iProfile adopted as preferred online CV in Australia

UK-headquartered recruitment solutions company inks 1 million deal with leading Australian recruiters

The iProfile (www.iprofile.org) is set to become the standard way for half a million Australians to apply for jobs, after several of the country's largest IT recruitment companies signed deals worth a total of 1million to adopt the online CV as their preferred CV template. Further partnerships will be announced in the coming months.

The deal means that candidates applying for jobs with a number of leading Australian recruiters, including Abraxas, Ambition, Finite, and Paxus, will be encouraged to replace their traditional CV with a free iProfile - a single, safe place on the web where candidates can record all of their achievements and dynamically connect with recruiters. The iProfile is already used by 2.5million people in the UK.

It also means the recruiters, who collectively place tens of thousands of people every year, will use the complementary iPlace search and match software to enable their recruitment consultants to become significantly more efficient - freeing them up to spend more time with applicants and employers. Ultimately they are able to make more placements, more quickly.

Rick Bacon, Chief Executive, iProfile, said: This is a hugely significant deal and shows how a UK innovation is fast becoming a global standard. The opportunity for the recruitment industry and jobseekers to adopt the iProfile to save time, become more efficient and make more money is massive. We see this as a huge endorsement of the iProfile in Asia Pacific and a major step along the road that will bring the traditional CV into the 21st Century and establish iProfile as a global standard.

Norman Lacy, Executive Director of Australian and New Zealand IT contract and recruitment industry body, ITCRA, which helped broker the deal, said: Our role is to help develop products that generate efficiencies for our members' companies and iProfile fits with this perfectly. Recruiters stand to benefit from a market leading service that has been proven in the UK and this is why we are facilitating its introduction into the Asia Pacific region.

To support the growth, iProfile has appointed a Managing Director of Asia Pacific, Glen Perry, and will establish an office in Sydney. Support for jobseekers and recruiters will be provided from Sydney with backup from the company's London's headquarters.

The announcement tops a period of rapid growth for iProfile: it attracted 4million in funding in 2007 and in the past two years has doubled its revenues, expanded into new offices in London and now employs 85.