Simply Hired Blog

Simply Hired Charity Challenge

Simply Hired is participating in a fundraising challenge at DonorsChoose.org to support teachers with creative teaching ideas but no resources to implement their ideas.

DonorsChoose.org is similar to Kiva, in the sense that donors get to directly choose the recipients of their donation. Donors can select the teachers, classes sizes, subject areas and locations that interest them and afterwards will receive feedback from the teachers regarding the impact that their contribution.

Simply Hired is currently in the lead for the amount of money raised, but we think it’s a great cause and still have a ways to go to get all of our class projects funded.

If you're interested in supporting creative teaching in our public schools, please join us by contributing to the Simply Hired Challenge at DonorsChoose.org.

New, Stellar Homepage!

For those of you who concern yourselves with such nerdly trivia, now is the time to get outside in the small hours to view the Orionid meteor shower. If you haven’t treated yourself to a late-night (or early morning) peek at this phenomenon, you should!

Now you’re probably wondering why we’re waxing astronomical. Glad you asked! The meteor shower is a phenomenon wherein many small events, relatively insignificant on their own, coalesce to form a larger and quite spectacular event that can be seen all over the sky. In much the same manner, our stellar (pun intended!) team of User Experience Professionals have contributed a sparkling array of sweet little updates to Simply Hired’s Astronomically Useful search engine. To wit:

1.) New user? Not even sure what you’re looking for? No problem. We’ve devised separate homepages for new and returning users. Newbies will see a set of browse-friendly links to help jumpstart their job search. Returning users will see New and Improved links offering to re-execute their recent searches or set up email alerts or RSS feeds.

2.) We’ve equipped our results page with the ability to show you only jobs we’ve found since your last visit. So it’s faster, easier to scan, and won’t clutter your brainpan with old news.

3.) Oh, and we made the form fields bigger. You don’t have to thank us – this job is its own reward.

Happy hunting!