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Social Job Hunting Trifecta: Opportunity, Insider Info and Connections

Posted by • February 3rd, 2012 • 8 Comments

This week, Glassdoor is merging two other streams of data to create a single environment for job hunters. Glassdoor has always had a flow of millions of job listings. When people come to research jobs and companies, they get the web’s most comprehensive picture of the inside of the company, the jobs available, what it’s like to work there and the details of the hiring process. With Inside Connections, Glassdoor allows job hunters to harness their Facebook network to round out the rest of the services. Using Facebook to log in to the site makes it possible for Glassdoor to evaluate your Facebook network to see who can help you with the job hunt.

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Glassdoor Adds Facebook Tool; Helps Job Seekers Find Inside Connections™ At Companies

Posted by • February 1st, 2012 • 6 Comments

Glassdoor, a jobs and career community, has just launched a new tool to help job seekers get the answers to all those questions and more. The new tool, Inside Connections™, leverages your Facebook network to help you find an ‘in’ at specific companies where you’d like to work. You may be surprised on who has that ‘in’ you’re looking for – it could be a friend you grew up with, a fraternity brother or sorority sister, a co-worker, someone from your basketball fantasy league or perhaps even your own mom.

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Live Chat: Getting Your Resume Past The Black Hole

Posted by • January 23rd, 2012 • Leave a comment

Join Wall Street Journal’s Careers Reporter Lauren Weber and Glassdoor’s Career and Workplace Expert Rusty Rueff to get your questions answered about resumes, job applications, interviews and landing a job.

Tuesday, January 25 at 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT

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Employee Confidence In Job Market & Pay Raises Increases; Unemployed Job Seekers More Optimistic

Posted by • January 5th, 2012 • 2 Comments

The New Year is off to a good start with both the employed and unemployed showing increased confidence in the job market. In the latest Glassdoor Employment Confidence Survey, employee optimism related to the job market, company outlook and pay raises increased in the fourth quarter of 2011. In addition, pessimism among the unemployed fell to a new low in the fourth quarter, with just 21 percent of unemployed job seekers reporting they think it is “unlikely” they will find a job in six months, down 11 points from the third quarter of 2011 to the lowest level since Glassdoor initiated this survey in 2008.

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VIDEO: Facebook And Bain & Company Employees Explain Why Their Companies Are Best Places To Work

Posted by • December 14th, 2011 • 36 Comments

Glassdoor’s fourth annual Employees’ Choice Awards reveal the top 50 Best Places to Work in 2012, an award solely based on reviews by employees. Employees at the #1 company overall, Bain & Company, and the #1 tech company, Facebook went beyond the reviews and give an inside look through video, really showing what it’s like to work at these companies.

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Facebook Continues To Hold Lead As Top Tech Company; Tech Industry Report Card 2012

Posted by • December 14th, 2011 • 40 Comments

In Glassdoor’s fourth annual Employees’ Choice Awards, a list of the 50 Best Places to Work for 2012, Facebook holds on as the top rated tech company, according to employees. In the annual report, Facebook slipped to the #3 slot from its #1 position last year as its overall rating dropped to 4.3 (based on a 5-point scale) from 4.6 a year ago.

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Top 50 Best Places To Work – 2012 Employees’ Choice Award Winners Revealed

Posted by • December 13th, 2011 • 57 Comments

In Glassdoor’s fourth annual Employees’ Choice Awards, which recognize the 50 Best Places to Work for 2012, Bain & Company, McKinsey & Company, Facebook, MITRE and Google take the top five spots. More than 250,000 employees sounded off on what it’s like to work at more than 65,000 companies during the past year and shared the good, the bad and everything in between.

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Employees Bonus Expectations High In 2011, Cash Is King

Posted by • December 6th, 2011 • 7 Comments

Employees are sending a clear message this holiday season: they expect a bonus and they want it to be cold, hard cash. And forget the holiday party, even with an open bar.

A new survey by Harris Interactive®[i] finds that the majority of employees say they would prefer a cash bonus this year (72 percent), followed by a salary raise (62 percent) and additional paid time off (32 percent).

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Jobs In Retail: Cashiers – Who’s Hiring, What They Pay & More

Posted by • November 4th, 2011 • 4 Comments

Looking for jobs in retail? Want to try your hand as a cashier? We looked into some well-known retailers to find cashier jobs open right now and share with you what it’s like to work there from current cashiers at these companies along with what you can expect to earn.

Check out these five companies hiring cashiers now…

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Top 10 Highest Rated Companies Hiring For ‘Big Data’ – Report Card

Posted by • November 3rd, 2011 • 1 Comment

For the past year or more the term ‘Big Data’ has been spreading like wildfire, and as a result, companies are investing in Big Data and hiring all sorts of specialists to support it.

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