The Florida Times-Union launches Jobs.Jacksonville.com

SAN DIEGO/JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The Florida Times-Union (www.Jacksonville.com), the largest of the Morris Publishing Groupís 26 daily newspapers, is the latest addition to the CareerCast network of leading media partners. The siteís employment classified offering has been enhanced using CareerCastís market leading private-label solution, further strengthening the Jacksonville.com employment brand to employers in northeast Florida and southeast Georgia.

CareerCastís network offers recruiting professionals the ability to post job opportunities into both the local database of each participating newspaper or Web portal, as well as into targeted niche, regional or a national network database, extending their reach to millions of unique job seekers on a selective demographic or geographic basis.

Passive and active candidates looking for jobs on www.Jobs.Jacksonville.com will have access to market-leading employment tools and content, including targeted job searches and automatic job alerts for the largest number of local jobs in the Jacksonville area. Likewise, employers gain access to unique ways to reach and communicate with high-quality candidates quickly and efficiently, including online screening and assessment tools.

ìWe selected CareerCast because it gave us the best opportunity to provide local employers with a complete suite of tools to help them in their recruiting efforts,î said TJ Weyer, new media director of The Florida Times-Union. ìFor job seekers, the combination of Jobs.Jacksonville.com with the No. 1 local recruiting source, The Florida Times-Union, will translate to more fresh local jobs than any other sourceprint or online.î

Rick Miller, chief executive officer of CareerCast, said: ìJacksonville.comís strong local presence in northeast Florida, combined with our existing network of job board partners in Florida, delivers the broadest reach of candidates and jobs across Florida, making it the employment destination of choice for both employers and candidates.î

CareerCastís network in Florida already includes The Northwest Florida Daily News, The News Herald, Walton Sun and Destin Log, covering the Emerald Coast (http://www.emeraldcoastjobs.com/); The Gainesville Sun & Ocala Star Banner, in Alachua, Bradford, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Levy, Union, Marion and Ocala counties (http://www.GainesvilleOcalaJobs.com); The Ledger in Lakeland and Polk County (www.ledgerjobs); The Daytona Beach News Journal Corp. in Volusia, Seminole and Flagler counties (http://www.news-journalonline.com); the Herald Tribune in Sarasota and southwest Florida (http://www.heraldtribune.com); and the Miami Daily Business Review in Miami and Dade counties (http://www.lawjobs.com)