Just over a month ago, the New York Times ran a story about a job scam in Minneapolis and yesterday, the State of Minnesota sued the firm and its CEO Barry Trimble for scamming hundreds and perhaps thousands of job seekers. The firm, The Arthur Group, posted ads on Careerbuilder and other job boards and [...]
There’s an interesting discussion going on in the comment section of a recent blog post by Alison Doyle between Alison and one of her readers. Alison wrote a post entitled “A Few Good Job Sites” in which she recommended that job seekers use job search engines such as LinkUp, Indeed, and Simplyhired. In a comment, [...]
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September 17, 2009
LinkUp Announces New iPhone Application
Minneapolis, MN – LinkUp, the fastest growing job search engine on the web today, announced the release of its free iPhone application for job seekers. Exactly like the LinkUp.com website itself, LinkUp’s new iPhone app allows job seekers to search job listings that are found exclusively on [...]
Despite the continuing rise in U.S. unemployment and the mixed signals from the August jobs report (good news relative to previous months but still horrendous compared to historic norms), there are a lot of companies with jobs listed on their company websites (still the 2nd best place to find a job behind a personal contact). [...]
Continuing yesterday’s post about LinkUp’s encouraging jobs data for August (in which 49 states reported an increase from July in the total number of job listings), there is equally encouraging news on an industry by industry basis. In August, 35 of 37 industries showed an increase from July in the total number of job listings [...]
The Department of Labor released its jobs report for August last Friday, and despite the fact that 216,000 more jobs were lost and unemployment rose to 9.7% (a 26-year high), the monthly job losses were the smallest of any month this year. The fact that we’re celebrating what would normally be considered abysmal job losses [...]
Not surprisingly, there’s been a ton of news of late surrounding the daily newspaper industry, but the summary of it all is that as bad as things are for the dailies, these businesses are incredibly gifted at finding new, imaginative ways to make things even worse.
• Newspaper revenues are down 29%, and papers around the [...]