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Free job search engine launch today

With the cost of placing an online job ad spiraling rapidly upwards, new job search engine, 'Job Ahoy!', is a breath of fresh air to employers. Launched today, Job Ahoy! charges nothing to post a job ad - and never will! While conventional job search engines allow job-seekers free access to most of their services, they charge employers to post job ads. Career Builder in the US, for instance, charges USD $350 to place a standard job ad. Job Ahoy! is absolutely free for all users. "The idea grew ...
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Job Downsizing - Make The Best Of It

You're working at your family's welding business during the day, and then go to your second job at night. You're 50-some years old, working as a cashier at Target. You always said that if you're 40 years old and have a career that requires you to wear a name tag, then to just shoot you! Not that there's anything wrong with working at Target or wearing a name tag or working the family business. Those are all honest jobs. It's just that after 20 years with your previous company, and with your ...
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Want That Job? Improve Your Interview Skills!

Although it's been said that "You can't judge a book by its cover," it happens all the time. In business as well as in life in general we are always judging and being judged. That all important first impression is lasting. It's been statistically proven that people make judgments about others in the first 30 seconds to one minute of meeting them. Therefore, job seekers have only a short time to make that impression a positive one. Everyone knows they should be clean, neat and ...
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Questions on Job Applications about Race and Gender

In today's diverse workforce there are many new laws in place that most, if not all, of us know very little about. For years, we all were led to believe that it was illegal to ask questions about race and gender and now the government is requiring companies to track the diversity of the applicant pool through anonymous questions at the end of an application. This seems a bit of an about face for a government that usually is as hard to move as a million year old dinosaur. Where does the info ...
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Is Technology Giving You More Freedom From Your Job?

When cellphones became available it seemed that they would fill a need for instant communication - any time, any place - that would help people be more efficient and thus save time. Then email became a mainstream method of business communication. Marvelous - now telephones wouldn't ring off the hook, messages would not have to be stored and retrieved as verbal communications, which took time. Instead, information would be clear and concise and could be retrieved and answered any time, any ...
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Taking on the Big Boys! - Free Job Postings Online

a href="http://www.jobahoy.com">http://www.jobahoy.com Job Ahoy! now boasts over 1 Million Job Ads and they've only been running for 2 months! With the cost of placing an online job ad spiraling rapidly upwards, new job search engine, 'Job Ahoy!', is a breath of fresh air to employers. Launched today, Job Ahoy! charges nothing to post a job ad - and never will! While conventional job search engines allow job-seekers free access to most of their services, they charge employers to post job ads. ...
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Finish Your College Degree Online & Get a Better Paying Job

In today's highly competitive job market, finding a good job without a college degree is getting harder. Unlike the old day, you can easily find a good paying job with a high school diploma, but this is not the story now, you need to have at least a college degree in order to secure a good job in most career fields.Many people make plan to further their college study after they graduated from high school diploma. But, sometimes, things don't always work out the way they have planned. These high ...
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Tips for Finding an Accounting Job

Looking for an Accounting Job In case you've just finished your accounting course, you're probably looking for an accountancy job. A lot of young adults are now wondering where to search for the perfect job opportunity. They find it very difficult because there are not so many jobs out there. But if you only know where to look, you can find a job right away especially if you meet all the job qualifications. When looking for a job opening, you should make use of all the available resources ...
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Getting the most out of Online Job Boards

Do Online Job Boards Really Work? The short answer is Yes, they do work. Even though job boards are a new technology that have been around for just a few years, there are already many signs that they are a significantly more effective recruiting technology than what had been used before (mainly newspaper classified ads). Trying to gauge the effectiveness of job boards is sort of like trying to figure out how fast you're going in a jet airplane. At 40,000 feet, you don't realize how fast the ...
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Find a Job Online

The Internet has simplified everything from shopping to banking and now even employment has been made easier because you can have a job online. That is right, as amazing as it sounds you can work from the comfort of your home, while traveling, or anywhere you have a computer because your job online only requires you meet deadlines. You can work whenever fits your schedule, meaning you have more time for the important things like your family and have your job online to help pay the bills. If you ...
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