By Alex Ho 

There has been a lot of news about Yahoo! recently since the beginning of the year. After fourth quarter results from 2007 were reported, there was the announcement of about 1000 layoffs for Yahoo! employees wordwide. Then a couple of days afterwards, there was a huge announcement by Microsoft wanting to acquire Yahoo! for 44.6 billion dollars. The deal got rejected but everyone is still waiting to see what will happen next as the deal is not completely gone. Since then, Yahoo! has revealed high expectations for the next two years, joined the OpenSocial initiative, and has had plenty of increased advertising. It is tough to say whether Jerry Yang and the board members are trying to get more money, look for more alternatives with other partners/alliances or just fend off Microsoft completely and let Jerry Yang succeed in running his ”baby”.

With all that is going on in the media spotlight, Yahoo! is still actively recruiting and hiring! There are plenty of good reasons to work at Yahoo! as it is consistently on Fortune’s Top 100 Companies to work for. Whether or not the deal goes through should not hinder you from applying for a position because if there is an open position, and you get hired, your job will be safe. If you need a referral, look on the Yahoo! job board for open positions that you qualify for, and send me your resume along with the req ID. I am not a recruiter but I do enjoy working as an Operations Engineer at Yahoo!.