Spotlight on Stanford Publishing

Since 1978, Stanford Publishing Courses (SPC) has offered continuing education to working professionals in magazine and book publishing. SPC alumni include some of the worldwide elite of the publishing world, both in the traditional print media and in web publishing, as their Publishing on the Web workshop has been educating Web professionals in the art and business of content-rich online publishing since 1995. SPC even provides a Virtual Seminar Series, which allows cost-effective continuing education in the form of one-hour publishing seminars, delivered via phone and Web.

It’s no surprise that such a savvy, forward-thinking institution would be a proud user of Job-a-Matic.

The Stanford Publishing Courses job board (http://stanfordpublishing.jobamatic.com/) is a great example of a niche board that offers rich, relevant content for educated professionals looking for the right opportunity in both commercial publishing and related positions with academic institutions. As one of the elite academic institutions of the United States and in particular one whose long history of collaboration with the innovators of Silicon Valley has given them a cutting-edge reputation, Stanford needs to provide a rich, smart-looking, and usable interface for sophisticated users. This job board delivers it, with seamless design integration with the main SPC site.

They make their board visible and usable by linking to it right off the left-hand navigation on the home page, and all “child” pages have handy footer links so the job board is always easy to locate. At $40.00 per 30-day job listing, they’re selling modestly after about a month and a half, and making good use of the backfill feature to keep a steady flow of relevant job listings available for their users.

Holly Brady, Director of the Stanford Publishing Courses, is enthusiastic about the addition of an industry-specific job board for the SPC site and looking forward to the upcoming Job-a-matic features that let publishers further customize the look and behavior of their site. (Stay tuned!) Meanwhile, the SPC job board is already delivering great custom content to a highly discerning user base.

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