Employer Newsletter - January 2007

In this Issue:

• Topic of the Month - "A Needle in a Haystack"
• The ConstructionJobs.com Scholarship for Students in Construction
• This Issue's Cartoon!

Topic of the Month - "A Needle in a Haystack"

Perhaps you had occasion over the holidays to wander into Barnes and Noble or Borders and scan one of the quarter-mile long shelves for a book. Maybe you wanted a novel to read for pleasure on the long winter nights, or a travel book to plan your once-in-a-lifetime trip to Fiji. Maybe you needed some picture books for a newborn niece or a CD for your music-loving teenager. Maybe your experience at the mega bookstores was like mine. When there are 50,000 book titles to choose from, it’s almost impossible to decide on one. You read blurbs and excerpts for an hour, get dizzy, go get coffee to steady your nerves, then go home without anything to read.

Our duty at ConstructionJobs.com is to make sure that your experience on our job board is completely unlike those possible scenarios in the bookstores. Sure, we have thousands of great construction professionals lining our shelves, but like good librarians, we know what we have in stock, and we can help you find the exact choice that will help you.

To that end, we are advising all the thousands of candidates who visit our site to update and clarify their resumes, so that you can visit our site and find precisely the construction professional you need to help tackle the challenges that lie ahead of you in 2007.

Specifically, we are urging candidates to register their resumes on our site, to update them to include their most recent companies, job titles and projects.

Further, we understand that if you need an Electrical Project Manager, you do not want to be inundated with resumes from GC Estimators or Mechanical Superintendents. We advise our candidates to distinguish themselves with an accurate job title and accomplishments.

Perhaps most importantly, we direct candidates to explain how their work will help their employer Make Money, Save Money and Solve Problems. We urge candidates to state clearly instances where they brought a project in two weeks ahead of schedule or consistently cut down on worker injuries on your projects or negotiated lower prices on supplies than their competitors managed. We know you seek energetic, smart employees who can make money, save money, and solve problems.

Finally, we remind candidates to be honest. The last thing you want is to peruse the magazine rack, think you’ve bought a copy of Commentary, and discover you actually got the National Enquirer.

Come to ConstructionJobs.com to post your best jobs, as always. Thousands of top-flight candidates visit us daily, and they are interested in seeing those great career opportunities.

But they are also eager to introduce themselves to you. Some of them require some direction on the best way to do that, so rest assured that we are doing our best to tell them how to present themselves to you in the most clear, well-written, and easily understood prose possible.

Happy browsing.

Client Testimonial
“I am writing to thank you for your great assistance in helping us hire for a key position in our company. Your website was easy to use and we had better results with it than with our newspaper advertisements. The most unexpected and nice thing about using ConstructionJobs.com was the great support service from a dedicated and knowledgeable personal account manager that was always just a phone call away. We will definitely be contacting your company with any future hiring needs. Thank you.”
Anthony W. Ingrassia ~ Ingrassia Construction Co., Inc.

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The ConstructionJobs.com Scholarship for Students in Construction
An Exciting New Educational Opportunity

ConstructionJobs, Inc. is pleased to announce the creation of the ConstructionJobs.com Scholarship for Students in Construction, a $1,000 scholarship we will offer to students from across the country who are attending school (community colleges or 4-year universities) and are simultaneously involved in the construction industry, with a particular emphasis on professionals working in trades. We are excited about this opportunity to encourage young men and women to pursue a career in a proud and important industry.

Alan Kerschen, the Sales Manager at ConstructionJobs.com, is excited that ConstructionJobs.com is working to address a serious problem facing the construction industry. “We are in contact every day with clients around the country, and we know they are concerned that there aren’t enough capable, committed students in college who are aiming for a career in construction. We hope this Scholarship will encourage and assist some young person who does want to pursue a career in this worthy field.”

Students eligible for the scholarship will be enrolled in school for the semester in which they apply for the ConstructionJobs.com Scholarship for Students in Construction. They will be majoring in a course of studies related to construction - construction management or civil engineering, for example - or a course specific to their trade – electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and so forth. If you feel you would be a worthy applicant for this scholarship, or if you know of someone who would benefit from learning about this opportunity, please visit ConstructionJobs.com and find our online application.

The first scholarships will be awarded for the Fall 2007 semester. ConstructionJobs.com will accept applications until May 1, 2007. Recipients will be chosen during May and June of 2007, and a prize of $1,000 will be deposited into each recipient’s account at the college where he or she is enrolled for the relevant semester.

We will award the Scholarship to students who have shown – through their work history and academic program – a commitment to construction. If you have questions, please contact us at scholarships@constructionjobs.com or give a call at 828-251-1344.

Additional information concerning the ConstructionJobs.com Scholarship Program can be found on our website.

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Happy Recruiting,
The ConstructionJobs Team