About two months ago, I relocated 10 minutes away from where I had been living and I haven’t even finished unpacking. In the trunk of my car you’ll find an assortment of random things that I’ve yet to put away including bedding, kitchen items, some board games and a few DVDs. Packing and unpacking can be tough whether you’re moving to Honolulu, HI or Augusta, ME, but finding a new job in the area doesn’t have to be!

If you’ve thought about relocating, or even if you’re curious about the demographics of the area that you currently live in, Simply Hired’s Local Jobs tool is a great way to find information about cities across the U.S. For example, if you look up Atlanta, GA, you will find a brief summary of the city, followed by the city’s top employers (such as Home Depot, Time Warner, and Emory University), top jobs (physical therapist jobs, post-doc fellow jobs, assistant professor jobs), employment rates, Atlanta salaries, and even statistics such as population, marital status (for anyone looking for something besides a job) and average commute time. In addition, you can read up on the area’s news, to get a hint of the local flavor.

And of course, you can search for jobs too.

About two months ago, I relocated 10 minutes away from where I had been living and I haven’t even finished unpacking. In the trunk of my car you’ll find an assortment of random things that I’ve yet to put away including bedding, kitchen items, some board games and a few DVDs. Packing and unpacking can be tough whether you’re moving to Honolulu, HI or Augusta, ME, but finding a new job in the area doesn’t have to be!

If you’ve thought about relocating, or even if you’re curious about the demographics of the area that you currently live in, Simply Hired’s Local Jobs tool is a great way to find information about cities across the U.S. For example, if you look up Atlanta, GA, you will find a brief summary of the city, followed by the city’s top employers (such as Home Depot, Time Warner, and Emory University), top jobs (physical therapist jobs, post-doc fellow jobs, assistant professor jobs), employment rates, Atlanta salaries, and even statistics such as population, marital status (for anyone looking for something besides a job) and average commute time. In addition, you can read up on the area’s news, to get a hint of the local flavor.

And of course, you can search for jobs too.

Do you have a list of companies you would like to work for? If you do, you can discover information about the company, review open positions, and find connections to help with your application. If you don’t have a list of target companies – a short of list of employers you would be thrilled to work for – it’s a good idea to research company information and create a list of companies to target in your job search.

Today Simply Hired is celebrating Limerick Day, in honor of Edward Lear who popularized the humorous poems in English during the 19th century. In honor of the day, here are a few work-related limericks:

There once was a man named Bob
Who wanted to find a new job
But the work he could find
He thought unrefined
And Bob realized he was a job snob!

The man I sat next to at work
Always would drive me berserk
One day the fellow
Put my stapler in Jell-O
And looked at me with a sly smirk
(from Dwight’s perspective on NBC’s The Office)

Do you have a job-related limerick? Send them in!

Hey all you working mothers out there! Whether you are changing careers or getting back into the workforce, Simply Hired has a lifestyle search filter that caters specifically to you! The Mom-Friendly Companies filter returns open positions at employers on the 100 Best Companies list that Working Mother magazine releases. These companies are named as the best employers for working moms based on the areas of workforce, compensation, child care, flexibility programs, leave policies and more.

There are plenty of open positions at the companies on Working Mother’s list. With the Mom-Friendly filter, you can find for example, Bank of America jobs, Bristol-Myers Squibb jobs, and IBM jobs.

Happy Mother’s Day!

Recently, CNNMoney/ Fortune released the 2009 Fortune 500 list. With the current economic climate, there was a lot of movement and change between this year’s list and 2008. Over 40 companies were added to the 2009 list that were not included last year.

The companies that topped the list this year include:

1. Exxon Mobil
2. Wal-Mart Stores
3. Chevron
4. ConocoPhillips
5. General Electric
6. General Motors
7. Ford Motor
8. AT&T
9. Hewlett-Packard
10. Valero Energy

If you’re interested in working at one of the Fortune 500 companies, we have updated the Fortune 500 filter on SimplyHired.com to include the current list of the country’s largest companies. On any search results page, click “Fortune 500” under the Special Filters category of the filters to narrow down your results.

In addition, jobs at each of the companies that made the list are found in a widget on the side of the company profile pages CNNMoney/Fortune 2009 ranking site. For example, on the profile page for Northrop Grumman which came in at number 69 this year, you can see the Jobs box on the right of the page:

Many of these companies are hiring, so check it out!

Our very own Gautam Godhwani, the co-founder and CEO of Simply Hired, was recently named to the Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 list! He was selected out of a pool of over 150 nominees consisting of the top business men and women in Silicon Valley. Those honored on the top 40 list represent a group of individuals who have made a significant impact on Silicon Valley, and all under the age of 40! The 40 Under 40 will be honored in a special publication of the journal on May 22.

Congratulations, Gautam!

With the new partnership between SilkRoad and Simply Hired, OpenHire clients can now reach even more candidates. Jobs that are indexed through Simply Hired through OpenHire™, SilkRoad’s recruiting management solution will be distributed throughout Simply Hired’s network of over 5,000 network sites, including social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Plaxo. SilkRoad customers will be able to reach active and passive job seekers in new and innovated ways.

OpenHire clients will also benefit from the automated tracking integration with Simply Hired, allowing recruiters to more accurately measure and track the ROI of their online recruiting. In addition, OpenHire clients can take advantage of Simply Hired’s Job Rank™ reports, which detail information about how well the job listings from their company are performing on the Simply Hired network, including the number of clicks for their listings, the positing of the listings within the search results, similar searches, and the names of competitors with similar titles of job listings.

View the press release for more information.