Local Job Board Accommodates Companies Racing to Enter

Campbell, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/13/2011 -- Good news for companies from across the Bay Area clamoring for more time to get their entries in; BAJobs.com has granted an extension for the contest deadline. Companies now have two more weeks to prove that they're the best place to work in the San Francisco Bay Area. According to Assistant Marketing Manager Mitch Kocen, it's an issue of keeping the playing field leveled. "The contest allows for multiple entries from the same company" explains Kocen "So while some companies have quickly coordinated their entries, others are trickling in. We've been hearing that there are companies out there who want to participate, but just need a little more time. So we're giving them a little more time."

The contest asks employees to report on what makes their workplace special, from top level benefits to extended medical leave to green and socially conscious initiatives. BAJobs.com is taking the size of the company into account, so smaller companies without the same resources as the area's tech giants are able to be competitive in the rankings.

The job board has been impressed by the responses so far. Marketing Director Skye Callan says "The sheer volume of companies that we've seen represented so far really highlights just how great of a place to work the Bay Area really is. There are so many companies that go above and beyond for their employees. I can't think of a better part of the country to be looking for work right now. We just want to make sure that we're getting a full spectrum of responses." Adds Kocen, "After all, we're looking for the best company, not the fastest company."

Employees who think their company deserves to win the Top Bay Area Employer contest can visit http://topbayareaemployer.bajobs.com/ and fill out the short entry form before April 15th.

About BAJobs.com
Established in 1997, BAJobs.com has become a staple for both Bay Area employers and job seekers. Focusing on the fact that hiring takes place at the local level, the site features jobs being offered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with opportunities in banking, biotechnology, manufacturing and more. BAJobs.com makes it easy for job seekers to connect to local employers through their job search tools and comprehensive resume database.

Contact:
Skye Callan, Marketing Director
408-454-2231
http://www.BAJobs.com

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Competition is Fierce to be Considered One of the Top Places to Work in the Bay Area

Campbell, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/22/2011 -- As BAJobs.com's contest to name 2011's top employer in the Bay Area approaches its closing date, companies in the area are rushing to get their nominations in. From the high tech giants in Silicon Valley to the start ups in San Francisco, every company with a presence in the area is eligible to participate.

"We've been thrilled with the response that we've gotten so far" says Assistant Marketing Manager Mitch Kocen. "It's great to see large and small companies represented. We're offering prizes in two size categories, so companies that lack the resources of the larger companies can compete on their own terms. We've seen nominations from the big name companies you'd expect in a contest like this, but growing companies looking to raise their profile are taking part in a big way. When you're looking to build a team at a fledgling workplace, nothing is better than a reputation as being an amazing place to work."

Winners of the Top Bay Area Employer contest will receive an exclusive award badge that they can proudly display on their career site. The contest is free to enter, and multiple employees from the same company are allowed to submit nominations. In fact, according to Marketing Director Skye Callan, several nominations from the same company are encouraged. "With so many great companies in the Bay Area already participating, contestants need a way to really stand out as the best company. If we get entries from many employees, it demonstrates that the perks the company offers benefit employees at all levels. The more, the merrier! One local company had more than ten unique nominations!"

Employees who think their company deserves to win the Top Bay Area Employer contest can visit http://topbayareaemployer.bajobs.com/ and fill out the short entry form before March 31st.

About BAJobs.com
Established in 1997, BAJobs.com has become a staple for both Bay Area employers and job seekers. Focusing on the fact that hiring takes place at the local level, the site features jobs being offered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with opportunities in banking, biotechnology, manufacturing and more. BAJobs.com makes it easy for job seekers to connect to local employers through their job search tools and comprehensive resume database.

Contact:
Skye Callan, Marketing Director
408-454-2231
http://www.BAJobs.com

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Local job board targets job hunters and daters in equal measure to provide much needed information.

Campbell, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/21/2011 -- As Valentine's Day approaches, the set of job hunters who also happen to be single begins to shift its attention from finding work to finding love. In order to help keep their audience on track, BAJobs.com has released a list of ten reasons why dating and job hunting are similar. Says Assistant Marketing Manager Mitch Kocen, "The skill sets you need to use to find a date and the skill sets you need to find a job are not that far apart. It's just a matter of understanding how they're similar to figure out how to crack both." To that end, BAJobs.com has created a list of how finding a job and finding a date are similar:

1. You feel compelled to lie over e-mail.
2. The ones your mom finds for you are rarely the ones you want to spend the rest of your life with.
3. As soon as you finish college the pressure is on to find a good one and settle down.
4. If things works out, you change your Facebook status.
5. Onions are the enemy when meeting for the first time.
6. You will be Googled.
7. You might think you can get all the benefits without any of the responsibilities, but you'd be wrong.
8. Knowing a little bit about the other party ahead of time is being prepared. Knowing too much is creepy.
9. Be confident and engaging, but don't exaggerate too much about prior experience.
10. Someone is much more likely to be receptive to meeting you if you're introduced by a mutual friend. Networking is key to weed out the creeps.

