On October 31, 2008, JobDig will publish their first career section in the alternative weekly newspaper, the Nashville City Paper. This will be the first of three successful alternative weekly newspaper partnerships. In November, JobDig will also publish the local career sections for Louisville’s Leo Weekly and the Pittsburgh City Paper. JobDig is the exclusive local employment partner for these publications and will provide additional employment opportunities for jobseekers throughout these metro areas.

The Nashville City Paper, Louisville’s Leo Weekly and the Pittsburgh City Paper are all distributed in high-traffic locations within their respective communities. They each have extremely high pickup rates, offer valuable editorial content and are free to the public.

Local employers will now have the opportunity to maximize exposure amongst active and passive job seekers through JobDig’s multi-media approach to recruitment advertising. Beyond print, Human Resources professionals will have the opportunity to post jobs on jobdig.com and run low-cost radio commercials in each of these markets. JobDig is partnered with Cumulus Radio in Nashville, Cox Radio in Louisville, and Clear Channel Radio in Pittsburgh.

JobDig is excited to start working with these popular weekly publications. These partnerships are designed to help local employers connect with qualified candidates and reduce the cost of hiring!

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JobDig now publishes or partners with 19 local papers in 17 states: Arizona, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wisconsin.

For more information on JobDig’s new partnerships in Nashville, Louisville and Pittsburgh or on how to improve recruitment, please contact Hannah Catino at 952-277-4519 or email hannah.catino@jobdig.com.

Beginning September 14, 2008, JobDig will publish and distribute a free weekly jobs newspaper throughout the greater Tulsa, OK area.  JobDig helps local employers connect with job seekers by promoting local job opportunities through print, web, radio, and TV advertisements.  JobDig serves 17 markets in 15 states: North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, Utah, Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Tennessee, and Indiana. 

Current customers have expressed a need for JobDig services in the Tulsa area.  One satisfied customer says, “Braum’s has used JobDig in the Wichita and Oklahoma City markets and had great success!  The General Manager and Ad reps with JobDig are very quick to respond to the needs of our company. They have been really helpful.  The graphic arts department has done wonders with my ads, they make the ads look great and we get a good response.  I’m so excited to see JobDig come to the Tulsa area!!” 

JobDig’s print edition in Tulsa includes local job listings and award winning career advice.  The articles are written by industry experts on topics such as resume writing, interviewing, networking, and career coaching.  The paper will be distributed in 775 high-traffic locations reaching Sperry, Catoosa, Bixby, Sand Springs, and beyond.  JobDig will print 17,500 papers per week with an estimated readership of 36,000 people per week.

In addition to the local print publication, JobDig has partnered with radio and TV stations in Tulsa to help employers reach passive job seekers and brand their businesses at a low cost. JobDig’s radio partnership is with Cox Radio, which includes stations: K95.5 Country, Mix 96.5, Spirit 102.3 Christian Rock, Star 103.3 Classic Rock, and KRMG 740 News Talk.  JobDig’s TV partnership is with Cox Media.  This option will provide hiring managers with exposure on TNT, FX, Comedy Central, and TLC.

JobDig is looking forward to serving the needs of existing clients as well as local employers in Tulsa!

Eden Prairie, MN – JobDig, a leading employment focused media, advertising, and technology company, today announced the release of JobDig Tracker, a web-based (SaaS) Talent Acquisition application. Targeted towards small and mid-sized businesses, JobDig Tracker allows HR Professionals to better and more efficiently manage the hiring process within their companies and employer organizations.

“Essentially what we’ve tried to do with JobDig Tracker is bring the sophistication of a much larger talent acquisition system to smaller businesses and organizations, but make it simple to implement, easy to learn, and intuitive to use,” said Toby Dayton, President and CEO, JobDig. “And despite a broad range of innovative features and impressive functionality, JobDig Tracker is, by far, the least expensive applicant tracking system on the market today.”

