Cool(Jobs)Reporter – Nov 6th, 2008

Here’s our latest installment of Cool(Jobs)Reporter. We have a video game heavy lineup today!

Environment Artist for Bioshock 2 – 2K Games

Bioshock was my favourite game last year and this would be a dream job if I had the expertise. As an Environment Artist, you will be responsible for managing the artistic side of individual level construction as well as modeling and textured architectural and decorative assets for the world of Rapture.

Developer – 7digital

7digital is UK’s leading digital media delivery company, and power over 1,000 digital properties across Europe. As a developer you’ll be in charge of their latest web platform, they’ve just gone a 100 percent mp3. Definitely something to shout about!

Marketing Manager – Playfirst

Playfirst are the makers of the immensely popular casual game, “Diner Dash”. They’re looking for a Marketing Manager to help market thier new games!

-Yasser

Gmail is full of surprises!!!

We all know that gmail is a great application. What i didn’t know is the many supposedly “secret” functionality that it has. It’s OK to have a few surprises up your sleeve, but a whole arsenal of features? Google has a knack of doing “secret” stuff like this, if it’s good enough, tell the world, that’s my motto. So I’m doing them a favor, I’ve compiled interesting articles on how you all can get “creative” and work with all the “top secret stuff” gmail supposedly has…

57 Habits of Highly Effective Gmail Users

23 Gmail Shortcuts by Evan Williams

GMail Blog

Gmail Tips And Tricks

Enjoy!

-Yasser

Class of Web 2.0

Welcome to the class of Web 2.0

It’s everywhere…

I do mean everywhere, within a glance, it’s easy to spot a couple of sites that you visit about as frequently as The Nutty Professor would have snacks in a day. Yes, it’s official, web 2.0 is no longer a phenomenon, it’s  a staple..

Within the above picture though, how many recruitment sites are really considered web 2.0? There’s a few that i’ve seen online, Jobster and Krop are good examples, but none has truly captivated the web 2.0 audience, like you know, grabbed it by it’s balls.

If web 2.0 is a staple in these modern times, shouldn’t the recruitment industry be moving towards that direction. A great description of a web 2.0 jobseeker can be found here . Every other industry is embracing the step forward, but till this day, the NY Times has job classified section. A Classified section in a newspaper is an equivalent to a cassette tape in this day and age, an online Job board would be probably like a Compact Disc. I’m waiting for an mp3 equivalent. An Itunes for jobs per say. That would be wicked.

I think looking for a job should be as fun as looking for a friend on facebook.  If that day comes, then maybe, just maybe…

We’ll see a couple of notable “recruitment” additions to the class of Web 2.0.

- Yasser