If you're ready to put these lessons to the test and open your heart to finding a new job, visit BAJobs.com today to set up a free account!

About BAJobs.com
Established in 1997, BAJobs.com has become a staple for both Bay Area employers and job seekers. Focusing on the fact that hiring takes place at the local level, the site features jobs being offered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with opportunities in banking, biotechnology, manufacturing and more. BAJobs.com makes it easy for job seekers to connect to local employers through their job search tools and comprehensive resume database.

Contact:
Skye Callan, Marketing Director
408-454-2231
http://www.BAJobs.com

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Local job board looking for nominations to honor the best places to work in and around San Francisco.

Campbell, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/10/2011 -- As more jobs open up in the San Francisco Bay Area, it's becoming important again to find ways to stand out and attract higher caliber job seekers. Some do so through attractive benefits, others through office perks that help create a strong work/life balance. With so many choices, Bay Area jobseekers are clamoring for an impartial ranking of the best companies to work for. BAJobs.com is filling this need with their annual Top Bay Area Employer contest.

The nomination process asks current employees to list their favorite things about their company, from extensiveness of medical benefits to travel reimbursement. By placing the data collection in the hands of the company's employees, BAJobs.com will get the most accurate picture of the working conditions possible. "Our strategy is to get the information directly from the people who most benefit from these improvements," says Marketing Director Skye Callan. "People love to brag about how great their company is."

Assistant Marketing Manager Mitch Kocen has hopes for the contest beyond bragging rights. "Companies around here get competitive. If someone doesn't win this year, we're hoping they step up their game and take it next year."

The winners will be announced in May 2011. Winning companies will receive an exclusive award icon to display on their career pages, signifying them to Bay Area job seekers as one of the top companies in the area. Says Kocen, "Our audience has come to identify BAJobs.com as a mark of quality. A badge like this on your career site is going to single you out as a company worth getting excited about."

Knowing that there's a big difference in the resources between the behemoths headquartered in the Bay Area and the smaller startups, the contest will award two prizes, based on company size. "The contest is also open to companies who aren't headquartered in the Bay Area" clarifies Callan, "So long as the Bay Area branch is the one that offers the reported benefits."

Employees who think their company deserves to win the Top Bay Area Employer contest can visit http://topbayareaemployer.bajobs.com/ and fill out the short entry form before March 31st.

About BAJobs.com
Established in 1997, BAJobs.com has become a staple for both Bay Area employers and job seekers. Focusing on the fact that hiring takes place at the local level, the site features jobs being offered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with opportunities in banking, biotechnology, manufacturing and more. BAJobs.com makes it easy for job seekers to connect to local employers through their job search tools and comprehensive resume database.

Contact:
Skye Callan, Marketing Director
408-454-2231
http://www.BAJobs.com

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Local Job Board Risks Getting Coal in Their Stockings to Spread Holiday Cheer

Campbell, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/15/2010 -- As the holidays approach, and people begin to get swamped down by all of their end of year office chores, it becomes hard to have perspective on how good most of us have it. This holiday season there's someone who almost certainly has a worse job than you do, even if you do not currently have a job. To that end, we've compiled 10 reasons why your job is (probably) better than Santa's:

1. You don't have to spend most of your work night crawling through tight places
2. You never have to spend time at a mall with children on your lap, alternating between endless demands and abject horror
3. You get Christmas off
4. Tim Allen has never played you in a movie
5. You may have to work with unreasonable deadlines; he works with impossible deadlines
6. He's surrounded by unhealthy snacks on the job
7. You never need to convince someone that your job is real
8. Santa does all of his traveling downwind of livestock
9. Santa doesn't get to retire. He's been in the same job since the 17th century
10. NORAD doesn't track your every move

This of course isn't an invitation to rest on your laurels. Says Marketing Director Skye Callan, "Just because some seemingly jolly old elves are in a worse work situation than you are doesn't mean you shouldn't keep an eye out for a better opportunity. Especially now that the economy is improving, a lot of really exciting jobs are cropping up on BAJobs.com. There's never been a better time to go after something you really want." Assistant Marketing Manager Mitch Kocen agrees, stating "I want an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle", despite concerns by management and co-workers that he will shoot his eye out.

For tips on landing that dream job in 2011, visit www.bajobs.com today!

About BAJobs.com
Established in 1997, BAJobs.com has become a staple for both Bay Area employers and job seekers. Focusing on the fact that hiring takes place at the local level, the site features jobs being offered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with opportunities in banking, biotechnology, manufacturing and more. BAJobs makes it easy for job seekers to connect to local employers through their job search tools and comprehensive resume database.

