"The work culture is good, though chaotic," the engineer said. "We're on a ridiculous hiring spree, and getting to the size where communication is difficult, and duplicate work is starting to happen."

There's no way to verify if the poster actually works for Twitter, but the evenhanded tone of the post suggest its authentic. Among the perks of working at Twitter listed in the post: free meals, flex time, "Macbook Pros for everyone" and a flat organizational structure.

"Overall, Twitter's setting a really high standard for what I want from my workplace," the engineer said.

Like any job, however, there are some downsides. The engineer is getting sick of being called "incompetent" by commenters every time a story about a Twitter outage is reported, as well as assumptions from programmer friends about being "really good" and assumptions from everyone about having insider knowledge.

And, of course, something akin to Facebook guilt can be a drag as well.

"People keep apologizing for not having an account to me. Seriously, it's okay," the engineer wrote.

"We're looking to hire smart and motivated people across the U.S. to help us deliver a great experience for our customers during the holiday season," says Dave Clark, vice president of Amazon's North American Operations. Each year, Amazon hires thousands of people to manage the variation in customer demand during busy seasons. It also uses these positions as a way to find full-time employees. Amazon says that more than 4,700 temporary workers have been hired full-time over the past year.

Indiana

"Amazon operates fulfillment centers in Whitestown, Plainfield and Indianapolis, Indiana. For more information, contact Integrity Staffing Solutions at 317-829-0032 or online at www.integrityjobsindy.com."

Kansas

"For more information, contact Staff Management at 1-800-394-6468, ext. 095-S21, or online at staffmanagement.greatjob.net (Media Code: 095, Job Code: S21).

Amazon's Coffeyville, Kan. fulfillment center is operated by Amazon.com.ksdc LLC."

Kentucky

"For more information on positions, candidates should contact the local staffing agency:

Campbellsville: Staff Management at 1-800-966-4813, ext. 090-S25 or staffmanagement.greatjob.net (Media Code: 090, Job Code: S25)

Hebron: SMX at 1-877-980-5627, ext. 203S or staffmanagement.greatjob.net (Media Code: BCR, Job Code: 203S)

Lexington: Integrity Staffing Solutions at 859-963-3753 or www.integrityjobslex.com

Amazon's fulfillment centers in Kentucky are operated by Amazon.com.kydc LLC."

Nevada

"For more information on positions in Fernley, contact Integrity Staffing Solutions at 775-562-3705 or online at www.integrityjobsreno.com.

For information on positions in Las Vegas, contact Integrity Staffing Solutions at 702-824-9353 or online at www.integrityjobslasvegas.com.

Amazon's fulfillment center in Fernley, Nevada is operated by Amazon.com.nvdc, Inc. Amazon's fulfillment center in Las Vegas is operated by Amazon.com.kydc LLC."

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In terms of social network sources that led to a job, 18.4 million Americans credit Facebook. More than 10 million and 8 million Americans credit LinkedIn and Twitter as sources that led to jobs, respectively.

The Super Social Networkers Find Jobs More Quickly

Job seekers with more than 150 contacts on any single social network are considered "super social" and have a better chance of finding work, period.

Four out of 10, or 41%, are super social on at least one social network, and especially on Facebook.

The Jobvite Social Job Seeker Survey 2011 queried more than 1200 members of the workforce, two-thirds (69 percent) of which were job seekers and people who are looking for work or employed but open to a new job.

Results from the 2010 Jobvite survey found that companies were using mostly LinkedIn (78 percent) to recruit, followed by Facebook (55 percent) and Twitter (45 percent).

Recruiters Are Using Facebook To Find Talent

LinkedIn may be innovating like mad with updated iPhone apps like CardMunch, but apps like Jobmagic are focused on helping recruiters use Facebook and other social networks to find talent. For example, Jobmagic powers a few Disney Facebook pages, including Disney Studio Careers.

Why the focus on Facebook? It's 5x bigger than LinkedIn, and has the largest engagement rate on the Web. Recruiters who use LinkedIn are less likely to locate healthcare professionals such as nurses, young professionals, hourly workers, people with income less than $75K and people without a college degree.

