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Download Squad job boards, whether you're hiring or looking for work


Need a sysadmin, coder, designer or other web working new hire? Virtual, on-location or whatever, the Download Squad job boards have you covered. Post your resume using emurse, or (better yet) post a job position in no time and immediately get an engaged, targeted audience of job seekers. We'll also start showing some search-powered job results on posts, like what you see here, but with a relevant job find:

Still not convinced? Did I mention that those looking for hires will see their jobs on our boards, on the boards at TUAW, plus those jobs are sent over to Juju, Simply Hired, Indeed and other job aggregation services. TUAW and Download Squad together serve up over ten million views a month, and serve over a million visitors each month. If you don't think your job posting will get seen, think again. We'll also write up interesting and amazing people and positions right here on the main page of Download Squad from time to time, further extending your hiring reach.

Try it and let us know what you think!

Filed under: Business, Developer, Finance, Internet, Web services, Microsoft

Microsoft moves software development into Canada

microsoft opening facility in vancouver With it getting harder for U.S. companies to recruit foreign nationals for jobs in the programming and engineering, could they all start a shift towards opening facilities in Canada?

Microsoft has announced that they will be opening a software development center in Vancouver. This will be set up due to the fact that it's getting extremely difficult to employ skilled workers with the present immigration quotas in place. U.S. businesses have been urging Congress to lift quotas on the number of visas issued by the government, making room for more skilled professionals especially in the software engineering field. And there is a big battle brewing over that between business owners, middle class Americans, and the Government. Bill Gates has been striking at engineering careers, saying that more American students could be convinced to enter the field if engineers from other countries are imported. However others see it as a threat to their country, and wage protections for U.S. workers. Is Microsoft really having trouble finding employees, or are they just having problems finding employees at the wage they are interested in paying?

Why the move to Canada? Canada does not employ such strict quotas on the number of visas it issues every year, with an emphasis on skilled laborers that are focused on starting a life in the country.

Microsoft is planning to open its Vancouver facility by the end of the year, with 200 employees, expanding to 900 within a few years.

[via eWeek]

Filed under: Business, Design, Developer, Web services

Start your own job board with JobCoin

jobcoin free job boardIsn't everyone in the Web 2.0 blog-o-sphere starting a job board?
JobCoin takes just moments to set up and get running, and provides website owners an extremely easy solution to jumping on the bandwagon starting your own job board . Site owners set their job ad rate, and JobCoin skims 30% off the top for providing their unique platform.

JobCoin doesn't recommend charging for postings unless you have at least 2 million page views, but it doesn't hurt to experiment if you have a dedicated audience.

Setting up the actual job board service is simple, open a free account and drop in a single line of HTML code into any page on your website where you want the listings to appear. HTML or CSS code can be customized as you please so it fits in with your websites design. With other job posting locations demanding in upwards of $300 per listing, you might have a possible money making machine on your hands.

Filed under: Internet, Web services, Social Software

MySpace launches MySpace Jobs

MySpace launches MySpace Jobs
Anyone who tells you MySpace is all fun (unless you're at an Apple Store), games, stalking and phishing has another thing coming. MySpace has just launched MySpace Jobs, a new job and resume posting area powered by SimplyHiredthat isn't without a sense of humor:

MySpace launches MySpace Jobs

Searching for jobs works as expected at MySpace, but posting a resume strangely whisks you away from MySpace entirely to SimplyHired's site to, no pun intended, get the job done.

All in all this feels like a great idea for such a massive social network, though one should probably clean up their profile before embarking on a MySpace job hunt.

As a side note: is the rounded corner design of the job search area (pictured above) quite possibly the first sign of any actual web 2.0-ness at MySpace, despite what Peter Chernin says?

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