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SPECIAL NOTE: Juniorjobs.com will be featured on CBS NEWS THE EARLY SHOW this coming Thursday June 7, 2001 at 8:17 a.m. as part of a feature on COOL TEEN JOBS. Don't Miss it!

TEEN LAUNCHES WEB COMMERCIALS ON JOB BOARD

Press release

(Alexandria, VA - June 5, 2001) Juniorjobs.com, a job hunting site for teens, introduces "job clips" an innovative recruiting technique for teen jobs on the world-wide web. The web commercials are the creation of the 17 year old Founder of juniorjobs.com Saied Ghaffari.

According to the Washington Business Journal, "Ghaffari's venture into Web commercials illustrates how a technology that is increasingly cheap and user-friendly enables teen-agers and others without much formal training to play alongside the professionals in the Internet media world."

Ghaffari creates the "job clips" on his Apple titanium laptop using Apple iMovie2 software. The :30 second commercials feature employers with job openings for teens talking about why teens should work for them. The web commercials are " informal and fun" says Ghaffari and "allow teens to get a real sense of who their potential employers are and get an idea about the work environment."

Local employers can pay a fee to have juniorjobs record the web commercials for them but the idea is for the commercials to have a realistic look and feel to them. Employers with job openings can send in a 1 minute VHS of themselves with a direct pitch to teens.

The videos will then be edited down to :30 seconds and placed on the job site. Currently companies such as First Virginia Banks, Inc. (advertising part-time teller jobs) and Century Pools Management (lifeguard positions in MD, VA and DC) have job clips on juniorjobs.com.

Juniorjobs.com currently focuses on teen jobs in the greater Washington DC area but plans to go nationwide soon. The job site launched in November of 2000 and currently has over 10,000 registered users and over one million hits a month.

Featured employers include Coca Cola Enterprises, Burger King, Banana Republic, USAquatics and SunTrust Bank. So far 4,500 applications have gone to local employers through juniorjobs.com. The average age of the registered users in 16.5.

The site is also known for it's original teen content written by teens for teens. 19 year old Content Editor Martina Castro says, "the ideas for the articles on juniorjobs come from us teens and speak to issues we've come across in our own job searches." Speaking about the new web commercials Castro says, "the 'job clips' are an example of how teens can add their own flavor to a regular job hunting site."

To learn more about the site and to see the job clips go to www.juniorjobs.com. To contact juniorjobs.com send an email to

info@juniorjobs.com or call 703-837-5154.

SPECIAL NOTE: Juniorjobs.com will be featured on CBS NEWS THE EARLY SHOW this coming Thursday June 7, 2001 at 8:17 a.m. as part of a feature on COOL TEEN JOBS. Don't Miss it!

FOR MORE ON JUNIORJOBS.COM

Check out articles about juniorjobs web commericals:

In the Washington Business Journal

//washington.bcentral.com/washington/stories/2001/05/28/focus3.html

In the Washington Post:

//www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37638-2001Apr4.html

OTHER MEDIA COVERAGE:

//www.juniorjobs.com/contactus/news.html

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