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Stuart Gentle Publisher at Onrec

Stepstone signs exclusive agreement with eQuest

relationship extends market reach for both partners

Stepstone has announced that it has signed an exclusive agreement with eQuest, North American job posting distribution company. Under the terms of the agreement, eQuest will offer European online recruiting services to the North American market including its U.S. customers, delivered through the sites of StepStone and its European partners. The alliance provides expanded geographical coverage to eQuest's international and multinational recruiters, while StepStone further expands its market reach to the U.S.

eQuest, which provides job posting services for many of the Fortune 1000 through its relationships with the top Applicant Tracking and Recruitment Management systems. From a single point in its online system, recruiters can now reach a network of leading job boards that spans the globe.

StepStone provides direct market coverage across Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, and Switzerland.. Through its partners in the StepStone Network this coverage extends to a total of 22 European countries (adding Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Spain and UK) with full local support for recruiters and candidates in each market.


The StepStone Network provides eQuest users with a single point from which to access Europe's most effective recruitment sites, said John Malone President and Chief Executive Officer of eQuest. This will allow our customers to create an instant pan-European recruitment campaign, and benefit from a single point of purchase.


StepStone and its partners look forward this opportunity to work with a leader in the increasingly important field of global job distribution, added Jeremy Langley, Director of Business Development for StepStone. This relationship delivers an important new capability to U.S. based recruiters looking to source staff within the European market, or managing international recruitment projects.

ABOUT eQUEST
Since 1999, eQuest has provided job posting distribution services for many of the top Applicant Tracking Systems, leading career sites and Fortune 1000 companies in the world. Over 1,000 job boards are supported in Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, United Kingdom, and the United States. Over 50 million transactions have been posted since its inception. Their services are sold directly, through channel partners and under OEM private label. eQuest is headquartered in San Ramon, CA and can be located at www.equest.com

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