Are you using social networks to look for work? What's your experience been like? Tell us about it in the comments.

The site uses Google's custom search engine technology, looking for Schema.org's JobPosting markup across job listing sites to identify jobs committed to veterans. Employers only have to add the JobPosting markup to their site to be crawled and listed in the NRD. Supporting organizations can also add the search box widget to their websites.

Google's announcement of the partnership cites President Obama's address this morning announcing new initiatives to find work for returning veterans.

According to the White House, over 850,000 U.S. veterans were jobless as of last month, and the unemployment rate for post-9/11 veterans was 12.1%. The government projects that over one million more people will leave military service in the next five years.

The White House has made veterans' initiatives, including the Google-powered National Resource Directory, available at whitehouse.gov/vets.

Detailed instructions for employers on how to participate in the National Resource Directory.

The top industries on LinkedIn are higher education, marketing and advertising, information technology and health care. Of its 115 million members, almost 5 million are employed by small businesses. The biggest growth industries are renewables and environment, and oil and energy. The infographic also focuses on LinkedIn's use by veterans, as well as the number of users who have attended community college.

Do you use LinkedIn for networking? Share your experiences in the comments.

The app, which builds off of a Facebook app Monster launched in June, looks more like a marketing department's effort to get more Facebook users to use the job search site rather than "a solution for job seekers and recruiters looking to manage just one network of contacts," as it bills itself.

After that, the main pain point is functionality and design. It does not have an easy, streamlined efficiency to it, and it plagues your Facebook page with badges that describe how many places you have been to, or what you like to do. This feels a lot like spam, and it's different than, say, a Foursquare badge, because the user doesn't know it exists or that he has done things to achieve it. I removed the app and blocked it from posting to my Facebook pages.

On the phone, the app doesn't operate like a stand-alone app with its own UI or functions. It looks like someone put a Facebook page in my mobile browser and put Monster.com banners on it. My patience for that is about 10 seconds. I had to squint to see what was in the windows. It seems to have left the professionals out, too.

If innovators want to disrupt the job seeking market, give job seekers a solution where it really has been hurting them - in getting the right information to the right people. The lack of networking functionality - and then the spamminess of the interaction - in Monster's app acts more like a barrier to use than something to incite interest.

Was BeKnown supposed to solve the pain points for job seekers? It seems to have at least solved one thing for Monster. Monster doesn't have many users, relative to the number of users on Facebook. Perhaps this made it easier for them to find new recruits for their own business.

The debate will rage for a long time over what piece of technology best encapsulates Steve Jobs' influence on our world: The iPhone? iPod? iMac? iPad? OS X and Aqua? But I'm going to argue for something a lot more low-tech: the turtleneck.

I don't share the whole of that vision, but I've shared his excitement many, many times. (It takes no effort at all to conjure the memory of watching the simulcast from the Stevenote that announced iTunes and the larger digital hub vision... and my breathless call home to share the news with Alex.) And in the face of an often-jaded Silicon Valley, Jobs could consistently elicit gasps.

Every indication suggests Steve Jobs is now on a very difficult road. I wish him well. And I thank him for those moments of astonishment and wonder.

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Net revenue growth was not as strong, but CEO Jeff Weiner says this is due to heavy reinvestment in the growth and development of the site. LinkedIn earned $4.5 million in net income this quarter, compared to $4.3 million last year, just a 5% increase. But their top-line revenue was up considerably, more than doubling since Q2 2010. Before costs, they pulled in $121 million last quarter.

The earnings overview breaks down revenue among three essential products: premium subscriptions, marketing solutions and hiring solutions. Premium LinkedIn subscriptions, which give individual users access to more valuable information about activity in their professional networks, accounted for 20% of revenue, and this percentage has declined slightly for four quarters straight. Marketing solutions comprised 32% of earnings.

