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Take your dog to work today!

Today is Take Your Dog to Work Day, when many employees across the nation bring in their furry little family members to their workplace. If you wish this day could last forever, why don’t you look for a job where you can bring in your pooch every day?

In partnership with Dogster, Simply Hired brings you a Dog-friendly Companies search filter which allows you to search for jobs only at companies that are pet-friendly. You can also find the filter through the Special Searches page or listed under the Special Filters on any search results page.

Happy Limerick Day!

Today Simply Hired is celebrating Limerick Day, in honor of Edward Lear who popularized the humorous poems in English during the 19th century. In honor of the day, here are a few work-related limericks:

There once was a man named Bob
Who wanted to find a new job
But the work he could find
He thought unrefined
And Bob realized he was a job snob!

The man I sat next to at work
Always would drive me berserk
One day the fellow
Put my stapler in Jell-O
And looked at me with a sly smirk
(from Dwight’s perspective on NBC’s The Office)

Do you have a job-related limerick? Send them in!

Mother’s Day Spectacular

Hey all you working mothers out there! Whether you are changing careers or getting back into the workforce, Simply Hired has a lifestyle search filter that caters specifically to you! The Mom-Friendly Companies filter returns open positions at employers on the 100 Best Companies list that Working Mother magazine releases. These companies are named as the best employers for working moms based on the areas of workforce, compensation, child care, flexibility programs, leave policies and more.

There are plenty of open positions at the companies on Working Mother’s list. With the Mom-Friendly filter, you can find for example, Bank of America jobs, Bristol-Myers Squibb jobs, and IBM jobs.

Happy Mother’s Day!

Find a Job During March Madness

You don’t have to be a sports fanatic to know that March Madness is the highlight of the college hoops season. Even if you don’t have the height, athletic ability or even desire to be a basketball player and experience one of these NCAA tournaments first-hand, there are a surprising number of ways you can be involved and smell the scent of determination, victory and… lots of sweat.

No matter what your strengths, there is probably a way for you to get right into the middle of March Madness. Great amounts of public relations, marketing and advertising efforts go into spreading the word about the tournament to all those eager fans through newspapers, television, radio and Internet. In addition, lots of physical therapists, sports trainers and even massage therapists are needed during practices and game day to keep those athletes in tip-top shape. Various other workers include referees for the games, the sports writers and journalists to write up the game recaps, and the television producers and camera operators who film and broadcast the games for the rest of us. Even accounting is involved with all those ticket sales!

There’s something for everyone during March Madness. You might be only a step away from finding your dream job!

Happy Birthday SimplyHired.com!

It’s hard to believe, but SimplyHired.com is four years old! We’ve accomplished a lot over the past few years, but there is a lot more work to be done to make finding a job a simpler process. We’ve only just begun!

As a comparison, here are a couple of examples of the ways she’s grown. 

Countries served:
2005 - 1 (US)
2009 - 5 (US, Canada, UK, India, Australia)

Lifestyle Searches:
2005 - 0
2009 - 7

Number of blog posts:
2005 - 5
2009 - 240

Apple pies consumed:
2005 - 70
2009 - 14,363

Hamsters powering the site:
2005 - 3
2009 - 54

SimplyHired.com has gone through a number of changes physically as well. You’d hardly recognize her, she’s grown so much over the years!

2005

2009

We like to make changes to the site based on user recommendations. So let us know what we can do to give you a more positive experience on SimplyHired.com, send in stories about how the site's helped you out, or tell us your best job search haiku!

Check out the press release for some more facts about Simply Hired's growth!

Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You're off to Great Places!
You're off and away!

This week (specifically, on March 2nd) we celebrated the birthday of Dr. Seuss, the famed writer and cartoonist, widely known for his children’s books. In honor of his 105th birthday, here are some ideas for careers inspired by Dr. Seuss classics:

•    Look up cooking jobs and whip up some Green Eggs and Ham
•    Discover oceanography jobs and study One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
•    Find teaching jobs and help kids learn Dr. Seuss’ ABCs
•    With veterinarian jobs, you can care for that mischievous Cat in the Hat

And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)

KID, YOU'LL MOVE MOUNTAINS!

Celebrating Black History Month

February is Black History Month, the time of the year when we celebrate and reflect upon the lives of extraordinary African Americans throughout history. In honor of this month, we’re highlighting our diversity filter, which pulls jobs from Diversity Inc’s annual list of Top 50 Companies for Diversity. These companies are chosen based on their dedication to diversity in the workplace. The diversity filter can also be found under the special searches page or under the special filters on any results page.

Need ideas for a career change? Be inspired by what some famous African Americans devoted their lives to:

• Booker T. Washington – Educator
• George Washington Carver – Agricultural Scientist
• Margaret Walker – Writer
• Hank Aaron – Baseball outfielder
• Ray Charles – Musician

Supporting Our Community

Last November, Simply Hired participated in a food drive with all donations going to the Second Harvest Food Bank. We donated more than 2,000 lbs of food and over $500 this year to people in need! Because of the amazingly generous people who work at Simply Hired, the company was given a Gold Certificate of Appreciation at the Second Harvest Food Bank Reception, attended by some of our employees last week.

Thanks to all of the employees at Simply Hired who participated, and a big THANK YOU to the Second Harvest Food Bank for doing all the great work that they do!

Interested in helping out your community? Browse through our list of volunteer jobs or nonprofit jobs!

Fall in love with your job

It’s that time of the year again— girls are sighing, boys are groaning and there have been sightings of cute cherubs shooting heart-shaped arrows at unsuspecting people. Yes, tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. But today, there’s more to love than your significant other… you can love your job too!

Here are a few enlightening—and hopefully inspiring—quotes from people who believed “work” should be enjoyable:

“Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” - Confucius

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” - Albert Schweitzer

“I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.” - Thomas A. Edison

It’s not too late to work as a firefighter like you had wanted to since you were a kid. And you could trade in that receptionist job to be a graphic designer and put your artistic skills to use.

 If you don’t love what you’re doing, it’s about time you did! By performing a job search on Simply Hired, you might just find the job of your dreams. Happy Valentine’s Day!

 

A Haunted Halloween

Happy Halloween all you ghouls and boys!

For the past week, Simply Hired has had some frightening festivities to get in the Halloween sprit. We started it off last Friday with a company-wide pumpkin carving contest, where people really busted out their creative skills. Among the contenders were a globe pumpkin to commemorate our recent international release, a guillotine scene complete with fake blood, a cannibalistic pumpkin eating a smaller pumpkin hamburger, a larger-than-life Simply Hired logo, a Mr. Potato Head Dracula pumpkin, and Nemo (we found him). The hamburger-eating pumpkin was declared the winner.

Today was Simply Hired’s Halloween party which consisted of good food, lots of candy, games and the event we were all waiting for: the costume contest. I wish I had pictures of some of the costumes (maybe I’ll get some up soon) because if you thought our pumpkins were creative, these getups were absolutely amazing. They ranged from metallic robots complete with LCD lights, to big babies (the new father of the staff), to states of weather (hydraulics included), “customer engagement” proposing with flowers and ring in hand, and many more. If only every day was like this…

Have a spooky evening!