CareerMosaic Offers New Features to Enhance Job Searching On the Internet.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 1998-- `JOBS Radius Search,' `Career Network' Allow Job Seekers job seeker also job·seek·er n. One who seeks employment. to Target Zip Code zip code System of postal-zone codes (zip stands for “zone improvement plan”) introduced in the U.S. in 1963 to improve mail delivery and exploit electronic reading and sorting capabilities. , Industry CareerMosaic(R) (www.careermosaic.com), the premier employment site on the Web, today announced two new features that make it easier for job seekers to identify employment opportunities in specific locations and within industries. The two features are JOBS Radius Search, which finds jobs within miles of a given zip code in the U.S., and Career Network, which highlights CareerMosaic's partners, affiliations, and industry alliances for more targeted job searches. Radius Search allows job seekers to identify employment opportunities in specific geographical locations across the country. By specifying a zip code, CareerMosaic users can obtain a list of those job offerings situated within a certain desired distance of that zip code. "Radius Search places the nation at the job hunter's fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. , bringing job searches down to the zip code level and finding specific jobs within miles from a user's home or any desired location in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. ," said Bernard S Ber·nard , Claude 1813-1878. French physiologist noted for his study of the digestive and nervous systems. . Hodes, president of CareerMosaic. "This unique new feature on CareerMosaic enhances our reputation as the employment site that is the easiest to use." Career Network gives CareerMosaic users instant access to the employment site's growing number of partners, affiliates, and industry alliances. Job seekers can choose from the employment perspectives that best suit their needs by selecting from four categories: affiliations, diversity, industry, and media. For example, Career Network provides links to career centers focusing on jobs and content for women and minorities, and jobs in such fields as scientific computing computing - computer , health care, accounting, pharmaceutical processing, and insurance. "Career Network gives users immediate access to the specialized information and expertise offered by our affiliates and partners," said Mr. Hodes. "Employment seekers will benefit from the powerful synergy that exists between CareerMosaic and our many alliances and partners." About CareerMosaic CareerMosaic offers many features to job seekers and recruiters, including more than 70,000 job listings from thousands of employers around the world; detailed descriptions of more than 400 of the world's leading corporations; online job fairs that offer immediate opportunities with top employers; more than 50,000 resumes to search at no cost 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), for healthcare professionals; The Insurance Career Center (www.insjobs.com), for professionals in the insurance industry; and Accounting & Finance Jobs (www.accountingjobs.com), for accounting and finance professionals. 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 . The site records over 36 million requests per month and over 350,000 job queries a day. 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. CONTACT: Raina Grossman/Don Canfield can·field n. Games A form of solitaire. [After Richard Albert Canfield (1855-1914), American gambler.] Noun 1. M Booth & Associates 212/481-7000, ext. 128/126 |
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