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Category Interactive Date 8/22/2006 |
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working.com Expands Reach into U.S. Job Network
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| Canada’s online career network offers job search and recruitment across 49th parallel |
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Toronto, Ontario - working.com, Canada’s national career network with a distinctly local focus, announced today it has launched the working.com North American Network, providing visitors to the working.com web site easy access to job postings in both Canada and the United States. Additionally, the enhanced network now offers Canadian employers, recruiters and advertisers extensive reach in both countries.
As a result of the robust North American job market and increased labour mobility, many Canadian job seekers are expanding their searches outside the country and employers are looking beyond borders. The working.com North American Network, powered by Adicio Inc., now provides a single point of access to over 100,000 job postings daily from more than 200 leading newspapers, magazines and related media sites across the U.S. This complements the approximately 18,000 Canadian jobs already available daily through working.com.
“With a growing number of individuals on both sides of the border casting employment nets beyond national boundaries, working.com now offers direct and exclusive Canadian access to one of the most powerful job databases in North America, so they never have to miss an opportunity,” says Kim Peters, General Manager, working.com. “Not only can Canadian job seekers continue to search positions at the local, regional and national levels, they now have seamless access to a breadth of jobs posted all across the U.S.”
“working.com is the flagship website of the CanWest suite of online and print classifieds, which also includes driving.ca, renting.ca, shopping at canada.com and others,” says Arturo Duran, President, Interactive and Business Integration, CanWest MediaWorks Inc.. “This move into the U.S. market extends working.com’s world class user experience to American and Canadian job seekers and employers alike.”
The working.com North American network includes jobs from CanWest MediaWorks’ publications, including the National Post, Victoria Times Colonist, The Province, Vancouver Sun, Edmonton Journal, Calgary Herald, Regina Leader-Post, Saskatoon StarPhoenix, Windsor Star, Ottawa Citizen, The Gazette, and VANNET Newspapers. Adicio’s North American Network will add the power of an extensive group of career web sites belonging to newspapers, magazines, trade associations and TV and radio stations across the United States.
“Now, job hunters visiting working.com can explore jobs in Canada and the U.S. through the Adicio network without leaving the local site where they began their search,” said Tony Lee, Adicio’s chief alliance officer. “In addition, Canadian and American recruiters and human resource professionals can reach qualified candidates in their local markets as well as through our partner sites.”
"From a U.S. perspective, the addition of working.com and CanWest newspapers to the Network offers a great opportunity for CareerJournal.com clients to reach highly skilled candidates throughout Canada, as well as allows our candidates to see job opportunities they would never see otherwise," says Gail Griffin, general manager at The Wall Street Journal Online Network.
CanWest MediaWorks recently announced the rollout of its newly redesigned job site, working.com, with an enhanced look and feel and localized job search functionality, a richer resources section, and simplified navigation. working.com includes search capability for hundreds of smaller communities across Canada.
For more information, visit www.working.com.
About working.com
working.com is 74% indirectly owned by CanWest Global Communications Corp, (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.cwmincomefund.com. CanWest Global Communications Corp., an international media company, is Canada's largest media company and largest publisher of daily newspapers. The Company also owns, operates and/or holds substantial interests in free-to-air and subscription-based television networks, out-of-home advertising, web sites, and radio stations and networks in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
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For more information, contact:
Betsy Chaly
CanWest MediaWorks
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