Move.com and CareerZone.com Launch 'Move.com Career Center'
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Strategic Alliance Unites Two Key Transition Resources to Help Consumers Manage Their Moving and Employment Changes
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 2000-- Recognizing that moving and changing jobs are considered among life's most stressful events, Move.com Group and Spherion Corporation announced today the launch of the move.com Career Center. Move.com Group is the operator of Cendant Corporation's (NYSE:CD - news) move.com relocation, real estate and home-related services portal, and Spherion Corporation operates CareerZone.com, a comprehensive online career management site.
Integrating the expertise of two Internet sites focused on pivotal life events, the move.com Career Center aims to help consumers manage their career changes before, during and after their move. This reciprocal agreement calls for CareerZone.com to provide visitors on its site with moving and relocation content provided by move.com. In turn, the move.com Career Center includes co-branded pages providing customers access to quality, up-to-date job opportunities and career expertise on such topics as average salaries for various positions, new job opportunities, and advice from professional career coaches.
``Given that consumers often move in connection with a job change, the move.com Career Center powered by CareerZone.com is an important addition to our portal,'' said Sarah Nolan, president and CEO of Move.com Group. ``This strategic alliance offers consumers the ability to find top quality guidance and assistance in their search for a new area, home and career all through the move.com portal.''
Launched by Spherion, formerly Interim Services Inc., CareerZone.com covers a broad spectrum of topics to help consumers build and manage their careers successfully. Recognized for its vast knowledge in such areas as consulting, managed staffing, outsourcing, search/recruitment, and flexible staffing, Spherion will continually provide high value career guidance and tools which will help move.com customers achieve their career goals.
``We are delighted to share our five decades of experience in career management with move.com's customers as they research an upcoming move,'' said Ray Marcy, chairman, president and CEO of Spherion. ``This alliance will enable Spherion to connect more than 1,000 recruiting, consulting and staffing offices with new candidates as they relocate.''
About move.com
Move.com is Cendant Corporation's relocation, real estate and home-related services portal. It integrates and enhances the offline and online efforts of Cendant's residential real estate brands (CENTURY 21®, COLDWELL BANKER® and ERA®); its Web sites including Rent Net, Senior Housing Net, HouseNet, MetroRent, CorporateHousing.Net, and SelfStorage.Net; and its real estate business units (Cendant Mobility, Cendant Mortgage, National Home Connections, and Welcome Wagon). Move.com draws upon the capabilities and existing infrastructure of Cendant's lines of business and other selected partners to assist customers with virtually everything they need before, during and after their move. Built upon the success of Rent Net's online apartment guide business model, move.com has distribution agreements with Internet market leaders, including Alta Vista, Yahoo, AOL, Excite, and Ask Jeeves. Move.com is headquartered in San Francisco, Calif.
About CareerZone.com
CareerZone.com is powered by Spherion Corporation (NYSE:SFN - news), a $3.8 billion human capital management company with 1,000 offices in 12 countries. As workforce architects, Spherion helps companies efficiently deploy human capital to improve their bottom line. Unlike any other company, Spherion provides a continuous partnership to clients through its unique three-tiered model of consulting, diagnosing and implementing solutions in the areas of recruiting, staffing, technology and outsourcing. Visit the company's web site at www.spherion.com. |
