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Headhunter.Net
Offers Best-Of-Breed In Applicant Tracking Systems.
October 10th, 2000 (ATLANTA)---After conducting a thorough market analysis
and carefully examining the Human Resource Applicant Tracking Systems
(ATS) industry, online recruiting site Headhunter.net (NASDAQ: HHNT),
announced today its decision to form strategic partnerships with not
just one, but several of the leading national players in the highly-fragmented
industry. As a result, Headhunter.net clients can select from a range
of ATS providers and eRecruiting solutions to find a comprehensive solution
to their HR needs.
Rather than contribute to the race to control the market or essentially, “own the desktop,” Headhunter.net opted to form strategic partnerships with several of the key industry leaders. With these initial nine Certified Partners, Headhunter.net will have direct access to the largest ATS and eRecruiting customer base to date, more than two thousand customers combined.
“Our primary goal is to provide our customers with tools to make job posting easier, more thorough and very accurate,“ said Bob Montgomery, President and CEO of Headhunter.net. “Conducting this ‘open systems’ business style with numerous partners allows Headhunter.net to implement and successfully execute a strategy that generates both faster and more cost-effective access to the desktop of recruiters in the country. ”
The sites chosen to launch Headhunter.net’s Certified Partners program are leading Applications Services Providers (ASP) in the eRecruiting marketplace including:
Brainhunter (www.brainhunter.com)
BrassRing Systems (www.brassringsystems.com)
Hire.com (www.hire.com)
HRSmart (www.hrsmart.com)
ijob (www.ijob.com)
jobs.com e-cruiter (www.jobs.com)
Peopleclick (www.peopleclick.com)
SmartSearch Online (www.smartsearchonline.com)
Webhire (www.webhire.com)
Headhunter.net’s corporate clients now have more options to choose
an ATS/eRecruiting provider which best fits their organizational needs.
Additionally, superior customer services provide the detailed support
HR recruiters need to manage an entire range of recruitment activities.
Activities include posting jobs real time on Headhunter.net, with a
95% success rate and fewer posting errors, managing both the large influx
of resumes received and interview schedules and making comments on applications.
“Rather than choosing sides by picking one vendor, or ATS/eRecruiting provider, we’re open to partnering with several, allowing us to offer an entire suite of services,” continued Montgomery. “Not to mention, at the same time we’re afforded access to the thousands of customers these ATS/eRecruiting providers serve. Clearly, in this case it made more sense to partner with several Certified Partners than put our money behind just one.”
Assuring compatibility, Headhunter.net and the Certified Partners will work simultaneously to seamlessly integrate their job posting and HR management platforms.
About Headhunter.net
Headhunter.net (www.Headhunter.net)
is a leading national online recruiting and job awareness network, empowering
candidates and corporations to manage the job search process. With the
merger of Headhunter.net and CareerMosaic, the combined sites feature
more than over 1million resumes and over 250,000 jobs representing 10,000
of the nations' top employers across virtually every industry. The new
Headhunter.net, which attracts more than 6 million job seeker visits
a month, distinguishes itself by providing job seekers privacy when
searching and applying for jobs, and allows job seekers and job posters
to manage and track the visibility and performance of their listings.
About Brainhunter.com
Brainhunter's Premier Applicant Tracking System, known as "Brainhunter
Private Label", is designed for one purpose: To lower your overall
staffing cost, and match the best candidates to your jobs. Brainhunter's
fully web-based, end-to-end solution is designed to minimize the recruiting
"grunt work" through automation and deliver qualified, interested
and available candidates to your desktop. Brainhunter is unique in that
it retains the "human element" in an Applicant Tracking System,
and allows employers to utilize Brainhunter's supplemental human staffing
services, as well as efficiently manage traditional staffing firms -
all from a single interface. Brainhunter will, create, manage and host
your External Career Site, Internal Career Site, and your growing private
database of job applicants. Our all-inclusive value pricing of $10,000
per year and $375 per hire is the lowest in the industry for a comparably
featured product. Find out more about Hiring Better with Brainhunter
at http://www.brainhunter.com/html/COREMain.html.
About BrassRing Systems
BrassRing Systems, a division of BrassRing Inc., is the largest provider
of web-based hiring management systems for Fortune 500 and Global 1000
companies -- requiring only a standard browser to deliver a comprehensive
suite of integrated hiring solutions for the enterprise, including Hiresystems
3.7 and Joboo. BrassRing Systems was named the winner of the prestigious
"World Championship of Electronic Recruiting" at the HR Technology
Conference and Exposition in September, 2000. www.brassringsystems.com
About Hire.com
Hire.com is a leading, global e-recruiting application service provider
(ASP) committed to empowering organizations to effectively win the talent
war. Hire.com's e-Recruiter system offers an unparalleled automated
solution for businesses to attract and retain talent through their own
corporate Web site, powered by Hire.com. Fortune 500 customers include:
KPMG Consulting, Sprint, Eli Lily and Company, MorganStanleyDeanWitter,
GT Interactive, AT&T, SBC, General Instrument, IBM, EDS, MCI WorldCom,
Ingersoll-Rand. Investors include Austin Ventures, Crosspoint Ventures,
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and TL Ventures. Corporate investors
include the Hearst Corporation, Pulitzer Inc., Essex Investment Company,
LLC and Dell Computer Corporation. More information on Austin, Texas-based
Hire.com is available via the Internet at www.hire.com or by calling
1-800-953-HIRE.
