AIRS Meta-Searches Yahoo, WhoWhere, InfoUSA, Switchboard, Bigfoot, and More; New SearchStation Feature Helps Recruiters Find Passive Candidates.

Business/Technology Editors

HANOVER, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 2, 2000

AIRS, the global leader in Internet recruitment training and information services, today announced the addition of a new MetaFinders feature-set to AIRS SearchStation. MetaFinders search multiple Internet phone, email and geo-directories simultaneously, merge and dedupe the results, and return them instantly. These utilities solve a host of problems recruiters encounter when searching the Net for candidates: Found a resume with out-of-date phone or email? Locate the candidate quickly and easily with MetaFinders. Found a list of conference attendees - but no contact information? Now recruiters can search more than a dozen phone and email directories at once, right from SearchStation.

Recruiters use SearchStation to scour the Net for resumes, home pages and lists of qualified passive candidates. Built around the advanced search methodologies taught in AIRS seminars, SearchStation uncovers passive candidates hidden in virtual communities, ISPs and the public Web servers of over 500,000 companies, colleges and organizations. And now MetaFinders help SearchStation users find candidate phone numbers, email addresses, domain names, area and zip codes with a single search across the Web.

"SearchStation is a fully Web-enabled meta-search resume tool with some very unique and powerful features. (...) Does it deliver? In a word, yes." states Allan Schweyer in a review of SearchStation published in HR.com (April 24, 2000). "AIRS has successfully leveraged its expertise in online recruitment to create, in my opinion, the best product in a small field of resume-search tools."

The AIRS MetaFinders application searches more directories at once than any other tool on the Web. Sources include: (White Pages) Yahoo, Anywho, WhoWhere, Canada411 and Infobel; (Yellow Pages and Toll Free) Smartpages, Ameritech, Anywho, Canada Yellow Pages, Europages and Infobel; (Reverse Phone) InfoUSA and Anywho; (Email) IAF, Switchboard, Bigfoot, and WhoWhere; (Reverse Email): infoUSA and Anywho; (Domain Search) Whois; (Forward and Reverse Area Code) Area Code Decoder and 555-1212; and (Forward and Reverse Zip Code) USPS.

AIRS SearchStation 3.0 can be previewed at http://www.airsdirectory.com/flash

About AIRS

Founded in 1997, AIRS is the largest provider of Internet recruitment information services worldwide. AIRS Training, Media, Publications and Tools have helped over 8,000 clients in high-growth companies and recruitment organizations define their active sourcing strategies via the World Wide Web. AIRS vertical portal at http://www.airsdirectory.com has become the starting point for hunting tens of millions of passive candidates hidden on the Net.