America's Job Bank to Shut Down

From Human Resource Online
America's Job Bank -- used by federal contractors who are required to post job openings and by recruiters looking for candidates -- will be closed down as of June 30, 2007.
Scott Kaplan makes it a daily habit to check job postings at America's Job Bank, the Internet's first national job board sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor since 1995.
Later: Despite its benefits, AJB's days are numbered. After evaluating the viability of maintaining the free site, the DOL's Employment and Training Administration decided to phase it out over the next year, closing it down on June 30, 2007, according to a statement released by the DOL.
And then: Meanwhile, Michael Prencipe, principal at HR Staffing Solutions in Springfield, Va., says his regional company has been using AJB since it was launched to find mostly techies and HR professionals.
He believes the site's real value is that many talented military and government employees post their resumes on AJB who otherwise might be invisible to recruiters. On the downside, he recalls how he was inundated with responses from unqualified job seekers every time he posted a position on the site.
Left to its own devices, the Republicans will even destroy their jobs, but still figure out a way to get paid for it. Or pay Haliburton to build a new pump system to get their drinks delivered to them.
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