Adecco SA, World Leader in Employment Services, Invests in jobs.com, the Fastest-Growing On-Line Recruitment Destination.Business Editors DALLAS and CHESEREX, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 2000 Agreement positions Adecco to further develop online capabilities, broadens jobs.com's content, adds thousands of postings and extends reach into temporary services Temporary Services is an artist collective of three people based in Chicago, Illinois, USA. They have been collaborating on art projects, public events, publications, and exhibitions since 1998. market Adecco SA, the world leader in employment services, today announced a strategic investment in jobs.com, Inc., the fastest-growing destination in on-line recruitment. Under the terms of the deal, Adecco SA is acquiring approximately five percent of equity in jobs.com, a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , and is taking a seat on the jobs.com board of directors. In addition, the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. subsidiary of Adecco SA will be posting thousands of job listings on jobs.com's dynamic, recently redesigned website, with the companies working together to develop content and services tailored to the needs of people interested in temporary, contract and permanent positions. John Bowmer, Adecco SA's chief executive officer, commented, &uot;We are extremely pleased to form this partnership with jobs.com. We believe that the future of our business rests in combining the best of what the Internet has to offer with an established branch network to provide true end-to-end solutions (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. for both employers and job seekers. We are convinced that jobs.com will be one of the long-term successes on the Internet and a significant strategic partner of Adecco.&uot; The alliance with jobs.com brings together the strengths of Adecco's core businesses in temporary work and career services with one of the most recognized URL's and brand names in Internet recruiting This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. . In addition, Adecco customers will be able to tap into jobs.com's Resumail software, the most advanced digital solution for creating, delivering and managing resumes sent over the Internet. &uot;We are excited to be joining forces with Adecco and are looking forward to expanding our partnership throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and internationally,&uot; said Timothy Armes, jobs.com founder and president. &uot;Having Adecco as an investor and partner will bring significant employment expertise to the table. By working together we will be able to find more career options for people using our services and build on our Resumail software to create even more efficient ways to manage the hiring process across the Internet.&uot; About jobs.com Dallas-based jobs.com has grown to become one of the leading Internet destinations for career advancement, since its launch as a Bulletin Board System in 1992. Today, jobs.com is focused on more than job postings by aggressively evolving into a resource that matches career-minded individuals determined to manage their destiny with companies desiring to win the battle for talent. jobs.com offers the only all-digital resume management system with its free Resumail software that is standardizing delivery of resumes over the Internet. jobs.com has recently received $72 million in funding from partners such as ideaLab Capital Partners and CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. . Its powerful new website, which attracts monthly more than 1.5 million visitors searching job listings from nearly 7,500 companies, also features career development content from well-known authors such as Tom Peters and Martin Yate. For more information, visit www.jobs.com. About Adecco Adecco SA is the global leader in personnel services, connecting up to 450,000 associates with business clients each day through its network of over 20,000 employees and over 3,200 offices in 55 countries around the world. Registered in Switzerland, and managed by a multinational team with expertise in markets spanning the globe, Adecco delivers an unparalleled range of flexible staffing and career resources to corporate clients and qualified associates. Adecco provides clients with staffing services and solutions covering all major industries as well as specific professions. The worldwide Adecco Brand network focuses on global industries in transition, including automotive, banking, electronics, logistics, and telecommunications. Adecco also is positioned as a worldwide leader in each of the major professional staffing segments with several world-class business lines: aoc (accountants on call) and Jonathan Wren wren, small, plump perching songbird of the family Troglodytidae. There are about 60 wren species, and all except one are restricted to the New World. The plumage is usually brown or reddish above and white, gray, or buff, often streaked, below. for Finance, Banking and Accounting; Ajilon and Computer People for high-end Information Technology, TAD and Roevin for Engineering and Technical. These Adecco businesses provide their clients with a broad range of staffing solutions, from temporary work to permanent placement, to consulting and managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality . Adecco also offers a range of HR solutions with Econova/Lee Hecht Harrison, offering outplacement out·place·ment n. The process of facilitating a terminated employee's search for a new job by provision of professional services, such as counseling, paid for by the former employer. and career management services. Adecco clients retain this unique range of services through local, national and multinational contracts. Adecco SA is listed on The Swiss Exchange Swiss Exchange The major securities market of Switzerland. (ADECCO N (ADEN-700'939), the Bourse bourse (b  rs), term applied to a European stock exchange. The first international bourse was established in Antwerp in the 16th cent. de Paris (RM 12819) and NASDAQ NASDAQin full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on (ADECY). Further information can be found at www.adecco.com. |
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