BrassRing Inc. Partners with PlanetEE to Provide Career Center for Electronic Engineering Professionals.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers WALTHAM Waltham (wôl`thăm, –thəm), city (1990 pop. 57,878), Middlesex co., E Mass., a suburb of Boston, on the Charles River; settled c.1634, set off from Watertown 1738, inc. as a city 1884. , Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 2001 BrassRing Inc., the leading provider of integrated recruiting services and Talent Relationship Management (TRM) solutions, and PlanetEE, the premier engineering technology web site and electronic engineering arm of Penton Media Penton Media, Inc. (OTC: PTON.OB), founded in 1892, is a diversified business-to-business media company. Penton Media is a mass media corporation that publishes and produces over 40 magazines, 80 trade shows, and 47 web sites. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :PME PME Petites et Moyennes Entreprises PME Professional Military Education PME Pequenas e Médias Empresas (Portugal) PME Petite et Moyenne Entreprise PME Psychology of Mathematics Education PME Pi Mu Epsilon ), today announced a strategic relationship in which BrassRing will create and manage a fully functional Career Center for PlanetEE dedicated to the electronic engineering industry. The Career Center will help connect the electronic engineering industry's leading employers with skilled engineers who visit the PlanetEE web site and read Penton Media's electronic engineering publications. "In addition to supplying our users with the best information in the electronic engineering fields, PlanetEE will now provide users with opportunities from some of the top electronics companies in the country," stated Tom Halligan, Group Web Director of PlanetEE, the portal web site housing Electronic Design, Microwaves &RF, EE Product News, Wireless Systems Design, Netronics, and Used Equipment Network, which are all Penton Media publications. "PlanetEE strives to provide its users with a comprehensive set of resources that are focused on helping engineers keep ahead of the market and successful in their careers." "This relationship with PlanetEE allows BrassRing to expand its leadership in industry-specific niche career centers," explained Greg Ruf, executive vice president of BrassRing Exchanges, a division of BrassRing Inc. "In the search for talent, companies are increasingly taking a targeted approach, gravitating toward sources that can produce qualified candidates. BrassRing is committed to leveraging technology to develop qualified pools of talent, enabling companies to find and hire the right candidates quickly and efficiently." About PlanetEE PlanetEE is dedicated to serving the global electronics industry as the comprehensive technical resource, design, solution, and commerce center for the worldwide community of electronic design engineers and engineering management. To that end, PlanetEE serves as the online portal for Penton Media Inc.'s Electronics Group (PEG peg 1. To fix the price of a new security issue during the issuance period through buying and selling it in the open market in order to ensure that the price in the secondary market will not fall below the offering price. ), which includes six publications: Electronic Design, Microwaves & RF, EE Product News, Wireless Systems Design, Netronics and Used Equipment Network. Also under PEG's umbrella is newsletter and survey specialist Jon Peddie Associates, along with the Wireless Symposium/Portable by Design, Military Electronics Show, and Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the Device Builder trade shows -- all of which are featured on PlanetEE. In addition, PlanetEE has formed partnerships with TestMart, Chalkboard Network, Convergence University, BrassRing Inc., and the ESOFTA and VITA (VMEbus International Trade Association, Fountain Hills, AZ, www.vita.com) A trade association that supports the VMEbus and other open standards. Founded in 1984, VITA was accredited as an ANSI standards development organization in 1993. See VMEbus. communities. About BrassRing Inc. BrassRing Inc. is a leading provider of integrated recruiting solutions and Talent Relationship Management (TRM) systems designed to help companies hire better people faster. Created in September 1999 through the combination of several leading recruiting and hiring management firms, BrassRing Inc. consists of BrassRing Career Events, a leading sponsor of technology career fairs in 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 Europe; BrassRing Exchanges, a leading provider of online recruiting solutions for hard-to-hire candidates, including Information Technology employees, MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration graduates and candidates from diverse backgrounds; and BrassRing Systems, a leading provider of Talent Relationship Management solutions. BrassRing Inc. is owned by The Washington Post Company, Tribune Company The Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB) is a large American multimedia corporation based in Chicago, Illinois. It is the nation's second-largest newspaper publisher, responsible for the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Hartford Courant , Gannett Co., Inc., and Accel Partners. For additional information, visit www.brassring.com. |
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