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Career Confidential Hosts Complimentary Webinar "Why Online Applications Are Killing Your Job Search" reveals why this popular method of job searching will hurt a candidate's chances. Career Confidential teaches the successful strategies to get a job fast in today's tough job market. Dallas, Texas (PRWEB) February 16, 2013 How many online applications does it take to get an interview? According to the folks at Career Confidential, way too many. That’s why they have...
Jamboree Housing Corporation, one of California’s largest community development organizations that specializes in affordable housing, has taken a major step towards implementing its long-term business diversification strategy with the launch of its Quality Design Company, Inc., a separate 501(c)(3) that provides in-house expertise and coordination to vendors involved in the design and construction of Jamboree’s developments. Quality Design Company operates as part of Jamboree’s...
CHICAGO, Feb. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The popular free cyber begging website, Begslist.org announces the launch of its newest website, TogetherWeDonate.org. Begslist.org serves as a cyber begging or crowd funding website to help people raise money for any personal needs or causes. Begslist adds TogetherWeDonate.org to its stable of websites, which include: Cyberbegging.org, Scamslist.com, the Begslist Blog. The new TogetherWeDonate.org website tries to answer the question on why...
DURHAM, N.C., Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ThinkOptimal announced today the launch of MyOptimalCareer, the industry's most comprehensive suite of tools to help individual job seekers market themselves and manage all phases of the modern job search. MyOptimalCareer delivers everything job seekers need in one package. It includes an InterviewCoach(TM) with webcam-based interview practice for more than 1,000 interview questions, advanced tools for building online portfolios, video...
NEW YORK, Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Robin Hood has announced the latest round of grants to organizations providing assistance to victims of Hurricane Sandy. At a meeting of its Relief Committee on February 6, Robin Hood approved $10.5 million in funding to 50 groups in the tri-state area; the vast majority of funding ($8.2 million) will go to organizations providing vital housing-related services. Robin Hood has granted more than $45 million of the $67 million it has raised...
High unemployment during the recession slowed industry expansion, but the aging baby boomers and shortages of physicians have returned the industry to growth. For these reasons, industry research firm IBISWorld has added a report on the Healthcare Staff Recruitment Agencies industry to its growing industry report collection. Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) February 04, 2013 IBISWorld estimates that revenue for the Healthcare Staff Recruitment Agencies industry has declined at an average rate of...
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- For the 21st time in the past 26 years, the Super Bowl winning team hails from the metropolitan area with the lower unemployment rate, according to an analysis by RiseSmart, the leader in next-generation outplacement solutions. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the team whose metropolitan area boasts the lower jobless rate has now enjoyed an 81 percent success rate since 1988. (Photo:...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- According to today's jobs report from the U.S. Labor Department, employers added 157,000 new jobs in January. The national unemployment rate remained essentially unchanged, edging up 0.1 percent to 7.9. The construction industry gained 28,000 jobs last month, but overall unemployment remains high for U.S. construction workers at 16.1 percent. Since January 2011, construction employment has grown by 296,000, with one-third of the...
CELF & Vestergaard Frandsen Partner in Sustainability Education Program New York, New York (PRWEB) January 30, 2013 The Children’s Environmental Literacy Foundation (CELF) (http://www.celfeducation.org) has partnered with Vestergaard Frandsen (VF) to launch the “LifeStraw® “100 Schools” Water Campaign. CELF is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization dedicated to making sustainability education an integral part of every school’s curricula and culture. Vestergaard Frandsen...
LONDON, January 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Generous travellers who booked car hire on promoted charity days in association with Carrentals.co.uk raise over GBP1000 for StreetSmart homeless charity in just six days Customers who booked car hire through Carrentals.co.uk on six special 'charity' days have raised over GBP1000 for the homeless charity StreetSmart. For every booking made the car hire comparator donated an...
