North Vancouver, BC - Jun 23, 2005:
Hcareers, the dominant job board for the restaurant, retail, and hospitality industries, has been named one of Canada's Fastest-Growing Companies by placing 44th in the "17th annual PROFIT 100 ranking of Canada's Fastest-Growing Companies" by PROFIT: Your Guide to Business Success.
Ranking Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies by five-year revenue growth, the PROFIT 100 profiles the country’s most successful growth companies. Published in the June issue of PROFIT and online at the PROFITguide.com, the PROFIT 100 is Canada's largest annual celebration of entrepreneurial achievement.
"We're happy to welcome the 2005 PROFIT 100 winners to the most prestigious group of entrepreneurial businesses in Canada," says Ian Portsmouth, editor. "Canada's Fastest-Growing Companies are succeeding by knowing what customers really want, then delivering it."
For the past several years, Hcareers has provided users with an online recruitment resource specifically for their industry while becoming the sole recommended job board for the Canadian Restaurant & Foodservice Association, the National Restaurant Association and American Hotel & Lodging Association. Hcareers’ simple navigation and ease of use allows job seekers to quickly search and apply online to industry-specific job advertisements for free, and to provide employers access to high-quality industry professionals, while reducing their hiring cycle, and lowering their cost per hire.
"This achievement recognizes the success that has made us North America's leading niche job board for the restaurant, retail, and hospitality industries," said David Curry, Senior Executive Vice-President of Hcareers.
"Revenues have grown by 1139% in the past five years and we will continue to reinvest our profits in sales, marketing, and technology to continue to provide the marketplace with the most restaurant, retail, and hospitality jobs and job seekers anywhere," he added.
About HcareersLaunched 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 PROFIT MagazinePROFIT: Your Guide to Business Success, offers news, strategies, tips, interviews and other resources to entrepreneurs leading Canada’s fastest-growing companies. Each year PROFIT—which currently reaches more than 400,000 readers nationally—hosts a number of events that bring together business leaders in the fast-growth segment and champions the interests of those leaders. PROFIT was founded in April 1982 as Canada’s first national magazine geared to entrepreneurs. Visit PROFITguide.com.