Hiring solutions became LinkedIn's most profitable product in Q1 2010, and that lead has grown wider over time. They're down 1% since last quarter, but hiring solutions still comprise 48% of LinkedIn's overall revenue. Their announcement last week of LinkedIn-powered job applications should bolster LinkedIn's position as a hiring solution.

LinkedIn's Web traffic is great by any measure; it saw 7.1 billion page views in Q2, which is an 80% increase since 2010. But there seems to be a slight problem with sustained user engagement. The service boasts 115.8 million members now, but only 81.8 million people, 71% of members at the very most, visit the site once a month. Many of their newest initiatives seem aimed to address this issue.

This year's launch of LinkedIn Today greatly expanded the amount of content available on the site and mobile apps, with news targeted by industry, and the company is constantly experimenting with new email formats and other engagement strategies. April's launch of the LinkedIn Share Button has already reached 100,000 sites. And Jeff Weiner has been open about his desire for the site to implement a Yammer-like enterprise chat/collaboration feature.

LinkedIn's next goal appears to be making the site and its services more indispensable to the workplace, both for job seekers and for the enterprise.

Apply with LinkedIn allows applicants to adjust their LinkedIn profile information to suit the position before they apply. After they submit, the confirmation screen displays people in the applicant's LinkedIn network who work at the company, allowing them to connect or ask for a referral.

But this is also a win for job applicants. Using LinkedIn as the primary point of contact in a job application, rather than a secondary Web presence that doesn't replace the good old-fashioned résumé, makes maintaining one's profile a much better use of time. The customization options in the Apply with LinkedIn plug-in solve the problem of maintaining multiple résumés. Best of all, this can solve the unending mysteries of email attachments and file formats in job applications.

Email-based job applications follow a basic pattern, imitating the way things used to work on paper, but the lack of standards makes for a bewildering experience that changes from one application to the next. Some employers require files in DOC format, others allow PDF; some want cover letters in the email, others want them as attachments. This is no more fun for the employer than it is for the applicant.

LinkedIn could solve those problems if it can drive widespread adoption of Apply with LinkedIn, and it's in a strong position to do so. While other social networks are elbowing their way into the jobs space, LinkedIn, as the dominant dedicated professional networking site, has a clear head start. The company went public this year, and the site crossed 100 million members in March.

In what's likely just the beginning of a long-term story, job listings indexed by employment search engine Indeed.com indicate that market demand for data scientists and people capable of working with "big data" took a huge leap over the last year. David Smith of Revolution Analytics performed several related queries and posted the results today on his company's blog.

The most common definition of "big data" is datasets that grow so large that they become awkward to work with using on-hand database management tools, such as Excel. It's a soft term and is super trendy right now - but that doesn't mean the trend's not big and real.

What does a data scientist do? "Right now, everybody with data knows that there's value in there, that they should be doing something," says Edd Dumbill, program chair for Strata, O'Reilly's new conference on Data.

"Trouble is, nobody's entirely clear on the next steps, but they do know that a data scientist can help frame questions and transform data into useful insight.

"In some ways, yes, there's just a fashion for job title change. But there's a bit more there. The data scientist's brief is exploratory and entrepreneurial, prospecting for and unlocking value in data."

Dumbill says he sees the demand first hand. "At the Strata conference in February the job board was plastered with recruitment ads in no time at all," he says. "Some enterprising person even advertised a job by using their computer to advertise a wireless network ID saying they were hiring."

Indeed, that almost every speaker on stage said they were looking hard to make new hires was one of the most striking things about that event in my memory as well. I've got high hopes that a growing appreciation for analyzing the world quantitatively will yield opportunities to make it a better place qualitatively.

If you're interested in this trend, check out this list of data-loving journalists on Twitter.

Time Inc. is the publisher of CNN Money, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Money and, of course, Time Magazine. He is perhaps best known in tech circles for an article he wrote in the early 1990s for Wired titled "Billions Registered: Right now, there are no rules to keep you from owning a bitchin' corporate name as your own Internet address." In the article, Quittner had bought the domain name mcdonalds.com and tried to give it to the fast food giant, which was clueless about the Internet at the time.

"My fingers trembled, as if ripping open a Big Mac. I checked:

"$whois mcdonalds.com Domain Name: MCDONALDS.COM Administrative Contact: Quittner, Josh quit@newsday.com

"Oh, that's McCool. I feel like McPrometheus. I have stolen McFire."

Quittner was the editor of Business 2.0 from 2002 to 2007 before the magazine folded. Business 2.0 was a mix of forward-looking tech news and advice on how to conduct business in the Internet environment with issues like "How to build a bulletproof startup" and "The man who owns the Internet."

Quittner has been with Time Inc. in some capacity since 1996. He started with Time Magazine as a tech editor, writer and columnist for Time.com before moving to Business 2.0. He spent nine months as the executive editor of Fortune before becoming a Time Inc. editor at large, helping to develop digital magazines on tablets for Time Inc. properties. He left that position in February of this year and has been the director of digital editorial development for news, sports and business until announcing his departure.

Flipboard is excited to bring a publishing industry veteran into the fold. According to the company, he will be a part of helping Flipboard grow their publishing partnerships, which have extended to publications like Oprah's magazine and National Geographic in recent months.

"We're really excited to have Josh joining Flipboard. As you know partnering with publishers is a central to Flipboard's future and Josh is going to be a fantastic part of growing Flipboard's publisher partnerships," Flipboard's Marci McCue said via email. "By hiring Josh we are adding a seasoned publishing executive to the team, creating an important new position at Flipboard to further our publisher partnerships, drive collaborative product plans and explore new opportunities to make publisher content even more discoverable on Flipboard. His broad editorial background, deep understanding of the flow of content and his publisher business perspective are going to be a fantastic addition to the team."

It is notable that Quittner is now in a leadership position at what's essentially one of the world's leading Twitter clients, yet he himself has only posted to Twitter five times over the past six months.

The move is reminiscent of last Summer's departure of Newsweek Editor Mark Coatney to join red-hot blogging platform Tumblr to run publisher partnerships. You'd think media was being disrupted.

Or, to put it another way, "Dr. Jobs! Dr. Jobs! I broke my leg in three places!" "Just avoid holding it that way."

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And no, the headline is not as misleading as you think - engineers from Facebook actually helped SimplyHired build this feature in the hopes that it will showcase the power of the social network's new Open Graph platform and the usefulness it can provide when properly implemented.

On the updated SimplyHired.com, you can log in with Facebook for a new twist on job discovery that offers a more personalized view of the job marketplace. In addition to searching by work titles, keywords, location and other such filters, you can now search for jobs at the companies where your friends work, too. Once you opt-in to this feature, you'll see a Facebook box popup at the top of a search results page after performing any search on the site. From here, you're one click away from exploring the various companies where your friends work and the possible job opportunities there.

Also, when performing a narrower search, like one by company name for example, you're shown which of your friends also work at that same company.

As anyone facing today's tough job market knows, getting a job isn't as easy as responding to a newspaper ad anymore. Every advantage you have comes into play, and none is more powerful than a personal referral. With SimplyHired's new feature, you can maximize the opportunities for that "foot in the door" connection by discovering, with ease, who works where. There's even a feature for sending a private Facebook message to your friend after you find a job you're interested in.

And for those performing job searches on the sly, SimplyHired assures that nothing is ever posted to your Facebook Wall and News Feed.

What About LinkedIn?

SimplyHired is partnered with LinkedIn and similar on-site integration is already available via that professional network. The company sees the new Facebook integration as complementary to LinkedIn, noting only that younger job seekers (like those fresh out of college, for example) are more likely to be on Facebook while older job seekers may be on both LinkedIn and Facebook or just LinkedIn.

That may be true, but Facebook connects you with the people in your life you're actually close to - your good friends and family: the very people who are willing to do you a favor in a time of need. This was the promise of LinkedIn, too, and while some still use it that way, many have been attempting to game its system instead.

As anyone who regularly uses the LinkedIn network knows, a good many of your connection requests are from people who you've never met. These are LinkedIn's own version of spammers - those trying to get around the network's limitations that force you to pay for credits for connections to people you don't know. Why not just friend everyone?, these people think, then it's free.

The "friend everyone" model eventually failed on MySpace, and it's doomed on LinkedIn too. Do your connections actually know the people they say they're connected to? So often, these days, the answer is "no." People looking for a personal recommendation are more likely to find success among their real friends, like those on their Facebook network.

A Great Example of Facebook's Open Graph in Action

There has been a lot of talk about Facebook privacy issues lately, after the launch of updated privacy controls, which pushed people towards more open settings, and Facebook's new Open Graph, a platform with tools for developers and publishers. One of the more startling initiatives, which caught the eye of regulators and U.S. senators alike, is the "instant personalization" program that immediately adds a social element to a website without your prior authorization. Because the program is opt-out not opt-in, many have felt this is a violation of privacy.

But while instant personalization is still experimental and could eventually be shut down, similar personalization is already possible by simply allowing a site permission to access your data and the public data belonging to your friends.

In SimplyHired's case, the integration of the two services, job seeking and social networking, is a promising example of the possibilities which Facebook's Open Graph can offer.

SimplyHired's new Facebook integration is live now in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia and India.

Editors Note: This post is part of a series ReadWriteWeb is producing in partnership with Tableau Software, where we examine interesting data sets relevant to technology trends today. You can use Tableau Public to create interactive visualizations like this and publish them to your own blog or website or anywhere online. This is the last week to enter Tableau's User Generated Graph Contest. Winner will receive a free trip to Web 2.0 and $500. Sign up before March 26.

Play With the Data

The top graph shows what kind of education will be required for the fastest-growing jobs. The bottom graph puts employment growth into a wider perspective. You can play with the data yourself by choosing different education levels or job types. You can also download the data and create your own visualizations.

Data source: Employment Projections Program, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Photo by Mark Puplava.

How TweetMyJOBS Works

The TweetMyJOBS service lets job seekers receive instant notifications on their phone when new jobs are posted online via the popular micro-messaging service Twitter. The company aggregates the Twitter-based job postings from over 7000 companies and maintains over 8250 specific job channels within those companies, all of which are searchable via their website.

However, it's the job matching service that makes TweetMyJOBS worth using for those in need of work. Instead of having to follow potentially hundreds of Twitter accounts belonging to companies, the service will match a Twitter user's interests with the available jobs posted to Twitter. Users can also specify a particular geographic region where they prefer to work. They can even use the service to post their resume to Twitter. When a job seeker and a job listing match up, the user is alerted via a text message sent to their phone via Twitter.

For job posters, there are fees involved for adding listings just like there are with any other job board. At present, it costs $4000 to list 500 jobs and $8000 for unlimited job postings. Single posts are $1.99. In return, companies are able to directly connect with qualified candidates while also tracking the clicks on the jobs they list.

Sears Holdings: 7000 Jobs Now, Hundreds of Thousands to Come

At launch time, Sears Holdings has posted 7000 jobs to TweetMyJOBS. The lineup includes everything from cashiers to vice presidents, a company representative tells us. And this is just the beginning. Over the course of the year, the company will continue adding all their available jobs to the service. Since, as noted above, the company posts hundreds of thousands of jobs per year, they will soon have thousands more to post to TweetMyJOBS.

In today's tough, competitive hiring market, a service like this can give motivated job seekers an edge. Since it allows for instant notification when a job is made available online, users of TweetMyJOBS can be among the first to apply to available positions. They can also rest assured that the jobs sourced are from reputable companies assures Rich Trombetta, TweetMyJOBS co-founder. Unlike on many job boards today, filled with questionable get-rich-quick schemes, work from home offers and other spam, only legitimate jobs are made available on his service. "We are very careful about the types of jobs we list on the site," Trombetta recently told the Chicago Tribune. "We eliminate the spam."

Interested job seekers can sign up for the service here at TweetMyJOBS.com.