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Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Is the Grass Greener in Romania?

According to a statistic carried out by BestJobs.ro, some 19,000 users of the largest headhunting portal in Romania look for work in Romania, rather than abroad.

BestJobs.ro officials said that the figures is constantly growing this year. The most interested are Romanians living in Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy and Spain.

Story from here.

Interesting, but quite incomplete...So I checked the article in Romanian, hoping to get more details. Not much though. What I wanted to know is:
-19,000 of how many?
- is the proportion the same on other portals?
- is there an estimation of how many people actually work abroad?
- do most of them want to come back?

Using a Romanian jobs portal seems inappropriate. First of all, because the majority of jobs offered by it are in Romania. So if you offer only a few jobs abroad and they are not interesting for all users, of course you get such proportions...This seems like a nice and devious way to promote BestJobs. Am I wrong? I doubt it. I do have to say they chose an interesting approach. It does catch one's eye. But then again, to make the story work, it needed more data.

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posted by Alina @ 2:24 PM   5 comments
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
News Worthiness
Does anyone still remember this old concept? Why do I care that Prince William has been touching girls' breasts in some club? Especially if I am reading a Romanian paper. And why is this a home page news? Not even in a less important section.

Ok, so he got lucky, the girl's family is happy. Do I have to read in a paper that having your breasts touched by a semi-drunk royalty has become a reason for family pride? Well, if I knew that, I wouldn't have bothered to study, work etc. I would have just chased some crowned-head-to-be.

Yes, he already has a girlfriend. And besides the fact her boyfriend has been naughty, she has to deal with the fact that the photo has been printed all around the world. I do wonder, has everyone left the "almost cheating" part to the end of the article, as some more spice to add, or do only Romanian papers leave the moral aspects to the end of the article, the part most likely to be skipped?

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posted by Alina @ 2:30 PM   9 comments
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