Craig Newmark (left) has been giving newspaper publishers nightmares since he launched his mostly free online classifieds site in San Francisco 13 years ago. Gannett fought back by partnering with other publishers to run jobs site CareerBuilder, hoping to stem the loss of lucrative help-wanted ads. So, you can imagine my surprise this morning to see job openings mentioning Gannett posted on Craigslist pages for Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C. (What the heck's a frenemy?)[Photo: Public Journalism Network]
posting these openings on craigslist might also be an experiment to test how much response is generated, or to see what the candidates are like. it looks like the jobs posted are a cross section that span different job types, and yet also are probably just a small number of the jobs available in each area.
ReplyDeleteThe Gannett site I work at used Craig's List for interns last year. I can just imagine the discussion in the Executive Suites.
ReplyDeleteExec 1: "Hey I stumbled on this great thing on that internet dealie, we can advertise for free for help we barely pay."
Exec 2: "Outstanding thinking outside the box. Give yourself a nice bonus."
And neither of them realize Craig's List is going to cost all our jobs.