JobDig believes that it is a professional obligation for companies to support the communities in which they do business.  JobDig recently announced that employees will now have the opportunity to support United Way!  United Way helps underprivileged community members meet basic needs and lead healthy, safe, and independent lives.  Most importantly, United Way brings communities together to create a better quality of life for everyone.  JobDig kicked off this new initiative by carving 80 pumpkins for a Group Home maintained by an organization called Opportunity Partners.  Thanks to all JobDig employees for contributing to this project, the recipients were very excited to have pumpkins for their Halloween party! 

JobDig Contestants

On Halloween this year, JobDig hosted a Halloween Contest for its employees.  One prize was awarded for the best costume.  Many creative outfits were crafted including a baby, a nurse, Chewbacca, a pirate, a police officer and many others.  The prize money went to Alex Redmann’s Walker Guy costume.  Like many skilled professionals, Alex came out of retirement in order to seize this award!  Congratulations to all contestants for making Halloween a Spooktacular day at JobDig!

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!

Check out our Tucson and Salt Lake City postcard campaings!

JobDig Teams Up With Sioux Falls Canaries To Host Job Fair!

Sioux Falls, SD – On August 14, 2008, JobDig and the Sioux Falls Canaries will host an exciting Job Fair for local employers to connect with job seekers at the Canaries’ Stadium in Sioux Falls.

“We have always wanted to use our beautiful facility for a fun and exciting job fair,” says Sioux Falls Canaries Event Coordinator, Mallory Selway. “And when we heard about JobDig and saw their approach to recruitment advertising, we knew that they would be a perfect fit to help us carry out our goal.”

This Job Fair aims to put a new spin on traditional job fairs by creating a fun environment for job seekers to interact with employers. Employers were asked to be creative when thinking of how they could reach out to future employees. Music, food, delivery trucks, semi trucks, and outdoor games are a few of the ways employers plan to represent themselves at the fair. This event will be hosted at the Canaries’ Stadium and promoted through radio and TV commercials advertising the event with free admittance along with receiving a free Canaries home game ticket.

JobDig and the Canaries are anticipating 300 job seekers to attend this unique Job Fair. Thirty employers including Daktronics, CitiBank, HSBC, and Wells Fargo will be taking advantage of this opportunity to speak with local job seekers. Pick up the latest copy of JobDig in order to view a complete list of vendors attending the Job Fair.

JobDig encourages job seekers to attend this inaugural event from 10am-3:30pm on August 14, 2008.  There will be opportunities to hand out resumes and speak with hiring managers at the Canaries’ gorgeous facility.

Eden Prairie, MN – JobDig, a leading employment focused media, advertising, and technology company, announced the release of the Online Application Builder for JobDig Tracker. The new feature enables HR Professionals to build comprehensive and custom job applications in a simple drag and drop environment. Within the builder, the application questions can also be tailored for specific requisitions or company requirements.

When a user creates a job requisition, an application is automatically available through the company’s website via JobDig Tracker’s Applicant Portal. This allows required information to be quickly gathered and complement a jobseeker’s resume. It also makes it possible for jobseekers without resumes to apply for positions. When an application is completed, the candidate information is automatically stored, processed and tracked within JobDig Tracker.

“The Online Application Builder offers the flexibility required to build custom applications, which can be as diverse as the companies we serve” explained Jake Stupak, who is the Product Specialist for JobDig Tracker. “We are committed to developing such features that strengthen the ability of HR Professionals to effectively and efficiently manage their hiring process.”

JobDig Tracker delivers an on demand and intuitive applicant tracking system (ATS) for small and mid-sized businesses. Other 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.

In preparation of our upcoming Job Fair with the Sioux Falls Canaries, JobDig was featured at the Canaries’ home game on Sunday July 13, 2008. We set up a booth and passed out papers at the front gates as the fans entered the ball park. Our JobDig mascot stood at the front entrance high-fiving and taking pictures with the families in attendance. The stadium announcers introduced JobDig and the upcoming Job Fair over the intercom as the crowd settled in for the game. Frequently throughout the game, our JobDig logo was displayed on the big screen. The day was a huge success and many lucky winners left the game with fun JobDig prizes! Stay tuned for more information regarding the JobDig-Canaries Job Fair on August 14, 2008 from 10AM-3:30PM.

Very intentionally, the blogs we have been writing at JobDig (What Would Dad Say & Diggings) do not contain much information specifically about JobDig. Rather, they have both attempted to build a readership over the past two years by focusing on general advice for jobseekers and people interested in furthering their career (What Would Dad Say) and providing commentary on the media, advertising, and receruitment advertising industries (Diggings). While we have, on occasion, promoted noteworthy events at JobDig, we’ve pretty much kept news about our own company out of our blogs, feeling that readers were maybe not as interested in our own self-promotion. While that has been a successful strategy, at least as far as we can tell, we have increasingly felt the need to start a new JobDig blog that will contain only news about JobDig. And for that reason, we are launching J.D.’s Blog - a blog with news, updates, stories, product and service releases, employee news, and anything else we feel like placing in there about our company. There will be a number of contributors to the site, and we hope that over time, people who are interested in JobDig will find the blog interesting, entertaining, and informative. If you have comments, ideas, thoughts, or feedback, please leave a comment and let us know.

Thanks.