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| Category Interactive Date 4/14/2005 |
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working.com honoured with award for best overall jobs website
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TORONTO, April 14, 2005/ - CanWest Interactive Media is proud to announce
that working.com, Canada's fastest growing job site, is the recipient of this
year's prestigious CareerCast Award for Best Overall Site. working.com was
cited for having the best overall approach, including the site itself, the
sales materials and media kit, promotional campaigns, and performance on
success metrics such as revenue and traffic.
working.com was launched in October of 2004, and has grown rapidly, now
reaching 1.4 million unique visitors each month. It is already the number 1
jobs website in western Canada. Last month, the site expanded its services to
include free postings for employers seeking summer help and students looking
for summer employment; both employers and students can visit the site, list or
seek summer jobs at no charge.
"Winning the award for best overall careers site over such established
and well-respected sites as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal is
an enormous accomplishment for working.com", says Rick Miller, CEO,
CareerCast.
"CanWest won because they have truly transformed their newspaper
recruitment business into a multi-platform enterprise. This win is a
significant achievement for a site that's only five months old."
This is the second year that CareerCast has held the competition.
"The strategy to transform our recruitment advertising business from a
single platform to multiple platforms involved a variety of systems, sales
training, marketing and development initiatives," says Kim Peters,
working.com's Director of Online Careers, who joined CanWest last year after
having started workopolis.com. "It's particularly gratifying to see that our
business transformation has been recognized for excellence", she concluded.
Founded in 1997, CareerCast develops interactive classified advertising
software (job board, real estate and automotive solutions) for the Internet's
leading media companies and web portals. CareerCast's enterprise-class
software platforms deliver a private label application integrated seamlessly
within on-line classified advertising offerings, enabling organizations to
build and manage the largest, most valuable and highest quality communities of
job seekers, employers, buyers and sellers. Organizations choose CareerCast to
maximize the return on their career site investment. CareerCast customers
include The Wall Street Journal, (CareerJournal.com and
RealEstateJournal.com), the Boston Globe (BostonWorks.com), the New York Times
(JobMarket and Automobiles sites), CanWest Interactive (working.com), the
San Diego Union-Tribune, Orange County Register, IEEE.org, and the Seattle
Times, among many others.
CanWest Interactive is a division of CanWest Global Communications Corp.
(NYSE: CWG; TSX: CGS.SV and CGS.NV,(www.canwest.com), an international media
company. CanWest is Canada's largest media company. In addition to owning the
Global Television Network, CanWest is Canada's largest publisher of daily
newspapers, and also owns, operates and/or holds substantial interests in
conventional television, out-of-home advertising, specialty cable channels,
Web sites and radio networks in Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Ireland.
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