eQuest Expands Free Job Board Network, FreeBUG, to Include More European and Asian...

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eQuest Expands Free Job Board Network, FreeBUG, to Include More European and
Asian Pacific Communities Through its Partnership With SimplyHired.

Network Now Reaches United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, France, India, and
Australia.

SAN RAMON, Calif., April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- As eQuest continues its drive into
the United Kingdom, Europe and Asia Pacific an announcement was made today
that it will include additional global coverage to one of its most popular
services, FreeBUG. FreeBUG, an acronym for Free Board User Group, tracks and
ranks candidate activity and responses from free job boards - based on over
200 million postings it delivered in the last twelve month period. Based on
these reports eQuest includes only the best performing job boards in the
FreeBUG network and offers unlimited access and job postings to its customers.
Over 7 Million candidates responded to job advertisements from FreeBUG in
2008.

SimplyHired, one of the top job posting aggregation job sites in the United
States, is FreeBUG's top candidate producing site. SimplyHired is establishing
strongholds in these same regions to increase global awareness of its services
to both the candidate and employment communities. The combination of
SimplyHired and eQuest will provide recruiters an easy and affordable way to
attract talent in a new, borderless arena.

About eQuest

eQuest provides international job posting delivery, job board management and
analytics services. Thousands of job boards are supported in the eQuest
network, reaching over 180 countries and territories worldwide. eQuest
provides the most complete candidate sourcing and tracking analysis for
evaluating job board performance. eQuest is one of the most recognized and
admired brands in the human resource industry. eQuest can be reached at
www.equest.com.

About SimplyHired

With more than 5 million job listings worldwide and more than 5,000 job search
partners, Simply Hired (www.SimplyHired.com) is the largest job search engine
and recruitment advertising network. The company has exclusive partnerships
with MySpace and LinkedIn as well as the largest set of professional
applications on Facebook. The company has international sites in the United
States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, India, Germany, Spain and France.
Simply Hired has been lauded as one of the "50 Coolest Websites" by Time
magazine and declared "Best of the Web" by Business Week. Simply Hired has
raised $17.7M in funding from News Corporation's Fox Interactive Media,
Foundation Capital, Garage Technology Ventures and individual investors. The
company is privately held and is based in Mountain View, California.

    Media contact:
    Jody Aikawa
    925-275-3595
    jody.aikawa@equest.com




SOURCE  eQuest

Jody Aikawa of eQuest, +1-925-275-3595, jody.aikawa@equest.com
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