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Streetdirectory.com gets new owner
News JobsDB acquires the Singapore mapping portal, develops new maps and adds recruitment-friendly features.
Tags: Acquisitions, Web sites, Web 2.0, Advertisement, chairman, job applicant, satellite image, financial, job, network
Will you hire 'honey.bunny@'?
News Job applicants should be mindful their e-mail addresses are not offensive or risk putting off prospective employers, say recruiters.
Tags: Human resources, Career, Business, E-mail Address, Telecommunications, Sales, Nike Inc., e-mail, Germany, Human Resources
Dealing with the Band-Aid employee
Insight Learn how to deal with the employee who just patches problems.
Extending the job hunt to Web world
Blogs Over the past month, I've been scouring resumes of job applicants and have yet to come across one that points me to a so...
Fuzzy math in Google tool
News news analysis The search engine's built-in calculator has some troubles with big numbers. So do we all, but this is a company that named itself after a really big number.
Tags: Web sites, Math, Google Inc., Search Engine, Tool, software, processor, handheld, job applicant, job
Win jobs by being up front about background issues
Insight If you've got a black spot on your employment record, the hiring manager is going to find out. These days, companies are conducting more background checks than ever before, and the key to handling these record checks is to be honest from the start.
Create process diagrams in less time
Techguide Prior to Word 2007, adding process diagrams to Word documents required a lot of resizing of both the graphics and the text.
Tags: Microsoft Office
Five tools to simplify job search
Insight Exploring the job market? Use one of these downloadable tools from Download.com to jump-start and enhance your Internet job search.
Tags: Recruiting
Economic crunch brings revamped hiring strategies
Insight Just because you have more job candidates to choose from, hiring isn't easy; tightening budgets leave little wiggle room for poor hires. Discover the new strategies tech managers are using to hire needed expertise.
Building Microsoft code inside the tornado
Insight newsmaker Vice president S 'Soma' Somasegar shares his views on how interoperability and open source will help Microsoft weather the ever-changing climate of software code development.
Tags: Outsourcing, Microsoft Corp., India, Soma, software, software development, job, Bangalore, Microsoft Visual Studio, U.S.
Job-related spam on the rise
News With the worsening economy, spammers are employing various job and finance-related guises to try to exploit job seekers, according to Symantec.
Tags: Viruses and worms, Data security, Anti Phishing Work Group, Sophos Plc., Spam, Anti-Phishing Working Group, job agency, payment service, Crimeware, e-Mail Message
Need a job? Don't use a Mac
News Software at company fielding job applications doesn't support Mac browsers, leaving some prospective employees in the lurch.
Tags: Software, Operating systems, Mac OS, Web browsers
Google CEO talks new media politics
News At Personal Democracy Forum, Eric Schmidt warns that always-on nature of camera phone-wielding generation means politicians should be more careful.
Social networks in the quest for jobs
News Although job seekers now using social networks to look for work, they would do better through traditional means, according to a recruiter.
Tags: Networking, Web services, Business development/management, IT Professional, Survey, Singapore, social networking, Facebook, Human Resources, job
Thieves nab 55,000 U.S. student records
News Online attackers stole information on more than 55,000 students and faculty from insecure database servers at the University of Texas at Austin, the school said on Wednesday.