Contact:
Skye Callan, Marketing Director
408-454-2231
http://www.BAJobs.com

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Local Job Board to Discuss Job Hunting and Networking Strategies

Campbell, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/11/2010 -- Andrew Gardiner of BAJobs.com (http://www.bajobs.com) will be presenting at CSIX's upcoming networking event. The speech, which will take place on Tuesday October 12, 2010 between 10:30 AM-1:00 PM at Cupertino's iRestaurant will be titled "Getting a Job is a Job." Over the course of his presentation, Gardiner will cover tips and suggestions to have the most effective job hunt, including suggestions on standing out when submitting your resume. Says Gardiner, "The economy is springing back.

There are jobs out there in the Bay Area, but it's become so much more competitive to stand out from the hundreds of other resumes out there. If a hiring manager drives to work with their window rolled down, they'll have a stack of resumes in their car before they get to the office."

Gardiner asserts that jobseekers who understand what employers are looking for in their resume and network effectively will fare better than their competition. But these presentations aren't the only thing that the site is working to help make networking a regular part of Bay Area jobseeker's repertoire. "We're very interested in leveraging social media to help get our users back to work" says BAJobs.com'd Marketing Director, Skye Callan. "With our new LinkedIn Connect feature, applicants can use their LinkedIn profiles to immediately see who in their network works at their target companies. They can apply through BAJobs.com, then send a message to their contacts letting them know the application is on the way."

About BAJobs.com
Established in 1997, BAJobs.com has become a staple for both Bay Area employers and job seekers. Focusing on the fact that hiring takes place at the local level, the site features jobs being offered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with opportunities in banking, biotechnology, manufacturing and more. BAJobs.com makes it easy for job seekers to connect to local employers through their job search tools and comprehensive resume database.

About CSIX Connect
CSIX Connect helps individuals in career transition to significantly improve their job search success through education, in-person networking and mutual support.

In today's job market, more than 80 percent of jobs obtained result from successful networking. CSIX Connect provides the means to tap into and leverage the power of a network that is already more than 2,000 members strong.

Contact:
Mitch Kocen, Assistant Marketing Manager
408-454-2220
http://www.BAJobs.com

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Local Job Board to Provide Expertise on Job Hunting in the Technology Sector

Campbell, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/08/2010 -- BAJobs.com (http://www.bajobs.com) will be attending WITI's Women in Technology Summit Career Expo held on September 13th and 14th at the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose, CA. The summit's focus on collaboration, strategy and growth for female professionals dovetails with BAJobs.com's own mission for their users. "High Tech has always been a major player in the Bay's job market, and as the economy improves more jobs are becoming available," says Marketing Director Skye Callan.

"Traditionally, technology has been a male-dominated field. We want to connect with the job seekers at the expo and introduce them to the opportunities we have available."

BAJobs.com staffers will also be introducing employers and job seekers to some of the new features the site has launched in the past few months. "We're constantly adapting new technology to help our users find the jobs that are right for them," adds Assistant Marketing Manager Mitch Kocen. "Job fairs like this help us show off our new features directly. From our discussion board to our brand new LinkedIn connectivity, these features will help job seekers connect to their dream jobs in new and exciting ways." BAJobs.com will be answering questions and providing site demos at booth #17 from 10 AM to 5 PM on Monday September 13th and 9 AM to 3:30 PM on Tuesday September 14th. To register for the conference, visit: http://www.witi.com/summit.

About BAJobs.com
Established in 1997, BAJobs.com has become a staple for both Bay Area employers and job seekers. Focusing on the fact that hiring takes place at the local level, the site features jobs being offered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with opportunities in banking, biotechnology, manufacturing and more. BAJobs.com makes it easy for job seekers to connect to local employers through their job search tools and comprehensive resume database.

About WITI's Women in Technology Summit
WITI (Women In Technology International), the world's leading professional organization for executive women in technology, will truly inspire "Collaboration, Strategy and Growth" through hands-on speaking engagements and panel discussions at the Annual WITI Women and Technology Summit in San Jose, CA, September 12-14, 2010.

Contact:
Mitch Kocen, Assistant Marketing Manager
408-454-2220
http://www.BAJobs.com

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Job board provides insight on the search habits of the Bay Area job seeker

Campbell, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/03/2010 -- BAJobs.com (http://www.bajobs.com) is releasing their annual "Job Seeker Summer Survey" this week, delivering a much needed view on the way San Francisco Bay Area based job seekers go about looking for jobs. Run in late June and early July, this survey polled site users on a variety of topics, such as what sort of jobs they're looking for, how often they look for jobs, and what they look for in an ideal job.

