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People use print and online classifieds about evenly, but when it comes to finding a new cubicle to occupy, job hunters have been landing more offers from the Internet versions.

The non-partisan non-profit research organization The Conference Board disclosed 70 percent of job seekers use Internet and print classifieds to find employment.

When it comes to the all-important job offer, 38 percent of those surveyed felt their offers came as a result of online job searches. Only 24 percent cited a print ad as something that led to a job offer. Newspapers proved to be the least likely source for employment.

Networking with colleagues, and "other" reasons like employment agencies, both delivered more job offers than newspapers did, at 27 percent and 30 percent respectively.

Ads for management positions stood atop the top ten occupations listed online, the report said. Healthcare followed by business & finance operations placed second and third. Office jobs, computer & mathematical, sales, architecture & engineering, production, transportation, and maintenance positions rounded out the top ten.

CareerBuilder and Monster.com both drew over five million unique visitors for the week ending August 10th, according to a Nielsen//NetRatings report cited by eMarketer. Yahoo's HotJobs picked up 1.36 million visitors during that week.

Also, eMarketer noted US online ad spending for the classifieds category looks like it is on pace to top $4 billion in 2010. In 2007 that spending should pass $3 billion, a close third to display ad spending. Paid search will continue to dominate those spends for years.

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David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business.