North Vancouver, BC - Apr 25, 2006:
Hcareers, the dominant job board for the hospitality and restaurant/foodservice industry, today announced a strategic partnership with the Canadian Gaming Association (CGA) and will be launching an online job board dedicated to the gaming industry in Canada at www.canadiangaming.ca. The online job board, which will be powered by Hcareers, will ease the painstaking job search and recruitment process for job seekers and employers in an industry that employs 50,000 Canadians.
The Canadian Gaming Association's mandate is to create a better understanding of the gaming entertainment industry and the issues that affect the thousands of businesses across the country that depend on it for their livelihood. One of the biggest challenges in the area of Human Resources has been recruitment of top talent, while maintaining a low cost per hire, and a short recruitment cycle. The strategic partnership with Hcareers will help members find more qualified gaming candidates quickly and less costly than any other recruitment medium.
The Canadian Gaming Association will provide their members with access to post job vacancies at a reduced rate on Hcareers.ca, and also have their job ads cross-posted to the CGA job bank located at www.canadiangaming.ca, exposing those job ads to over one million unique job seeker visitors per month. In addition to a discount on job postings, CGA members will benefit from access to the largest pool of qualified gaming candidates, while reducing their hiring cycle and lowering their cost per hire.
"Hcareers is very pleased to be partnering with the Canadian Gaming Association; the voice of one of Canada's most popular forms of entertainment," said Karen MacPherson, chief executive officer of Hcareers. "The CGA Job Bank will be an extremely valuable tool for both job seekers and employers in the gaming industry, and Hcareers is excited about our strategic partnership," added MacPherson.
"The CGA Job Bank will be the most valuable solution in the gaming industry for recruiting employees," said William P. Rutsey, president and chief executive officer of CGA.
About Hcareers Launched in 1998, Hcareers is the leading job board for the hospitality, restaurant, and retail industries in terms of revenues, staff, and traffic. Hcareers has the most jobs and job seekers in all three industries with over 75,000 current job postings and over 900,000 unique visitors each month. Hcareers operates three websites, Hcareers.com (US), Hcareers.ca (Canada), and Hcareers.co.uk (United Kingdom & Ireland). The company employs over 100 full-time staff and has over 16,000 active clients. For more information on Hcareers visit their web site at www.hcareers.com.
About The Canadian Gaming Association (CGA) The Canadian Gaming Association ("CGA") is a not-for-profit organization with the fundamental goal of creating balance in the public dialogue about gaming in Canada. The Association's mandate is to create a better understanding of the gaming industry by bringing facts to the general public, elected officials, key decision makers and the media through education and advocacy. Members include industry-leading suppliers, operators and others engaged in the industry nation-wide. The CGA speaks to important national and regional issues as the voice of the industry, and has established relationships with government agencies and industry stakeholders on multiple issues including responsible gaming policies and practices, codes of conduct and social responsibility. In 2006 the CGA will be commissioning and releasing a number of national studies and surveys.