The Employment Guide Partners With Comcast Cable in Pittsburgh

Recently Comcast Cable in Pittsburgh started a new service for their subscribers called Classifieds On Demand. If you have their digital package, you are probably familiar with ON DEMAND for movies and other programming. This allows you to watch at your convenience and even pause, fast forward and rewind.

Now you have the ability to view classifieds ON DEMAND as well. The main categories include automotive, real estate and employment (help wanted) ads. The Employment Guide will be sharing content from our weekly print and Internet job board to help increase visibility for Pittsburgh area recruiters and help job seekers find a better local job.

Over the next few months you will see more content presented in an easy to scroll format in video. If you see something of interest you can pause or rewind to write down the “Job Snippet” number on the ad and jump on the Internet at www.pittsburgh.employmentguide.com. When you input the snippet number from the Comcast Classifieds ON DEMAND ad it will take you directly to that employers text posting for more details and how to apply.

We at The Employment Guide are very proud of this partnership and look forward to the added value that will be given to both recruiters and job seekers.

Friday Musings on the Pittsburgh Hourly Job Front

The hourly jobs environment in Pittsburgh appears to still be growing. We are seeing ad counts in many different recruitment media continue to grow. The outlook for the summer in Pittsburgh is as strong as we have seen since 2001.

Over 600 part time hourly workers have been hired directly for the US Open that starts this weekend at Oakmont Country Club.

We have been informed this morning the venue for our big job fair in July may not be available due to a possible new lease for the auditorium space we use on the concourse level. Stay tuned. If this turns out to be the case we have contingency plans for another venue.

The most difficult entry level to mid level skilled positions to hire for in Pittsburgh right now are nurses, sales people, truck drivers, mechanics and machinists. These seem to be the jobs where demand is currently far outstripping supply.

Stay tuned for an announcement soon on a new partnership between Comcast Cable in southwest Pennsylvania and the Employment Guide. Comcast is rolling out some new products for their viewers that will add even more value not just for job seekers but also local consumers in general.