Hcareers Bucks The Trend By Recruiting Staff To Spearhead North American Expansion

The dominant job board for the hospitality industry gears up to double headcount by 2003

North Vancouver, BC - June 25, 2002 - Hcareers, the job board for the hospitality industry, is ramping up its team to handle the growing demand for its online recruitment advertising service.

The 20 new recruits will provide additional resources in sales, customer service and finance to help support Hcareers'' operations in North America.
Hcareers has grown rapidly since it began in 1998 with just two employees. The company had five staff in 1999, 28 staff in 2000 and 41 staff in 2001. There are currently 60 employees, and it''s anticipated that this will grow to 80 plus staff by year-end.

With 2.2 million visits per month, Hcareers enables employers to cost-effectively reach hospitality-specific job seekers who are looking for opportunities online. Meanwhile, job seekers can search thousands of hospitality openings across the country, by state, metro area or position category. More than 7,000 current openings have been posted in the last 45 days alone.

We support over 2,700 active hospitality clients, which is five times more than our nearest competitor, yet we are servicing less than 1% of the hospitality market in North America, said David Curry, president & CEO of Hcareers. While we have achieved job board dominance in the hospitality industry, there is still huge potential for growth, which our internal recruitment drive will help us to achieve.

Hcareers'' revenues have grown 800% in the past two years. We will continue to reinvest our profits to expand the company and attract the best people in the industry, he added.

According to Forrester Research, 77% of all job seekers use the Internet as part of their job search, and further research shows that more than one out of five restaurants are using the Internet to recruit staff.

About Hcareers.com
Launched in 1998, Hcareers operates three sites, Hcareers.com (US), Hcareers.ca (Canada) and Hcareers.co.uk (United Kingdom, Ireland), which all focus solely on hospitality career openings. Job seekers who visit Hcareers can search a database of 7,000 hospitality-industry job openings. Hcareers localizes its listings to make it easy for site visitors to search for positions by region of the US, by state, or by metropolitan area. A dominant force in hospitality-industry recruiting, the site attracts 2.2 million job-seeker visits each month, and has had 32,000 resumes posted by job-seekers in the last 90 days. Hcareers also sends out a bi-monthly email newsletter to more than 200,000 people interested in news and advice on hospitality-industry careers. For more information, please go to.