San Francisco & San Ramon, CA - April 25, 2006 - eQuest, the world's leading job posting distribution company and Taleo, the leading provider of talent management solutions, today announced the international job posting expansion and upgrade for all Taleo customers worldwide. As part of this upgrade, all Taleo customers now utilize eQuest's 2.0 job posting platform, integrated directly with the Taleo solution.
The eQuest expansion ensures broadened job posting functionality in the seamless user interface between the two companies, better board-to-board mapping accuracy, and access to eQuest's continued feature innovations. This upgrade also provides Taleo customers with decreases in time to post jobs, the ability to easily add additional job boards, worldwide job board access, and detailed monthly transaction reports summarizing job posting usage.
The upgrade also provides Taleo customers free job deliveries to Monster (domestic and international), HotJobs, CareerBuilder, America's Job Bank, JobBoom (Canada), Bumeran (South America), and SEEK (Australia/New Zealand).
"We are pleased to expand our alliance with eQuest and deliver unmatched job posting and sourcing capabilities to our global customers," said Jeff Carr, EVP, Sales and Marketing, Taleo. "This upgrade allows our customers to source candidates from a myriad of options, giving them an edge in today's global war for talent, while at the same time streamlining their talent management processes and reducing costs."
Taleo customers have already seen the immediate results. Eva Capps, HRIS Manager at Sutter Health says, "Job postings arrive faster to the boards with perfect textual content."
Phil Hendrickson, Manager of Sourcing at Fannie Mae, remarked "These added services from eQuest are helping us realize an even greater ROI from our job board purchases and providing us more accurate metrics and reporting. We're saving money on the boards we use and dropping those that aren't producing."
eQuest plans on premiering its latest job posting innovation, ProphesyTM, at the Taleo WORLD 2006, Taleo's Annual User Conference scheduled for May 8, 9 and 10 in Orlando, Florida.
"eQuest continues to be the job distributor of choice amongst the world's leading talent management providers," said John Malone, President and Chief Executive Officer at eQuest. "Our software team is focused on bringing the best in innovative software to our partners and users."
About Taleo Corporation
Taleo (NASDAQ: TLEO) delivers on demand talent management solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to assess, acquire, develop and align their workforce for improved business performance. Taleo's customers use its suite of solutions to improve their talent management processes to reduce the time and costs associated with these processes and to enhance the quality, productivity and satisfaction of their workforces. Taleo currently has more than 420 corporate customers with approximately 525,000 registered users who use our services to fill positions in almost 100 countries. For more information visit www.taleo.com.
About eQuest
eQuest provides domestic and international job-posting delivery services reaching over 200 countries and territories worldwide. eQuest also provides job board negotiating, job board billing aggregation, consulting services, and complete job tracking analysis for evaluating job board performance. eQuest is one of the most recognized and admired brands in the human resource industry. eQuest can be reached at www.equest.com.