JobDig Tracker enables users to streamline job postings, track and report on which sources are generating candidate flow, and centralize and better organize the multiple steps involved in the recruiting process. The system allows for customized automation and facilitates improved collaboration and sharing of information. “Every aspect of the application is designed to make it easier, more efficient, and less costly for companies to leverage new technology and improve how they hire new employees,” explained Jake Stupak, who is overseeing the development and rollout of JobDig Tracker.

Some of the features embedded within JobDig Tracker include a customized applicant portal which integrates seamlessly with a company’s web site, job order tracking, resume parsing, source tracking, candidate ranking, and automated job board posting. The system costs $179 per month for an unlimited number of users and a guided tour is available at www.jobdigtracker.com. Live demonstrations can also be scheduled with a product specialist to specifically highlight how JobDig Tracker could benefit the specific organization.

Ever heard the phrase “what you give out, comes back to you.”? Here is one more small example, and proof. GL’s blog is read regularly by Robin McMaster in Pittsford, NY, who operates a unique business there with Dr. Ellen Weber. Both are noted business brain experts and lecture at the university level on how the human brain works. GL mailed her a dog several weeks ago, like we do often to prospects and customers. We do it so often, frankly, that we have become a bit jaded to its impact. Evidently, Robin thought highly enough about it to write about in a special blog posting, which you can read here. If she likes GL’s blog, think how she will like Toby’s, called Diggings, which you can read here.

And, one of the editors at US NEWS and WORLD REPORT thought that she would weigh in with a follow up column, based on one of WWDS’s most recent blog topics, on resumes. You can read Liz Wolgemuth’s article “Will This Resume Tip Get You the Job?” here.

And, seems like each weekend brings more sobering news about our local newspaper, the Star-Tribune, which you can read (first, often) in Toby Dayton’s blistering series of articles on their financial difficulties. In case you missed the last installment, you can read it here.

Today’s event was the Pole Vault – a very intense and animated event which brought out the competiveness in each JobDig Olympian.

The stakes were high and team leaders focused on pumping up their teammates to take home the victory. Team Argentina, Sweden and Italy advanced to the final medal round.

Kristi Wood, one of JobDig’s new Market Research Interns and member of team Sweden, stepped up to compete for her team. The JobDig Olympic Stadium fell silent and the audience impatiently waited for her score……

A perfect 10!! The crowd went wild!

Team Sweden took the gold and Kristi made JobDig Olympic history!

Way back when we were discussing our company’s name and main product, we knew we had a winner with JOBDIG. It was short, concise, active and, in the age of the internet, it had only six letters. Alyn Shannon, a local graphic artist, came up with the idea for a clipart dog to represent the name. It was ok, not the best, certainly not special or unique. We knew it would have to change and get better.
Those first few years, we were working hard at building the company, raising money (constantly), making more than our share of mistakes, but always keeping our eye on serving employers and jobseekers.

When Toby joined us from Cherry Tree, he introduced the company to Brad Norr, an independent graphic designer who had some ideas on a new direction for our dog. His idea was to infuse the dog with a bit of attitude and fun. After all, work is work…but the people who hold these jobs all want pretty much the same thing: respect, fairness, a sense of belonging and purpose. And, they wanted a bit of fun, too.

Over the next few years, Brad has designed over 150 special dogs for us…we have Minnesota State Fair dog, trucker driver dog and nurse dog. We have Amarillo dog that Toby just showcased over at Diggings.

We even made up basic dog as a plush toy and sent it out to our prospects a friends. Several thousand of them are now sitting on monitors and water coolers all over our markets. Customers call us and ask us for more dogs because “someone took mine.” We pass dogs out at trade shows, charity events like the CF Walk and many more. Each time, someone gets our dog, they smile. We win.

I am not too sure what branding experts like Becky Carroll of Customers Rock, Martin Jelsema of Signature Strategies, Oliver Blanchard of the brandbuilder or my friend Dan Schwabel at Personal Branding Blog would think of our brand, er, dog.

I know this: we like him. Which one is YOUR favorite dog?

You know what we say…because everyone should dig their job.