In most aspects of their lives, $100K+ earners have come to expect a higher standard of service. But when it comes to finding high-paying jobs online, senior-level professionals have had little choice but to scour the Web’s millions of job listings like everyone else. That is, until now.

Bridging the gap between traditional job boards and the personal attention of a career coach, RiseSmart – a new subscription-based site for $100K+ professionals – assigns each member an expert “Job Concierge” who is responsible for matching member profiles with the most relevant job openings. It’s the first high-end job site truly worthy of the high-end job seeker.

The High-End Job Site That $100K+ Earners Deserve
“Finding the right six-figure job opportunity among the millions of listings online is like searching for a needle in a haystack,” says Sanjay Sathe, RiseSmart founder and CEO. “Most $100K+ earners are too busy to spend countless hours visiting different job boards and poring through the many often-irrelevant positions returned in a typical automated search.”

Other $100K+ job sites, Sathe adds, offer only half-measures to address this problem.

“Other sites claim to have ‘exclusive’ databases that make searching for $100K+ jobs easier. While this may sound impressive, the reality is that these databases exclude many high-paying jobs their members would want to know about,” Sathe says. “And they still require subscribers to sort manually through automated search results.”

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As students begin their spring semester at college campuses nationwide, CollegeGrad.com, announces the Top 500 Entry Level Employers for 2008. Great news for the Class of 2008–entry level employers are increasing their hiring by 11.8% in 2008. This is the largest projected increase in entry level hiring CollegeGrad.com has seen since 2005.

The Top Entry Level Employers list represents more than 165,000 jobs for the class of 2008, and is available online at http://www.CollegeGrad.com/topemployers.

“This is an impressive number of openings for 2008,” said Brian Krueger, President of CollegeGrad.com. “Even in the midst of a challenging economy, college grads are in very high demand, and employers are competing to attract top skilled candidates in all industries.”

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Career Protection’s Annual 2008 Layoffs Forecast paints an ugly picture of cuts in jobs for this upcoming year. Over 1,375 corporate executives nationwide completed the confidential annual survey regarding workforce reduction plans conducted by the employment law and human resources experts of CareerProtection.com this month (Survey conducted January 2-25, 2008).

“This is our worst layoff forecast in the past five years for employees, as corporations appear ready to slash staff and layoff workers,” says Kirk Nemer, J.D., SPHR, President and CEO of Career Protection®.

“The only good news provided by Executives and Senior Vice Presidents in our survey was that companies were planning to provide severance pay during these difficult and stressful times,” Nemer stated. “However, it appears the severance packages will not be as generous in their severance pay as they have been in the recent past.” Nemer added that, “Employees should negotiate their severance package offers as they’re not a ‘take-it-or-leave-it’ situation. Companies will still require employees to execute a General Release of Legal Claims in exchange for receiving a severance package, so companies will negotiate its terms to obtain one from employees.”

Career Protection has been inundated this month with telephone calls from employees at Bear Stearns, Chrysler, Citigroup, Covidien Healthcare, Ford, GM, Indy Mac and Sprint Nextel, who have announced plans for reductions-in-force in January.

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AfterCollege, Inc., the nation’s largest career network for college students and recent graduates and Adicio Inc., the leading provider of interactive classified advertising software for media companies, today announced an alliance to facilitate access to AfterCollege’s career network for students and recent graduates. Through the alliance, Adicio’s newspaper clients will be able to upsell their job listings to the AfterCollege database.

AfterCollege maintains an exclusive network of over 1,500 partnering academic departments and student groups, as well as a proprietary database of over 19,500 faculty and student group contacts at the nation’s top colleges and universities. Through its network, AfterCollege delivers targeted job listings to a diverse audience of students who range from undergraduates to PhDs, with 84% having GPAs of 3.0 or above. AfterCollege helps the student find a part-time job or internship during school and upon graduation in their specific field.

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The Jobing Foundation announced today that it will officially begin providing locally-focused workforce development programs aimed at helping people improve their lives through career development. The Jobing Foundation, a newly formed nonprofit corporation, is dedicated to helping job seekers prepare for and find employment through outreach programs, partnerships, and volunteer activities in the local communities of eight different states.

