Attention Monster Users!

Do you have an account with Monster.com? 

It appears that Monster’s database has been hacked and that the personal information of Monster’s users has been accessed.  The folks at the Gear Live blog have a few good suggestions of what you should do to protect yourself now and in the future.

Health Professions Recruitment Fair 1/29/09

From WMCTV JobLINK

The Memphis health care industry continues to show opportunities, even as unemployment reaches its highest levels in nearly four years.

Are you looking for information on careers in this field? WMCTV.com Job Link will hold its annual Health Professions Recruitment Fair on Thursday, January 29th from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at The Esplanade Conference Center on Germantown Parkway in Cordova.

This health fair will give attendees the opportunity to find full or part-time employment within the health industry.  The recruitment fair is free and open to the public.

Scheduled fair recruiters include:

• VA Hospital Memphis
• Lifeblood
• UT School of Nursing
• Baptist Trinity Home Health Care
• UT Medical Group
• Parkwood Behavioral Health Services
• U.S. Army Medical Recruiting

The Esplanade Conference and Wedding Center is located at 901 Cordova Station in Cordova.  It’s just off Germantown Parkway behind Starbucks and Express Oil Change.

More Companies That Are Hiring

Once again, we’re passing along articles from various news sources about organizations that are reportedly hiring.  Today, CNN/Fortune reports on 20 large companies that are hiring 350 people or more.  If you are interested in any of these possibilities, you will want to look for more information on the corporate website.

School offers training in Medical Sales

New school in Memphis trains individuals how to sell orthopedic medical devices.  The best part, they offer a money back guarantee if you do not find a job after the training.  Click here for the Commercial Appeal  article about American Institute of Medical Sales.  Or, click here to go directly to the AIMS Website, http://www.aimedsales.com/.

Study anywhere with Study Stack

Study Stack offers prep materials, games and flashcards for a variety of subjects and specific exams.  You can print out information to take with you, or download flashcards to a PDA or mobile phone.  Topics and tests covered include: Real Estate, Finance, Foreign Languages, Vocabulary, History, Nursing, Pharmacology, Anatomy, SAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, etc…

UPDATE:  Want to make your own flash cards?  You can at Flash Card Machine.  You’ll need to create an account (It’s free.) and then you can make and share your own flash cards.

13 Companies Hiring This Year

This article from CNN and CareerBuilder details 13 companies that should be aggressively hiring this year: 7-Eleven, Banfield, Farmers Insurance, Gentiva Health Services, HealthMarkets, ITT Corporation, M.A.R.S. International, PricewaterhouseCoopers, ServiceMaster, State Farm, Sutter Health, Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, and URS Corporation.

To find out more about what each company will be looking for, read the article.  To learn more about the companies themselves (and their locations!) check out the ReferenceUSA database on the library web (choose the Database Titles A to Z tab).

Jobs Rated

Looking for a new career?  JobsRated.com ranks 200 different professions by five criteria: Stress, Work Environment, Physical Demands, Income and Outlook.  If you don’t want to read the full list, here are the Ten Best and Ten Worst jobs in America.  And here is the list of Most Satisfying.