WEDDLE’s recognizes EHSCareers.com among the elite of the online employment services industry.

 

Stamford, CT.  July 1, 2009 - EHSCareers.com is pleased to announce that WEDDLE’s LLC, the world’s largest publisher of print guides to the 100,000+ job boards now operating on the Internet, has selected EHSCareers.com as a Top 100 site.  Called the “Zagat” of the online employment industry by the American Staffing Association, WEDDLE’s released its selections in conjunction with the publication of its 2009/10 Guide to Employment Sites on the Internet.

 

“Our Top 100 employment sites are the elite of the job board industry,” says WEDDLE’s publisher Peter Weddle.  “They have the strongest brands, the best services and the most distinguished track records of the sites we’ve seen on the Web.  Are there other good sites out there?  Of course.  But the Top 100 selectees are truly in a class of their own.”

 

EHSCareers.com has been the leading online platform for the environmental, occupational health & safety profession every year since 2003. “It truly is a great honor to be selected by Weddle’s as one the Top 100 Job Boards. It is even more impressive when you realize there are currently over 100,000 employment-related sites on the Internet,” says Randy Williams, Executive Director of EHSCareers.com. “All of us at EHSCareers.com work very hard to offer a quality service that truly is of value to both employers & job seekers. It is nice, of course, to receive such a distinguished recognition for our efforts.”

 

The site selection methodology included a comprehensive review of information submitted by the sites describing their features, services and fees as well as information provided by job seekers, employers and recruiters who have used the site.  In addition, each site was visited to assess its user experience and level of maintenance.

 

Why should job seekers care about this news?  Because job boards work!

• In a recent survey of 17,000+ working men and women, using a job board was identified as the single best way to find a job in today’s tough environment.  Over one-third of the respondents said they found their last job on a job board—more than four times greater than the next highest response—and almost two-thirds said they expected to find their next job that way.
  
• In the same survey, eight-out-of-ten employers said that new hires sourced online were among their best employees.  For that reason, over a third of the respondents were filling half of their openings through job boards and over a quarter were actually filling three-quarters of their vacancies that way.

The challenge for working men and women and employers alike is figuring out which sites to use.  The Top 100 list is one way to do that.  The Guide describes each site in the Top 100 with a detailed profile of its services, features and fees for both job seekers and employers.  It also includes a directory of over 10,000 other job boards organized by career field, industry and geographic focus.

 

About EHSCareers.com

By exclusively targeting the EH&S niche, EHSCareers.com offers companies easier access to a global talent pool of EH&S professionals. Our exclusive partnerships with both the National Association of EHS Management (NAEM) and the National Safety Council (NSC) means our job openings are seen by  members of two of the largest & most prestigious environmental & safety professional associations in the world. We currently have over 11,300 active environmental & safety job seekers – by far the most of any job board. In addition – because of our unique specialization and the fact that our site is free for individuals - thousands of other passive EH&S professionals visit our site daily to review job listings.

 

As an original source of job openings, our positions are listed by employers and search professionals themselves – they are not scoured from the Internet or traded with “partner” sites. Because of our consistent candidate quality and specialization, employers often place their most sought-after positions on our site.

 

About WEDDLE’s

WEDDLE’s LLC is a widely regarded thought leader in the field of employment.  It consults with employers, staffing firms and job boards on best practices in talent acquisition and publishes guides and other books to help working men and women realize their full potential in the 21st Century workplace.  Its research has been cited in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today and in Money, Fortune, and Inc. magazines.  As HRWire put it, “When in doubt, consider WEDDLE’s … an industry standard.”

 

Media Contact:
Peter Weddle
203.964.1888
peter@weddles.com