Critical Notes

Its true - I’m cosponsoring a free series of calls on job search feature author Susan Strayer! The other sponsor is Steven Rothberg of CollegeRecruiter.com!

I met Susan a few months ago and we hit it off right away. She has just released a new book called The Right Job, Right Now: The Complete Toolkit for Finding Your Perfect Career. I have flipped through the book and am amazed at what I see (I’ll do a book review on it in a few weeks). Kent Blumberg did a book review on it a few weeks ago - you can read his review here.

I heard Susan interview on a radio show Sunday evening and was really impressed. Her message matches her enthusiasm - I’m really excited about this series and know that I’ll learn a lot from it. I strongly encourage you to register for the free series (there are three topics with a choice of two dates for each topic), and let others know about this.

If you are a recruiter, counselor, coach, etc. feel free to encourage others to sign up - space is limited so don’t delay.

Help! I still don???t know what kind of career I want. — Monday, February 12 at 8:00 p.m. EST or Wednesday, February 28 at 8:00 p.m. EST

How do I start my job or internship search? — Wednesday, March 14 at 8:00 p.m. EST or Monday, March 26 at 8:00 p.m. EST

How do I prepare to start my new job or internship? — Monday, April 9 at 8:00 p.m. EST or Wednesday, April 25 at 8:00 p.m. EST

One cool thing about this is that we are taking questions before the calls - when you register put your questions/issues in the box and we will address the ones we can! Click here to register!

Think you should pass on this opportunity? There are some heavy-weights in the employment space that are recommending it (I’m a light-weight )… check these guys out (I’ll update this list if you e-mail me and let me know you are posting on it):

Dennis Smith, T-Mobile recruiter and expert in the wireless space.

Carl Chapman, executive restaurant recruiter.

CM Russell, author of “Ultimate Job Hunting Secrets” and many blogs on the space.

Mike Murray, author of “Forget the Parachute, Let Me Fly the Plane!” - blogs on career issues for geeks.

Dan Sweet, blogger at FRACAT (Free Resume And Career Toolbox).

I’ve been quiet on any announcements of new features/fixes - but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been working! There have just been other things to blog about

Here’s a list of things that were released lately (one release almost a month ago and one release yesterday):

Jan 12 release:

A bunch of “behind the scenes” things that have made certain parts of the site faster and more efficient. Fixed some inconsistencies with the List Panel, and stuff like that. Special things for some partners… its all good stuff.
This was a quiet release as it was a good move towards making the site better, smoother, faster

Yesterday:

Keep me logged in - there is a checkbox when you login that allows you to say “keep me logged in” … this was a much requested feature! Note this changed how the login form looks… a little different - I had to get used to it… but its worth it!

New Format for phone fields - we had this really cool formatting where you could fill in a US phone number that was like this 111-111-1111 - with three text boxes. But there were issues - international numbers, no letters (1800PizzaEater), etc. My hangup was that I couldn’t copy and paste an entire number very easily! So now its one big text box and you can enter it however you want … this was a much requested feature!

Category management - people have asked how to edit or delete a category… now there is a little category list panel manager to easily manage your categories … this was a much requested feature!

Categories on Companies - you now have the ability to categorize your companies … this was a much requested feature!

Reformat of the Interview Prep page - this has always bugged me since the page was so long with lots of words (yes, I’m a long-winded writer!). We cleaned it up a lot!

Coach enhancements - (here’s more info on coaching) the first of many enhancements to the coaching interface - when you try to add a coach there are new things, including

• a message if they are not a coach yet
• an e-mail to them telling them you want them to be a coach (if they are a JibberJobber user, and a coach)

…

I feel like I’m forgetting some stuff - I probably am since we occassionaly put up a new feature that is outside of the common “release cycle”… but nothing huge to report.

There are some HUGE things coming - I’m very excited about them but they are at least a week away