CareerJunction Flies High with Exceptional Growth and New Ventures

CareerJunction, An Avusa Media Company and the leading Online Recruitment solution in South Africa, is on a growth path and aims to sustain this upward trend in all its initiatives. ìWe are incredibly proud of our continued growth over the past few months and the quality products that we consistently deliver to the market ìsays Kris Jarzebowki, CareerJunction CEO.

CareerJunction extended its footprint into the Middle East region in January 2008 with the launch of CareerJunction Middle East (CareerJunctionME). In the short space of six months since launching, CareerJunctionME has already achieved more than 20,000 registered CareerSeekers and over 45,000 unique visitors monthly. CareerJunctionME is the fastest growing Online Recruitment portal in the region and has recently become the preferred Online Recruitment solutions provider for one of the biggest corporate companies in the Middle East, the Al Futtaim Group.

Another booming division within CareerJunction is WholeBangShoot. WholeBangShoot is an innovative casting solution and is the only online service of its kind in South Africa that covers the entire casting process - from loading briefs and searching for Talent all the way through to options, call-backs and generating contracts. WholeBangShoot gives Talent Agencies the ability to manage and showcase their Talent online, while companies with casting requirements have the opportunity to search the Talent database and work directly with Agents on any casting projects.

WholeBangShoot has recently launched an online scouting application on Facebook giving aspirant models, actors and characters the opportunity to load their profiles onto Facebook and be searched by top Agents subscribed to the WholeBangShoot service. A unique feature of the Facebook application is that users are also able to vote for registered ìWannabeesî according to who they think has what it takes to be a model, actor or character.

iTalent, is yet another success for CareerJunction. iTalent is a division of CareerJunction which provides world class recruitment software solutions to the corporate market. iTalent delivers customisable and cost effective online solutions and has some of South Africaís leading brands as its major clients. iTalent offers clients a full Online Recruitment solution from setting up competency based job profiles and publishing job adverts to the management of a Resume database and a host of advanced response handling tools including online screening and online interviewing of shortlisted candidates.

The CareerJunction brand is doing exceptionally well, with over 650,000 complete Resumes and over 1 million registered CareerSeekers. CareerJunction receives over 340,000 unique users per month; generates well over 15 million page impressions monthly; distributes over 960,000 direct emails every month; emails more than 319,000 CareerSeeker Job Alerts each month; advertises around 45,000 job advertisements monthly on behalf of over 1,000 recruiters and processes over 850,000 job applications per month. The CareerJunction website is consistently ranked as one of the most visited websites in the country and as the leading career website, with more job opportunities and CareerSeekers, than any other Online Recruitment provider.

The 2008 Avusa Work in Life survey indicates that the top two most useful career websites are CareerJunction and the Sunday Times & Times Careers, powered by CareerJunction. These top two career sites are visited by 87% of the sample whilst their closest competitor, Careers24, is visited by 27% of respondents.

ìWe are definitely growing as a brand, being the biggest career website in South Africa with the largest choice of jobs and we are constantly improving our services with more exciting projects to look forward to in the near futureî concludes Jarzebowski.