Posted by Thor on October 10th, 2008
UVA’s budget has been cut by about 7% which accounts for about $10 million of the $160 million state budget allocation. While the state only accounts for about 8% of UVA’s budget [ref], this still means that UVA won’t fill 11 open positions. Additionally, this will delay the State’s planned 2% salary increases.
Layoffs aren’t going to happen, but this cut shoudn’t be thought of as the end to that fear.
The UVA budget cut is part of a much larger plan from Virginia Governer Tim Kaine. In 2009, Virginia expects budget shortfalls of nearly $1 billion. In order to combat the shortfall, Kaine plans 578 job cuts, a salary freeze on all state employees, across the board education cuts and more. A detailed list is after the break: »Read More
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Posted by Kyle on July 29th, 2008
Spicy Bear Media LLC is Charlottesville’s fastest growing media company. We currently manage the community blogs cVillain.com, cvilleMuse.com, and cvilleStyle.com, and will be launching new titles in the near future. The Spicy Bear networks has a growing audience of over 50,000 visitors a month.
We seek a qualified advertising sales representative to join our quickly growing team. This person’s responsibility will be to increase awareness of our sites in the local business community and to sell advertising campaigns to those contacts. Please keep in mind that Spicy Bear Media is a quickly growing business. We don’t have time for unmotivated salespeople, non-entrepreneurial spirits and people who can’t pave their own road. If this type of environment makes you salivate and eager to sell, continue reading.
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Posted by Thor on April 5th, 2008
Recently a Chicago contractor was awarded with a $58.5 million dollar contact to build a 46 acre facility for a “Joint-Use Intelligence Analysis Facility” slightly north of Charlottesville. The facility will house over 1,000 jobs and is expected to bring a total of 1,500 jobs to the area by its expected completion date in 2010.
The Daily Progress reports that the facility will be located slightly north of the CHO airport and across 29. This sounds great, but what about traffic? 29N traffic is already a nightmare.
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Posted by Thor on March 11th, 2008
[this question sent in by Jim Duncan]
I live vicariously through this site (ate at the Box last week with a buddy thanks to the comments) and see the readers here as market leaders in their consumption and entertainment habits.
What do you see? Are employers hiring/firing? Are more people working multiple jobs? Are drinks more expensive? Are rents up or down?
How does the Charlottesville economy feel to you?
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Posted by Thor on March 4th, 2008
Shameless plug for ourselves…
We need a motivated advertising salesperson to join our firm. Spicy Bear Media, cVillain’s holding company, wants someone excited about digital media to do sales for our company. We are small, like to have fun, but have clear goals in mind for the long term. Selling digital ads means learning an entirely new market and educating clients about new and exciting products.
We are looking for a full time position. We offer a basic benefit package and a very aggressive, base and commission-based compensation structure.
For more details, go here: http://www.spicybear.com/jobs/salesperson
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Posted by Lys on December 18th, 2007
It’s that time of year when I sit in my office, slaving away over budgets for the next fiscal year and finishing up mind numbing performance reviews that I always begin to procrastinate by checking out the websites of small businesses and organizations in Charlottesville that I fantasize about working for. Some of my personal favorites are Blue Moon Fund and GreenBlue, both of which I imagine would fulfill my conflicting desire to “do good” while still holding a challenging professional career that makes pretty good money (all without having to get a law or medical degree - I never said it was a reasonable dream). I’ve also been eyeing the Southern Enviornmental Law Center, but that may be difficult with my no law school requirement.
Are there other businesses I should add to this list of “wow - this is based in Charlottesville?” - even if it isn’t do-gooder, I still think it’s amazing to see just how many hedge funds are based in our little hamlet, for example. Also, does anyone out there work for these elusively ideal companies - feel free to either rub it in my face about how much you look forward to getting up every morning, or assure me that you in fact covet my anonymous position in a “highly matrixed multinational marketing organization.”
So I guess what I’m asking it, what are the best places to work in Charlottesville, my fellow villains?
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Posted by Thor on December 4th, 2007
Spicy Bear Media is the company that manages cVillain.com
Job Description
We seek an entrepreneurial minded go-getter that will be able to operate without much oversight. We seek an advertising salesperson to sell digital display and interactive advertising across our network of locally based web properties.
Job Qualifications
*Prior interactive advertising sales experience suggested, but not required
*Positive attitude, a keen understanding and interest in Internet marketing and advertising.
*Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal, and presentations skills.
*Self motivated to improvement personal work performance.
*Committed to teamwork and helps fellow employees when needed
*Can develop and execute a sales plan to accomplish revenue objectives
*Can successfully prospect, identify, and implement integrated advertising programs
*Can manage accounts
*Ability to reach sales goals on a quarterly basis
*Familiarity with the business proprietors in Charlottesville;
*Ability to articulate/educate the value of web-based advertising to a community that is not used to using this medium
*Strategic understanding of digital advertising; ability to explain value pitch to potential advertisers
*Ability to work in an unstructured environment independently of management.
Please submit resumes to the email below.
- Location: Charlottesville, VA
- Compensation: Base & Benefits + 15 to 25% Sales Commissions, Depending on Experience
- Stock Options/Awards/Revenue Share are Possible
- OK for recruiters to contact this job poster.
- Please, no phone calls about this job!
- Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.
EMAIL: job-498626039@craigslist.org
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Posted by Thor on September 14th, 2007
So, I thought it would be particularly villainous of us to put up a fake job application on Craigslist. So, I posted this:
Looking for Full-Time Assistant for Paperwork and Massages
Reply to: job-419862325@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-09-11, 3:59PM EDTWeb-Based Business Seeks Motivated, Attractive Assistant to Manage a Chaotic Office. Massage skills required.We sit at our desks all day thinking about new ways to take over the world on the internet, but after a while our backs hurt. First and foremost, we need a full-time assistant that can run errands and manage our office, but we also need her to take care of our backs and necks when necessary.We are trying to save on chiropractor fees and anyone with massage background can help.
Email resume’s and a short description of your abilities to the contact email below.
You couldn’t believe the responses… click continue reading to see them!
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