CareerMosaic Launches Online Job Fair On Yahoo! for South Florida; Cyberevent for South Florida Job Seekers Will Run Through July 20.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 7, 1998--CareerMosaic(R) (www.careermosaic.com), the leading site for professional jobs on the Internet See How to find a job on the Internet and job descriptions. , today launched an online job fair in South Florida on Yahoo!(R) (www.yahoo.com), the single largest navigational guide to the Internet. The event, which will run through July 20, is part of a series of online job fairs targeting major U.S. and international job markets. Employers participating in the South Florida job fair are 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. Information Technologies, Florida Power & Light Company, Mercy Hospital Mercy Hospital or Mercy Medical Center could refer to the following hospitals in:
The online fairs are part of a multimillion dollar global advertising agreement announced in November, 1997 and are the first of their kind for online recruiting on Yahoo!. The job fairs, which began in January, will be held on all Yahoo! Metro sites, in 12 major U.S. markets; on Yahoo!'s main site; and in native languages in locations around the world where both Yahoo! and CareerMosaic have sites. The fairs will be announced by banners on each Yahoo! Metro home page, and featured on CareerMosaic's home page as well as on various other pages throughout Yahoo! and CareerMosaic. The events will be held on a weekly and biweekly basis through October 31, 1998 in Atlanta, Dallas/Fort Worth, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Boston, Washington DC, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Seattle, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Austin, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Chicago. The international job fairs will be held in Australia, Canada, France, Japan, United Kingdom/Ireland, and Asia. Each job fair will feature participating employers, with their corporate logos displayed, and offer job seekers a chance to win a prize valued at $3,500 by entering a sweepstakes contest. Each corporate logo will take users to a page with information on each company, job openings, and an online response form. "These online job fairs take our agreement with Yahoo! one step further to promote the distribution of CareerMosaic and enhance our visibility as the premier employment site on the Web," said Bernard S. Hodes, president, CareerMosaic. "The relationship between two of the leading sites on the Web will enable companies to reach key targeted audiences in major job markets around the world." About CareerMosaic CareerMosaic offers many features to job seekers and recruiters, including more than 70,000 job listings from tens of thousands of employers around the world; online job fairs that offer immediate opportunities with top employers; more than 50,000 resumes to search and free resume-posting; tips on job-hunting and resume-writing; research tools; and a special feature for college students, with links to employers and other resources for those entering the job market. CareerMosaic also offers industry-specific sites, including HealthOpps (www.healthopps.com), The Insurance Career Center (www.insjobs.com), and Accounting & Finance Jobs (www.accountingjobs.com). In addition, the site has a co-branded home page with EE Times, for electrical engineering electrical engineering: see engineering. electrical engineering Branch of engineering concerned with the practical applications of electricity in all its forms, including those of electronics. jobs. CareerMosaic has a global reach, with individual sites in more than a dozen countries in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, Asia, and Australia. CareerMosaic was created and launched on the World Wide Web on July 4, 1994 by Bernard Hodes Advertising, Inc., the world's leading recruitment and employee communications agency and a division of the Omnicom Group
The Omnicom Group (NYSE: OMC) is the world's largest advertising agency holding company in terms of revenue (and one of the big six . According to Nielsen I/PRO, the site recorded more than 3.9 million visitors in April. On average, CareerMosaic receives over 350,000 job searches a day and recently achieved 443,880 searches on a single day, a new record for the site. CareerMosaic is the recipient of numerous awards for ease of use, functionality, and design and was recently highlighted on "Good Morning America Good Morning America is a weekday morning news show that is broadcast on the ABC television network. The show was adapted from The Morning Exchange, a morning show created by and airing on the ABC affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio, and was launched nationally as " (ABC-TV) as the "most easy to use." CareerMosaic is a registered trademark of Bernard Hodes Advertising, Inc. Yahoo! and the Yahoo! logo are registered trademarks of Yahoo! Inc.
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