White Plains, NY and North Vancouver, BC - Jun 11, 2002:
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc., one of the world's leading hotel companies has selected Hcareers, the dominant job board for the hospitality industry, as a preferred vendor for hospitality candidates. Starwood will use Hcareers as an additional source of hospitality candidates, enhancing its current recruitment strategy, which includes a listing of employment opportunities on its corporate Web site.
As one of the leading hotel companies in the world with a strong brand reputation and recognized industry leadership, Starwood Hotels & Resorts has chosen to align itself with the Hcareers® brand, taking advantage of the largest pool of hospitality job seekers available on the Internet.
"Our high quality approach to selecting talent is what separates us from our competitors," said Robert Pirollo, Director of Staffing for Starwood. "Hcareers forwards quality, experienced candidates, providing us with a cost-effective solution for attracting the right people for key positions."
"Being chosen work with an industry leader like Starwood is a great testament to the value that Hcareers adds to the company's existing recruitment process," said David Curry, President & Chief Executive Officer of Hcareers. "Our Web-based service complements Starwood's existing infrastructure to ensure that its reputation for outstanding customer service continues."
About Hcareers Launched in 1998, Hcareers operates three sites, Hcareers.com (U.S.), Hcareers.ca (Canada) and Hcareers.co.uk (United Kingdom, Ireland), which all focus solely on hospitality career openings. Job seekers who visit Hcareers can search a database of 7,000+ hospitality-industry job openings. Hcareers localizes its listings to make it easy for site visitors to search for positions by region of the U.S., by state, or by metropolitan area. A dominant force in hospitality-industry recruiting, the site attracts 2.2 million job-seeker visits each month, and has had 32,000 resumes posted by job-seekers in the last 90 days. Hcareers also sends out a bi-monthly email newsletter to more than 200,000 people interested in news and advice on hospitality-industry careers. For more information, please go to www.hcareers.com
About Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. is one of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world with more than 740 properties in more than 80 countries and 110,000 employees at its owned and managed properties. With internationally renowned brands, Starwood is a fully integrated owner, operator and franchiser of hotels and resorts including: St. Regis, The Luxury Collection, Sheraton, Westin, Four Points by Sheraton, W brands, as well as Starwood Vacation Ownership, Inc., one of the premier developers and operators of high quality vacation interval ownership resorts. For more information, please visit www.starwoodcareer.com.