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Virtual Career Fair Update

This event is just a week away and we already have nearly 3,500 job candidates registered to attend the first-ever Financial Services Virtual Career Fair on June 11.

There are 16 Financial Services Employers sponsoring the event: Plantinum Sponsors: AIG Retirement, Allstate, Edward Jones; Gold Sponsors: Investors Capital, Inverness Real Estate Investments, Synergy Investment Group, USAA, US Bank, U.S. Wealth Management; and booth sponsors: Colonial Bank, David Lerner and Associates, Householder Group, MetLife Resources, Money Concepts, Sovereign Bank and Vanguard.

Anyone in the Financial Services industry is invited to attend.  Here is a link to the registration page: http://events.unisfair.com/index.jsp?eid=261&seid=27 .

Announcing The BROKERHUNTER.com Virtual Career Fair for Financial Services.

Atlanta, GA – March 18, 2008

BROKERHUNTER.com is pleased to announce The BROKERHUNTER.com Virtual Career Fair for Financial Services.

This career event is sponsored by Summit Business Media publishers of Research, Investment Advisor, Wealth Manager, Futures, National Underwriter, Life Insurance Selling and American Agent & Broker Magazines!

This Virtual Career Fair event will be held live on June 11, 2008 from 9AM until 8PM Eastern Daylight Time.  In addition, Job Candidates can visit the fair for a period of 30-days after the event On Demand to view employer information and apply to jobs.  This event is free for job candidates to attend.

Steve Testerman president of BROKERHUNTER.com said,

“The time has come for the use of advanced Virtual technology in a way that helps connect Financial Services job seekers with potential employers. 

Virtual Career Events offer nearly all the benefits, without most of the really big hassles, of a physical event.  For example, job candidates can visit multiple employer booths at the event and interact, if they choose, through instant messaging and chat.  They can even apply to jobs online.  All of this is available online and live through the convenience of the user’s personal computer.  This makes for a highly efficient and productive process for job candidate and employer alike.

To our knowledge this is the first Financial Services-oriented Virtual Career Fair of its kind to be held.  We expect to have thousands of job candidates attending booths staffed and sponsored by many of the leading Financial Services employers in the industry”

Job candidates can pre-register for the Virtual Career Fair at http://www.brokerhunter.com/virtual .

Employers can view more information about sponsorship and exhibition opportunities at http://www.brokerhunter.com/virtualdemo

About BROKERHUNTER.com:

BROKERHUNTER.com,(www.BROKERHUNTER.com) launched in May of 2000, is the leading Financial Services Employment Internet website in the Nation. There are over 60,000 candidates and thousands of job postings from employers across the Nation on our site. For information on industry employment/recruiting issues and trends please contact us directly at 888-955-6795.  BROKERHUNTER.com is based in suburban Atlanta, GA.

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Securities Industry Employment for November 2007

Overall

In an upward surprise, the U.S. overall labor market grew by 94,000 jobs in November, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.  This exceeded the consensus forecast of economists by nearly 10,000 jobs.  At the same time, however, strong previously reported job growth for September and October were revised downward by over 20%.

The Construction and manufacturing industries continued to shed jobs, but at a lessening pace; while the overall financial services area lost 20,000 mostly in the mortgage and real estate related areas.

Securities Industry

The Securities Industry job market remains resilient.  In November the sector added nearly 3,000 jobs, continuing its trend upward into record territory, at 856,800 employees.  The employment growth for 2007 is now at a 3.38% year-to-date rate.  It appears, at this time, that 2007 will finish in line with the previous "post 911 recovery" years of 2004 - 2006. 

Recent growth rates have been far below the levels seen in the late ‘90's and in 2000; with the industry adding jobs at a 7-9% clip.  We prefer the more controlled and hopefully more sustainable employment levels we have seen over the last 4 years.