BuildNet's PLUMBINGonline Signs Agreement With CareerSite Corporation.Business Editors/High Tech Writers RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2000 CareerSite to Power PLUMBINGonlineJobs.com(TM) Recruitment Site BuildNet, Inc., a leading provider of management software and e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. services to contractors and distributors in the construction industry, today announced that its PLUMBINGonline community signed an agreement with CareerSite Corporation, a leading e-recruiting solution provider, to power PLUMBINGonlineJobs.com, the recruitment section of PLUMBINGonline.com(TM). The new site at www.plumbingonlinejobs.com focuses on employers and job seekers job seeker also job·seek·er n. One who seeks employment. in the plumbing plumbing, piping systems inside buildings for water supply and sewage. The Romans had a highly developed plumbing system; water was brought to Rome by aqueducts and distributed to homes in lead pipes—hence the name plumbing from the Latin word plumbum distribution, manufacturing and contractor industry and provides employers with a free, "one-stop one-stop adj. Relating to or providing a comprehensive selection of goods or services at a single location: one-stop shopping; a one-stop health-care center. " recruitment resource and browser-based e-recruiting tool. Job seekers receive a unique way to market themselves anonymously. PLUMBINGonline.com is an online community that provides one location for plumbing professionals to access technical tips, business advice, networking capabilities, extensive industry resources and now, e-recruitment E-Recruitment covers a range of Web-based application tools used for the provisioning (typically) of human resources. These applications assist in the recruitment of suitable candidates for vacant positions. solutions. The PLUMBINGonline CareerSite Recruiter(TM) software offers employers a convenient and easy way to take advantage of the 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 for recruiting purposes. This browser-based tool streamlines the process and seamlessly connects users with the PLUMBINGonline CareerSite and the best, high-traffic, free job sites. For a nominal fee, employers can easily access more than 200,000 candidate profiles in CareerSite's database, auto-post and cross-post cross-post - [Usenet] To post a single article simultaneously to several newsgroups. Distinguished from posting the article repeatedly, once to each newsgroup, which causes people to see it multiple times (which is very bad form). jobs to fee-based sites, list a company profile and receive additional services. "Since PLUMBINGonline.com is designed and operated for plumbing professionals, it can provide features exclusively for this industry that are second-to-none," said Don Dornbush, founder and president, CareerSite Corporation. "Our unique technology and services will add beneficial, sticky content (World-Wide Web) sticky content - World-Wide Web pages that refer only or mostly to pages on the same website. This is important to some commercial sites who want users to keep accessing pages from their site because they receive advertising income from each hit. for this interactive exchange and provide the plumbing industry with new e-recruiting solutions." PLUMBINGonlineJobs.com also provides job seekers with necessary career management tools and easy access to employers on the PLUMBINGonline vertical community, among others, at no cost. By entering a password protected, confidential profile that does not contain any private, identifiable information, CareerSite's unique technology enables job seekers to market themselves anonymously to employers while maintaining complete control over identity disclosure. To ensure that candidates receive all relevant matching positions, CareerSite's SmartMatch SmartMatch is a proprietary intelligent search engine that searches résumés and other information about job applicants and matches that information with job descriptions [1]. It was developed at Guru.com between 2001 and 2003 and was acquired by Unicru in 2004. (TM), a proprietary technology, searches for jobs using concepts rather than simple words. Additional job searching tools include: automatic e-mail notification of job matches based on registered preferences, online resume storage, cover letter submissions and the ability to search and apply for jobs. In addition, access to customer service, a career resource center, online bookstore and all of the PLUMBINGonline information is readily available. "PLUMBINGonline.com's partnership with CareerSite should enable us to develop the Internet as a worthwhile tool for facilitating the job search process by providing qualified plumbing employees and positions--something desperately needed within the industry," said Todd Todd , Sir Alexander Robertus 1907-1997. British chemist. He won a 1957 Nobel Prize for his study of nucleic acids and nucleotide structures. Mann, Vice President of BuildNet Portal Group. "And because CareerSite is aligned with other well-known well-known adj. 1. Widely known; familiar or famous: a well-known performer. 2. Fully known: well-known facts. , online job search services, PLUMBINGonlineJobs.com should be able to expand its visibility to introduce users to the plumbing marketplace we are creating." About CareerSite Corporation CareerSite Corporation develops and markets e-recruiting solutions for job seekers, employers, and leading Internet sites. The CareerSite.com Recruiter(TM) offers small businesses the first and only FREE, convenient, and easy way to take advantage of the Internet for recruiting purposes. It is a browser-based tool that both streamlines the process and seamlessly connects users with the best, high-traffic job sites. CareerSite's affiliate recruitment solution provides everything an Internet site needs to offer customers a full-featured e-recruiting service. This includes hosting, customer service, distribution, and access to CareerSite's database of over 200,000 candidates (recently rated number two in resume quality by the national Electronic Recruiting Index). Currently, CareerSite powers over 20 leading e-recruiting sites. Located in Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, city (1990 pop. 109,592), seat of Washtenaw co., S Mich., on the Huron River; inc. 1851. It is a research and educational center, with a large number of government and industrial research and development firms, many in high-technology fields such as , Mich., the company is privately held and funded by individual, institutional, and media company investors. For additional information, please visit http://www.careersite.com or call 734/213-9500. CareerSite(R) is a registered service mark of CareerSite Corporation(TM). All other product or service marks mentioned herein are those of their respective owners. All rights reserved. About PLUMBINGonline(TM) PLUMBINGonline is a BuildNet Community that provides content, collaboration Working together on a project. See collaborative software. , customization and commerce to professionals in the plumbing industry. It enables electronic business-to-business transactions--purchase orders, advance shipping notices and invoices--between manufacturers and distributors of the plumbing industry. PLUMBINGonline also offers plumbing professionals--contractors, distributors and manufacturers--the latest industry and general-interest news, as well as plumbing career listings posted on PLUMBINGonlineJobs.com. BuildNet's other specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. communities include HVAConline(TM), ELECTRICALonline(TM) and APPLIANCEpartner (TM). PLUMBINGonline and PLUMBINGonline.com are brand names of BuildNet, Inc. For more information, visit http://www.plumbingonline.com or call 888/226-8089. About BuildNet, Inc. BuildNet, Inc., located in Research Triangle Park, N.C., is a leading provider of management software and e-commerce services to contractors and distributors in the construction industry. BuildNet's objective is to be the business-to-business e-commerce solution for the residential construction industry. To reach that objective, BuildNet has designed the BuildNet E-Building Exchange to provide secure Internet-based procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases. , e-commerce and information services See Information Systems. for contractors and distributors. The BuildNet E-Building Exchange will allow users to confirm pricing and product specifications, place purchase orders and add both product and order information automatically to contractors' and distributors' management systems. In addition, manufacturers will be able to place product information and catalogs on the BuildNet E-Building Exchange for access by contractors and distributors. BuildNet is testing the BuildNet E-Building Exchange and expects to initiate a limited market rollout in 2000. BuildNet's aggregated software customer base includes homebuilders that accounted for approximately 43% of 1999 U.S. single-family home closings. Learn more about BuildNet by visiting http://www.buildnet.com . This press release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. . The actual results might differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements for various reasons, including BuildNet's limited Internet operating history, the development and rollout of the BuildNet E-Building Exchange and the acceptance of the BuildNet E-Building Exchange by any of BuildNet's existing software customers or any new customers. Additional information concerning factors that could cause actual results to materially differ from those in the forward-looking statements is contained in BuildNet's SEC filings, including its Registration Statement on Form S-1. 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