Careerbuilder.com expands agreement with fast

to become exclusive premier partner in online careers search

CareerBuilder.com has expanded its agreement with Fast Search & TransferTM (FASTTM) to become FAST’s premier partner in careers-related online search technology. As part of the enterprise-wide agreement, CareerBuilder.com will join FAST’s Technology Advisory Board to help drive
new advancements in FAST’s product direction as it relates to the online recruitment sector. CareerBuilder.com will work exclusively with FAST to develop the industry’s top search engine and deliver best-in-breed search tools for CareerBuilder.com’s job seekers and employers. The agreement will go into effect on September 30, 2003.

CareerBuilder.com offers more than 7 million resumes and more than 400,000 job postings from over 25,000 of the nation’s most sought after employers.

CareerBuilder.com began working with FAST in the fall of 2002, using FAST Data SearchTM to power the search functionality for growing job and resume queries. Under the new agreement, CareerBuilder.com will deploy FAST Data
Search in new ways across the CareerBuilder.com enterprise and serve as an advisor on product enhancement and creation for job and resume searches.

The expanded agreement takes our partnership with FAST to a new level, said Matt Ferguson, CareerBuilder.com’s chief operating officer.

CareerBuilder.com continues to experience increased demands for our smart, online search products from companies and candidates alike and we believe
FAST offers a superior search solution that can scale up with those demands.

By working closely together, our companies can develop unique strategies to further optimize the search experience for employers and job seekers, and deliver exceptional results.

CareerBuilder.com has a wide network of over 350 partners and recently signed deals with AOL and MSN that will drive even more traffic to its site, said Ali Riaz, FAST’s chief operating officer. FAST’s scalable search platform can support this influx by quickly responding to queries
from job seekers and employers with highly relevant search results. With CareerBuilder.com signed up as an exclusive Lighthouse customer, we are building on an already strong relationship and working hand in hand to develop the best search capabilities for the online careers arena.

CareerBuilder.com offers a variety of online products to minimize recruitment spending and maximize results. The company provides easy job postings, a bilingual version of its site, customized packages, online career fairs, a fresh resume database, profiles of skilled and hourly
workers and more. For job seekers, CareerBuilder.com offers the confidential Personal Search Agent that hunts for job opportunities in expressed areas of interest and automatically emails them to job seekers.

In addition, CareerBuilder.com gives job seekers the choice to search by industry, location and job type, and provides online career assessments, coaching for interviews and tips for salary negotiations.

Since the initial implementation of FAST’s technology last year, FAST has enhanced CareerBuilder.com’s job and resume search capabilities. FAST has addressed careerBuilder.com’s business goals of deploying a
hardware-scalable search solution that supports its services and allows it to grow quickly, while sustaining the added burden of this growth.

Consistently handling a heavy query volume of 120-150 queries per second, FAST Data Search enables careerBuilder.com to lower its total cost of ownership by using fewer servers to run the search application.

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