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If your local to Atlanta and your a contract or corporate recruiter I invite you to to join us for the monthly metro Atlanta recruiters channel.
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When: Tuesday, Oct 30, 2007, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
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Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Saturday, October 20, 2007
There is an upside to an increase in jobless rates in Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast: more available workers.
As Palm Beach County's unemployment rate dipped to a record-low 2.8 percent last year, employers griped that a shortage of workers made hiring a huge challenge. Now that the county's jobless rate has spiked to 4.8 percent, more people are looking for work and employers say recruiting is an easier task.
At least someone is benefiting from the rise in jobless rates in Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast. While unemployment held steady from August to September, according to a state report Friday, the figures are way up from the rock-bottom rates of early 2006.
Florida's seasonally adjusted jobless rate remained at 4 percent, unchanged from August, while Palm Beach County's unemployment rate stayed at 4.8 percent, also unchanged from August, according to the Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation.
Martin County's jobless rate dipped to 4.6 percent from 4.8 percent a month earlier, while St. Lucie County unemployment rose to 6.9 percent in September from 6.7 percent in August.
There was more bad news for Palm Beach County workers on Friday. Arbor E&T, a health care company in West Palm Beach, told state officials it would lay off 58 workers on Oct. 31. Eclipsys Corp., which announced this week it is relocating to Atlanta, said Friday its move from Boca Raton will result in 54 layoffs in February.
Higher jobless rates have helped employers such as Oxford International, a recruiting firm in Jupiter that had struggled to hire entry-level workers.
"It's much better," Oxford recruiter Dorothy Giannotti said. "Last year, it was like a graveyard."
West Palm Beach law firm Gunster Yoakley recently hired a receptionist in only two days. During the job market's record run in 2006, filling that position would have taken a month, said Marilyn Fong, the firm's human resources director.
Mike Meadows, co-owner of Big Mouth Advertising, a Wellington company that sells spots on trucks that serve as roving billboards, also is encouraged by the number of available workers. He attended a job fair Thursday in West Palm Beach to woo salespeople, and said he was heartened by the number of potential recruits who dropped off résumés.
"Mortgage brokers, real estate people - they were all there," Meadows said.
Indeed, the housing slump is largely responsible for weakness in the job market. Statewide, the construction industry shed 22,300 jobs over the past year. It's the first time since 1992 that the state has suffered seven consecutive months of year-over-year declines in construction jobs, the Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation said.
Employers still find it a challenge to hire workers with specific skills such as accountants, teachers, nurses and technology experts. Jason Gorham of CareerMetaSearch.com in Boca Raton said $50,000 marks an important dividing line in the job market: Those who make more than $50,000 tend to be scarce, while workers who make less are more plentiful.
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Cisco - Hiring C# .NET Software Engineer - San Jose CA
OSIsoft - Hiring Software Sales - Virtual
SYSCOM - ECM Workflow Services Northeast Senior Sales Executive - Virtual
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Atlanta, GA October 10, 2007 — CareerMetaSearch.com™ (www.careermetasearch.com), the world’s leader in passive candidate search, announced that it’s CEO, Jason Gorham will be the moderator of Driving Goal-Driven Web Traffic With Search Engine Marketing.
Driving Goal-Driven Web Traffic With Search Engine Marketing presented by Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs will be held on Thursday, October 18, 2007. The event is being held at the Georgia Tech ATDC 75 5th St NW Hodges room 3rd floor Atlanta, Georgia 30308.
“Search Engine Marketing is still a confusing subject to a lot of people, and this forum is a great place to learn about SEM”, said Jason Gorham, CEO of CareerMetaSearch.com.
“I’m happy to moderate the panel of SEM professionals that include Liz Jacobson- Automationdirect.com, Debbie Griffyn - MLS.com, Charles Lumpkin - Cornerstone Leads, Wei Yang – BKV, and Stacy Williams of Prominent Placement.” said Gorham.
“Jason Gorham's CareerMetaSearch.com uses SEM in one of the most innovative ways of which I'm aware so I'm really excited to have Jason moderating the Atlanta Web Entrepreneur's panel on Search Engine Marketing. I think his unique insight will help coax the most out of our panel of SEM experts and result in a truly valuable meeting for all our attending members" said Mike Schinkel, organizer of The Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs.
About CareerMetaSearch.com™
CareerMetaSearch.com is the world’s leader in “passive” candidate search technology, enabling enterprise class employers and recruiters to find the best qualified technology, executive and finance candidates, faster and cheaper than conventional job-boards, such as Monster or Careerbuilder. For more information regarding CareerMetaSearch.com, contact pr@careermetasearch.com or 800-897-7016, or visit us online at: www.CareerMetaSearch.com.
About Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs
Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs is a business-focused membership organization dedicated to developing a robust ecosystem supporting professionals and entrepreneurs in the greater metro Atlanta area who want to leverage the web for their businesses. For more information regarding Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs, visit http://www.atlanta-web.org or email organizer@atlanta-web.org.
The recent article in Fortune entitled Hot job: Selling Web ads is one that makes me snicker about how people don’t utilize the resources they have to recruit.
The article speaks of how pressed online advertising firms are to find great salespeople and how in-demand such people are. Companies are offering 2x salaries and using recruiters and paying higher fees in order to get people in the door. One of the missing items that I believe these types of companies are missing is the fact that they have their own recruiting tool at their disposal. What is it? It’s their own product and or business model.
Hiring a sales director "is the single biggest challenge that we have faced," says Dina Kaplan, co-founder of Blip.tv, a video-sharing site. Kaplan says she spends as much as six hours a day searching for the right person. She's close to a hire - "We're trying to steal someone from a TV network," she says - and may offer twice her own salary.
If you look at Blip.tv’s model which is a video sharing site what better way to recruit someone by using their own platform to do so? Create a very compelling, funny engaging video about what the company is searching for and distribute it via their network, Youtube etc. Make the job fund instead of tiresome, boring and spending six hours of your day doing so. This way Dina could not only push her product using her employment value proposition but she can recruit the person of her dreams by doing so.
I have seen this time and time again that companies don’t use their own tools to complete their own work, but rather go outside to spend ten times the amount of money to recruit someone. It may take a little more work, some phone calls but what better way to promote your company to recruit the right fit?