{"id":2186,"date":"2009-12-01T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/12\/newspaper-meet-the-dodo\/"},"modified":"2009-12-01T15:04:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T21:04:57","slug":"newspaper-meet-the-dodo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/12\/newspaper-meet-the-dodo\/","title":{"rendered":"Newspaper Meet The Dodo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sellingpower.com\/article\/display.asp?aid=SP6146946\" target=\"_blank\">advice column from the Selling Power archives<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>E. Kinds of ads. Classified ads are found in the help wanted section of the newspaper, organized on the basis of occupation or industry and often alphabetized by the first word of the ad. Display ads have special borders with the company logo and sometimes artwork, drawings or photos. Open ads identify the name of the company. All inquiries from such ads must be answered, usually by mail or phone. Blind ads do not reveal the name of the company; the reader is asked to respond, by letter or resume, to a box number. In this case, you can respond to those applicants in whom you have an interest. Blind ads can be used in both classified and display ads.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember those days?\u00a0 They weren\u2019t <em>that<\/em> long ago.\u00a0 Most hiring managers would cringe at reading this type of advice today.\u00a0 However, I am fearless in sharing such antiquated material!<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how long it will be before we start viewing the mega job boards as antiquated mediums?\u00a0 The industry-specific boards are far more interesting for our company in terms of sourcing.\u00a0 And even at that, the social media channel is truly becoming the rising star.\u00a0 We just haven\u2019t properly harnessed it\u2019s full potential in our company yet.<\/p>\n<p>I still browse through the printed newspaper sales employment section which is a bit of a misnomer in itself.\u00a0 Our Sunday newspaper presented a whopping 10 sales ads recently.\u00a0 The positions ranged from auto sales to debt collections to kiosk sales.\u00a0 It was brutal\u2026and foretelling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an advice column from the Selling Power archives: E. Kinds of ads. Classified ads are found in the help wanted section of the newspaper, organized on the basis of occupation or industry and often alphabetized by the first word of the ad. Display ads have special borders with the company logo and sometimes artwork, drawings or photos. Open ads identify the name of the company. All inquiries from such ads must be answered, usually by mail or phone. Blind ads do not reveal the name of the company; the reader is asked to respond, by letter or resume, to a box number. In this case, you can respond&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/12\/newspaper-meet-the-dodo\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[530,1454,1455,1453,472,38],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-zg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2187,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions\/2187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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