NY, MN job seekers got algorithm

The state of New York is looking for ways to reduce the time the unemployed spend looking for jobs, and it's turning to a mathematical formula for help.

The state's Department of Labor is touting the new tool as a major leap forward in the search for jobs. The formula is designed to direct resumes to the employers most likely to make a hire.

So far, Minnesota is the only other state to use this kind of fancy math to try to connect workers with jobs. There are no hard data, but a spokesperson for the state says the program has been working well.

If this is just a faster, gentler job board, I'm not impressed. If it can actually come up with positions people would not otherwise find or consider, then I'm ready to notice. How about it, Minnesota? How's it working for ya?

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Technology Hirings this week

Based on surveys of US job advertisements in the top job board aggregators, the following companies added the most job openings:
Job Openings by direct advertisers (not recruiters and staffing companies):

1. IBM
2. AT&T
3. SAIC
4. Raytheon
5. Verizon Wireless
6. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
7. HP
8. Sun Microsystems

Another company directly advertising job openings this week is General Dynamics Information Technology.

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Control your emails, but be found when you want to be

You're in meetings all day, but you're expecting an email from the other organization's HR department about your interview appointment. You know it's coming, just not when. It's not cool to check your phone every time you receive an email. You don't want your assistant to know about it. An autoresponse doesn't cover it. Hmmm.

Now there's a way you can get only the emails you want. AwayFind (www.awayfind.com/) lets you filter out the emails you can take care of later so you receive only those you designate as urgent.

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Monstrous Bullying

Monster.com features a basic explanation of workplace bullying in their two-part series, Workplace Bullying: What Can You Do? Start reading it here:

It's hard to pinpoint how it started. Maybe it was when you saw your manager's assistant noting those rare occasions when you came in 10 minutes late. Or maybe it was the time the boss half-jokingly trashed your performance -- in front of her higher-up.

There now seems no end to your tormentor's campaign of psychological harassment and personal and professional destruction -- aimed squarely at you. The nitpicking, the demeaning comments, the misleading digs and full-blown lies have all come together to exact their intended effect: to make you quit or get fired.

This is the ugly picture of bullying in the American workplace, painted by workers who describe themselves as targets and by the professionals who advocate for them. "My supervisor would take my case files to inspect them, and then write me up at the end of the day because the files weren't complete," says a former employee of a California social-service nonprofit. "He undermined me all around, which is not what a good supervisor does."

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