Yesterday Joel Cheesman had a post about the number of graduates going online to search for jobs and then those posting their resume on Monster.com. I agree with him that the number posting their resume on Monster seemed high but that number rings with me for all online posting. As I am getting into my job search seminar season with students at the University of Minnesota I am shocked at the amount of them that are not using newspaper ads. The top two choices are the online career services centers and the online posting boards. In fact when I suggest looking at old newspaper ads to see hiring patterns, to find contact names, to find email addresses I get weird expressions from them and the something like, “Newspaper ads, people still use those?” Umm, yeah and if so few of them are using the paper they might have an advantage in the hiring process.
I agree with Joel that if these numbers are trends that the newspapers are in trouble.
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