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There’s a new site for job seekers that has gotten a fair amount of press recently.
Glassdoor doesn’t offer job ads (yet). Instead, the focus is on trying collect and disseminate the inside scoop about a company or a given position. They do this on a give-to-get basis. Dream of being a software engineer at […]

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via Cheezhead, we learn about a new employment website targeting the Life Sciences industry: Beaker.com.
Obviously, I can’t resist posting about this site so I can make the same Muppets gag that Joel did.
But also, because I think this sort of thing will be a trend for the foreseeable future.
Niche Job Boards have long carved out, […]

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… According to Weddles.
If you don’t know Weddles, they have, for several years now, published a guide to online job search. The poll I’m going to reference is an online poll from Weddle’s readers. They seem to have a decent grasp on the realities of the modern job search:
“Most job seekers use a number of […]

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Just ran across a nice list of Niche Job boards from a site I had never heard of before, JobProfiles.org.
I’ve written in the past about niche boards and how they’re sometimes more valuable than the monstrously sized job boards.
The entire list is here, featuring over 100, in categories ranging from Healthcare to Office/Admin.

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While I was away last week, I missed the news that Indeed.com has introduced job search by salary requirements.
h/t Job Search Guy
With this new feature, you can now enter your desired annual salary in the search box on their search parameter and receive a list of all jobs that are estimated to pay at […]

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Both Cheezhead and SavvySugar are a bit perplexed by the new recruiting startup WrittenInc.
I can’t say that I blame them.
Apparently, this company allows employers to collect writing sample from job applicants. Then, for a fee, WrittenInc will evaluate these employees based on their handwriting, or, as the company says, their “written body language.”
That’s it! […]

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For those of you that are hip to RSS and RSS feeds (all the people that have subscribed to this feed are clearly hip) you should be aware that almost every major job board now allows you to sign up for job search RSS feeds.
Input the criteria you’re looking for (city, state, industry, keywords, etc.) […]

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I remember when craigslist was just a coastal thing. Earlier in the decade when I lived in NYC, I got ALL of my apartments on craigslist. But when I would tell people back home about it, they didn’t know what I was talking about.
Now, everyone probably knows someone who’s sold a guitar, found a roommate […]

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There’s a new job site out there that claims to be getting a fair amount of traction.
NotchUp.com wants you to get paid to be interviewed by employees. That’s right: they pay to interview you.
The site is targeting passive job seekers. So, the idea is, if you’re happy at your job but are kind of interested […]

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Ok, I can explain the odd title and the unusual picture. Stick with me. (Tip for younger readers, that’s Laverne and Shirley)
Once again Cheezhead led me to some interesting job search statistics.
This report by the Conference Board samples and outlines the volume of online help-wanted classified postings nationwide. It shows some interesting data pointing to […]

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