More and More jobs are being posted online making it harder and harder for employers to find good employees. The answer is for employers to use a site like Savannahjobs.com or or one in our group of sites. We spend everyday working to make sure they receive good traffic and job seekers find your positions. This allows employers to post a job with us and get the exposure they are hoping for. It is does not hurt that we are also the best value in town. Please read this information.

“Over the last 12 months, Online advertised job vacancies rose 24 percent for the nation as a whole, according to The Conference Board Help-Wanted OnLine Data Series released today. There were 4,365,000 unduplicated online advertised vacancies in April 2007 which includes 2,898,000 new ads that did not appear in March. Total online job ads in April increased by 610,600 or 16 percent from March, . There were 2.9 advertised vacancies online for every 100 persons in the labor force in April, with Over 476,200 ads posted for management occupations.

The fastest year-over-year growth was in the mid-section of the country with the West South Central and West North Central regions up 41 percent and 35 percent, respectively. The slowest growth was in New England, up 6 percent. San Jose ranks first with 7.18 ads per 100 persons in the labor force. Salt Lake City has the lowest supply/demand ratio in the nation.

Two of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas, New York and Los Angeles, were first and second in the absolute volume of advertised job vacancies in April, with 321,000 and 262,500, respectively. The top two metro areas in terms of advertised vacancies per 100 persons in the local labor force were San Jose (7.18) and San Francisco (6.80), followed by Austin (6.13), and Washington D.C. (5.95).”

Good article today on Yahoo Finance on career change. Most people could use some advice when this happens in their careers. With most people changing jobs at least 7 time in their careers. This will come up often.

Check out this article for some good tips

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I have read different stories for a couple of years about people blogging on a topic or industry and it turning into a full time job. This article appear on Yahoo Finance with some great examples. Bloggers increase their profile on a specific topic or industry which attracts companies from that industry. The labor market is so tight companies are looking anywhere and everywhere for sources of talent.

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Martin Sullivan spoke recently a the CEO lecture series. Great event at the First City Club. Click Here to Watch it Now

SavannahJobs.com has created a MySpace.com page to promote our sites SavannahJobs.com HiltonHeadIslandJobs.com and BlufftonJobs.com. You will see more and more business creating company profile pages. This is only help SavannahJobs.com family of site remain the #1 recruiting and employment resource for Savnanah Georgia. We have already had companies contact us about our services from the profile. So if you are a business I would recommend setting up a profile as soon as possible. This will allow you to reserve your company name or service you provide.

PLease visit our savannahjobs MySpace.com page.

Earlier this week USA Today had an extensive article on the extreme measures that companies are taking to hire and retain their employees. It is almost back to the days, 1999 to 2001, of huge sign on bonuses and free cars. Employers in the Savannah and surrounding market are also starting to feel the pitch. The unemployment rate in Savannah is very, very low. Lower than the overall rate for Georgia and Georgia is very low for the US. It is not easy to find good employees and employers need to be creative in their hiring practices. The newspaper is not a good value or resource in recruiting, online and a local focused job board is your best value and solution.

This is job recruiting? Businesses get more creative to woo top talent

I have attached an article that appeared on the finance page of yahoo.com today. Which by the way is a great site, I have been going to the site every workday for the last 7+ years. If you want a quick look at stocks and what is going to be happening on Wall Street, there is not a better site.

The article has 9 points for acing a job interview.

Acing A Job Interview

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I recently read an article that in January 2007 there were 3,141,800 unduplicated online advertised vacancies, according to The Conference Board Help-Wanted OnLine Data Series released January 31st, 2007, which measures more than 1,200 major Internet job boards and smaller niche and regional job boards.

What that means to employers is that the labor market is very tight, more and more employers are posting online. To make your positions stand out in the crowd make sure you have a detail job description with information on your company and the job. Also look to new mediums to draw extra eyes to your jobs.

More about that coming soon!

We just added a new feature on the site to help Employers that post positions track that resumes they receive are coming from SavannahJobs.com, HiltonHeadIslandJobs.com and BlufftonJobs.com When a job seekers clicks on the email link on your job the subject of the email is pre-filled with a subject about a resume from SavannahJobs.com and the position link is placed in the body. We want to give employers more ways to track their response to their ads and to show why SavannahJobs.com is an excellent value.

SavannahJobs.com is excited to announce a new feature that we have added to the site. When candidates are viewing jobs they now have the option to email a friend a link to the position. This allows people to easily refer people to jobs they are reading. As new features become available we will continue to describe them on the blog. Thank you for visiting the site.

This is an excellent article that appeared on Yahoo.com on how to leave an effective voice mail message. That might sound like an easy task but I receive messages all the time that I can not understand the number that is left by the caller. If you are currently looking for employment and leaving hiring managers messages, take a few minutes and read this article, it might make the difference in getting a call back. For more information:

The Art of the Perfect Voice Mail

The Advisory Alliance conducted the survey from late Sept 2006 to the end of October 2006. The results can be found at their site Advisory Alliance. Or you can link right to the TAA_ERS_Summary .

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If you are interested in seeing my Eye on Business interview on SavannahJobs.com you can watch it now. Just click play to see the video on youtube.com

My interview about SavannahJobs.com appeared today on WTOC EYE On Business segment.

A number of people have mentioned they watched it this morning. Hopefully I will have a copy of the interview posted here soon, in case you missed it.

I found this article on Yahoo business, great place for business news. The article tries to answer the question when have you outgrown your current job and you should look for a new one.

http://finance.yahoo.com/columnist/article/companyknow/11896

If you are driving down Abercorn St. and see a giant SavannahJobs.com ad on the side of a truck you have just seen the latest way SavannahJobs.com is reaching employees and employers.

We are always looking for ways to increase the visibility of the site, just another way SavannahJobs.com helps employers find better candidates.

I just read an interesting article about preparing for an interview. Be sure to read carefully the requirements of a position you are interviewing for. Make sure you can answer why you are qualified and have each skill or experience listed. Make sure if asked during the interview you can talk for 5 minutes or so about your background and why you would be a good fit for the position. Call it a 5 minute “sales pitch” about your self and experience. It will go a long way in impressing the employer that you are interested in their position and you took the time to do be prepared for the interview.

I was interviewed for a WTOC EYE On Business segment. It was an opportunity to talk about the benefits for employers in using SavannahJobs.com , BlufftonJobs.com and Hiltonheadislandjobs.com

The segment is shown at 6:55am on their morning program, when I know the date it is going to appear I will update this post.