North Vancouver, BC - Jun 28, 2004:
The International Hotel & Restaurant Association (IH&RA), the leading global organization representing the hotel & restaurant industry worldwide, chooses Hcareers as its sole recommended on-line job board.
As part of the partnership agreement, Hcareers built and provides the power behind IH&RA's new online Career Centre, which launched today at www.ih-ra.com/career/, with over 13,000 restaurant and hospitality job opportunities posted around the world.
Restaurant and hospitality employers worldwide have the ability to post their job openings via IH&RA's online Career Centre at a discounted rate and these jobs appear online for 45 days, viewable by thousands of visitors per month. In addition, the job posting will be mirrored on Hcareers.com, viewable by over 750,000 unique visitors per month. Employers also have access to an online resume database of over 42,000 resumes posted in the last 90 days by job seekers worldwide.
Job seekers looking for employment in the restaurant and hospitality industry have free access to search and apply for job opportunities locally and internationally. Other features for job seekers include the ability to post their resume, and to be notified by email each time a job is posted on the Career Center that matches their area of interest.
"Hcareers is very proud and excited to have been named the sole recommended on-line job portal for the International Hotel & Restaurant Association and its members," says David Curry, President & CEO of Hcareers. "Our partnership is a testimony to our dominant position in the world-wide Internet recruitment advertising marketplace."
"Our new online Career Centre powered by Hcareers will provide our members with cost effective and immediate access to Hcareers' dominant pool of job seeker industry professionals," says Alain-Philippe Feutre, CEO of the International Hotel & Restaurant Association. "Finding quality staff - quickly and reducing turnover are amongst the biggest challenges in our industry, and I am confident that our partnership with Hcareers will help employers world-wide recruit staff more efficiently."
About Hcareers "Our new online Career Centre powered by Hcareers will provide our members with cost effective and immediate access to Hcareers' dominant pool of job seeker industry professionals," says Alain-Philippe Feutre, CEO of the International Hotel & Restaurant Association. "Finding quality staff - quickly and reducing turnover are amongst the biggest challenges in our industry, and I am confident that our partnership with Hcareers will help employers world-wide recruit staff more efficiently."
Hcareers operates three sites, Hcareers.com (U.S.), Hcareers.ca (Canada) and Hcareers.co.uk (United Kingdom, Ireland). The company employs over 90 full-time staff and currently has over 5,000 active clients. In addition, Hcareers sends out a bi-monthly newsletter to more than 350,000 subscribers interested in restaurant and hospitality careers and topics of interest. For more information, visit our Web site at www.hcareers.com.
About the International Hotel & Restaurant Association The International Hotel & Restaurant Association (IH&RA) is the only global business organisation representing the hospitality industry worldwide. Its members are national hotel and restaurant associations throughout the world, and international and national hotel and restaurant chains representing some 50 brands. Officially recognised by the United Nations, IH&RA monitors and lobbies all international agencies on behalf of this industry, estimated to comprise 300,000 hotels and 8 million restaurants, employ 60 million people and contribute 950 billion USD annually to the global economy. For more information, visit our Web site at www.ih-ra.com.