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eQuest Certifies and Adds Oodle to Free Job Posting Network

Posted on: Wednesday, 1 July 2009, 11:17 CDT

SAN RAMON, Calif., July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- eQuest, the global leader in job posting and Internet recruitment management services, announced today that it has certified Oodle to join its free job board posting network, FreeBUG (Free Board User Group). Now eQuest customers will have access to Oodle's network of users searching for jobs, as well as have the opportunity to upgrade and optimize their exposure on social media sites within the network.

The FreeBUG network provided eQuest customers with over 7 million responding candidates in 2008 and remains one of eQuest's most highly utilized job board networks. eQuest tracks, evaluates and ranks free job boards based on the over 200 million postings it delivers annually. eQuest regularly evaluates job board performance and will add or remove job boards from FreeBUG to ensure that only the top performing free job boards are represented based on real candidate traffic.

"eQuest has completed its certification process of Oodle and we are very impressed with the amount of candidate traffic originating from the site," said Larry Butti, Job Board Communications Manager at eQuest. "Our mission is to add free job boards that actually work - and Oodle has clearly demonstrated it meets our criteria."

"By combining broad reach with engaged local usage, our network offers eQuest customers a compelling platform to promote their listings," said Jason Putnam, Director of Business Development, Jobs at Oodle. "We are very excited about working with eQuest to expand their service to our audience, which includes qualified candidates looking for jobs."

eQuest will release Oodle for job delivery availability on July 13, 2009.

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 Oodle

Oodle is reinventing classifieds by offering a trusted, social experience to consumers and a targeted, pay-for-performance business model to local advertisers. With more than 10 million users each month and 600,000 new listings each day, the Oodle Network is the fastest growing classifieds marketplace on the Web. Through the Company's 200 partners, Oodle helps advertisers easily market their listings to these users across the entire Oodle Network, which includes MySpace, Facebook and Cox, as well as 200 other leading brands.

As the Web becomes more social through sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, Oodle is pioneering new ways to leverage these networks to spark conversations around classifieds so users can share what they're looking, discuss listings and recommend other users. With its next-generation platform, Oodle offers media companies and online communities a great user experience and proven business model for free community classifieds.

Oodle is available in the United States (www.oodle.com), Canada (canada.oodle.com), the UK (www.oodle.co.uk) and India (www.oodle.in).

Media Contact Jody Aikawa jaikawa@equest.com 925-275-3595

SOURCE eQuest

Source: PR Newswire

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