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Article: Job seekers tap Internet for openings
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- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- July 2, 1996
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WASHINGTON -- When Wheat Belt Public Power District in Sidney,
Neb., needed an experienced line foreman, it listed the position on
an Internet job-site set up by the Labor Department.
And it got 12 responses, including the person it needed for the
job.
Such on-line, job-search sites have boomed recently, complementing
the traditional job searches in newspapers and trade magazines and
visits to employment offices or personnel departments.
A Michigan State University survey late last year found 22 percent
of employers using the Internet to list job openings or to recruit.
Virtually every profession has a bulletin board, and most major
corporations have World Wide Web sites on the Internet. ...