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Category Interactive Date 11/29/2006 |
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working.com partners with Vancouver Board of Trade,Vancouver Island Newspaper Group
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| Alliances strengthen recruitment options throughout British Columbia |
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(Toronto) CanWest MediaWorks Inc is pleased to announce that working.com, Canada’s national career network with a distinctly local focus, has created two new alliances to provide enhanced recruitment services for businesses and job seekers throughout British Columbia. One alliance will see working.com become the Official Benefit and Privilege Recruitment Solutions Provider for the Vancouver Board of Trade (VBOT). Additionally, working.com has teamed up with Vancouver Island Newspaper Group to provide job seekers and employers in the region with greater access to jobs and candidates.
“working.com is very proud to become the career and recruitment provider of the Vancouver Board of Trade and to welcome the Vancouver Island Newspaper Group to our vast career network,” said Kim Peters, General Manager, working.com. “These alliances allow us to build on the power of our network in British Columbia and to solidify working.com’s role as the most comprehensive online recruitment tool for job seekers, employers and recruiters throughout Canada.”
In association with the VBOT, working.com will provide greater access to recruitment solutions and options for job seekers, senior level executives and human resource professionals throughout British Columbia. working.com and the VBOT will collaborate to offer unique recruitment and HR opportunities, including events and special offerings. The alliance will kick-off an ongoing presence for the Vancouver Board of Trade on working.com and in the Vancouver Sun, including a regularly scheduled new member directory and an events calendar in the newspaper. Also, special rates for recruitment job postings will be made available to new VBOT members by working.com.
“The Vancouver Board of Trade is delighted to welcome working.com as our career and recruitment provider. working.com is the ideal partner because of the depth of recruitment expertise and breadth of recruitment options it offers our members,” said Darcy Rezac, Managing Director and Chief Engagement Officer of The Vancouver Board of Trade. “Together, we will provide businesses throughout British Columbia with new and exciting options for recruitment.”
The addition of the Vancouver Island Newspaper Group completes working.com’s roster of CanWest publications, providing job seekers greater access to job postings in Vancouver and across Canada and the United States through working.com’s extensive network in both countries. Recruiters, employers and advertisers will also benefit from enhanced access to local candidates as well as reach throughout the working.com network. The Vancouver Island Newspaper Group includes Nanaimo’s Daily News and Harbour City Star publications, Duncan’s Cowichan Valley Citizen, Parkville’s Oceanside Star, Port Alberni’s Alberni Valley Times and Pennyworth publications, Ucluelet/Tofino’s Westerley News, Campbell River’s Courier Islander and North Islander, and Courtenay’s Comox Valley Echo.
working.com, part of the canada.com network, is a national career network with a local focus, offering 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, 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, VANNET Newspapers, and Vancouver Island Newspaper Group, as well as over 100,000 job postings daily from more than 200 leading newspapers, magazines and related media sites across the U.S.
About working.com
working.com is 74% indirectly owned by CanWest Global Communications Corp, (NYSE: CWG; TSX: CGS and CGS.A, 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, Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, the United States and the United Kingdom.
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For more information, please contact:
Tammy Bender
CanWest MediaWorks
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