This article is from MSN Careers.”Gaining a great deal of support from career industry professionals, recruiters and human resource specialists worldwide, Twitter is revolutionizing how people hunt for jobs in today’s economy.

“How? Susan Britton Whitcomb, co-author of ’The Twitter Job Search Guide,’ explains: ‘In the past, you had to go through a maze of gatekeepers to get to the cloistered person in charge of hiring decisions. Now you can have access to them with the click of a Follow button. The ability to level the playing field — placing you nearly peer-to-peer with influencers, leaders and hiring authorities — is extremely powerful.’

“And that’s not all. ‘Using Twitter you can find insight, encouragement, connections, job leads and company insider information in bite-sized messages of 140 characters or less,’ co-author Chandlee Bryan adds. ‘You can also get advice from some of the world’s most respected career experts on everything from starting your search to negotiating salary. It’s like fishing for trout at a pond that’s been stocked in advance.’”

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This article is from NetworkWorld.

“Demand for IT professionals has grown in the last quarter. Our guide to the jobs that are in demand, what they pay, and the skills you need to get them.

“Last August, a joint survey between Sapphire Technologies Canada and IBM Corp. on Canadian IT hiring practices found 38 per cent of respondents planned to increase their IT hiring over the next 18 months.

“The upswing was anticipated to begin in Q4 and continue into 2010, explained Sergio Mateus, president of Toronto, Ont.-based Sapphire Technologies Canada, a division of Randstad Interim Inc. ‘We are actually seeing that,’ he said.

“Sapphire Canada has noticed an increase in demand for IT skills over the last quarter and a half, according to Mateus, with substantial increases in the acquisition of architects, project managers and network analysts and administrators.”

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This article is from Investopedia.

“The US Employment Situation report (better known as the jobs report) released on Friday paints a somewhat mixed picture of the labor market. The economy lost only 36,000 jobs in February, well below the consensus forecast of a 68,000 decline in jobs and continuing the trend of moderate job losses in recent months. Contrast that with the situation a year ago, when the economy lost 726,000 jobs.

“However, the unemployment rate stayed at 9.7% for the second month, implying that about one in every 10 of the working population is still unemployed. As well, the broadest measure of labor market softness, the underemployment rate, rose to 16.8% last month from 16.5% in January. This is a measure of what percentage of workers are operating below their desired capacity. While the headline numbers underscore the challenging nature of the current job market, there are a number of sectors with solid job growth and a positive outlook.”

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