JobsDirectUSA Brings Community and Innovation to the Job Search with New Features and More Jobs

Online, January 27, 2010 (Newswire.com) - JobsDirectUSA announced earlier this week that it has re-launched a newly designed website, and platform, featuring over a dozen new features and tools to aide job seekers in their hunt for employment. The announcement fittingly came via social networks, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook courtesy of Founder Carlos Gil.

Two years ago Gil found himself like millions of other American's before him, unemployed and out of career options. Gil, 26, turned to online networking immediately after being laid off by insurance-giant AIG. In the days after losing his job, Gil discovered his calling to help others, like him, find jobs and wasted no time in launching a job-search site which is JobsDirectUSA.

Different from job boards, Monster and CareerBuilder, Gil promotes JobsDirectUSA as a job search organization, or community, for the unemployed which acts as a hub for job postings, social networking groups and in person recruiting events. In addition to the traditional candidate profile and job search functions, JobsDirectUSA is making a more efficient job search a reality for millions of job seeking professionals across America. Now, job seekers have access to search from millions of jobs courtesy of job-search engine Indeed which is fully integrated into the JobsDirectUSA search feed. Job seekers on the go can also access these jobs via their mobile phones as the site is now iPhone compatible.

"Since day number one the single goal of JobsDirectUSA has been to bridge the unemployment gap one job at a time, and provide efficiency to both the job seeking and staffing communities" says Gil. "Recession affects everyone, and until now unemployed professionals have not had a body or organization that represents them or their needs. With unemployment seeing record highs across the U.S. it's more important than ever that job seekers have access to real jobs and likewise hiring companies have a talent pool to hire from, JobsDirectUSA makes this happen daily."

In addition, the new "ShareThis" feature enables job seekers to easily share interesting job listings with their friends and followers on Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and Twitter-as well as email. This feature "socializes job listings" by enabling users to easily share job leads with their network or "pay it forward for jobs" as Gil calls it. Employers also benefit from increased visibility and traffic when a job posting goes viral via these networks.

"Two years ago I made a decision, help others find jobs rather than be just another statistic. Needless to say I have not looked back since. I am eager to continue to offer seekers with innovation and bring new life to the job search" adds Gil. While free for job seekers, JobsDirectUSA offers employers an annual membership subscription option which includes job postings and unlimited access to thousands of candidate resumes. All job ads listed on JobsDirectUSA are distributed to job-search engine Indeed as well as over a thousand affiliate job boards and websites.

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