Backstage, a publication that since the "Mad Men" age has been a highly trafficked job board for actors, will announce on Wednesday that it is buying Sonicbids, a Web site that lets bands book performances at festivals, clubs and elsewhere.
One of those is the more formal recruitment industry – and today Recruit Co. Ltd, a provider of HR and information services based in Japan, has acquired Indeed.com, a highly trafficked jobs site best known in North America.
Mobile traffic involving job search more than doubled in 2012 over 2011 at the employment site Indeed.com, said Rony Kahan, a co-founder and C.E.O.
After years of battling for the classified market with newspapers like The New York Times, the traffic on job sites is largely on the rise.
Because what they care about is not trivial traffic mishaps but jobs, jobs, jobs.
President Bill Clinton had defined the air traffic control jobs as "inherently governmental" in nature and thus not subject to privatization review, but President Bush dropped that designation.
These days, the draw toward the traffic enforcement jobs can be felt in the office of Shah Nawaz, an insurance broker, who specializes in accident policies for livery and yellow-cab drivers.
In 2005, while she was San Francisco district attorney, Harris launched the "Back on Track" program to reduce recidivism by offering nonviolent, low-level drug trafficking defendants job training and other life skills education as an alternative to jail.
At her confirmation hearing earlier this month, Chao declined to take positions on a number of issues, including whether air traffic control jobs should be privatized, concerns over the safety of shipments of crude oil by rail, foreign airlines' push to move into the U.S. market and regulation of developing technologies.
