New Combinations
In an exclusive 4-year, $100 million agreement, Monster.com will become the exclusive career search across AOL, AOL Canada, AOL.COM, CompuServe, ICQ, Netscape Netcenter, and Digital City.
eAttorney teams with UPS to allow its users to send confidential documents in a secure environment.
Vivant! Corporation, Internet marketplace for sourcing and managing IT contractors through an open network of suppliers, announced the acquisition of their second round $11.6 million funding.
Check Out the Competition
DataDetroit.com is expanding its industry-specific niche job board, Automotive Employment Resources, to include administrative and support jobs.
Techcellence is a web-based business support and advisory service serving independent Information Technology contractors.
ebenefits launches VirtualHR, a free internet-based system that automates human resources and benefits management for small and growing businesses.
State News
According to the Corporation for Enterprise Development's Annual Development Report Card for the States, Minnesota's economy got an A for performance and developments and a B for employment. Whereas, North Dakota scored poorly when it comes to economic development and ranks almost dead last in both short-term and long-term employment growth.
A new Manpower Employment Outlook Survey shows that more than one in every three employers in the Northern Virginia area plans to add staff in the first quarter of next year.
Job-hunting prospects in south central Pennsylvania continue to look good. The Harrisburg, Lancaster, and York labor markets had the lowest unemployment rates in the State last month.
South Carolina's unemployment rate climbed in October from 4.2 percent to 4.4 percent.
Mars Lander
Pictures, weather reports, science data and even sound clips from Mars can be accessed beginning today when NASA's Polar Lander begins transmitting from 157 million miles away. Try these sites:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) home page, JPL's Mars Educational site, JPL's Mars site, The University of California, Los Angeles, The Planetary Society, The Mars Society.
ERN Today
For a look at the analysis and commentaries of the issues facing the electronic industry this week, read John Sumser's Electronic Recruiting News.
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