CareerSite To Power Online Recruitment For All McClatchy Newspapers

CareerSite (www.careersite.com) will power the online recruitment solution for all McClatchy Company newspapers (www.mcclatchy.com), the companies have announced. The agreement includes 11 daily and 13 community newspapers such as The (Minneapolis) Star Tribune, The (Raleigh) News & Observer, and The Sacramento Bee. The McClatchy Company, a leading, Pulitzer Prize winning publisher, will offer employment advertisers a one-stop e-recruiting tool and provide job seekers a confidential career service that focuses on local employers within a national recruitment network.
Using CareerSite, a major, national provider of online recruitment solutions, McClatchy newspapers'' employment advertisers will enjoy a variety of ways to reach local and national job seekers including: online job postings, a searchable candidate database and employer profiles. This easy-to-use, browser-based tool streamlines the entire e-recruiting process, from posting a job online to tracking and viewing rsums. By entering a password protected, confidential profile that does not contain any identifiable information, job seekers can market themselves anonymously to employers while maintaining complete control over identity disclosure.
To ensure that job seekers receive all relevant matching positions, CareerSite''s SmartMatch(tm), a proprietary technology, searches for jobs using both concepts and keywords. Candidates also receive additional job searching tools including: automatic e-mail notification of job matches based on registered preferences, online rsum storage, cover letter submissions, the ability to search and apply for jobs, rsum enhancement services, and a personality analysis which may be included with any rsum application.
McClatchy selected CareerSite because, we evaluated online recruitment solutions, including maintaining our own Work Avenue application, and decided CareerSite''s platform and business model provided the best combination of technology and network features, said Christian A. Hendricks, McClatchy''s Vice President, Interactive Media. CareerSite''s software gives us flexibility to build unique local recruitment sites with individual business models, and at the same time, participate in regional and national networks, he said.
Three of our newspaper companies have already launched recruitment sites on CareerSite. Our advertisers like the service, and the newspapers gave me positive reports about the launch process and strong customer service, said Hendricks.
About CareerSite
CareerSite''s powerful Affiliate Solution gives customers everything they need to build, grow and maintain a successful career center and capture their share of the billion-dollar e-recruiting market. This includes software, hosting, customer billing and merchant services, e-mail marketing, job content, integrated access to a marketplace of leading solutions, and distribution services. In addition, CareerSite''s new Smart Ads application automates the process of encoding newspaper line and display ads with job agent technology, providing a great upsell opportunity for newspaper classified departments. CareerSite

currently powers over 150 e-recruiting sites comprising over 60,000 registered recruiters, over 1,450,000 candidates. Headquartered in San Ramon, California, the company is privately held and funded by individual and media company investors. For additional information, please visit www.careersite.com, www.employmentwizard.com, or call 734-213-9500.



About The McClatchy Company
The McClatchy Company, headquartered in Sacramento, California, is a leading newspaper and Internet publisher. It publishes 11 daily and 13 non-daily newspapers located in western coastal states, North and South Carolina and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul. McClatchy has daily circulation of 1.39 million and Sunday circulation of 1.84 million. McClatchy''s newspapers include, among others, the Star Tribune in Minneapolis; the three Bee newspapers in California: The Sacramento Bee, The Fresno Bee, The Modesto Bee; The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC), The News Tribune (Tacoma, WA) and the Anchorage Daily News. McClatchy also publishes the leading local website in each of its 11 daily newspaper markets, offering readers information, comprehensive news, advertising, e-commerce and other services. McClatchy owns and operates other media-related businesses, including Nando Media, a national on-line publishing operation, and The Newspaper Network, a national sales and marketing company. McClatchy is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol MNI (NYSE:MNI).