In the current economic downturn, an increasing amount of people are turning to online ad portals to connect with other people and advertise services and products that they offer. Treidr.com is an international free online classifieds portal where you can search andpost free classified ads with photos for apartments, cars, jobs, personals and much more. more…
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The pessimists think that 25 percent year-to-year ad losses will extend indefinitely and that all but the strongest, debt-free newspaper companies are in trouble. The optimists (I’m one) argue that at least half the current losses are cyclical and that in an improved economy a leaner news industry will recover, at least for now. more…
Chicago, IL (AHN) – For the 2.3 million students graduating from college this year, the job market will undoubtedly be competitive, as the global economic crunch forces companies to downsize and the job market, in general, to take a hit. As a result of the contraction, opportunities for employment are perhaps scarcer than past years, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing out there–you just have to know where to look.
There has been much buzz on college campuses, particularly among graduating seniors, about the murky job market and its effects on their career plans. In just one year, the unemployment rate for 20- to 24-year-olds increased by 4.7%, and with 2.3 million students graduating from college this year, many find this to be disconcerting. more…
The fourth-quarter results for newspapers aren’t surprising. Compared to the fourth quarter of 2007, print revenues plummeted 20.6% to $9.3 billion, while online revenues fell 8.1% to $778 million, according to the Newspaper Association of America on Thursday. Together, total print and online revenues fell 19.7% to just under $10.1 billion. The revenue figures make it virtually certain that this year will see the closing of more big regional daily newspapers and bankruptcy declarations from even more big publishers. more…
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) – As a growing number of American newspapers halt daily publication or threaten to do so, U.S. Sen. Benjamin Cardin introduced legislation Tuesday that would allow newspapers to operate as non-profit organizations, providing significant tax breaks to the struggling industry. more…
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) March 24, 2009 — ES Careers recently reported on their website that the current unemployment rate could be cut in half if people simply knew where to look for jobs online. The report suggests that large samples of the population of career seekers in the job market today are just not Internet savvy. more…
Despite turning in job application after job application and scanning both online and print classifieds, freshman letters and sciences major Alex Reece is still jobless for the summer.
“It has been really hard. You look in the classifieds, and nobody seems to be hiring,” Recce said. And he’s not alone. more…
Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI) Chairman, President and CEO Craig Dubow and members of the company’s senior management team today reported on various components of the company’s transformation efforts and the current operating environment at a presentation to the Media and Entertainment Analysts of New York. more…
A group of recent college grads based out of Boston have launched a new job hunting site called Jobaphiles where people can bid on how much money “” or more importantly, how little “” they are willing to be paid for their work. And instead of behind-the-scenes emails, the entire conversation is out in the open resulting in a virtual battle to undercut the competition.
CRYSTAL CITY, Va. – People lined up, on the hunt for an illusive, and precious commodity this morning, a job. Monster.com made the second stop of its “Keep America Working Tour” today in Crystal City. About 1500 job seekers pre-registered for the job fair hoping to find work. Men and women of all ages and experience showed up, many dressed in business suits, their resumes in hand. Some arrived more than two hours before the doors opened at 10:00 am.
This brutal recession has only sped up the deterioration of newspapers and spurred a slew of stories and television segments about the issue, writes Seattle Times associate publisher Ryan Blethen. What is clear is that there is no killer app for saving newspapers. What is for certain is that newspapers will emerge on the other side of this transitional period much changed.
Life has taught me that change and unpredictability are consistently predictable. I, like everybody else, have gone through constant string of transitions. These transitions are rarely easy and sometimes painful. This churn is not limited to our personal lives. more…