North Vancouver, BC - Aug 05, 2004:
Hcareers, the leading job board for the restaurant and hospitality industries announced today, that it is now the #1 retail job board in North America with over 32,000 jobs posted in the last ten days.
Hcareers has always considered the retail industry part of the hospitality industry and for six years has had retail customers posting jobs on Hcareers with demand growing over time. To answer this growing demand, Hcareers CEO David Curry launched a "Retail Jobs" section on Hcareers.com and Hcareers.ca today.
The response from the North American retail industry to this expansion over the last ten days has produced over 32,000 jobs posted on Hcareers by top retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Blockbuster Inc. and Food Lion, LLC.
"The Hcareers 'Retail Jobs' section now has 23% more retail-related jobs than any other job board in North America, including Monster.com," exclaims Curry.
"Our success has come from our industry focus. We started with focus on the hospitality industry as a whole, which we say includes the restaurant industry and the retail industry. Industry response has been so overwhelming that we chose to divide our site into three distinct sections targeting these three sectors individually. Specialization is the golden key to the job board market," proclaims Curry.
For the past several years, Hcareers has provided users an online recruitment resource specifically for their industry while becoming the sole recommended job board for the National Restaurant Association and American Hotel & Lodging Association, in addition to being proud members of the National Retail Federation and Retail Industry Leaders Association. The new industry specific home has been designed to assist retail job seekers identify even more relevant industry specific job ads, and employers identify higher quality candidates for their job postings while reducing their hiring cycle, and lowering their cost per hire.
"Our success with the retail industry now makes us North America's leading private vertical job board," says Curry. "Our revenues, site traffic and number of job postings back up this claim."
About Hcareers Launched in 1998, Hcareers.com the #1 private vertical job board in North America in terms of revenues, number of staff, jobs posted and traffic. Job seekers who visit the site can search a free database of 48,000+ job openings posted in the past 45 days. Hcareers attracts 750,000 unique visitors each month and has had over 42,000 resumes posted by job seekers in the past 90 days alone.
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 400,000 subscribers interested in restaurant and hospitality careers and topics of interest. For more information, visit our Web site at http://www.hcareers.com.