Niche Sites Catch On With More Job Seekers
Last year, when Craig Lund decided he wanted a new job, the media sales manager chose a common path: He posted his resume on Internet job boards.
In less than a month, he was named Toronto account director for Aquent Marketing Staffing, a division of Boston-based staffing consultants Aquent Inc. But Mr. Lund didn't land the job through one of the giant boards, like Monster.com or its Canadian equivalent, Workopolis.com. He found it on a much smaller site -- one that targets a select group of job seekers based on salary, profession and experience.
As the online job-listing market matures, niche sites, with their fewer and sometimes more relevant listings, are gaining in popularity. Like Mr. Lund, many job candidates have launched searches on both large and niche sites at the same time and say the niche sites produced faster results that were more targeted to their interests.
"Monster works well for a lot of people," says Adrian Tompsett, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management. It just didn't work for him. Mr. Tompsett says he found his job through HBS Tech Jobs, a niche site aimed at tech-industry M.B.A.s from a handful of top M.B.A. programs. The site can be found in the Yahoo Groups section of Yahoo Inc.'s search engine.
"The jobs are all current," says Mr. Tompsett, now the business-development director at ChoiceStream Inc., a consumer-marketing firm in Cambridge, Mass. "There is good follow-up from jobs on the list, and it isn't digging through a bunch of stuff that isn't that relevant to me."
Specialized boards today make up some 70% of the roughly 40,000 job sites on the Web, compared with 50% or 55% of the sites in 2001, says Peter Weddle, editor and publisher of Weddle's Guides, of Stamford, Conn., a series of printed and online guides to Internet job sites.
Niche sites themselves are reporting strong growth in postings and unique visitors. Tech-focused Dice.com, run by Dice Inc. of New York, says it listed some 76,454 tech jobs in January, up 37% from a year earlier. Unique visitors grew 37% as well, to 1.9 million, over the same period.
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Being seduced by Pinot Noir has never been so irresistible!
SEBASTOPOL, CA: On Saturday, February 10, 2007, consumers, press, and trade will gather for the remarkable “Passionate about Pinot Noir Summit.” Held at 1 Fort Mason in San Francisco, an extraordinary array of palates will gather to assess “the best of the best,” from the 2007 Pinot Noir Shootout finals held this past January 17, 2007.
The Fifth Annual Pinot Noir Shootout included Pinots from around the globe, including France, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand. Stateside, California and Oregon dominate wine submissions; however, Pinots have also come in from Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Washington.
Unique aspects of the PN Shootout:
The most comprehensive and focused tasting of Pinot Noir in the US, utilizing an incredibly diverse panel of experts.
The only competition where a food & wine element is introduced - comparison of reactions of the wines with and without food by two different, but equal, panels.
Just 32 wines are tasted by the experts per day (four flights of eight wines each), allowing the judges to be completely immersed, focused and fair to the wines.
There’s no palate fatigue as a factor.
The wines are tasted completely blind without reference to appellation, vintage or price.
The Summit will carry the theme through as above allowing the attendees to taste the wines blind without food and then taste the same wines and lots of other wonderful pinots later at the reception food. Those winning wines will be the focus of The Final Showdown.
Tickets are available to all "On the Grapevine" subscribers (that means you!) at a discount of $25 off per person (regular fee: $100.00). Click here to purchase tickets - enter "pinot lover" (all lower case) in the special code box to avail of this special offer.
Each person may attend two workshops.
The Fashion of Pinot Noir ~ Who is driving the fashion?
A Question of Style ~ Winemaker panel will discuss their "style" and tasting
Discovering New Stars ~ An introduction and tasting of wines
Location, Location, Location ~ An exploration of appellations
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2006 Hospitality Industry Wage & Benefit Salary Survey Results are in!
Outside the Lines, Inc has released the reports of their Annual Wine, Full-Service Restaurant and Hotel/Lodging Industry Wage and Benefits Surveys. Each of these comprehensive surveys are targeted specifically to the respective industries and cover entry level through senior management positions for companies throughout the United States & Canada. The surveys were open for participation to qualifying companies from September 1 through December 31, 2006. To order reports, call 707.996.2234 or email
info@otlconsulting.com
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New opportunities with Outside the Lines, Inc
High-End, Professional, Executive Administrative / Personal Assistant
Fabulous surroundings!
We are seeking an outgoing, enthusiastic and highly professional individual with at least 5 years prior experience supporting one senior executive.
Experience in finance a plus!
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COO / Business Development Mgr - Food Manufacturer
New opportunity with International company.
Seeking individuals with 10+ years of commerical experience in the specialty food business.
Great opportunity to build a business and benefit from its growth!
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We are now conducting a Wine and Hospitality Industry Turnover Survey.
The survey consists of 4 questions only and should take less that two minutes. Results will be provided to any company that participates and provides an email address.
Click here to begin
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