A most at-risk job.

[elfs]

One of the other chaperons I met at the Musuem of Flight outing I took yesterday with Yamaraashi-chan has the most at-risk job I could think of: she was the recruitment desk for classified ads at a major city newspaper. Her job was to round up "Help Wanted" ads with which to bulk up the classifieds pages. She said that they were making a lot of outbounds, begging employers who used to post every week to give them something, anything, but most employers just didn't have any openings worth paying money to put a classified ad up.

I confessed that I used both her newspaper and Craigslist in my search. "No, don't use Craigslist! They just post the same job ads over and over. You'll never get anywhere with them!"

She confessed that she wondered every day if her job would be there tomorrow. I understood her clearly. I wondered that too.

Comments

[shunra.livejournal.com]

I hate to ask it but - SHOULD it be there, tomorrow? It seems to me that the lead times on printing can outdate help wanted ads before the paper hits the street.

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

I haven't picked up a newspaper in, literally, years. It never even occurred to me to use one in my job hunt - online job postings are just more complete and more convenient. Part of me feels bad about newspapers failing, and I do wonder about the future of reporting, but not enough to bother buying a paper. Some years back I tried subscribing to a paper, thinking I'd read it if I had it delivered - most of the time it went into the recycling bin unread. And I just felt guilty about the waste of paper.