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Tony Lee: CareerCast.com Publisher

Tuesday, 06 January 2009

CareerCast.com - the Newest Job Portal Launches, Featuring Jobs and Career Advice from over 500 Sources

"CareerCast.com expedites the job search by providing unique content, tools and job listings all in one central location." Tony Lee

Tony Lee

If you're engaged in a job search, web sites that aggregate jobs from many sources, and allow you to set-up job agents to push current openings to you; and provide career related content and advice are invaluable. A new service has entered this space, and its well worth your while to check out: CareerCast.com.

Welcome to a Online Savvy Channel podcast edition of Total Picture with Peter Clayton reporting. We're delighted to have back on the program Tony Lee, Chief Alliance Officer of Adicio and publisher of CareerCast.com and JobsRelated.com.

According to their web site, "CareerCast.com is the Internet's premier career site for finding targeted job opportunities by industry, function and location. The site's job database offers opportunities from all U.S. and Canadian newspaper, magazine, niche and TV station web sites powered by Adicio Inc., the Internet's leading developer of web-based classified advertising solutions. The job database also includes all postings to the Adicio National and Regional Networks, and provides the opportunity for job seekers to post their resumes confidentially to all Adicio client resume databases in North America."

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"CareerCast.com's articles and tools reflect the exceptional editorial resources of hundreds of Adicio client sites, as well as a team of dedicated contributors and researchers. The JobsRated.com section features exclusive rankings of the nation's best and worst jobs, and our video of the day and blog of the day selections represent the best in recruitment videos and bloggers from across the Internet."

Talking Points:

Tell us about your new venture CareerCast.com.
Tell us about Adicio - outside of the recruiting industry this is not a brand that most people are familiar with
What are you offering job seekers that they can't get from Monster or CareerBuilder?
So what is the difference between CareerCast and the WSJ career journal?
Is there a cost for a job seeker for signing up on CareerCast?
Are you targeting a certain demograhic - say jobs under $100k per year?
What about privacy. If I put my resume on CareerCast am I going to get spamed to death?
how does jobrated.com factor into the equaision?
You've got a bilined article on Job Rated called the The 10 Best Jobs in America Today - what's the methodology behind this list?
would it be fair to categorize careercast as a web 2.0 application?
What kind of career news do you provide?
Let's talk abut the employers section of careercast.

Mathematician Rated Nation’s Best Job in New CareerCast.com Jobs Rated 2009 Report
CARLSBAD, CA. (January 6, 2009) – “I’m a Lumberjack and I’m OK” is a tune made famous by the Monty Python comedy troupe. In 2009, lumberjacks are far from OK. Mathematicians, on the other hand, couldn’t be happier. These are among the nation’s best and worst jobs compiled in the new “2009 Jobs Rated Report,” an in-depth look at 200 jobs by CareerCast.com.

The editors at CareerCast.com, the nation’s newest job portal, wanted to answer two key questions in this economic downturn: What are the best jobs out there, and what are the worst? Not in terms of glamour, or just in terms of salary. But in terms of things like job security, emotional stress, hiring outlook and basic physical safety. When you're working in a job that you don't particularly enjoy - or if you’ve recently lost your job after many years - it's easy to imagine that the grass may be greener for people in other careers. But unless you pepper those people with questions, it's hard to find out what their work is really like. How stressful is their job, what's the work environment like and is there room for growth? The criteria used by CareerCast.com researchers to determine the most—and least—appealing career opportunities include environment, income, employment outlook, physical demands, security and stress. Each occupation is ranked using data from such sources as the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau, as well as information provided by a wide range of trade associations and industry groups. The upshot: secure, well-paying office jobs, like mathematician, landed high. Physically demanding, high-risk jobs like lumberjack brought up the rear. Based on these factors, here are the nation’s 10 best and worst jobs. To see the full rankings of all 200 jobs, go to www.CareerCast.com or http://www.JobsRated.com.

BEST
1) Mathematician
2) Actuary
3) Statistician
4) Biologist
5) Software Engineer
6) Computer Systems Analyst
7) Historian
8) Sociologist
9) Industrial Designer
10) Accountant

WORST
1) Lumberjack
2) Dairy Farmer
3) Taxi Driver
4) Seaman
5) Emergency Medical Technician
6) Roofer
7) Garbage Collector
8) Welder
9) Roustabout
10) Ironworker

Tony Lee Biography
Tony Lee is Chief Alliance Officer and Executive Vice President of Adicio, the Internet’s leading developer of Web-based classified-advertising solutions. Lee oversees Adicio’s Network Operations, which includes the CareerCast National and Regional Networks, and the CareerCast Cross-Posting Network. He’s also responsible for managing Best Practices and strategic consulting efforts for Adicio clients, as well as identifying and establishing relationships with providers of services, advertising and content that can be leveraged to help Adicio clients enhance their product offerings and boost revenue generation.

Lee is the founder and former publisher of The Wall Street Journal Online Vertical Network and all of the sites within that network, including CareerJournal.com, OpinionJournal.com, StartupJournal.com, RealEstateJournal.com, CollegeJournal.com, CareerJournalEurope.com, CareerJournalAsia.com and “Political Diary,” a paid email newsletter about politics. Under his leadership, those sites won a range of awards and accolades, including a Webby, an EPpy, a Codie and multiple WebAwards. Combined, the Network sites attracted an average of 2.5 million unique visitors and 20 million page views each month. Prior to moving online in 1997, Lee was editor in chief of the National Business Employment Weekly and of Managing Your Career, both published by Dow Jones & Co.

Lee is co-author of “The Jobs Rated Almanac” (2002, Barricade), and “Career Choice, Change and Challenge” (2000, JIST Pub.). He is a board member of the Association of Career Professionals, and an adviser to Staffing.org and the International Association of Employment Websites.
Lee is a frequent conference speaker in the U.S. and internationally, and has appeared as a career guidance authority on television and radio programs produced by NBC, FOX, CNBC, ABC, CNN, WCBS and The Wall Street Journal, including “The Today Show” and “Good Morning America.” He has written The Wall Street Journal's “Managing Your Career” column, and his articles have appeared in hundreds of newspapers and magazines. He earned an M.S. in journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and a B.A. in global issues and communications at Regis University in Denver.