CareerBuilder.co.uk Partners With Newsquest to Provide Job Listings Across Online Network of Sites
By Careerbuilder.co.uk, PRNETuesday, January 4, 2011
LONDON, January 5, 2011 - CareerBuilder.co.uk, a leading online job site in the UK, has this week
entered a strategic partnership with Newsquest (Newsquest.co.uk), one of the
U.K.'s largest regional newspaper publishers with a network of more than 158
local newspaper and portal Web sites. Under the exclusive agreement,
CareerBuilder.co.uk will provide Newsquest-affiliated website users instant
access to job postings in virtually every industry, field and job type as
well as job search tools, CV-posting options and career advice.
"Partnering with Newsquest gives employers the ability to target numerous
regions of the UK to reach a wide and diverse audience of potential
candidates," said Tony Roy, President of CareerBuilder Europe and Middle
East. "This latest strategic relationship helps CareerBuilder drive more
quality candidates to our clients' job openings and is a welcome addition to
our worldwide distribution network."
Newsquest is the publisher of more than 17 daily titles and 200 weekly
newspapers in towns and cities across the UK. Its online network of local and
regional newspaper brands attracts more than 6.47 million unique visitors per
month (ABCe Jan - June 2010).
"Teaming up with CareerBuilder provides our national, regional and local
advertisers with access to job seekers in towns and cities where we've not
traditionally been present," said Roger Green, Managing Director, Newsquest
Digital Media. "Plus it provides our audience with the greatest number of
opportunities for jobs and careers."
CareerBuilder's job search engine is featured on more than 9,000 Web
sites worldwide including MSN and Yahoo. Through a combination of organic
development, partnerships and acquisitions, CareerBuilder now has a presence
in 55 countries worldwide. In Europe, CareerBuilder's reach includes the
U.K., France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland,
Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium and Denmark. CareerBuilder also
has sites in the U.S., Canada, India and China as well as partnerships in
Japan, South Africa, South America and South Korea.
About Newsquest
Newsquest (www.newsquest.co.uk) publishes in print, online and on
mobile devices, together with text and voice telephone services. It is one of
the UK's largest regional newspaper publishers with over 200 titles including
17 dailies such as The Herald (Glasgow), The Northern Echo (Darlington),
Telegraph & Argus (Bradford), Southern Daily Echo (Southampton), Swindon
Advertiser, Lancashire Telegraph (Blackburn) The Argus (Brighton), The Press
(York), Oxford Mail, Worcester News and South Wales Argus (Newport) and
weekly publications including The Hereford Times, Somerset County Gazette,
Watford Observer, Salisbury Journal and the Bucks Free Press.
About CareerBuilder UK
CareerBuilder UK is one of the most visited online job sites in the
United Kingdom. Owned by Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI), Tribune Company, The
McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT),
CareerBuilder.co.uk powers the career centres for hundreds of UK sites that
reach national, local, industry and niche audiences. For more information
about CareerBuilder products and services, visit
www.careerbuilder.co.uk.
Media Contacts: Roger Green, Managing Director, Newsquest Digital Media rgreen@newsquest.co.uk +44-1-7779-704756 James Trudgian, Head of Audience Development, Newsquest Digital Media jtrudgian@newsquest.co.uk +44-1-7917-040667 Claire McCowan, LewisPR on behalf of CareerBuilder Claire.mccowan@lewispr.com +44-(0)207-802-2626
Roger Green, Managing Director, +44-1-7779-704756, rgreen at newsquest.co.uk, or James Trudgian, Head of Audience Development, +44-1-7917-040667, jtrudgian at newsquest.co.uk, both of Newsquest Digital Media; or Claire McCowan of LewisPR, +44-(0)207-802-2626, Claire.mccowan at lewispr.com, for CareerBuilder
Tags: Careerbuilder.co.uk, January 5, London, United Kingdom