CareerBuilder and Yahoo! UK & Ireland Launch Career Channel to Help Workers in Grueling Job Market
LONDON, Oct 01, 2009 (PR Newswire Europe via COMTEX) --
Companies: Gannett Co., Inc. (GCI), McClatchy Co. (THE) (MNI), Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)
With unemployment rates climbing to 7.9 percent in the United Kingdom and 12.4 percent in Ireland, a growing number of workers are competing for a smaller amount of available opportunities. Yahoo! UK & Ireland and CareerBuilder.co.uk, a leading online job site in the UK, have teamed up to help workers in the UK and Ireland find job openings as they become available and connect with employers in real-time. The two companies today announced the launch of a free Career channel, powered exclusively by CareerBuilder.co.uk.
"CareerBuilder continues to broaden our distribution network in the UK to deliver more value to our users," said Tony Roy, Managing Director of CareerBuilder UK. "Bringing Yahoo!'s platform together with CareerBuilder's job market expertise establishes a high-profile link between employers and job candidates in the UK and Ireland. This is needed now more than ever as nations around the world work toward greater financial health and a revival in the job market."
Millions of people come to www.yahoo.co.uk every month to connect with the people and things that matter to them most. Through the new Career channel, visitors can:
- Search through CareerBuilder's entire database of jobs in their
geographic area and other countries and apply instantly.
- Post up to five different versions of their CVs to market their skill
sets to different employers.
- Sign up for alerts to have jobs that match their qualifications and
interests automatically emailed to them.
- Access helpful article advice on everything from "must-knows" for
finding a job today and writing a CV that will get noticed to
transferring skills to new industries and leveraging social media in
job search.
About CareerBuilder.co.uk
CareerBuilder UK is one of the most visited online job sites in the United Kingdom. Owned by Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI), Tribune Company, The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT), CareerBuilder.co.uk powers the career centres for more than 150 individual UK sites that reach national, local, industry and niche audiences. Job seekers visit CareerBuilder.co.uk every month to search for opportunities by industry, location, company and job type, sign up for automatic e-mail job alerts, and get advice on job hunting and career management. For more information about CareerBuilder products and services, visit http://www.careerbuilder.co.uk.
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+44020-7855-0619
Christer Holloman of CareerBuilder, +44020-7855-0619, Christer.Holloman@careerbuilder.com
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Companies: Gannett Co., Inc. (GCI), McClatchy Co. (THE) (MNI), Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)
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