listings from supplementary resources (like Indeed and SimplyHired). Best Online Classifieds: Craigslist.org Most often named as "the source" of THE job lead that worked by successful job seekers who found their job through a job site, Craigslist has jobs and "gigs" (part-time and short-term Short-term Any investments with a maturity of one year or less. short-term 1. Of or relating to a gain or loss on the value of an asset that has been held less than a specified period of time. jobs) as well as links to networking events, classes, etc. Best Site for Job Seekers Over 50: SeniorJobBank.org Many job sites for the over 50 crowd are really just doorways into the database of jobs at one of the major sites. SeniorJobBank has its own database of job postings by employers who are specifically interested in hiring experienced, reliable, and mature staff. Best Site for Veterans: HireVetsFirst.gov The Government has created an excellent site for veterans to find help with their job search. It has links to America's Job Bank and USAjobs plus information and resources to specifically assist in the transition from military to civilian jobs. Best Site for Entry Level and College Students: CollegeJournal.com An excellent job site for finding that important first or second job out of college plus the wonderful articles and advice about job hunting and business that you would expect from a site by The Wall Street Journal. Best Personal/Job Networking Site: WorkMinistry.org Offers job seekers the unique ability to connect with local face-to-face support groups, both faith-based and not, combined with a first-class job site containing thousands of job postings. Best Business Contacts: Ziggs.com Ziggs.com provides a free method of finding a variety of contacts within a company or searching through the database of profiles by name. Trends for 2007: Networking and Tools Look for expanded person-to-person connections facilitated by sites such as Jobster, LinkedIn, H3, YorZ, Tutorlinker, and Jigsaw A Web server from the W3C that incorporates advanced features and uses a modular design similar to the Apache Web server. Jigsaw supports HTTP 1.1 and provided an experimental platform for HTTP-NG. See HTTP-NG and Amaya. , and new Web tools provided by sites like Google (Google, Mountain View, CA, www.google.com) The largest search engine on the Web, founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Stanford University students. In 1996, they developed their "BackRub" search engine, named after its unique page ranking method (explained below). , Yahoo, and JibberJobber. About award-winning employment portal Job-Hunt.org and editor Susan Joyce: In 2006, US News described Job-Hunt.org as "The best site for those who have a career goal and now are trying to land a job." Job-Hunt.org, a 7,300+ link employment portal, has been a Forbes Best of the Web continuously since 2002 and has received numerous other awards over the 12 years of its existence. Job-Hunt's editor, Susan Joyce, has been researching, reviewing, testing, and writing/speaking about the online employment process since 1995. Note to editors: Please don't forget the hyphen hyphen: see punctuation. between "job" and "hunt," or you'll be looking at a different Website [www.Job-Hunt.org/]. Job-Hunt.org is owned by NETability, Inc. of Marlborough, MA. Contact Susan Joyce at 508-624-6261, Susan@NETability.com. |
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