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The Washington Post and job search engine Simply Hired announced Friday that they have inked a deal that will allow Washingtonpost.com users to access Simply Hired's database of listings on the publication's site. According to the companies, Simply Hired's listings will be placed in widgets on news story pages. Most of the listings will be in Washington, D.C., but there will be some national listings, too.
In what may be a strategy Hulu might pursue with more shows going forward, the company announced Friday that it has posted answers from Joss Wheldon, the creator of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Angel," "Firefly," "Dr. Horrible," and "Dollhouse" to questions posed by fans of the shows. According to Hulu, more than 200 people asked Wheldon questions and he chose from the bunch and answered some on the company's blog.
Conversation tracking service BackType announced Friday that it closed a seed round of funding that netted the company $300,000. The round was led by True Ventures. Along with its funding announcement, the company also launched two new services Friday. The first, BackType Connect, will allow users to enter a blog post URL and the service will find all conversations about that post from across the Web. The company also launched a new site called BackTweets, which lets users search for Twitter conversations concerning a particular keyword or online article. Both features are free and available now.
In a turn of events unlike anything you've seen, Delfina Pizza, a restaurant in San Francisco, Calif., has printed T-shirts for their employees to wear with comments made on Yelp about how bad the restaurant is. Each shirt features a different review by patrons who helped give Delfina its one-star review on the popular local reviews site.
TongXue, a rapidly-growing Chinese social network, has raised $6 million in a round of funding that was led by Tano Capital. TongXue, which means "classmates," was originally founded in 2006 by a Harvard Ph.D. student as a community for Chinese students studying in the U.S. According to the company, it now has over 10 million registered users and it will use the funding to invest in "product innovation and brand promotion."
If you're looking for a new career, don't waste your time with the newspaper. There are a slew of outstanding job search sites across the Web that make it easier to find the career of your dreams.
Here are five prominent job search sites worth looking at, and why. See also our reviews of five lesser-known job search services.
CareerBuilder
CareerBuilder is one of the largest job search sites on the Web, but it's also one of the best. Combining millions of listings with extras like resume help and free career tests, the site is an ideal job search service.
CareerBuilder may feature a slightly cluttered home page, but with all the features it offers, it needs to. The site goes beyond simple job searching and allows you to browse by industry or work with partner sites to get personalized help in finding the perfect career. It even remembers your location after you leave the site, so you'll automatically be updated with new job listings every time you return.
Overall, I was impressed by CareerBuilder's bank of jobs. Searching for every job listing within 10 miles of New York City yielded more than 12,000 available positions. When I searched for accounting jobs within 10 miles of the city, it returned more than 2,500 listings. To some, that may be overwhelming and scrolling through them may be difficult. I understand that, but I'm a firm believer that the more jobs there are, the better the chances of finding the right fit. That said, I found that approximately 15 of the listings I examined were old and almost 20 others weren't available after I clicked on them. Maybe the site needs to do a better job of removing stale listings.
CareerBuilder also features a "Narrow Search" function under the search field, which allows you to pick specific companies, locations, and categories. It's a useful function that cuts down on search time and significantly improves your ability to focus on a handful of positions you're interested in. But if you're unsure which company you'd like to work for or exactly where you'd want to work, this feature probably won't come in handy.
Narrow Search makes finding jobs easier.
(Credit: CareerBuilder)Indeed
With the help of a simple layout--two search fields and nothing else--Indeed makes it easy to search for a job in any given area. Indeed allows you to search online job listings, newspapers, and other job boards, but it also provides salary information, forums to connect people of similar interests, and a job trends search field that offers solid insight into the state of any industry.
Indeed's simple design.
(Credit: Indeed)I used Indeed to search for jobs in fields ranging from accounting to law and it worked well. It even did a fine job of finding obscure positions like volleyball instructors and piano lesson tutors. In fact, I found that Indeed had more job listings than its major competitors in most of the searches I performed.
But if you're looking for extra features like resume guidance, Indeed isn't the ideal destination. It does have some extras, but most of them fail to compare on any level to those offered by competing services.
Monster
Monster is a well-known site that has solidified its position as a major force in the job search market. But the site's suspect design and relatively few search results leave much to be desired.
Monster's Career Benchmarking tool is outstanding.
(Credit: Monster.com)If Indeed offers the simplest design, Monster's is the most cluttered. The site sports a basic job search field next to a location search, but below that, the page is inundated with ads, extra job search features that the average user may not care about, and a worrisome warning from the company saying its database was illegally accessed and sensitive data was stolen. Needless to say, it doesn't instill confidence.
When I started searching for job listings in New York, I was surprised that Monster only returned 5,000. Thinking it was a small issue, I then looked for accounting jobs in the city and the service only returned 544 active listings. That's less than half of what CareerBuilder and Indeed returned, but it should be noted that unlike CareerBuilder's results, every Monster listing I read was active. Unfortunately, Monster doesn't offer a "narrow search" function like CareerBuilder, so finding a specific company's listings was made more difficult than it could have been. That said, I was happy with how quickly the site returned search results. It was the fastest in this roundup.
Where Monster really shines is in its extras. The site features tons of career advice, resume help, interview guides, and application history so you can see which jobs you've applied for. One of the best features on the site is Monster's Career Benchmarking tool, which asks for information about you and determines where you stand in your field as compared to your colleagues. It's a great way to find out if you're achieving your career goals.
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