Showing posts with label careers and jobs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label careers and jobs. Show all posts

Monday, June 29, 2009

Expanded Job Board, Streamlined Tools at IMDiversity.com

Following IMDiversity's recent migration to a new jobs database and job tools format at http://jobsearch.imdiversity.com, the editors have begun to restore a number of previously popular jobs quicksearch features including our jobs by location and jobs by occupation quicksearches, our $100K-Plus Featured Jobs section, and our weekly Featured Jobs section.

Just one one new improvement to our job tools is that jobseekers can now quickly and easily schedule a Saved Search from any search results page to send them a job alert email whenever any new jobs match their custom criteria. Jobseekers can "subscribe" to a Saved Search agent without opening a full job tools account, but they will enjoy improved tools for managing multiple alerts and posting employer-searchable resume by creating a quick Job Tools account first

We've also added a much expanded network job search, greatly extending the range and variety of the job postings searchable from one site.

Stop back for updates about the new jobs center in coming weeks.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

IMDiversity Career Center Blog: Seasonal Special: Entry-Level and Student Job Opportunities

IMDiversity Career Center Blog: Seasonal Special: Entry-Level and Student Job Opportunities

The Editors are pleased to announce their work on our annual just-in-time features for our site visitors who are seeking entry-level or student internship/co-op employment opportunities before graduation.

We've added new readings and current opportunity updates to our Entry-Level/New Graduate and Internship/Co-op quick search channels, including the annual feature analysis, Job Outlook for the Class of 2009, by Dr. Phil Gardner, from our sister publication, THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Magazine.

The 2009 Outlook definitely looks bleak, says the director of the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan State University. But there are some remaining bright spots, as new grads in some majors continue to benefit from large retiree pool.

Nonetheless, it is clear that the class of 2009 faces a much more daunting task entering the entry-level job market than we've seen in many years. From our perspective as a producer of multiple jobs and careers sites, employers across a wide variety of sectors are clearly trending toward modest college hiring activity. Compared to this time last year, fewer new opportunities for new college graduates are being featured on our Entry-Level Channel. Anecdotally, many employers report they completed their planned college hiring activity earlier this season, or have scaled back on campus recruitment events.

But the outlook is not entirely hopeless, as we've discovered in an ongoing informal survey of employers this late winter, and IMDiversity is pleased to be a co-presenter of the 2009 Virtual Diversity Career Fair for recent grads and entry-level candidates being hosted on THE BLACK COLLEGIAOnline, and also co-presented this year by our friends at Black College Wire, the news service for Black college students.

Following last year's highly successful Pre-Graduation Virtual Career Fair, this annual online event feature the employers from the Top 100 Employers List, as seen in THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Magazine Second Semester Super Issue, plus other employers from a variety of sectors who confirm they are still seeking diverse entry-level candidates despite the economic downturn and decreased campus recruitment activity. Many are also seeking college students and new graduates for internships and coops.

We will post more about the Fair in the days to come, but in the meantime encourage IMDiversity.com student and entry-level jobseekers of all backgrounds, majors and career interests to visit the Fair, create a quick free THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Online Job Tools account using the Fair's quick preregistration form, and subscribe for Fair updates.