Perhaps the following PR contributed to the $11 surge in YHOO today:
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11/02 08:11 Yahoo! Employment Launches Today <YHOO.O>
Yahoo! Employment Launches Today Comprehensive Online Career Resource Center Helps Consumers Find Jobs SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Looking to land that first job, make a career change, or start a new business? Why not try walking the Web instead of pounding the pavement. Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) today announced Yahoo! Employment ( employment.yahoo.com ), a robust new guide to researching and finding career information. Expanding on Yahoo! Classifieds' extensive nationwide database of job listings, Yahoo! Employment adds employment news and feature articles, in-depth industry and company profiles, areas for the college graduate and aspiring entreprenuer, salary and benefit information, relocation resources, networking forums, and links to businesses and career-related Web sites. Yahoo! Classifieds is the leading classifieds' site on the Web among home and work users. (Media Metrix, September 1998.) "Yahoo! Employment is designed to help both job seekers and employers make informed decisions and is a great tool for managing a career," said Noah Parsons, producer, Yahoo! Employment, Yahoo! Inc. "Yahoo! Employment supplements job searches by giving users access to reputable resources, in-depth information and career-planning tools in one place. The site also offers recruiters and employers an effective way to reach future employees." Whether looking to hire or get hired, Yahoo! Employment helps job applicants and employers connect. The site provides users with access to the most extensive job database on the Web with more than 360,000 listings and 15,000 companies aggregated from industry leaders including CareerBuilder's Network, Career Mosaic, DICE, Headhunter.net, Hot Jobs, The Monster Board, Net-Temps, and Virtual Job Fair. Through Yahoo! Employment, job seekers can easily create and post their resumes to reach interested companies. Recruiters and employers can effectively reach job applicants by filling out the online forms to submit and post job openings. Finding That Dream Job Whether heading off into the real world after graduation or making a career change, understanding the employment landscape is crucial. To ensure Yahoo! users have access to career-related news and information, Yahoo! Employment recruited careers.wsj.com, the free job-search and career-guidance site from The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition. Monday through Friday, career.wsj.com will deliver daily columns highlighting trends in the job market. Careers.wsj.com is also providing a wide range of timely feature articles for Yahoo! Employment content areas including: Salaries & Benefits, Advice, Work Success, College Central, and Entrepreneuring. Editorial coverage includes topics such as: resume writing, interviewing and networking strategies; finding a job out of college; negotiating salaries; starting a business; making a career change; balancing work and family time; relocation guidance; and employment trends and regional hiring profiles. Getting to know a potential company is also important for those seeking to find a job. Teaming up with WetFeet.com, a leading Web-based company and industry research service for job seekers and employers, Yahoo! Employment offers Company Profiles, which are objective, in-depth, four-page interviews conducted by WetFeet.com researchers with in-house recruiters. Profiles cover culture, career opportunities and contact information. WetFeet.com is also providing comprehensive Industry Profiles to help Yahoo! Employment visitors learn more about fields to consider for a career. Industries include financial services, high tech, advertising and public relations, consumer products and management consulting. To supplement the job seekers' research, Yahoo! Employment also teamed with VaultReports.com, a leading research and recruitment service for job seekers, to provide users with brief overviews of popular career choices and one-page company capsules on more than 1,000 public and private companies. Those interested in getting wired for work in technology will want to check out the High Tech area, featuring articles and information provided by Westech's High Technology Careers Magazine. Navigating the Net to Choose a Career From interns to entrepreneurs, Yahoo! Employment provides areas tailored to job-seekers' needs. For those contemplating their first job out of college, Yahoo! Employment offers College Central -- an online training ground for job-search success. Designed for students and graduates, College Central offers targeted information for first-time job seekers on how to choose a career, interview well, land an internship, succeed on the job, and understand career-related lifestyle issues. For aspiring entrepreneurs, Yahoo! Employment offers information tailored to meet their needs. Teaming up with Palo Alto Software's Site Network, Yahoo! Employment offers users access to start-up business information and advice from www.bplans.com, and excerpts from "Hurdle: The Book on Business Planning." Those interested in starting a new enterprise can also visit Yahoo! Small Business, a comprehensive online resource designed for small business professionals. Convenient Briefcase of Resources Need a tip about how to successfully get a raise? Want advice on interview techniques? Looking for the nearest copy center? Yahoo! Employment helps job seekers get the answers to these and other relevant questions. Through links to Yahoo! Finance and Yahoo! Real Estate, job-seekers interested in making a career move to another city can find out what they will need to know about relocating including salary and city comparison features, geographic profiles, and maps for navigating around town. With the salary calculator, users can even determine what they will need to earn in a new city to maintain their current lifestyle. In addition, job seekers can access the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook to look up compensation information on more than 200 occupations. For those who want to share career advice, Yahoo! Message Boards offers a variety of options for networking. The new site also offers links to Yahoo! Yellow Pages, making it easy for job seekers to find a local copy center, temp agency, resume service and even the neighborhood post office, making the job-search easier. About Yahoo! Yahoo! Inc. is a global Internet media company that offers a branded network of comprehensive information, communication and shopping services to millions of users daily. As the first online navigational guide to the Web, www.yahoo.com is the single largest guide in terms of traffic, advertising, household and business user reach, and is one of the most recognized brands associated with the Internet. The company has 14 international Web properties outside the United States. Yahoo! has offices in Europe, the Asia Pacific and Canada and is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. NOTE: Yahoo! is a registered trademark of Yahoo! Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. SOURCE Yahoo! Inc. -0- 11/02/98 /CONTACT: Dana Young of Yahoo! Inc., 408-616-3631, or danay@yahoo-inc.com; or Michele Scott of NRWPR, 650-827-7076, or smichele@nrwpr.com, for Yahoo! Inc./ /Web site: yahoo.com -- SFM029 -- 3844 11/02/98 07:55 EST prnewswire.com Copyright PR Newswire 1998. 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