Here’s a terrific, unusual job opening for people in the classified advertising field — especially since great  opportunities are too few and far between nowadays.

            GateHouse Media, which operates almost 500 daily and weekly newspapers and community publications in the United States, is looking for a director to oversee its three classified verticals.

            If you apply, please be sure to mention that you saw it on AIMGroup.com / Classified Intelligence.

            An e-mail address for Shannon Dunnigan: sdunnigan@gatehousemedia.com .

            The posting:

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            ”Shannon Dunnigan is hiring for a director-level position to oversee HotJobs, our Gabriels auto platform and the Adicio real estate platform shared by most of our 435 newspaper sites here at GateHouse Media as well as continue the rollout of a new version of ZopeAds, the updated classified platform shared by all of our newspaper sites.”

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           Even if you’re not interested for yourself, you probably know at least a few people who might be qualified. It’s a tough time out there now, so pass it along!

           Oh — how is recruiting done these days? We got the posting through LinkedIn. Print listings? Not even good enough for newspaper companies these days. That shows one of the many reasons print recruitment advertising has fallen off so badly.