eQuest and LinkedIn Partner to Facilitate Seamless Job Postings to LinkedIn

October 5, 2009 12:00 PM EDT

SAN RAMON, Calif., Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- eQuest today announced a partnership with LinkedIn that will allow joint eQuest and LinkedIn corporate customers to deliver their job postings to LinkedIn with no additional distribution fees. This will be the first integration between the global market leader in job posting delivery management and the largest global professional network. The companies will work together to provide customers easy job posting access through eQuest's job posting interface.

"Our customers' metrics clearly show a huge upswing in job postings to LinkedIn and, as a result, increased hiring success," said John Malone, President and CEO of eQuest. "Connecting with LinkedIn Jobs demonstrates our commitment to bring our customers unique access to leading edge technologies and solutions essential to maximizing recruiting effectiveness."

"Customers of our Talent Advantage recruitment solutions have been asking for easier ways to post jobs into our powerful network of professionals," said Mike Gamson, Vice President of LinkedIn Corporate Solutions. "Today's announcement represents a significant step forward in addressing that need."

LinkedIn and eQuest will release a series of integrated solutions in the coming months. Already available are tools within the eQuest environment to manage LinkedIn's job slot posting packages, right from one's Applicant Tracking System. Coming up shortly is the integration into eQuest Advantage, which enables users to purchase LinkedIn job posts via credit card from within eQuest. Future plans call for more tightly integrated features to be added into eQuest's soon to be announced WorldProductSeries(TM).

LinkedIn and eQuest will offer a free webcast on October 13th at 1pm EST (10am PST), 2009, to go over the details of this partnership.

About eQuest

eQuest is the global leader in job-posting delivery and job board management services, including candidate sourcing metrics and job board evaluations, job board consultation and planning, job board negotiating, and billing control. In 2008, eQuest posted over 200 million jobs for more than 20,000 companies worldwide. Hundreds of job boards are supported in the eQuest network reaching over 180 countries and territories worldwide. eQuest is one of the most recognized and admired brands in the human resource industry. eQuest can be reached at www.equest.com.

About LinkedIn

LinkedIn takes your personal business network online, giving you access to people, jobs and opportunities like never before. Built upon trusted connections and relationships, LinkedIn has established the world's largest and most powerful professional network. Currently, over 48 million professionals are on LinkedIn, representing all five hundred of the Fortune 500 companies, as well as a wide range of household names in technology, financial services, media, consumer packaged goods, entertainment, fashion, and numerous other industries. LinkedIn is backed by world-class investors including Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, the European Founders Fund, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, Goldman Sachs, The McGraw-Hill Companies, and SAP Ventures. LinkedIn Talent Advantage is a suite of corporate recruiting solutions that help companies find and engage better talent faster, while driving significant savings.

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