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interbiznet presents the Bugler
| February 3, 2000 |
The Fearless Job Hunters or: Pardon Me, But Your Resume is a Pain in My Neck
Brave John Van Helsumser skulks through the dankest Catacombs of Job Hunting. His maddening quest: an Interview with the Passive Candidate.
Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment
In December 1999, 206 metropolitan areas reported unemployment rates below the U.S. average (3.7 percent, not seasonally adjusted), while 114 areas registered higher rates, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported. Thirty-two metropolitan areas had rates below 2.0 percent, with 15 of these located in the Midwest, 10 in the South, and 5 in New England. Of the nine areas with jobless rates over 10.0 percent, eight were in the West.
New Combinations
Fast Company launched a new online career center, Working Progress, and has chosen Guru.com as its exclusive partner.
Fast Company has chosen HotJobs.com as the new exclusive provider of job-related postings and searching capabilities. Under the terms of the agreement, HotJobs.com will create a new co-branded site.
Newgold Inc. signs a letter of intent to acquire an ownership position in Virtual Quality Quest, a recruiting and human resource services company for startup businesses. Newgold also recently acquired an interest in Comercis, a Dallas-based B2B and ASP company.
Best Software, provider of HR/payroll, fixed asset, and planning and budgeting solutions, will integrate PeopleWise's pre-employment screening services with its Abra Suite.
IT Staffing Ltd (which has changed its name to Thinkpath, Inc.) announced its letter of intent to acquire ObjectArts, a technical training firm specializing in advanced Microsoft technologies.
SPECTRUM Human Resource Systems Corporation has joined the Resumix WebAlliance Referral Program.
CareerBuilder selected ITcareers.com as one of its leading technology partners. One would like to congratulate CareerBuilder on its "When is your future?" radio spot that addresses "how you fill in the blanks is up to you."
Advanced Internet Recruitment Strategies, better known as AIRS, and PowerHiring.com will jointly develop recruitment industry information tools, beginning with a workshop targeted at hiring managers.
CareerBuilder will provide career search tools for the Media Central and MarketingClick websites.
CNET teams with Personic to hire its talent.
Today's Staffing, Inc. partners with Know It All to implement Know It All's Prove It! testing and training software to enhance retention and recruitment of temporary office support personnel.
Goodshark.com has partnered with Brainbench to offer free online skills-assessment services to its engineering/IT workforce community.
Worker Burnout In The Net Industry
As eager as jobseekers are to work in the booming industry, long hours, high stress, and competitive employment opportunities are deterring many from sticking with a single company for very long.
Move Over Brainbench
Standard pencil-and-paper college admissions exams don't reveal talents like initiative, teamwork and leadership, so select teenagers are getting an alternative test, which includes making a robot out of Legos. Why Legos? Seems they are considered a mechanism to force people to interact and to see which ones emerge as leaders.
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