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For Immediate Release

Gretchen Glasscock

Advancing Women

Tel: (866) 957-8881

Fax: (888) 810-4445

gretchen.glasscock@onebox.com

http://www.advancingwomen.com

Tough Times Spur New Attention Grabbing Tools For Job Seekers

Job Candidates Weigh In: Generic Resumes No Longer Grab Attention;  Online Career Portfolios With Rich Media, Social Network Links Help Job Seekers Stand Out from the Crowd

San Antonio, TX - September, 22 2008 –

Today,AdvancingWomen.com, http://www.advancingwomen.com, a top career and business site for women professionals, is introducing Professional Online Career Portfolios to help jobseekers or professionals grab attention and to graphically showcase their strengths, value and accomplishments to employers or potential clients.

Gretchen Glasscock, President and CEO of AdvancingWomen.com, an expert on women's career and business issues, says: " I can see first hand the results on workers of the melt down in the financial and housing markets. Many professionals are  having to transition their careers, find new jobs, start freelancing or even try to start their own businesses. What they all need is visibility; to make their achievements and value stand out from the crowd so they can move on and create their next opportunity. I believe Professional Online Career Portfolios can accelerate that process for them.”

Professional Online Career Portfolios, http://www.advancingwomen.com/career_portfolios/professional_career_portfolios.html, are individual websites, that are customized in depth with rich media, graphics, photos and charts to highlight a professional’s skills, accomplishments, affiliations and value to prospective clients, employers or speakers’ bureaus. Each portfolio is designed to create a powerful impression of one’s achievements and builds a permanent, valuable asset that  can be linked to social networking sites, viewed collaboratively with a potential client or employer, and which promotes an individual now and throughout her career.

With this new product, Glasscock expands her commitment to supporting women’s career and business advancement.  She is a past member of the Board of Directors of National Association of Women Business Owners ( NAWBO-San Antonio). She has participated in, spoken at and collaborated with various organizations including The Women in Americas Forum at the White House , where she helped increase economic development for women in the Americas; The Women in Leadership International Summit in Brussels where she taught European women business owners how to leverage technology to increase profits. Glasscock's career and business articles have been featured in Fortune 500 companies like Citibank, Hearst and publications such as the Cambridge University Press and other publications in the U.S., Europe, Australia, Canada, India and Saudi Arabia and translated into Mandarin Chinese, reaching a Chinese audience of over 2 million. Glasscock also served as financial news editor for Hearst’s MoneyMinded.com/Woman.com.

Professional Online Career Portfolios, http://www.advancingwomen.com/career_portfolios/professional_career_portfolios.html, are available online today at both a platinum and a gold level, depending on how much professional support is needed to customize a portfolio.

AdvancingWomen.com is the first website to help women break through the “glass ceiling”, providing career and business strategy, tools and resources to support women’s career, business and leadership goals, and work-life balance issues, featuring a targeted job board at http://Careers.Advancing women.com and Professional Online Career Portfolios,http://www.advancingwomen.com/career_portfolios/professional_career_portfolios.html

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Background Information

Advancing Women is the first website to help women break through the “glass ceiling”, providing career strategy , tools, resources, products and services to support women's career, business and leadership goals, and work-life balance issues; featuring our targeted job board at Careers.Advancingwomen.com for employers seeking highly qualified candidates and diversity candidates seeking meaningful careers.

Advancing Women is Woman Owned Enterprise (WEB) founded in 1994. Using state-of-the-art career site technology, strategic content, and deep ties within the diversity community, Careers.Advancingwomen.com targets professional women, Hispanics / Latinos, African Americans, the disabled, and other diverse, minority populations in the most sought-after fields: information technology/security, software development / technical services, healthcare/ biomedical and legal.

Advertisers, Corporate Sponsors

Corporate Sponsors have included Forbes, Wells Fargo, and the Austin Software Council. Advertisers have included Nortel, Intel, Prudential, Disney, Merrill Lynch, Charles Schwab, Chase Manhattan, Citibank and Microsoft.

Advertiser Seeking to Reach Professionals and Business Owners:

• Advertise to a highly targeted demographic with proven loyalty and a high click through rate
• Reach professional women, business owners, young movers and shakers, corporate and non-profit executives, organization, university and government leaders
• Control costs with either image or small text ads precisely where you choose to place them

Recruiting Clients

Corporate recruiting clients have included TMP Worldwide, Inc.,Sun Microsystems, U.S. Department of Commerce,National Association of Women Lawyers, CareerBuilder.com, Fedex Kinko's, Accenture Technology Solutions, and Guidance Software Inc.

Awards, Media, Corporate Sponsors

Advancing Women web site is also winner of Lycos Top 5% Award, Dow Jones Award, Beatrice-Yahoo Top Site, and WWWomen Best of Net, listed in Femina as a top women’s career site-Advancing Women has been featured in Elle, Self, Women and Success, and Fast Company magazines, Access, a Sunday Supplement, Business Class, an Australian magazine, and the San Antonio Business Journal.

CONTACT:
Gretchen Glasscock
AdvancingWomen.com
(888) 810-4445 x1 and
Direct (866) 957-8881
gretchen.glasscock@onebox.com