eQuest and Taleo Join Forces to Allow SMBs to Source for Talent

Advanced HR technology products and services from eQuest continue to dominate both Enterprise and SMB market space.
San Ramon, CA - October 23, 2007 – eQuest, the world’s leading supplier of domestic and international job-posting delivery services including worldwide job board management representation, today announced it has signed an agreement with Taleo Corporation to provide a suite of online technology sourcing tools through Smart Sourcing for Taleo Business Edition. Taleo’s Smart Sourcing offering will provide small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with a sophisticated set of tools to help level the playing field in the war for talent. The new offering streamlines the sourcing workflow, provides predictive analytics on the immediate state of the local job market, and facilitates active and passive sourcing.

The suite of eQuest products includes Prophesy™, Advantage™ and FreeBug™. Prophesy is a predictive analysis tool that suggests which job boards will be most effective for a job posting prior to a recruiter making a selection, eQuest Advantage allows customers to post jobs through Taleo without the need for a direct contract with any job board and FreeBUG (Free Board User Group) allows customers to have unlimited access to the most popular free job boards on the Internet. These features allow SMBs to optimize their job board spend, automate the posting process and source the most qualified candidates in a timely fashion.

“Our continued investment in sourcing technologies and job board analytical assessment services provide unbiased, third party analytics to the worldwide market,” said John Malone, CEO of eQuest. “Taleo Business Edition customers will now have access to the same high-end features normally utilized by our larger, enterprise customers.”

“Joining forces with eQuest will provide SMBs with a precise snapshot of the job market, will improve candidate sourcing, and will give SMBs the power to reach thousands of candidates,” said Jason Blessing, group vice president and general manager, Taleo. “The combined solutions will continue to help SMBs reach the best and brightest candidates, and we look forward to a long and mutually beneficial relationship.”

More information about Taleo Business Edition and Smart Sourcing can be accessed at www.taleo.com.

About eQuest

eQuest provides domestic and international job-posting delivery and complete job board management services including candidate sourcing metrics and job board evaluations, job board consultation and planning, job board negotiating, and billing control. Hundreds of job boards are supported in the eQuest network reaching over 180 countries and territories worldwide. eQuest is one of the most recognized and admired brands in the human resource industry. eQuest can be reached at www.equest.com.

About Taleo

Taleo (NASDAQ: TLEO) is the leader in on demand, web-based talent management solutions that empower organizations of all sizes, around the world to assess, acquire, develop and align their workforce for improved business performance. More than 1,200 organizations use Taleo, including 33 of the Fortune 100, for talent acquisition and performance management, with over 1,080,000 users processing 66 million candidates from over 100 countries. Requiring no capital investment, Taleo’s software as a service and on demand delivery offers 99.9% availability.


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