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WESTBROOK, Maine, Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- JobsInTheUS.com (JIUS) Employment Index for New Hampshire (JobsinNH) showed a year over year job growth rate increase of 30 percent and Web site visits increased 55 percent for the second quarter of 2007. The Index revealed that manufacturing continues to be the leading industry for online recruitment on this site. Journal Register Company (NYSE:JRC), parent company of JobsInTheUS.com owns and operates 19 JIUS Web sites including JobsInMS.com (Mississippi), JobsInAL.com (Alabama), JobsInME.com (Maine), JobsInNH.com (New Hampshire), JobsInVT.com (Vermont), JobsInRI.com (Rhode Island) and more. Second Quarter 2007 Summary Background: JobsInNH.com is the largest Internet job site in the state. With nearly 8,532, job openings this quarter and more than 350,000 searches being done, we are in a unique position to monitor and report on the employment trends within the state with data available on a county level. The JobsInNH.com Jobs Index is a statistical summary of the data compiled for the quarter by month. The Index identifies key trends based on job openings posted, searches performed by job seekers and key metrics from the Web site. Taken together they offer a unique perspective into the key trends for employment in New Hampshire. Job Trends: The following are the significant trends for Second Quarter 2007: -- The number of job openings this quarter (8,532) is up 21 percent from second quarter 2006. There is general strength in many areas of the state and across many industries. -- A majority of the new job openings were in Rockingham County (25.2% of all job openings posted), Hillsborough County (23.7%) and Merrimack County (9.6%). -- Job openings activity covered a number of job types: - Manufacturing, 13.1% of all job openings - Customer Service, 7.2% - Sales, 7.2% - Healthcare, 7.8% (up 88 % from second quarter 2006) - Clerical, 4.5% -- Companies with less than 50 employees posted 44.4 percent of all job openings. -- Companies with 51-100 employees accounted for 16.5 percent of the total. -- Companies with 101-250 employees accounted for 17.4 percent of the total. -- Full-time positions made up 82.4 percent of the quarter's job openings -- Part-time made up 14.6% of the job openings Job Search Trends: The following are the significant trends for Second Quarter 2007: -- The number of qualified (job seeker used specific parameters to search for a position) searches for the quarter was 358,254. -- The top job categories searched by job seekers were (essentially the same as last quarter): - Clerical, 6.9% - Healthcare, 8.1% - Accounting, 6.2% - Manufacturing, 4.1% - IT/Computers, 3.7% -- Qualified searches also contained a geographic preference of 30.9 percent. - Rockingham County, 25.3% of qualified searches - Hillsborough County, 28.7% - Strafford, 13.4% -- A majority of the job seekers prefer to look for positions within close proximity to their home. The commuting preference for job seekers was: - 1-30 miles 56.2% - 31-40 miles 18.7% - > 40 miles 25.1% Web Site Trends: JobsInNH.com had a total of 1,188,282 unique visits for the quarter, up 56% from second quarter 2006. Average time spent per visit increased slightly to 10 minutes, 23 seconds. During an average visit, a job seeker will download 6.8 pages. * New Web stats package, Omniture, implemented April 2007. * New link added to the site "Browse by Category/City" to optimize job seeker experience (may cause a decrease in the number of site search counts per month). * For more information and complete data breakdown please call (888) 883-1294. About JobsInTheUS Founded in 1999, JobsInTheUS is one of the fastest-growing local job Internet sites -- both in terms of unique visits to the Web sites and jobs posted. Headquartered in Westbrook, Maine, the company specializes in state- specific job Internet sites where qualified candidates who want to work in a particular state find a match with local employers at a lower cost for employers than other recruiting methods. JobsInTheUS operates JobsInME.com, JobsInNH.com, JobsInVT.com, JobsInRI.com, JobsInMA.com, JobsInCT.com, JobsInPA.com, JobsInNewYork.com, JobsInNJ.com, JobsInDE.com, JobsInAL.com, JobsInLouisiana.com, JobsInMS.com, JobsInKS.com, JobsInMD.com, JobsInDC.com, JobsInVA.com, JobsInWV.com, and JobsInAK.com. About Journal Register Company Journal Register Company is a leading U.S. media company. Journal Register Company owns 22 daily newspapers and 346 non-daily publications. Journal Register Company currently operates 226 individual Web sites that are affiliated with the Company's daily newspapers, non-daily publications and its network of employment Web sites. These Web sites can be accessed at http://www.journalregister.com/. All of the Company's operations are strategically clustered in six geographic areas: Greater Philadelphia; Michigan; Connecticut; Greater Cleveland; and the Capital-Saratoga and Mid-Hudson regions of New York. The Company owns JobsInTheUS, a network of 19 premier employment Web sites. Safe-Harbor This release contains forward-looking information about Journal Register Company that is intended to be covered by the safe harbor for forward-looking statements provided by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts. These statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "believe," "expect," "may," "will," "should," "project," "plan," "seek," "intend," or "anticipate" or the negative thereof or comparable terminology, and include discussions of strategy, financial projections and estimates and their underlying assumptions, the extent or timing of cost savings, charges, the extent of employees impacted, and statements about the future performance, operations, products and services of the Company. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the success of the Company's acquisition strategy, dispositions, the ability of the Company to achieve cost reductions and integrate acquisitions, competitive pressures including competition from non- newspaper forms of media, general or regional economic conditions and advertising trends, the unavailability or a material increase in the price of newsprint and increases in interest rates, changes in performance that affect financial covenant compliance or funds available for borrowing, technological changes, the adoption of new accounting standards or changes in accounting standards. These and additional risk factors are outlined in the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. DATASOURCE: JobsInNH.com CONTACT: Angie Helton, Northeast Media Associates, +1-207-653-0365, Web site: http://jobsinnh.com/ http://www.jobsintheus.com/ http://www.journalregister.com/

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