BrassRing.com Selected as ``Most Job-Seeker Friendly Site'' in WEDDLE's User's Choice Awards Competition.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 11, 2002 BrassRing LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , the largest provider of Talent Relationship Management (TRM) systems and innovative eRecruiting services, today announced that its technology-focused career board, BrassRing.com, the leading career board for technology-related jobs and tech career event information, has won a WEDDLE's User's Choice Award as the "Most Job-Seeker Friendly" Specialty Site. The awards honor excellence in online job sites as judged by HR practitioners, recruiters and job seekers. This is the first-ever WEDDLE's User's Choice Awards competition, which is conducted by WEDDLE's, a research and publishing firm specializing in online employment resources, and sponsored by Bernard Hodes Group, a recruitment communications and staffing solutions provider. The competition is the only opportunity for HR professionals and job seekers to vote for their top online picks. Online voting occurred from January 1 to December 31, 2001, on the WEDDLE's Web site, www.weddles.com/awards. "The WEDDLE's User's Choice Award means a lot to BrassRing because it's voted on by the users," said Robin Rasmussen, president of BrassRing Sourcing, a division of BrassRing. "Being selected as the 'Most Job-Seeker Friendly' site is especially meaningful because it says we're succeeding at reaching our target audience with a user-friendly site that provides a valuable resource to recruiters and candidates." Winners were selected among both general purpose and specialty sites in these categories: best overall, best customer service for recruiters, best information for job seekers, most "recruiter friendly," and most "job seeker friendly." More than 5,000 ballots were cast. "The Internet is the most important advancement in employment since the resume," said publisher Peter Weddle, "but with more than 40,000 such sites available, it's very hard to know which sites offer the best service. That's what the WEDDLE's User's Choice Awards are all about. They put the real users, rather than pundits and professional critics, in the driver's seat driv·er's seat n. A position of control or authority. on the Information Superhighway." The American Staffing Association The American Staffing Association was founded in 1966 to be the "voice" of the staffing industry in the United States. Its members operate more than 15,000 staffing offices nationwide and account for more than 85% of staffing industry sales. has called Peter Weddle the "Zagat" of the online employment industry for his advertising-free publications on Web sites for recruiters and job seekers. In addition to the WEDDLE's User's Choice Award and CAREERXROADS Awards in 2002 and 2001, BrassRing has been named to Forbes Magazine's Best-of-the-Web directory, Upside's 2001 Hot 100 List of Privately Held Companies privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , IDC's list of the Top 10 eRecruiting providers, and Information Week's Top 100 ASPs. Last year, BrassRing was awarded HR Executive's Top 10 New Products of 2000, and earned first place in the 2000 HR Technology Conference Electronic Recruiting Shootout Shootout Venture capital jargon. Refers to two or more venture capital firms fighting for the startup. . About WEDDLE's WEDDLE's mission is to help recruiters and job seekers maximize their ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). ... their return on the Internet. It publishes a range of newsletters, guides and directories about employment-related sites on the Internet. Its "Newsletter About Internet Resources for Successful Recruiting & Retention" is currently distributed in over a dozen countries. For more information about WEDDLE's and the User's Choice Awards, please visit the WEDDLE's Web site at http://www.weddles.com/awards. Voting for the 2003 User's Choice Awards is already underway. About Bernard Hodes Group As a fully integrated recruitment communications and staffing solutions provider, Bernard Hodes Group (http://www.hodes.com) offers a full array of services to clients in the human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. industry. These services range from advertising, e-recruiting technologies such as Hodes iQ (http://www.hodesiQ.com), consulting, media planning and employer branding Employer branding as “the image of the organization as a ‘great place to work’ in the minds of current employees and key stakeholders in the external market (active and passive candidates, clients, customers and other key stakeholders). to assessments and metrics, research, resume sourcing, Web development and more. The company is headquartered in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , with over 70 offices and affiliates around the globe. Bernard Hodes Group is a subsidiary of the Omnicom Group
The Omnicom Group (NYSE: OMC) is the world's largest advertising agency holding company in terms of revenue (and one of the big six (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :OMC OMC Organisation Mondiale du Commerce (French: WTO) OMC Organización Mundial del Comercio (Spanish: World Trade Organization) OMC Organização Mundial do Comércio ) one of the world's largest communications groups. About BrassRing BrassRing LLC is the leader in eRecruiting and talent management innovation. BrassRing serves as the trusted partner of more than 5,000 companies, which rely upon BrassRing's Talent Relationship Management (TRM) systems, candidate sourcing technology, and recruiting services for their talent management needs. Investors in BrassRing LLC and its affiliates include The Washington Post Company, Tribune Company, Gannett Co., Inc., and Accel Partners. For additional information, visit www.brassring.com. Note to Editors: BrassRing Systems and BrassRing Sourcing are trademarks of BrassRing LLC. All other trademarks contained herein are property of their respective owners. |
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