Job hunting takes off in cyberspace

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The use of the Internet to find jobs is transforming the US job market. The top 15 on-line job banks now list around a half-million jobs every day, up from just 15,000 in 1994. Using the Internet to post jobs or to find one is much faster than posting advertisements in a newspaper. The newspaper can take two weeks before an ad is published, whereas an Internet job posting can start receiving responses almost immediately. Corporations are finding that the process of filling job vacancies now takes just a few days, instead of weeks or months, and the costs of finding new employees are falling. The most expensive job postings cost less than $50, and the US Labor Department's America's Job Bank is free. The Labor Department is funding Internet Access Zones in educational institutions and 1,800 public employment-service offices. Similar systems are already available in many public libraries and academic career centers.

Services, Job hunting, United States. Department of Labor

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On the hot seat; Time Warner hasn't yet found the right formula for its Pathfinder site. Now it's Dan Okrent's turn to try

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Dan Okrent, Time Warner's new media editor, has the difficult task of making a success of Pathfinder, the Web site that has lost approximately $10 million annually since its inception in 1994. Pathfinder includes sites for People, Time, and Money, as well as other Time Warner publications. Okrent sees the Web as a fast-changing market, and calls Pathfinder's multiple redesigns as a crucial part of the site's development. Okrent sees to create content that is important to people's lives. He sees Pathfinder's flexibility and willingness to experiment as positive strengths in a developing industry. Pathfinder currently has a staff of approximately 100 people, many of whom are in their 20s and 30s. Mr. Okrent downplays the reports of any clashes between conventional publication-minded Time Inc heads and Time Warner executives who see the Internet as the future.

Planning, Time Warner Inc., Interview, Online information services, Information services, TWX, Information services industry, Web site/Web page development, Online information service

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Long distance; innovative MCI unit finds culture shock in Colorado Springs; it quit Washington, D.C., and got less diversity with slower work pace; converting the nonbelievers

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MCI officials relocated 4,000 employees of its Washington DC-based Systems Engineering division to Colorado Springs, hoping to attract a greater number of skilled software programmers and reduce overall costs. However, the remote geographic location, the conservative political climate and the lack of ethnic diversity in the region proved distasteful to a large percentage of its workforce, 51% of which are minority. The cost-savings that company officials estimated that MCI would gain from the move have not been realized, and the $200 million overall relocation costs were much greater than MCI expected. Moreover, MCI's highest-ranking officials failed to support the move by relocating themselves. MCI's difficulties vividly illustrate the challenges that companies encounter when moving from diverse urban centers to smaller, more homogenous markets.

Telephone Communication, Telephone Communications, Management, Telecommunications services industry, Telecommunications industry, Telephone services, Work environment, MCI Communications Corp., MCIC, Company organization

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