Chris Russell from the Recruiting Fly took a look through the local newspaper classifieds, and walked away very unimpressed.
I happened to pick up the Sunday Hartford Courant yesterday. I wanted to check out the classifeds. Unfortunately for me it took 10 minutes to find them. They were buried in between two pages of car dealer ads and when i did come across them I was stunned to see 5 measly columns of employment classifieds.
When you look at the costs of posting an ad, and what you get for, you have to wonder how long newspapers can keep it up. Most newspapers now add an online component - so you get an ad on the website and in the paper, but is it enough?
And remember - this all happened before companies realized they could post their own job postings in an RSS feed and upload it into vertical search engines. What happens when everyone can do that, and no one needs the paper to find work anymore?
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