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Stuart Gentle Publisher at Onrec

Czechjobs.cz merges with CV-Online

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Czechjobs.cz (http://www.czechjobs.cz/), and CV-Online (http://www.cvonline.cz/), Central & Eastern Europeís leading online recruitment company, and a division of CVO Group, announced the merger of its Czech operations, effective June 1st, 2002. The merger results in providing existing Czechjobs.cz and CV-Online clients with access to over 16,000 rsums, including 5,500 active jobseekers, which is the largest íactiveí online database existing in the Czech Republic.

CV-Online, operating in 7 Central & Eastern European countries, has over 56,000 registered users at the www.cvonline.cz site, and is one of the leading and most successful online recruitment platforms in the Czech Republic. The merger also enables Czechjobsí clients to access the high quality services of Professional People, CVO Groupís traditional recruitment consultancy. The combined business, which will operate under the name CV-Online, will focus on providing the highest levels of service based on a unique combination of recruitment knowledge and the latest technology.

Established in 2001, Czechjobs.cz has a proven track record in online recruitment, with particular emphasis on excellent jobseeker and client service. Czechjobs.cz is owned by IrishJobs.ie, the largest and most successful online recruitment website in Ireland.

According to Norrie Sinclair, CEO of CVO Group: This move will have a beneficial effect to both existing Czechjobs and CV-Online clients. We want to combine Czechjobsí excellent client service practice with CV-Onlineís users using the latest online recruitment technology, providing our clients with an unprecedented level of service and unparalleled reach across the jobseeker marketplace.

According to Maria Mahon, CEO of Czechjobs.cz: We are very pleased with this development. The newly merged entity can now offer existing Czechjobs.cz clients access to a broad range of recruitment services through the CV-Online portfolio, as well as International access to services across Central and Eastern Europe. Online recruitment has come of age in the Czech Republic and CV-online is now well positioned to lead the market.

CVO Group has over 280,000 registered users as jobseekers in the Central Europe region, while users download over 7 million pages a month from its servers. The companyís 3000 clients in the region include multinational companies such as Intel, Generali Capital or Shell, as well as large local companies such as Cesk Sporitelna and Severomoravsk Energetika in the Czech Republic.

www.czechjobs.cz