Bellingham, Wash., May 30, 2002— CareerPerfect.com, a rapidly growing career services company, today announced a new syndication agreement with FlipDog.com, one of the Web's largest career sites. The alliance increases CareerPerfect's service offerings to more than one million additional job seekers nationwide.
CareerPerfect®, a division of Career Services Group, Inc., has been among the pioneers in online career services syndication through its application of co-branded partnerships. CareerPerfect.com has partnered with a variety of career sites, portals and other media properties to increase its website business and create new revenue streams for its partners by providing resume writing services and other career-related tools. Other recent alliances include Monster® and Monster.ca, bringing services to Monster's 16.3 million monthly users (Media Metrix, April 2002).
"An enormous number of people need professional resume services to aid them in their job search in today's difficult market. Our syndication model is proving to be a highly effective method for us to reach them," said company CEO Bruce Wayne. "With the addition of FlipDog, we expand our audience to another one million Internet users. We expect to continue increasing our market share by expanding our online partnerships and collaborating with other, more traditional media that will find this an effective tool for their own growth."
CareerPerfect.com leads the industry in resume-writing and career-guidance methodology. They employ a team of resume-writing experts servicing all fields and specialties in order to develop distinctive resumes that target job seekers' specific career goals and industries.
"The objective of the alliance is to increase website revenue by leveraging our unique intake-and-delivery model for resume-writing services within the co-branded environment of our partners' sites and to provide enhanced value to the job seeker," Wayne added.
CareerPerfect has 23 years of career-guidance and resume-writing expertise and the IT expertise to handle large properties like FlipDog and Monster. These credentials ensure that employers find top candidates with the right qualifications, talents and skills. This increases employer satisfaction with the partnering sites.
Among the additional media CareerPerfect will work with, are new media portals, print newspapers and magazines. According to Wayne, such relationships provide the media outlets with the ability to enhance their classified and employment sections' ad-revenue stream using CareerPerfect's turn-key career solution. CareerPerfect's content syndication packages can be personalized to the unique editorial style and revenue goals of each participating media property.
In addition to syndicating its resume-writing services, CareerPerfect.com provides complete content-oriented career centers including expert advice on crafting a powerful resume, interviewing strategies, career planning, software-based tools such as InterviewSmart®, plus various career planning and testing programs.
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