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Category Interactive Date 2/9/2006 |
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working.com Partners with New Media BC to create Industry Job Tool
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| Launch of digital media section provides job postings and career path information in growing sector |
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(Vancouver, British Columbia) – British Columbia’s new media industry continues to experience unprecedented growth with over 15,000 full time employees and 800 new media companies in the province. As a result of the growing industry, working.com has partnered with the premier association New Media BC, to include a new media focused section on Canada’s fastest growing job site, working.com.
The new ‘New Media’ section is located in the technology sector at www.working.com/technology and will provide New Media BC’s members with a number of services and information including; career opportunities, resume posting, company backgrounders, industry insights, training and education.
“working.com continues to provide industry professionals with the tools they need to thrive in their sectors,” said Kim Peters, General Manager, working.com, CanWest MediaWorks. “This new dedicated section will not only showcase job postings of the New Media BC association members, it will provide much needed resources and information such as education and training requirements.”
“With our reputation for ground breaking R&D, one of the lowest personal tax levels in Canada and world class film and technology industries, BC’s new media sector will continue to build on its success, “ said Ian Wilkinson, Board President, New Media BC. “This new partnership will provide our member base with a one stop shop for all their career search needs and will help up build our new media community both locally and globally”.
New media is described as the use of new and emerging interactive digital media for the purposes of entertaining, educating or informing. The new media industry in BC encompasses all digital content sectors including interactive design, mobile content, digital film and animation, e-learning, and interactive entertainment (games).
For more on this story or to search Canada’s fastest growing job site, visit www.working.com/newmedia, part of the canada.com network.
About working.com
working.com, part of the canada.com network, is the fastest growing job site in Canada. A national career network with a local focus, working.com offers unparalleled reach across Canada and a uniquely tailored approach to target the qualified applicants employers are seeking. working.com provides employers with access to the power of the CanWest MediaWorks network, which receives more than 3,000,000 unique users each month on canada.com, more than 2,000,000 Canadian readers every day through CanWest newspapers in ten of Canads’s largest metro markets.
working.com is owned by CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc., which is approximately 74% indirectly owned by CanWest Global Communications Corp, (CanWest) (NYSE: CWG; TSX: CGS.SV and CGS.NV, www.canwestglobal.com) and 26% indirectly owned by the CanWest MediaWorks Income Fund (TSX: CWM.UN; www.canwest.com/incomefund).
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For additional information, please contact:
Katherine Raso
CanWest Media
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