CareerBuilder.com and Bumeran, Latin America's Leading HR Site, Link Job Seekers and World Class Companies in the U.S. and Latin America
CareerBuilder.com Expands Reach in Latin America
CHICAGO, October 21, 2003 - CareerBuilder.com, the smarter recruitment resource for finding better candidates and jobs in the U.S., announced an exclusive partnership with Bumeran, the leading human resources site in Latin America, to match employers and candidates for jobs in the U.S. and Latin America. CareerBuilder.com and Bumeran have 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. and Latin America.
"As more and more companies look to expand their businesses in Latin America, our partnership with Bumeran will provide them with a plentiful source of qualified candidates to fill their positions and also provide job seekers with the top jobs they desire," said Matt Ferguson, president and chief operating officer for CareerBuilder.com. "Bumeran is a very popular site in Latin America for talent recruiting and is now leveraging the power of CareerBuilder.com and its partners Gannett Company, Tribune Company and Knight Ridder."
"Bringing together CareerBuilder.com's seven million resumes along with the 5,000 resumes that are added daily to our site helps streamline the search and selection process for employers in the U.S. and in Latin America," said Santiago Pinto, chief executive officer for Bumeran. "For our job seekers, Bumeran strives to provide all the tools and services to help job seekers make informed career development decisions. Working with a recruitment giant like CareerBuilder.com is a strategic move to support our efforts."
Bumeran is the Human Resources site for Latin America. Its core business is talent recruiting and its primary mission is to provide a set of Human Resources Technological Tools that enable it to maximize value for its customers' human assets, and in its applicants' career improvement. Bumeran provides a real link between the most qualified job seekers and the best corporate positions within world class companies throughout Latin America.
CareerBuilder.com draws millions of visitors every month. CareerBuilder.com also offers more than 400,000 job postings from 25,000 of the U.S.'s top employers. The company delivers 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.
About Bumeran
Founded in 1999, with offices in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Venezuela, Bumeran Group is the leading e-recruitment company in Latin America. Bumeran provides a fully hosted, network-delivered suite of talent management software solutions including applicant tracking, online recruiting and career development.
Bumeran supports a wide range of clients including Cigarrera La Moderna de México, Carrefour de México, KPMG México, Telefónica Data, Atento Brasil, Shell Venezuela, Cargill Venezuela, Telefónica de Chile, Sofofa Chile, Jumbo Chile, en Argentina Cervecería Quilmes, Organización Techint, Unilever, Movicom, Oracle, McDonalds, CTI, Perez Companc, Molinos, Acindar, Nabisco Terrabusi y Compaq among other 30,000 companies. Many companies, including Fortune 500 companies, commercial public career boards and recruiting firms turn to Bumeran for their talent management needs. With the large talent database (2.8M resumes), more than 100,000 people that already found a job and top media partners such as CNN en español, Harvard Business Review Latin America and America Economía Magazine, UOL Sinectis. Bumeran is an Oracle certified database solution partner.
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.
Bumeran Media Contact
Hernán Torres
(5411) 4342-0041 ext. 223
htorres@bumeran.com
CareerBuilder Media Contact
For all media inquiries and interview requests, contact:
Jennifer Grasz
(P) 773-527-1164
(E) jennifer.grasz@careerbuilder.com