About HRSmart
HRsmart is a global business-to-business (B2B) Application Service Provider
(ASP) for the rapidly growing Internet Recruiting industry. HRsmart
streamlines the hiring process by automating and simplifying all the
difficult and time-intensive tasks associated with job posting, resume
processing and applicant tracking. HRsmart tailored its products to
offer highly customized solutions for Corporate Clients, Public Career
Boards and Associations turning their web sites into powerful recruiting
forces. HRsmart's powerful design provides clients with a very economical
solution, easy-to-use tools to post jobs and track resumes and applicants,
all implemented in less than 3 days for implementation. HRsmart's clients
include fortune 500 companies like Avis-Rent-A-car and Aramark Uniform
Services, as well as a host of medium and small sized companies. HRsmart
specializes in and hosts many Public Career Boards and Associations'
web sites. HRsmart partners include PSINet, the leader Internet service
provider and I/NET, a Michigan technical powerhouse. To contact HRsmart
visit www.hrsmart.com or call 972-398-6540.
About ijob
ijobä, an e-recruiting e-service from Lawson Software, is a Web-based
recruitment management service that improves relationships, information,
and speed throughout the hiring process. ijob provides organizations
automated sourcing, interviewing, profiling, resume tracking, matching
and relationship management. The ijob service saves money and time,
giving recruiters the tools needed to deliver the perfect candidate
for any position—every time. Lawson Software is a leading provider
of integrated e-business solutions. Lawson offers role-based Self-Evident
Applications™ (SEA), transaction engines and e-business extensions
powering financial, human resources, supply chain, analytic, enterprise
relationship management and e-commerce solutions. Headquartered in St.
Paul, Minn. and London, Lawson has offices and affiliates serving North
and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia. Additional information about
Lawson Software is available on the Web at http://www.lawson.com, or
by calling (800) 477-1357, ext. 100.
About jobs.com
jobs.com is leading the way in developing technology, such as streaming
audio/video company profiles and the first Live Interactive Career Fair,
to help employers go beyond the average job posting and better promote
their companies to a new breed of highly selective job seekers. In the
last year, jobs.com has received over $100 million in funding from partners
such as idealab Capital Partners, CBS/Viacom (NYSE: VIA), Adecco (NYSE:
ADO), and Winstar Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: WCII). jobs.com has
since become a leading destination for career advancement and recruitment.
More information about jobs.com can be found by visiting www.jobs.com
or by calling 1-800-jobs.com.
About Peopleclick
Founded in 1997, Peopleclick leads the market for People Capital Management
Internet software products and services, providing enterprises the best
tools to attract, assess, develop, and retain a company's most valuable
asset - people. Headquartered in the Research Triangle area of North
Carolina, Peopleclick is a privately held company with Morgan Stanley
Dean Witter venture capital backing. Peopleclick currently has over
3000 clients ranging from Internet start-ups to numerous Global 2000
companies. For more information, please visit www.peopleclick.com.
About SmartSearch Online
SmartSearch Online is your total internet recruiting solution, the flagship
product of Advanced Personnel Systems, Inc. (APS). Providing staffing
management systems since 1985, APS is an innovative leader in the development
of solutions for the staffing industry. APS pioneered resume scanning
systems in the 80's and was the first to introduce comprehensive web-based
solutions in the 90's. Providing a world-class career center for their
corporate web-site, staffing management, internet-wide job posting as
well as and candidate and line manager self-service, SmartSearch Online
provides our clients the technology framework for their internet recruiting
strategy. SmartSearch Online is the only product offering wireless access
and complete integration with MS Outlook. SmartSearch Online is a proven
solution with almost 6,000 users at customers like Tyson Foods, Interstate
Hotels, Corestaff, Sharp HealthCare, Donnelly Corporation, Belcan Technical
Services, Quantum Resources, BAE Systems, K-Force.com, CompuCom, Copper
Mountain Networks and many others. SmartSearch Online is extremely fast
and easy to implement for 2 or 2000 users. Clients can outsource completely
or implement on their own network. Available in many languages SmartSearch
Online allows you to "Work locally .... Recruit globally"
www.smartsearchonline.com
About Webhire
Webhire is the leading Applications Services Provider (ASP) in the Internet
recruiting marketplace. Webhire's business-to-business Internet recruiting
solutions help employers quickly and cost-effectively advertise job
openings across the Web, attract, mine and evaluate talent, and manage
the hiring process. Webhire also delivers one of today's best-known
corporate Internet recruiting services, Yahoo! Resumes. More than 1,000
customers, including Internet companies like Akamai Technologies, and
Pets.com; fast-growing firms like Millennium Pharmaceuticals And Rational
Software; and Fortune 500 enterprises such as American Express and Boeing;
connect to Webhire services for some or all of their Internet recruiting
needs. More information about Webhire is available on the World Wide
Web at http://www.webhire.com or by calling 1-877-WEBHIRE. Webhire,
based in Lexington, Mass., is traded on the NASDAQ National Market under
the ticker symbol HIRE.
Forward Looking Statements
Some of the preceding statements in this press release constitute "forward-looking
statements" within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the
Company intends that such forward-looking statements be subject to the
safe harbors created thereby. Examples of words indicating forward-looking
statements include "believes," "expects" and "will."
These forward-looking statements reflect the Company's current views
with respect to future events and financial performance, but are subject
to many uncertainties and factors relating to the Company's operations
and business environment which may cause the actual results of the Company
to be materially different from any future results expressed or implied
by such forward-looking statements. Please see Headhunter.net's Form
10-K, as amended, for a list of such uncertainties and factors. The
Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking
statement whether as a result of new information, future events, or
otherwise.