“The Jobing Foundation’s mission is focused on helping people find better job and career opportunities so they can improve their lives,” said Vicki Steere, Foundation Executive Director. “The economic development of our communities depends on ensuring that we have a skilled and trained workforce to meet the growing demands of business. We believe that there is a delicate balance. Our programs will be designed to help people take a look into their future, educate them to become better job seekers, and help steer them towards those careers that both fit their personal passion and fulfill the needs of tomorrow’s business.”

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ChicagoJobs.com is pleased to announce the addition of the Chicago Reader to its network of affiliates. This valuable partnership will enable the site’s advertisers to target a more qualified audience to fill their job opportunities.

Joseph G. Shaker, General Manager of ChicagoJobs.com, says “the Chicago Reader assures the enhanced visibility of ChicagoJobs.com with its strong print and online presence.”

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Itzbig has been named to American Venture magazine’s list of 2008’s Most Promising Startups.

n its entry on itzbig, American Venture wrote that the company is “the technology leader in online recruiting,” adding that “itzbig is the first interactive network to allow working professionals to save time while safely exploring career opportunities. By focusing on quality and efficiency, the company’s innovative approach matches the quiet working professional with the appropriate position at the itzbig client.”

Jim McGovern, the CEO of itzbig, noted that “it is a tremendous honor to be recognized by a prestigious third party, such as American Venture. Our employees have worked very hard to create a value proposition that is unique and effective in the online recruiting industry.”

That value proposition has resonated with dozens of companies in Texas where itzbig launched in 2007.

“itzbig is different in that it allows us to find high-performing employees who would otherwise not feel comfortable exploring jobs on the Internet,” said Gary Thompson of Kimbia Software, Inc. “itzbig is attractive to these candidates because it offers privacy, security, and anonymity as well as the ability to see exactly how they match up against the specific job opportunity.”

“We were using more traditional recruiting methods for hiring a developer when we decided to go with itzbig. Immediately, we found what we were looking for. There’s no reason to go back to the old way of hiring new employees.”

Joel Cheesman, one of the most widely-read bloggers on emerging recruitment issues in the world, added that itzbig had it right from the start.

“Founders Jim Hammock and Hank Stringer are industry veterans who launched Hire.com almost a decade ago,” said Cheesman. “Add that experience with founder Asad Khan’s supply chain industry expertise and you have a winning combination that can reshape the recruiting industry.”

“This is a company that has plotted its growth in a very responsible way, expanding step-by-step out of its home state and doing its best to ensure both employers and applicants have an opportunity to connect in a meaningful way. itzbig has a sound strategy and is gaining momentum with some of the tech industry’s most dynamic employers.”

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Today, iCims released the company’s exceptional year-end summary, which highlighted record-breaking sales, industry-high customer retention rates, and an enhanced global presence.

This year nearly 180 new clients signed with iCIMS, bringing the company’s total customer roster to over 500 clients worldwide. In its eighth year of business, iCIMS has cemented itself as a premier full service Talent Platform provider; delivering a highly configurable, scalable solution to growing domestic and international corporations across all industries and sizes.

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Technology Alert: There’s a new tool that could have benefits for recruiters and marketers alike. It’s called Shoutlet and claims to be a social media marketing distribution tool. What’s that you ask?

Well if you want to distribute content … aka advertising, they will let you distribute that content via one interface to many social media outlets such as Odeo for podcasts and Pheedo for RSS feeds and TubeMogul for video. (TubeMogul itself is a very neat product)

According to their site, Shoutlet is the perfect tool for…

eBusiness: Use Shoutlet to boost sales and drive traffic to your site.

eMarketers: Get your brand message online and start harnessing the power of social media.

It strikes us that this tool is similar to what we’ve done at Jobs in Pods. Publishing social media in the form of ‘jobcasts‘ to multiple distribution points is something we’re good at. But for those companies that have job listings in a RSS feed, Shoutlet might be something to investigate.

We did a little research and they claim to have 200 social networks as part of their model. When we visited Odeo for instance it was unclear as to how they actually integrate with them. Our guess is they simple allow you to create an account on these sites which is easy to do outside of Shoutlet. But they do offer benefits like tracking, and easy to embed widgets.

The cost of this service is not listed on their site, although they claim to offer flexible pricing according to your budget.

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Job site Jobfox has secured another $20 million in funding. According to sources:

DFJ Growth Fund led the round, with partner Mark Bailey taking a board seat. Return backers Menlo Ventures and New Enterprise Associates also participated.

Additionally, this should free-up the company for further growth nationally and globally, including top U.S. markets and possible acquisitions in places like Australia.

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