San Ramon, CA (August 1, 2006) - eQuest, the global leader in job posting distribution services, announced today its completion of its second 60-day analysis of a new set of twenty (20) free job boards on the Internet. Of the twenty sites tested only two sites were able to pass eQuest's rigid testing - The Ladders and Jobster. eQuest will be testing hundreds of free boards throughout 2006 to determine the effectiveness of free job posting sites as well as those boards meeting or exceeding eQuest standards for certification.
The boards were evaluated using several technology indicators that measure overall candidate traffic effectiveness. Job boards must also agree to certain job posting conditions required by eQuest to meet the certification.
eQuest has tested a total of forty (40) free career sites over the last four months - only six boards have qualified. These include:
SimplyHired, Indeed.com, America's Job Bank, Google-Base, The Ladders, and Jobster.
FreeBug, an acronym for Free Board User Group, is available only to eQuest customers on an unlimited basis for a small yearly management fee.
Portions of the certification include that (a) sites not redistribute any eQuest delivered jobs to any other non-owned website or owned subsidiary site; (b) the job boards must publish eQuest delivered unique URL's providing one-click candidate traffic from the job board directly back to the customer career site for application; (c) and the job board must meet certain candidate traffic and site activity minimums.
eQuest established the free job board certification program in April, 2006 to continue to offer industry-leading recruitment products and services to its worldwide customer base. The program is the first job distribution company to harvest traffic trending data on free job boards and report these back to its users. Only job boards meeting eQuest's strict standards will be awarded certification and admission into the eQuest Enterprise Network.
About eQuest
eQuest provides domestic and international job-posting delivery services to over 11,000 customers reaching over 200 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 or at 1-800-495-4479.