How to Harness Online Recruitment for newspaper and magazine owners and directors ñ 5th March 2008

Take the opportunity to come and listen to Rob Paterson, Managing Director of Friday-Ad.co.uk who will be giving his presentation at the Recruitment Advertising is Moving Online Conference ñ ëPrint is Dead - Is the future all online for recruitment or can publishing businesses leverage their experience, contacts and existing print assets?í Rob Paterson has worked for Friday Holdings for 24 years, having first started with the company in 1983, working in numerous roles before being rewarded with the Managing Director position.

During his time in this role he has worked to help turn Friday Holdings into the leading independently-owned publishing company in the UK. The company has grown at a substantial rate, especially over the past four years, and now operates eight magazine titles (including original classified publication Friday-Ad) and forty five websites.

One area that has played a particularly important part in the development of the company has been the launch and acquisition of recruitment websites. Rob has been instrumental in the development of job sites such as LocalJobSearch.co.uk, as well as the acquisition and development of recruitment companies such as Interactive Recruitment & Training, Natives and Simply Online Services.

Friday Holdings now operates 13 general and niche jobs boards, many of which (such as AviationJobSearch.com and natives.co.uk) are market leaders in their particular fields.

Rob currently also holds the role of Chairperson for the International Classified Media Association, helping to promote the benefits of online recruitment to the wider international classified publishing community.

This role has lead Rob to open the doors of Friday Holdings to a range of international visitors from across the globe to come and see how this traditional publishing company has fully embraced online technologies and is using them to grow itís business substantially.

The cost to attend the Onrec Newspaper Conference is GBP 195 ( VAT) per delegate.

Hurry, tickets are limited, so please book as early as possible by calling Wendy Finch on 0870 766 8530 or email Wendy@onrec.com