Employers have a tremendous opportunity during this recession to fill job positions with great employees. Due to the downsizing of many companies, unemployment is up across the nation which means there are many qualified people looking for work these days. And with the ongoing recession having no end in sight, this is really an employer's market rather than a candidate's market. This is truly a time to add great talent to your workforce. Make sure you take advantage of the opportunity as this will only strengthen your company and you'll be even more prepared for when the business upturn happens.

So let's briefly review the hiring process in order to identify and hire great employees.

Four steps:

1. Understand the job position and know what you really want to hire
2. Take your time
3. Interview and ask the right questions
4. Getting started with your new employee

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MINNESOTAJOBS.COM Named a Top 100 Job Board

WEDDLE’s, world’s largest publisher of print guides to job boards, includes MINNESOTAJOBS.COM in the elite of the online employment services industry.

Stamford, CT. June 24, 2009

MINNESOTAJOBS.COM is pleased to announce that WEDDLE’s LLC, the world’s largest publisher of print guides to the 100,000+ job boards now operating on the Internet, has selected it as a Top 100 site. Called the “Zagat” of the online employment industry by the American Staffing Association, WEDDLE’s released its selections in conjunction with the publication of its 2009/10 Guide to Employment Sites on the Internet.

Why should job seekers care about this news? Because job boards work.

* In a recent survey of 17,000+ working men and women, using a job board was identified as the single best way to find a job in today’s tough environment. Over one-third of the respondents said they found their last job on a job board—more than four times greater than the next highest response—and almost two-thirds said they expected to find their next job that way.

* In the same survey, eight-out-of-ten employers said that new hires sourced online were among their best employees. For that reason, over a third of the respondents were filling half of their openings through job boards and over a quarter were actually filling three-quarters of their vacancies that way.

The challenge for working men and women and employers alike is figuring out which sites to use. The Top 100 list is one way to do that. The Guide describes each site in the Top 100 with a detailed profile of its services, features and fees for both job seekers and employers. It also includes a directory of over 10,000 other job boards organized by career field, industry and geographic focus.

"Our Top 100 employment sites are the elite of the job board industry,” says WEDDLE’s Publisher Peter Weddle. “They have the strongest brands, the best services and the most distinguished track records of the sites we’ve seen on the Web. Are there other good sites out there? Of course. But the Top 100 selectees are truly in a class of their own."

"We are truly honored to be the only Minnesota company to receive the most prestigious award in our industry." stated Sam Morse - CEO of MINNESOTAJOBS.COM. "We believe this award along with our clients' affirmation of our commitment to customer service validates our efforts to sustain a leading position in the employment Web site market."

The site selection methodology included a comprehensive review of information submitted by the sites describing their features, services and fees as well as information provided by job seekers, employers and recruiters who have used the site. In addition, each site was visited to assess its user experience and level of maintenance.

About MINNESOTAJOBS.COM

Since 1995, MINNESOTAJOBS.COM has remained laser focused on the Minnesota Employment industry connecting Minnesota employers and Minnesota job seekers. Our resource rich and easy to use career Web site has become a Minnesota fixture. We continue to strive to exceed our job visiting and employer clients' expectations.

Media Contact:
Sam Morse
763-784-9393
Sam@MinnesotaJobs.com


About WEDDLE’s

WEDDLE’s LLC is a widely regarded thought leader in the field of employment. It consults with employers, staffing firms and job boards on best practices in talent acquisition and publishes guides and other books to help working men and women realize their full potential in the 21st Century workplace. Its research has been cited in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today and in Money, Fortune, and Inc. magazines. As HRWire put it, “When in doubt, consider WEDDLE’s … an industry standard.”

Media Contact:
Peter Weddle
203.964.1888
peter@weddles.com

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The New York Times recently spotlighted a side effect of the current economic malaise—the meltdown of the summer job market.

"The job market of 2008 is shaping up as the weakest in more than half a century for teenagers looking for summer work," said the Times article. "Little more than one-third of the 16- to 19-year-olds in the United States are likely to be employed this summer, the smallest share since the government began tracking teenage work in 1948."

Before offering my tips on how to land a coveted spot on the payroll, let me mention how I lost a plum of a job one summer at Howard's Men's Store in St. Paul. Pay? Fine. But my ambition was honing my golfing skill so I could become a state high school champion. I got fired when I started asking for way too much time off to play in tournaments.

Collecting my walking papers from Howard's proved an unforgettable lesson in the summer school of life: Getting the job is not the done deal. Keeping the job every day is doing the deal.

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Minnesota's unemployment rate rose slightly to 8.2 percent in May on a seasonally adjusted basis. Employment fell by 1,600 over the month on a seasonally adjusted basis. The good news is that the job reduction rate was the least since August 2008.

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