Internet Exec Renée Ward Joins Cross-Post.com Diversity Job Board Network

Renée Ward, the New VP of Strategic Partnerships to focus on building relationships with media companies and diversity sites.

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) June 19, 2006 -- Cross-Post LLC, the Diversity Job Board Network, announced today, the immediate appointment of Renée Ward to the position Vice-President of Strategic Partnerships, to focus on building relationships between media companies and diversity job boards.

Renée has an accomplished career in Internet and advertising. She was the VP of Business Development for Spherion owned JobOptions.com, an early leader in the online job board space. She also served as Vice-President for TMP Recruitment Advertising, (parent of monster.com) and has done extensive advertising consulting work with many of America’s top companies.

She launched the first national online career center for teenagers-Teens4Hire.org, for businesses that recruit young adults in the high school and college age groups and followed that success with Seniors4Hire.org to match businesses with job seekers 50 and older. Combined, the two sites have more than 1.5 million registered members.

Renée is a recognized public speaker and has been featured on the CBS Early Show, NBC Today Show, CBS Evening News, CNN, Comcast Cable, and UPN News. She has been quoted and featured in thousands of print publications such as the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the New York Times, Dallas Morning News, Chicago Tribune, Kiplinger, the Bottom Line, AARP magazine, US News and World Report, Christian Science Monitor, Newsweek and CosmoGirl.

“We are very excited to have a person of Renée’s caliber on staff” says John Fujii, Co-Founder and Principal of Cross-Post LLC. “She brings a keen understanding of the needs that both the media companies and job boards have and is the perfect person to help build revenue enhancing partnerships between them”.

Cross-Post.com has strategic partnerships with Adicio Inc. the leading job board technology company and its diversity job board network includes some of the top diversity sites online like LatPro.com, Workplacediversity.com, DiversitySearch.com, WorkMinistry.com, CareerWomen.com and Retirementjobs.com.

Participating newspaper partners can cross-post their classified employment ads to this network of diversity sites enabling their clients to appeal to a broader slate of candidates and help satisfy federal equal opportunity requirements. The network provides both the newspapers and diversity sites a chance to share in a revenue stream allowing each to bolster their bottom lines in the process.

“I look forward to bridging the gap between each partner and helping each increase revenue opportunities while serving their client needs”, Renee’ says. “The present labor landscape dictates this service and the market is responding well to the concept”.

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