Part of the hidden job market means getting out there are talking to people at events. Well 99events, the event search engine has a new easy way to do that.
Just go to their Browse section and choose the city nearest you. Then from the left topic menu select ‘Career‘ and they will display all the career and job related events within a 10 mile radius.
Its a great way to find career fairs, job clubs and talks by resume writers and career coaches.
It probably wont be too long for drones to replace cameramen at football games or traffic copters that deliver you your morning traffic report. The FAA will open up civilian airspace in the USA in 2015 so that drones, or UAV’s (unmanned aerial vehicles) can roam freely by a pilot on the ground.
Surely this move will give rise to a new industry. According to the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, more than 70,000 new jobs (U.S.) will be created in the first three years following the integration of unmanned aircraft into the United States airspace system. Not surprisingly a new job board has sprung up to help staff this nascent industry.
You can read their full report here.
Are you an avid networker? Do you go to an event each week? Well a new site called 99events.com lets you search and discover more local events than ever.
When you do a keyword search or just enter a location it searches across 6 different events sites such as Meetup & Eventbrite and delivers them to you on one page. Try a a search like ‘career’ in Boston, MA to see a boatload of career related events. Its totally useful.
Well here’s something interesting. [ GIGJOB.com ] Its a job site with no jobs. Instead users sign up to get job alerts via email from top job sites including Monster, Indeed, etc. The job seeker just needs to fill out a simple form with the keyword and location of their choice and each day they’ll get one email with just those jobs that match. Not a bad idea especially if it saves you time in the job search process.
Solar is one of the fastest growing industries in this county. In fact solar jobs account for over 119,00 full time roles in the U.S. according to a new report by the Solar Foundation which released its National Solar Jobs Census last week.
The report also says that the solar industry added 13,872 new workers in the last 12 months, which was a 13.2% growth. Most of these were new workers. Also encouraging was the fact that half of all solar installation firms in the country expect to hire next year.
