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Simply Hired Gives Back

Last Friday marked the end of Simply Hired’s office food drive to help feed the hungry this Thanksgiving. In last year’s drive, Simply Hired donated 1,901 lbs of food and $374.72 to Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. Our goal this year was to donate 2,000 lbs of non-perishable food items. Simply Hired came together for a wonderful cause, wheeling in shopping carts full of food to be given to those who need it the most, and the barrels overflowed. While we’ve yet to receive the actual poundage of our donated food, we gave $553.35 of cash donations to Second Harvest!

However you celebrate Thanksgiving this year (cooking a turkey dinner, visiting Plymouth, watching the Cowboys game…), have a safe day filled with family, friends and good food!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

What’s your preference?

As a job seeker, you probably already tweak your Simply Hired job search to your preferences. For example, you perform a search but realize the jobs that are appearing are too far from your home, so you adjust the radius to within 10 miles of your city at the top of your results page. Then you sort your results by date, deciding to apply to the jobs most recently added. And maybe as you click through page after page of results, you wish you could display 50 listings per page instead of 10.

Rather than adjusting all this every time you perform a search on Simply Hired, why don’t you set your search preferences? Just go to Search Preferences by clicking the link next to the “Search Jobs” box on the Simply Hired homepage or any search results page.

With Search Preferences, you can: 

• choose the number of jobs that appear on each results page
• restrict jobs based on the date they were posted
• choose whether you want job listings to open in the same window or in a new window
• restrict jobs based on proximity to the location you enter

After you’ve set your search settings to the way you prefer, just click the “Save Search Preferences” button.

By adjusting your search preferences, your job search will be exactly how you like it, every time you visit Simply Hired. Searching for a job becomes a much simpler process after setting your preferences and saves you time and unnecessary frustration.

Search for jobs the way you like at Simply Hired!

Meet your Simply Hired Folks, Part 2!

The Kennedy Information’s 2008 Conference & Expo is officially underway. Today marks the last day of the Expo, and the Sourcing and Retention Summits begin tomorrow. Gautam’s presentation was a hit yesterday, with as many (if not more!) people standing to hear him speak as there were people sitting. He’ll make two more appearances in tomorrow’s Sourcing Summit doing a presentation on Online Recruiting Web 2.0 Best Practices and participating in a Town Hall “Ask the Experts” discussion on all sorts of sourcing issues that might come to the table. Here are descriptions of the sessions:

Wednesday, November 19 - Sourcing Summit
2:55pm - 3:45pm; Online Recruiting 2.0 Best Practices
Hearing directly from an expert in the trenches, this session uncovers the latest Web 2.0 online recruiting insights and walks you through a practical “how-to” guide for tapping into the “new again” online recruiting market. You’ll get tips on how to start your online recruiting initiatives that you can implement today to attract and retain the new generation of talent. With the knowledge from this session in hand, you’ll learn how to gain significant recruiting efficiencies by effectively utilizing Web 2.0 technologies as an element of your recruiting mix. You’ll also gain clarity on how to navigate through the complexities of emerging social networks to identify and acquire the untapped passive candidates you need. The next big thing on the Web is here… are you with it?
Presenter: Gautam Godhwani, Co-Founder & CEO, Simply Hired

3:55pm – 4:45pm; Ask the Experts - a Sourcing Summit Town Hall
In this fast-paced hour, you’ll join sourcing pros Shally Steckerl, Glenn Gutmacher, Gautam Godhwani, Tim O'Connor, Dave Szary, and Josh Letourneau for a free-wheeling, candid discussion of sourcing issues large and small. And remember, no issue is too big or too small to discuss at Town Hall, so bring your biggest challenges and prepare to let loose!
Moderator: Shally Steckerl, Chief CyberSleuth, JobMachine
Panelists: Glenn Gutmacher, VP, Arbita Consulting & Education Services (ACES), JobMachine
Tim O'Connor, Talent Acquisition, Sourcing Manager, Hewitt Associates
David Szary, President and Founder, Recruiter Academy
Gautam Godhwani, Co-Founder & CEO, Simply Hired
Josh Letourneau, Co-founder & Managing Director, LG & Associates Search/Talent Strategy
Dave Mendoza, Author, Master CyberSleuth and Principle at Dave Mendoza & Associates, Inc.
Dave Pritchard, Director of Corporate Recruiting and Talent Acquisition, Jackson Healthcare

Meet your Simply Hired folks!

Next week, if you’re in Florida attending the Kennedy Information’s Recruiting 2008 Conference & Expo, you’ll have the chance to meet some of the amazing people who work at Simply Hired! The conference, held from November 16-19th in Orlando, offers workshops, speakers, exhibitors and more to leaders in recruiting. You can find us in the Expo Hall next Monday and Tuesday at booth #100. We’d love to meet you, so come by and say “Hi!”

Gautam Godhwani, Simply Hired’s own CEO and Co-Founder, will be attending the conference, and he’ll be busy! Here’s a peek at his Monday presentation:

Monday, November 17: 3:00pm – 3:45pm; New Sourcing Channels Online
Tired of the traditional online recruiting tools that only result in a few qualified candidates? Frustrated by the variety of sourcing options available that promise everything, but deliver disappointing ROI? This presentation focuses on giving insight into a variety of new online recruiting tools so that you can implement the right balance of passive and active sourcing activities to meet the needs of your business. During this session, you will learn about where the top talent is going online and what you can do to reach them. You’ll uncover new ideas around ensuring consistent quality and ROI. This session emphasizes the delivery of actionable next steps to improve your organization's sourcing capabilities.
Presented by: Gautam Godhwani, CEO & Co-Founder, Simply Hired

Sounds good, eh? Gautam will also be making two more appearances in Wednesday’s Sourcing Summit.

There’s more to come, so stay tuned!

Jobs on the radio

There’s a “new voice for career advice” on the internet: Jobradio.fm! The internet radio station features career experts, job seeker tips, interview strategies, industry trends and even an audio job board. Chris Russell, founder of Secrets of the Job Hunt and Jobs in Pods, and Peter Clayton of Total Picture Radio started the station with the intentions of broadcasting their career advice to job seekers.

Simply Hired exclusively sponsors Jobradio.fm. This site is a great compliment for Simply Hired, providing quality information and advice for job seekers to use in their job search!

You can tune into the station’s online stream at Jobradio.fm, or through your own media player such as Apple iTunes (found in the radio directory under the Talk/Spoken Word category), or Windows Media Payer, Winamp or Real Player using the stream URL: http://war.str3am.com:8010/listen.pls.