Released on: August 29, 2008, 4:46 am

Press Release Author: Mary Waldron

Industry: Small Business

Press Release Summary: Rising unemployment and the ever-increasing need for more and
more job openings in the sagging economy have continuously inspired EmploymentScape,
one of the world\'s leading job portals, to introduce new methods of finding jobs.

Press Release Body: The career-service provider recently announced three more
revolutionary tools that can help job seekers gain entrance into the hidden job
market: Employment Authority, Hound.com, and EmploymentCrossing.

\"Online job boards comprise less than 5% of the jobs out there. Today, job seekers
have to take innovative new approaches to finding jobs. Apart from strong networking
skills, they need to tap into the lucrative hidden job market, which accounts for
95% of the total jobs that are waiting to get filled,\" says A. Harrison Barnes, CEO
of EmploymentScape.

\"Targeted mailing is one of the most effective ways of finding hidden jobs,\" adds
Barnes.

Employment Authority is renowned for helping students and professionals conduct
targeted mailings to employers of their choosing. \"At large companies, mailed
applications are treated differently than emailed applications. Emails might be
deleted or might not get delivered at all. Mailed applications, however, are
properly filed. And even if they do not have job openings, employers are flattered
by the personal touch of a mailed application. This means that job seekers who mail
their applications have a much better chance of getting hired,\" explains Barnes.

\"Another way of finding hidden jobs is hunting through employer career pages, which
are the least advertised job resource, but it\'s just impossible for job seekers to
browse through hundreds of thousands of employer sites on their own.\"

Hound.com is a search engine that collects only those jobs that are listed on
employer career pages. The innovative search engine was over two years in the making
and tracks down jobs directly from employer websites, classifying them according to
type, location, industry, and a variety of other useful factors. Additionally, the
website is unfettered by any commercial interest. \"Hound.com jobs are displayed in
the order of priority - not in the order of who is paying and not paying to post on
the site,\" says Barnes.

\"Last, but definitely not the least, is the online approach to finding jobs through
niche job boards.\"

EmploymentCrossing has the world\'s best collection of job openings, divided into
niche industries that cater to every professional in the US and abroad. The website
currently has more than 1.5 million active jobs divided into 90-plus
industry-specific job boards. \"Job seekers tend to get entangled in the job-web on
ordinary job boards. Niche job boards are the latest trend in the employment
industry.\"

EmploymentScape believes these three websites can make a tremendous difference in
the careers of serious job seekers. \"With the unstable economy, it is imperative
that job seekers take a proactive approach to finding jobs,\" says Barnes.

Web Site: http://www.employmentscape.com

Contact Details: 175 South Lake Ave,
Suite 200
Pasadena, California 91101