Fort Worth, TX, May 4, 2006 – BioSpace, the leading online source for biotechnology and pharmaceutical careers and information, announced today an alliance with Bizjournals.com, the online media division of American City Business Journals, the nation’s largest publisher of metropolitan business newspapers. Through the alliance, Bizjournals.com’s network of 42 local business journals will carry online all job postings and employment opportunities from BioSpace.com’s online career center. The partnership comes as part of an agreement between Bizjournals and BioSpace’s parent company, onTargetjobs.
Benefits to BioSpace clients
With added exposure to Bizjournals’ audience of four million unique monthly visitors, BioSpace offers its human resources and recruitment clients an expanded reach for their job postings at no additional charge. The agreement also provides BioSpace’s clients access to job candidates and industry professionals from within the life science industry on local and national levels. BioSpace clients gain the opportunity to augment their job postings by placing targeted promotions on Bizjournals’ Biotech/Pharma job pages and throughout their local market Web sites.
Employers looking to place career opportunities on Bizjournals.com are directed to post their jobs through BioSpace’s career center.
“BioSpace is very pleased to be working with an organization of Bizjournals’ reputation and caliber in terms of content and audience distribution,” said Wes Crews, CEO of BioSpace. “Through our new partnership we are able to offer our clients an even larger audience for their jobs, further cementing BioSpace’s standing as the leading life science job board and distribution channel for employment opportunities.
About BioSpace
BioSpace is globally recognized as the leading provider of web-based careers, resources and information to the life science industry. For over 20 years BioSpace has helped to accelerate communication and discovery among business and scientific leaders in the biopharmaceutical market. With a well-established site infrastructure and loyal online audience of over 1.5 million unique monthly visitors, BioSpace.com offers an unparalleled distribution channel for recruitment, investment, product, event and other life science industry messages. BioSpace is an onTargetjobs company. More at www.biospace.com.
About onTargetjobs
onTargetjobs is the parent company of Applied Recruitment Technologies (HEALTHeCAREERS.com), Hcareers.com, CareerBank.com, BioSpace.com and MedHunters.com, providing online career services to the accounting, biotech, finance, insurance, healthcare, pharmaceutical, hospitality and restaurant markets.
onTargetjobs invests in leading niche internet job sites, serving a defined vertical industry or job function. Our operating philosophy is to invest in strong management teams who continue to operate the acquired company, with onTargetjobs assisting through capital, consultative and other resources to enable accelerated company growth.
About Bizjournals
Bizjournals is the online media division of American City Business Journals, the nation’s largest publisher of metropolitan business newspapers. It operates the Web sites for each of the company’s 42 print business journals and operates a web-only site with local business news and information for Los Angeles.
The national Bizjournals site features local business news from around the nation, updated throughout the day, top business stories from American City’s print editions, industry-specific news from more than 40 industries, advice columns, and a full menu of tools to help business owners and operators manage their businesses more successfully. There’s also easy navigation to each of the 42 local business sites.
Characterized among the “Best of the Web” by Forbes magazine, Bizjournals’ archives contain 1.25 million business news articles published since 1996. Bizjournals’ sites have more than four million unique monthly visitors.
CONTACT:
BioSpace
Brian Vacanti
Vice President, Marketing
817-717-1404
