Tag: JOBS

Need a sysadmin, coder, designer or other web working new hire? Virtual, on-location or whatever, the Download Squad job boards have you covered. Post your resume using emurse, or (better yet) post a job position in no time and immediately get an engaged, targeted audience of job seekers. We'll also start showing some search-powered job results on posts, like what you see here, but with a ...

A few weeks ago, we covered some leaked documents showing just what a Microsoft retail location might look like; well, some lucky folks in the Scottsdale, Arizona and Mission Viejo, California areas might get the chance to see if the real thing looks as enticing as the concept images. The Microsoft JobsBlog pointed us in the direction of a hiring portal for positions at the soon-to-open retail ...

Have a doctorate? Hate web design, razors, soap and capitalism? Able to get by in Boston on $53,849 a year? You may be in luck. The Free Software Foundation is hiring a Campaigns Manager! According to the FSF's own site, "The campaigns manager implements the FSF communications strategy and works as part of a team to develop and implement issue campaigns and community resources, acting as a ...

You remember how your boss told you when you were hired that you shouldn't go around discussing your salary with other employees because some of them were making less than you and you didn't want to make them feel bad? Yeah, you knew there was a good chance that wasn't true, but hey, company policy is company policy, so you... yeah, who are we kidding, first chance you got you went and compared ...

Get Yourself Fired is a site that lets you upload a picture of your face and insert it into one of about 25 various compromising pictures (that would theoretically get you fired if your boss found them). The site was created by itzbig, a company that specializes in letting job candidates anonymously search for jobs at technology firms. Like FaceinHole, Get Yourself Fired accepts JPEGs which you ...

Admit it: all your life you've coasted through because of your overwhelming good looks. But how is that going to help you in a job search when they want you to send in a paper resume with no photo whatsoever? Enter VideoJobShop, a site where employers and job seekers can post videos online. For employers, this is a chance to advertise the benefits of being an employee of their company. For job ...

With its profits sagging, and a disappointing outlook for 2008, it seemed that Yahoo! had no choice but to announce the inevitable: a cut of 1,000 jobs, scheduled to take place in mid-February. It seems that even a corporate giant such as Yahoo! can spread itself too thin. Along with the job cut, Yahoo! plans to focus more sharply on online advertising, that Xanadu of web companies everywhere, ...

People applying for federal jobs recently had their personal information stolen by a crafty hacker that nailed the USAJobs web site, operated by the Office of Personnel Management. Some 146,000 job applicants hoping to get a job with the fed instead may find themselves the victims of identity theft. Although the fed insists no social security numbers were compromised, the information stolen is ...

Love WordPress? Know how to set up, hack or write plug-ins for it? Then perhaps you might be interested in finding a WordPress Job. Hosted at jobs.wordpress.net (but apparently run by Automattic, developers of the now default WordPress widgets plug-in), WordPress Jobs is a pretty straightforward site hosting job offers for those who need WordPress ninjas of every order. Heck, there are even a few ...

VMware has their sights set on programmers. This comes in the midst of VMware's IPO last week, and has upped the anti to make sure they get the best possible computer programming talent around. After VMware's first day of trading their shares jumped 76%, making it the biggest IPO since Google. Now with Google being the top company that programmers are hunting due to their compensations and ...

Could Google possibly buy another company? You bet, there is always room inside the what seems to be the hollow halls of the Googleplex. Rumors are getting passed around about a purchase of SimplyHired, the job search engine. SimplyHired, who just raised $13M from NewsCorp has over 2 million monthly uniques, which is a perfect traffic amount to make a sizable income from Google's AdWords. Can ...

There's no beans about it, Google is rumored to be hunting out a location for a newly planned Boston area facility. They currently occupy a small office in the Cambridge area that houses mainly sales and engineering people but are looking to expand. Cambridge is on the top of the list for Google's planned 100,000 to 200,000 square feet of office space. Compare that to the recent opening of ...

Anyone who tells you MySpace is all fun (unless you're at an Apple Store), games, stalking and phishing has another thing coming. MySpace has just launched MySpace Jobs, a new job and resume posting area powered by SimplyHiredthat isn't without a sense of humor: Searching for jobs works as expected at MySpace, but posting a resume strangely whisks you away from MySpace entirely to ...

There is a ton of excitement about the official release of Windows Vista at the end of the month (okay, I'm exaggerating). Nothing is more exciting than how many jobs it will bring with it. No, Microsoft will not be hiring on staff to fix all of the potential errors and holes in it, but they did do a study on the impact of the release. Microsoft came to the conclusion that the launch will see ...

The dust is just starting to settle around Moscone West in SF, so while everybody is enjoying their post-Stevenote cigarette ("Was it good for you?") here's some details on Apple's new announcements. First up - the State of iTunes address. To date, 2 billion songs have been sold on iTunes, current rate is over 5 million a day. Over 50 million TV shows and 1.3 million movies have been purchased ...