Skye Callan, Marketing Director for BAJobs.com, is confident in the survey's usefulness. "Bay Area job seekers are an incredibly desirable group of job seekers right now," reports Callan. "As more and more companies get involved in high tech, these job seekers become a valuable demographic. Companies need to know what these job seekers are looking for, and how best to share with them." The survey results are available on the BAJobs.com website and can be accessed at http://www.bajobs.com/images/SeekerSurveyInfographic2.jpg.

The survey data is the first entry in BAJobs.com's brand new Employer Corner. This resource section will provide fresh content including high quality news, blogging and information that is relevant to companies hiring in the Bay Area. Like the Job Seeker resource section, the Employer Corner is dedicated to making the process of finding a job easier for both sides of the process. "While the Job Seeker section helps people become the best possible candidate, the Employer Corner helps companies find the best possible candidate," says Mitch Kocen, BAJobs.com Assistant Marketing Manager. "The two sections work together to help everyone meet their goals."

About BAJobs.com
Established in 1997, BAJobs.com has become a staple for both Bay Area employers and job seekers. Focusing on the fact that hiring takes place at the local level, the site features jobs being offered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with opportunities in banking, biotechnology, manufacturing and more. BAJobs.com makes it easy for job seekers to connect to local employers through their job search tools and comprehensive resume database.

Contact:
Skye Callan, Marketing Director
408-454-2231
http://www.BAJobs.com

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Local Job Board Hits the Road to Answer Job Seekers’ Toughest Questions

Campbell, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/20/2010 -- San Francisco Bay Area based job board BAJobs.com is launching the first leg of their four-county career outreach program. The team is visiting local career centers and vocational schools to share job hunting strategy and answer career related questions. Marketing Director Skye Callan says "We're really on the front lines of the job hunt. We work with employers every day and we have an excellent idea of what they're looking for. These presentations are our way of helping job seekers really focus on their efforts."

Kicking off on Tuesday, July 20th at JobTrain in Menlo Park, BAJobs.com will make several stops in Alameda, Santa Clara, San Mateo and San Francisco counties. The presentations typically consist of 15-20 minutes of career advice with ample time for questions and answers. "I find the questions are the most engaging part of the process" reports Assistant Marketing Manager Mitch Kocen. "Everyone's situation is different, so people want customized answers. There's a lot of common ground, too. My favorite part is how many people pipe in with 'me too' when someone asks a question. There's a real community starting to form."

The tour is expected to go through August and is free to attend. A current list of scheduled appearances is available in the events section of http://discussion.bajobs.com. For additional information on the news that is the subject of this release or further details about BAJobs.com's services, please contact Mitch Kocen at: 408-454-2220 or visit http://www.BAJobs.com.

About BAJobs.com
Established in 1997, BAJobs.com has become a staple for both Bay Area employers and job seekers. Focusing on the fact that hiring takes place at the local level, the site features jobs being offered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with opportunities in banking, biotechnology, manufacturing and more. BAJobs.com makes it easy for job seekers to connect to local employers through their job search tools and comprehensive resume database.

Contact:
Mitch Kocen, Assistant Marketing Manager
408-454-2220
http://www.BAJobs.com

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Local job board creates a community for networking and resource sharing on the job hunt.

Cupertino, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/20/2010 -- San Francisco Bay Area based job board BAJobs.com launched a full featured discussion board in early May designed to provide a space for job seekers to interact and support one another while searching for jobs. The discussion board, located at http://discussion.bajobs.com, offers features such as interview tips, peer resume critiques and networking opportunities as well as news on the job market and upcoming career fairs. The goal of the site is to give the un- and under-employed a destination to enrich their job hunt.

This is a prime time for a discussion board of this nature, believes Marketing Director Skye Callan. "There's room for cooperation in the job market these days," she said. "With such a wide range of jobs available in the Bay Area, there's less need for competition. Now more than ever local job seekers need a place to network, strategize or even just commiserate."

The discussion board, which is free to use, is already home to a vibrant community. "We try to stay in close touch with our users, and we're hearing more than anything else that there's a great deal of confusion and frustration about the 'right' way to conduct a job search. The discussion board gives the opportunity to get solid feedback from both BAJobs.com staff members and users who have been dealing with the same problems."

This new discussion board is the first step in the new site look and feel development anticipated for later this year. For additional information on the news that is the subject of this release or further details about BAJobs.com's services, please contact Skye Callan at: 408-454-2231 or visit http://www.BAJobs.com.

About BAJobs.com
Established in 1997, BAJobs.com has become a staple for both Bay Area employers and job seekers. Focusing on the fact that hiring takes place at the local level, the site features jobs being offered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with opportunities in banking, biotechnology, manufacturing and more. BAJobs makes it easy for job seekers to connect to local employers through their job search tools and comprehensive resume database.

Contact:
Skye Callan, Marketing Director
408-454-2231
http://www.BAJobs.com

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm