June 30, 2005 9:49 PM

Coming soon near you: .jobs
Posted by at 9:49 PM

Job seekers may soon have an easier way to search for openings at their target companies:

For the very first time in the short history of the domain industry, Corporate Human Resources Departments have an opportunity to highlight their strengths and the vision of their company through the .jobs domain name. The .jobs registry expects the .jobs domain to "offer an exact destination for job seekers (i.e., companyname.jobs), and provides the HR function a consistent method to communicate and promote HR (including jobs) information." For potential job seekers, the companyname.jobs domain clearly tells them how to get to a company's career page, rather than to search the main corporate web page for the careers site.

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