CareerPath.com online employment service names Michael Forrest as new CEO; service continues to expand with addition of 18 affiliate newspapers.LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 11, 1996--CareerPath.com, the national interactive employment service offering the largest listing of jobs on the Internet See How to find a job on the Internet and job descriptions. , has named its first chief executive officer (CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. ) and is expanding its service to include the help wanted ads from 24 newspapers throughout the country. Michael R. Forrest is the new CEO of CareerPath.com (http://www.careerpath.com), which was formed in October 1995 by six of the nation's largest newspapers: The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). , The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, San Jose Mercury News The San Jose Mercury News is the major daily newspaper in San Jose, California and Silicon Valley. The paper is owned by MediaNews Group. Its headquarters and printing plant are located in North San Jose next to the Nimitz Freeway (Interstate 880). and The Washington Post. CareerPath.com combines employment listings from participating papers into a single, easily searchable database of jobs, which is available free to users on the Internet's World Wide Web. With the recent inclusion of help wanted ads from additional newspapers, CareerPath.com now carries an average of about 70,000 help wanted ads daily. The service has about 500,000 registered users. Forrest joins CareerPath.com with more than 20 years of experience in marketing, sales, operations, market research and strategic planning. Prior to joining CareerPath.com, he served as executive director of the National Association of Colleges and Employers  This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.You can assist by [ editing it] now. (NACE NACE National Association of Colleges and Employers (Bethlehem, PA) NACE National Association of Corrosion Engineers NACE National Association of Catering Executives NACE National Association of County Engineers ) for four years. NACE is a publishing company and professional association with more than 3,000 member institutions, including universities, colleges, corporations, non-profit organizations and federal agencies. "I'm delighted to join CareerPath.com," said Forrest. "It's clear that the founding newspapers have done a lot of things right: the resources, the vision, the timing. CareerPath.com is already a major force, and I expect us to become the preeminent job- and career-related site on the Internet. We are positioned to do that because we understand the technology, we understand the market and we understand our customers better than anyone else." Forrest's previous experience includes seven years as the associate dean of the Pepperdine University School of Business & Management, where he was responsible for the design, budgeting, marketing and conduct of graduate programs for executives. He also worked as a marketing director for Deloitte, Haskins & Sells, executive director of Red Carpet Corp. of America, a consultant for the Xerox Corp. and a division vice president for Behavioral Research Laboratories. He has a master's degree in business administration from Pepperdine University. "On behalf of the founding newspapers, we're pleased to have Michael on board to lead CareerPath.com as we expand the utility, scope and customer base of the service," said Richard T. Schlosberg Richard T. Schlosberg III (born c. 1945) is an American business leader who has served in executive positions at a number of newspapers and other organizations. Schlosberg graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1965. III, publisher and chief executive officer of the Los Angeles Times. "CareerPath.com is well positioned for growth, and Michael is uniquely suited to lead that growth." The 18 newspapers that have joined the six founding newspapers represent major markets and, like the founders, each is a leading source of job information in its market. CareerPath.com now contains listings from the founding newspapers plus the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Baltimore Sun, The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, The Hartford (Conn.) Courant Cou`rant´ a. 1. (Her.) Represented as running; - said of a beast borne in a coat of arms. n. 1. A piece of music in triple time; also, a lively dance; a coranto. 2. , The Miami Herald, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is a daily morning broadsheet printed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. It is the primary newspaper in Milwaukee, the largest newspaper in Wisconsin and is distributed widely throughout the state. , Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, The Orlando Sentinel, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Sacramento Bee and South Florida Sun-Sentinel The South Florida Sun-Sentinel, owned by the Tribune Company, is the main daily newspaper of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and all of Broward County. Its main competitor in this area is the Miami Herald, out of neighboring Miami-Dade County to the south. . Other newspapers that have joined CareerPath.com and will soon have their employment ads on the site are: the Charlotte Observer, Denver Post, Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel/Journal Gazette, Newport News (Va.) Daily Press, Rocky Mountain News The Rocky Mountain News is a daily morning tabloid-format newspaper published in Denver, Colorado. It is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. (Despite Scripps still running the paper, it's the only newspaper in the Scripps family not to have the corporate lighthouse logo on (Denver), St. Louis Post-Dispatch The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the only major city-wide newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri. Although written to serve Greater St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch is one of the largest newspapers in the region, and is available and read as far west as Springfield, Missouri. and St. Paul Pioneer Press
The St. Paul Pioneer Press is a newspaper based in St. Paul, Minnesota, primarily serving the Twin Cities metropolitan area. . "Our goal is to have a presence in all of the top 30 U.S. markets by the end of 1996," said Kathy Yates, director of new media business development for Knight-Ridder Inc. "With the affiliates that have already committed and the discussions underway, I am confident that we will exceed our goal." Each affiliate newspaper determines its own pricing structure for inclusion of ads on the CareerPath.com service. CareerPath.com uses IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Digital Library technology (specifically, multimedia extenders with Database2 [DB2] relational databases) to provide users with quick and easy access to its large database. IBM Digital Library can store, search, manipulate and distribute a variety of complex data, including audio and images, over the Internet. "CareerPath.com updates the traditional process of looking for a job," said Willy Chiu, multimedia technology director, IBM Software Solutions. "Advanced `search and sort' capabilities empower people to select the opportunities for which they are uniquely qualified." Earlier this year, CareerPath.com was named one of the 100 Top Web Sites by PC Magazine, which covers the personal computer market. In addition to the job listings database, CareerPath.com will soon introduce a comprehensive package of related employment services for job seekers and advertisers. These include a resume database, searching capabilities, employer/job seeker matching services, company profiles and "alerts," which will allow the employer or job seeker to be notified any time a candidate or job opportunity with a certain profile comes on the market. NOTE TO EDITORS: Additional information about the service is available on the CareerPath.com site (http://www.careerpath.com) in the "Information" and "Frequently Asked Questions" sections. CONTACT: Chicago Tribune Jeff Bierig, 312/222-3920 e-mail: jbierig@tribune.com or Los Angeles Times Mike Lange, 213/237-3848 e-mail: mike.lange@latimes.com or The New York Times and The Boston Globe Nancy Nielsen, 212/556-7078 e-mail: nielsen@nytimes.com or San Jose Mercury News Kate Coleman, 408/920-5756 e-mail: katec@sjmercury.com or The Washington Post Mary Moslander, 703/469-3120 e-mail: moslanderm@washpost.com |
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