CareerBuilder.com, the nation's largest online job site with more than 20 million* unique visitors and over 600,000 jobs, announced it has signed a two-year exclusive agreement to power the career channel on BET.com, the official Web site of Black Entertainment Television and leading Internet portal for African Americans. The agreement provides BET.com visitors with immediate access to job opportunities from over 30,000 of the nation's top employers and offers businesses with an effective channel for targeting qualified, diverse candidates.

Today, Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones offered an amendment to the Science, State, Justice and Commerce Appropriations bill. The Tubbs Jones/Capps amendment will prohibit the EEOC from consolidating its offices and further reducing its staff. She released this statement:

FreeERISA.com, the world's largest employee benefits website, announces the addition of its newest offering: the Complete Compensation Database, or CCD. The Complete Compensation Database is a free on-line service that provides users with access to a comprehensive, searchable database on the executive compensation packages of more than 36,000 executives employed with over 7,000 U.S. publicly-traded companies. The database is updated daily. It enables users to conduct detailed searches based on geographical region, fiscal year, pay ranges such as salary, bonus, long-term incentive payouts, stock options, and company data including revenue, income, number of employees, and more.

Washington Business Journal recognized iDirect Technologies as one of the region's best places to work at an inaugural breakfast awards program Friday, June 10th at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner. The award recognizes the company's achievements in creating a positive work environment that attracts and retains employees through a combination of employee satisfaction, working conditions and company culture.

WCC Services U.S. Inc., a software company dedicated to delivering faster, more meaningful match results, today announced that washingtonpost.com, the online version of The Washington Post, has completely revamped its popular Jobs section, with the use of ELISE matching technology. The new ELISE-enabled site allows employers and job seekers to conduct more focused searches and find one another in much less time. Washingtonpost.com is the first major news site to offer businesses and job seekers this new way of searching.

Nearly 400 delegates from 24 countries are attending the premier scholarly forum for entrepreneurial research -- the Babson-Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BKERC) at Babson College.

The Test Is a New and Easy Way for People to Assess Their Typing Skills. Runtime Revolution announces a free online typing test, which is fun, educational and available to everyone. The free online test complements the highly successful Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor, which is available for every major platform.

Jobster, Inc., the leading recruitment advertising service for reaching passive talent, announced today that its roster of companies using the Jobster service has now reached more than 100 since its public launch at the Electronic Recruiting Expo in San Diego on March 31. Jobster boasts long-term contracts with companies of all sizes across diverse industries including such widely recognized brands as BearingPoint, Boeing, Cardinal Health, Expedia, Harris Corporation, MasterBrands, Mitre Corporation, Premera, The Southern Company, T-Mobile and Veritude. These customers are now relying on Jobster to quickly and efficiently expand employee referral programs and connect with qualified, hard-to-reach working professionals.

A RECENT SURVEY OF 332 TECHNOLOGY DECISION-MAKERS AT LARGE U.S. COMPANIES REVEALS A GROWING CONCERN OVER SENSITIVE INFORMATION LEAVING THE ENTERPRISE THROUGH EMAIL.

SkillSoft PLC (NASDAQ:SKIL) , a leading provider of content resources and complementary technologies for integrated enterprise learning, today announced that it has released four business skills courses localized in Russian and has plans to deliver a total of 30 courses by end of 2005. The Russian courses are being developed in partnership with Noviy Disk, the largest distributor of educational software in Russia and a leading publisher of interactive learning resources

Cutting the state's personal property tax on manufacturers by 35 percent as proposed in the Michigan Jobs and Investment Act will create more than 30,000 jobs by 2011, and 35,000 jobs by 2015, according to a new study commissioned by the Michigan Manufacturers Association.

Today United for Jobs warned workers that the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act will cost the U.S. economy over 600,000 jobs and that new language in the bill dealing with nuclear power does nothing to reduce the economic impacts of the cap and trade provisions of the bill.

Pennsylvania Community and Economic Development (DCED) Secretary Dennis Yablonsky today announced that Zemco Tool & Die will create at least 90 jobs within three years and retain 80 existing employees at its Williamstown facility. The company, which does assembly, stamping, molding, slitting, machine build and metal fabrication, is purchasing machinery and equipment and upgrading the computer system at its West Broad Street location.

TheLadders.com, the world's leading $100,000+ job search Web site, today unveiled the details of its new release, which showcases a series of major enhancements to aid job seekers and recruiters in the $100k+ job marketplace. Developed under the code-name Sapphire, the new site's highlights include advanced search functionality, robust tracking tools for recruiters and more $100k+ job listings than any other source..

As part of its commitment to offering women career opportunities and training in technology, ITWomen Charitable Foundation, a South Florida non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement and development of women in technology, is offering two career makeover opportunities -- a technology training scholarship in coordination with New Horizons Computer Learning Center and a $10,000 in-kind scholarship to pursue a career in technology at The Academy of South Florida (The Academy), a Microsoft Gold Certified Technical Education Center in Miami-Dade County.