Standout Jobs Launches Strategic Partnership with UK-based Recruitment Ad Agency Work Communications
Standout Jobs expands channel partner strategy to international markets with Work Communications.
Montreal, Canada (PRWEB) November 10, 2008 -- Standout Jobs, a leading provider of Web-based tools to power companies' online recruiting efforts, today announced it has struck a strategic partnership with top recruitment advertising and branding firm, Work Communications (AIM: WORK), based in the UK. Standout Jobs lets companies easily create and quickly deploy interactive career sites and recruitment micro-sites using the latest Web technologies such as blogs, chat, profiles and even video to attract both active and passive talent based on skills and cultural fit. Work Communications will become a full solution reseller to clients looking for an advantage in sourcing talent online.
Standout Jobs' Web-based recruitment communication platform allows agencies to more efficiently deploy career sites and micro-sites loaded with the Web's latest interactive recruiting tools. Work Communications will add its unique creative vision and service to employers seeking specific, high-value talent in what has become an increasingly tight employment market. Users benefit from dynamic career portals that showcase their company's culture and people -- not just open positions -- and builds recruitment pipelines by engaging candidates with Web 2.0 tools and a full suite of relationship management features. The market for career micro-sites that are job category specific or time sensitive around college recruitment is particularly popular in the UK.
"We're thrilled to be working with Standout Jobs," said Derek McKenzie, Head of Online Consulting, Work Communications. "We love the idea of matching our creative services and talents to Standout Jobs' technology. We'll be able to deploy career micro-sites much more quickly and respond to our customers' needs with more flexibility than ever before."
Standout Jobs' recruitment communication platform is provided as an on-demand solution, so no IT or technical experience is required. Companies with limited resources or personnel enjoy a dedicated, interactive career site that attracts candidates from across the web in just minutes. Standout Jobs is simple to use and saves valuable cycles while presenting potential candidates with a professional look and feel to the company's brand.
"Work Communications is a great partner," said Benjamin Yoskovitz, co-founder and CEO, Standout Jobs. "They understand the value of our technology and how it can be used effectively to meet the growing and evolving needs of their customers. Their creative talent is incredible, and combined it's a wonderful opportunity for both of us. We're also very excited to be working with a partner overseas. I see a lot of growing potential in markets outside of North America, and we want to make our platform available as far and wide as possible."
About Work Group:
Work Group (AIM: WORK) offers a range of HR Consulting Services which enable employers to win the war for talent. It focuses on providing services in "talent acquisition and talent development" which enable employers to more effectively recruit and retain key staff.
Work Group's approach is to help employers reduce their traditional reliance on third-party recruiters such as head-hunters and recruitment firms through helping them establish and maintain a direct relationship between employer and prospective employee. It also helps employers reduce attrition costs through better people development and retention of key talent.
Work Group currently operates through three divisions; Executive Research, Employer Marketing and Recruitment Process Outsourcing and provides services from its six locations in the UK and an office in New York.
About Standout Jobs:
Founded in February 2007 by Benjamin Yoskovitz, Fred Ngo and Austin Hill, Standout Jobs provides a Web-based hosted employer branding and job marketing platform to power companies' online recruitment efforts. At the heart of Standout Jobs is a do-it-yourself interactive career site that leverages social media tools and principles, including video, blogging and widgets, to showcase a company's culture and team. Standout Jobs also includes candidate relationship management tools enabling HR managers to identify, interact with and track candidates effectively.
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