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The 5 Web Resources You Need to Find a Job in Search

Published: January 5th, 2009 by Syndicated

It’s a New Year, but we’ve got that same old economy from 2008. If you find yourself looking for a job in search, these five resources should be the foundation of your efforts:

Indeed.com - Culls results from a variety of jobs sites as well as job listings from company web sites. Searching here keeps you from having to go individually to a variety of sites. You can pull an RSS feed of your job search into your news reader, making your search process even faster. You’ll find results from:
- SEMPO
- Monster
- HotJobs (owned by Yahoo)
- CareerBuilder
- Dice
- TalentZoo
Twitter Let your followers know you’re looking for a job. I once did and had three leads in 24 hours. I got offers from all three. The Twitter community is generally a very compassionate bunch, raising money for good causes. Helping people find jobs is something I think we’ll see a lot of in 2009 - 2010.
LinkedIn Not only does LinkedIn have its own job listings, but here you can many times find the people who are doing the hiring or at least work in Human Resources at the company you’re interested in. Use your network to get introduced and create connections.
Craig’s List Answering an ad for a Search Marketing Copywriter on Craig’s List is how I got my start in search. Well, that and the great Marketing Don taking a chance on me.
Search Engine Watch Board - Rounding out the list is a completely shameless plug for our very own jobs board.

What resources do YOU recommend? Leave a comment and let us know!

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Google, Microsoft Higher Ups Dish Out the Dough for Obama Inauguration

Published: January 5th, 2009 by Syndicated

Execs from Google and Microsoft are ponying up big time for President-elect Barack Obama’s big day. On January 20, the former junior Senator from Illinois will become the 44th President of the United States.

Who from search is giving big for the shindig?

From Google:

Eric Schmidt (CEO) $25,000.00
Larry Page (Co-founder) $25,000.00
Marissa Mayer (Vice President, Search Products & User Experience) $25,000.00
Richard Costolo (former Feedburner CEO) $25,000.00
Chad Hurley (YouTube co-founder) $25,000.00
David Drummond (Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer) $25,000.00

From Microsoft:

Steven Ballmer (CEO) $50,000.00
Bradford Smith (Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary, Legal & Corporate Affairs) $25,000.00
Craig Mundie (Chief Research and Strategy Officer) $25,000.00
Steven VanRoekel (Senior Director, Windows Server Solutions Group, Microsoft) $50,000.00

So far from Yahoo, one lone donation, from an attorney:

Laura Covington $10,000.00

For a full list of donors, click here.

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China to Crack Down on Search Engines

Published: January 5th, 2009 by Syndicated

Bloomberg is reporting that China plans to crack down on search engines, among other sites they deem harmful. This certainly wouldn’t be the first time.

The reason this time is concerns over pornography. Of course, search engines don’t host pornography on their sites, they simply provide links to searchers. If China feels it has a pornography problem, the origination of that problem begins with the searcher, not the engine.

Web sites and search engines that ignore their new found regulations will face penalties and possible closure.

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UPDATE: Steve Jobs Weight Loss Due to Hormonal Imbalance

Published: January 5th, 2009 by Syndicated

UPDATE: Link to Steve Jobs Letter at Apple Site

Last week, Frank Watson reported to you that Steve Jobs health was in question. If you read a bunch of tech blogs, you’ve seen the rumors. Jobs once had cancer, and bloggers, journalists and Wall Street analysts have been wondering if it had returned because Jobs had lost a lot of weight.

The good news is that the cancer is not back. According to Fox Business (which I have on in the background, sorry no link yet, but check out the screen shot below) Steve Jobs has released a letter to shareholders acknowledging the weight loss and explaining that the doctors have finally determined that it is a hormonal imbalance. He is being treated and expects to gain the weight back.

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Phishing Scam Hits Twitter; Will it Become the Next MySpace?

Published: January 5th, 2009 by Syndicated

This morning, I received a direct message from one of my Twitter friends. It was a very strange message. Check it out:

I clicked on the link, which lead to this:

I checked the Tweet stream of the friend who sent me the direct message. She said she had been fooled into following a phishing scam.

She wasn’t the only one. Originally, the blogspot page directed people to another site which looked like the Twitter homepage. They signed in, giving away their user name and password. Of course, this helps spread the phishing scam via direct messages.

What really happened is that a mockup of the Twitter homepage was hanging out at a very bad URL. The good folks at Twitter captured this screenshot of the site:

These phishing scams hit MySpace pretty hard once it got popular. Now, it looks like we have to watch out for them on Twitter.

Phishing schemes kind of took the shine off the once popular MySpace. Looking back, I think it’s one of the reasons I stopped hanging out on the social network. I saw so many messages that weren’t from my friends even though it looked as though they were. I haven’t noticed the same on LinkedIn or Facebook yet.

If phishing hits Twitter consistently, then it might just be their demise.

What do you think? Did you get an unusual direct message? Think phishing could ruin Twitter? Leave a comment and let us know your thoughts!

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The 5 Web Resources You Need to Find a Job in Search

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Phishing Scam Hits Twitter; Will it Become the Next MySpace?

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