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BostonWorks Offers Job Seekers A Super September.


BOSTON -- Big Help, Job City Job Fair, and the First-ever "Big Gig" Promotion Designed to Help Job Seekers Find Their Perfect Career Opportunity

BostonWorks is offering local job seekers a Super September. With the annual Big Help special section, the 2nd annual job fair at Fenway Park Coordinates:

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Tim Murphy, general manager of BostonWorks, said, "Traditionally, September is the second best hiring month of the year. Nationally, 144,000 jobs were created in August and Boston is outpacing the national average with job creation. As fall approaches, we anticipate strong hiring demand due to the improvement in the local economy, and BostonWorks will be the ultimate source for job seekers looking for Looking for

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 that next great opportunity. Super September promises to help job seekers seize these opportunities."

With over 22,000 open positions currently listed on BostonWorks.com, BostonWorks has created three unique opportunities to help job seekers in September. They include:

--The Big Help

On Sunday, September 12, BostonWorks will once again feature The Big Help, a bi-annual help-wanted section in the Boston Sunday Globe. Offered in September and January, The Big Help is the largest help-wanted section of the year. In September, more than 2000 companies will be advertising in the Big Help, representing more than 5,000 jobs including jobs in sales, medical professional, marketing, finance and many other positions. Jobs are entry level, mid-level and management positions at Boston's leading companies, including Banknorth, Antigenics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Both an international and regional referral center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston, Massachusetts is a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. It was formed out of the 1996 merger of Beth Israel Hospital (founded in 1916) and , CVS (1) (Concurrent Versions System) A version control system for Unix that was initially developed as a series of shell scripts in the mid-1980s. CVS maintains the changes between one source code version and another and stores all the changes in one file. , The Container Store, Millenium Pharmaceuticals, Akamai and American Express American Express (NYSE: AXP), sometimes known as "AmEx" or "Amex", is a diversified global financial services company, headquartered in New York City. The company is best known for its credit card, charge card and traveler's cheque businesses.  Financial Advisors, among others.

--2nd Annual Job Fair at Fenway Park

For the second year in a row, BostonWorks will host a job fair, Job City, at the legendary Fenway Park. On Monday, September 27, approximately 50 of Greater Boston's leading employers will be at Fenway Park looking to fill hundreds of jobs in the service and trade industries. The doors to Job City will be open from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., allowing job seekers to meet with employers such as CVS, Boch Enterprises, Cambridge Savings Bank savings bank, financial institution that, until recently, performed only the following functions: receiving savings deposits of individuals, investing them, and providing a modest return to its depositors in the form of interest.  and Venturi venturi

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--The Big Gig

Looking for the experience you need to get that dream job? For the first time, BostonWorks will launch a promotion designed to help entry-level or mid-career transition job seekers gain the experience they need to land their dream job. On September 19, BostonWorks will launch "The Big Gig." Working with five of Boston's leading companies, including KISS 108; Hill, Holliday; WB56; Dancing Deer Baking Company; and Staples, BostonWorks will offer the opportunity to enter to win an internship internship /in·tern·ship/ (in´tern-ship) the position or term of service of an intern in a hospital.
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 at one of these companies. To enter, the job seeker will need to go online to BostonWorks.com, submit his or her resume and an essay describing why he or she would be the perfect candidate for an internship opportunity. Up to five finalists will be identified for each opportunity and visitors to BostonWorks.com will be invited to vote for the candidate they believe to be most qualified. The internships will begin in January 2005.

Why BostonWorks?

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 an independent survey conducted by Taylor Research, 59% of Greater Boston's job changers
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 utilize BostonWorks, in both print and online, to find their next opportunity.(1) BostonWorks also has more job listings in Greater Boston Greater Boston is the area of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts surrounding the city of Boston, Massachusetts. While Metro Boston tends to be the "Inner Core" surrounding the City of Boston, Greater Boston overlaps the North and South Shores, as well as the MetroWest region.  than any other recruitment services provider, including positions in Retail, Technology, Finance, Health Care, Sales, Hospitality and Transportation, among other industries.(2)

About BostonWorks

BostonWorks, a division of The Boston Globe, is the leading recruitment services provider in Greater Boston. Combining the power of The Boston Globe and Boston.com, BostonWorks reaches an audience of more than 2.4 million each week. In addition to the Sunday Globe's BostonWorks section, the division offers BostonWorks.com with more than 22,000 job listings and 560,000 resumes; industry-specific magazines such as "On Call" for nurses and allied health professionals; JobSource, a weekly career publication with distribution of over 100,000; and 12 career fairs held in Greater Boston throughout the year.

(1) According to a survey commissioned by BostonWorks and conducted by the Taylor Research and Consulting Group, 2003

(2) Corzen Monthly Performance Results, August 2004
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