CareerBuilder.com Partners with GoJobSite to Connect Job Seekers and Employers in the U.S., U.K. and Europe
CHICAGO, June 18, 2003 - CareerBuilder.com, the smarter recruitment resource for finding better candidates and jobs in the U.S., and GoJobsite, the leading Internet recruitment service in the U.K. and Europe, announced they have joined forces to bring more employment resources to companies and job seekers on an international scale. CareerBuilder.com and GoJobsite will place links to one another's Web sites on their home pages and sell job postings for one another's sites to their respective clients in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Ireland.
"The partnership between CareerBuilder.com and GoJobsite enables employers and job seekers to broaden their international reach," said Matt Ferguson, chief operating officer for CareerBuilder.com. "Both companies have a high-profile presence in the recruitment arena with vast distribution networks and efficient search tools that drive quality results. Whether you are looking for a job or expanding your business into another country, our companies working together will give you the advantage of reaching a targeted local audience overseas."
CareerBuilder.com draws millions of visitors every month. The company offers over seven million resumes and more than 400,000 job postings from 25,000 of the U.S.'s top employers. The company combines the power of online and print with the 130 newspapers of its partners Gannett Co., Tribune Company and Knight Ridder.
GoJobsite's multi-sector Web site covers 35 industries and draws over one and a half million job hunters across the U.K. and Europe every month. With over 70,000 job postings every month, over a million registered job hunters, and over 750,000 job hunters receiving daily Jobs-by-Email alerts, GoJobsite is the leading and longest established multi-sector Internet recruitment service in the UK.
"The greater the distribution, the greater the opportunity," said Keith Potts, managing director for GoJobsite. "This is what GoJobsite had in mind when we teamed up with CareerBuilder.com, a company with national, local and industry audiences that complement our own. The online connection between our companies will mean more business opportunity for us, our employers and our job seekers."
CareerBuilder.com offers smart online products such as the confidential Personal Search Agent that hunts for job opportunities in expressed areas of interest and automatically emails them to job seekers. CareerBuilder.com also gives job seekers the choice to search by industry, location and job type, and provides online career assessments, coaching for interviews and tips for salary negotiations. In addition, CareerBuilder.com offers easy job postings, online career fairs, a fresh resume database, and profiles of skilled and hourly workers.
GoJobsite offers a cutting edge Internet recruitment service that brings together the best companies with the best candidates. GoJobsite provides the job hunter with free registration to their My GoJobsite homepage, CV posting, a daily ‘Jobs-by-Email' service matching their requirements to the best vacancies, in-depth career articles and access to industry experts in both the legal and CV writing services. At the core of GoJobsite's service is a fast and accurate search function housed in an intuitive award winning site and operating system. For the recruiter, GoJobsite offers a fast and effective job posting service, CV and response management services.
About GoJobsite
GoJobsite is the UK's leading Internet recruitment service. GoJobsite was set up in 1995 and was the UK's first multi-sector online recruitment site. This allows GoJobsite to offer its clients an unrivalled level of experience in recruiting on the Internet. What makes GoJobsite very different from competitors is its focus on highly targeted, highly effective online marketing to attract the right candidates to advertised vacancies. This focus has been very successful in delivering excellent cost-effective results for clients - a track record of success that has been confirmed time after time by independent surveys since the start of 2000. GoJobsite is the only UK online recruiter with the expertise and experience to consistently deliver high-quality results, year-in, year-out.
GoJobsite was awarded 'Best E-cruitment Service' by judges of the Professional Recruiter Awards for Excellence 2002, and in both 2001 and 2002, GoJobsite was voted the best UK multi-sector site in the National Online Recruitment Awards. GoJobsite is also the only UK online recruiter to be awarded 'EBrandLeader' status by the Superbrands Council. In December 2001, the Sunday Times named GoJobsite as one of the UK's business success stories in its FastTrack and TechTrack league tables. GoJobsite has always been committed to encouraging best practices and raising standards in the online recruitment industry. As part of this campaign, GoJobsite has helped establish the Association of Online Recruiters. The GoJobsite service is backed up by an arms-length investment from one of the world's largest staffing services companies - Manpower.
About CareerBuilder.com
CareerBuilder.com is a leading online source for maximizing recruitment dollars and optimizing job searches with superior products, customer service and technology. With a unique combination of national, local and niche audiences, CareerBuilder.com makes it easy for recruiters to reach the most qualified candidates with industry-leading market research data and support. Job seekers can search for the right job from more than 400,000 continuously updated postings, representing more than 25,000 of the top employers in virtually every industry, field and location. Together with Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE:GCI), Tribune Company (NYSE:TRB), and Knight Ridder, Inc. (NYSE:KRI), CareerBuilder.com includes the Web's top newspaper sites - the most trusted employment sources in recruiting. For more information about CareerBuilder.com products and services, call 888-670-TEAM or visit http://www.careerbuilder.com.
GoJobsite Media Contact
Ed Beesley
00-44 (0) 8707 748632
ed.beesley@gojobsite.co.uk
CareerBuilder Media Contact
For all media inquiries and interview requests, contact:
Jennifer Grasz
(P) 773-527-1164
(E) jennifer.grasz@careerbuilder.com
