Job-Hunt Challenges Felt First-Hand: After 37 Interviews I Gave Up (AJC)
Today, I am in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, page D6 (for those of you reading along at home). Earlier this week, I responded to a blog post on AJC’s The Biz Beat blog that encouraged Atlanta citizens who had lost their job in the past year to share their story. I emailed Sunday Business Editor Michael Gray with my story and it was chosen as one of three featured in today’s paper.
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When searching for the article online, I found that it had not been published online. I found this very interesting that they solicited stories for the piece on a blog then didn’t publish the piece online, only print. Yes, the piece is capable of standing completely independent of the solicitation but do they not expect that readers who stumbled across the blog post might be interested in reading the highlighted stories? Are they assuming that their online readers also read the print edition? This move is a disconnect — it is a content-tease for online readers by not delivering online.
While searching to see if the piece had been published online, I stumbled across this interesting error on the AJC site. The search results for “tessa horehled”? The results give me two links to the exact same article on the exact same page. It looks like someone needs to fix their on-site search.
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For those of you not in Atlanta or not able to grab a paper, here is my story as it was published. More »
Tags: AJC, Interview, Search, Unemployment
