WANTED Analytics™ Expands Coverage, Now Includes "Big Data" for Human Capital in the World's Largest 22 Countries

WANTED's Human Capital data analytics now include real-time hiring demand data for the leading economies in the world.

QUEBEC CITY, Oct. 8, 2014 /CNW Telbec/ - WANTED Technologies (TSX-V: WAN), the leading supplier of "big data" analytics for the human capital marketplace, announced the launch of its international hiring demand analytics. WANTED now offers coverage of the 22 largest countries in terms of economic activity, expanding beyond its current coverage in the US and Canada. WANTED provides insight into supply and demand for talent using a data warehouse of more than one billion records describing continuous hiring activity since 2005. The Company's clients, which include corporate HR departments, staffing agencies, and government analysts, use these insights to make more intelligent decisions in areas such as recruiting, workforce planning, economic development, and educational policy.

"We are now collecting and storing comprehensive data on hiring activity in leading world economies," said Bruce Murray, President and CEO of WANTED Technologies. "In addition, we have selected data on hiring activity for more than 150 countries around the globe."

WANTED's products include both real-time measurements of hiring activity, as well as historical trends for more than 11,000 individual occupational categories. The real-time hiring activity provides global corporate HR departments and staffing firms with detailed competitive intelligence on hiring and how to overcome recruiting challenges.

Countries that are now available include: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

WANTED's cloud-based, global data warehouse is made up of more than one billion records, each containing 100 individual data elements, including the date of a job opening, the occupation, the employer, the location, and the industry of the hiring company. The complete job description with skills, certifications, and other requirements for the position is also stored in the WANTED database. In total, the number of data elements in WANTED's database exceeds 100 billion.

"We aggregate hiring demand and talent supply, then make the results available to our clients through our online dashboard, WANTED Analytics™," said Murray. "Clients can access all this data to conduct their own analysis."

WANTED captures information from online job sites and corporate career sites. In addition to providing its own analytic products, the Company partners with other organizations who access WANTED's data and analytics on an automated basis through Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs.

For more information about WANTED Analytics and to get a free trial, visit www.wantedanalytics.com. 

About WANTED Analytics™

WANTED Analytics™ helps recruiting organizations make better decisions faster with real-time business intelligence on jobs, employers, and talent. Analytics brings together, for the first time, years of hiring demand and talent supply data to create a true talent intelligence platform for hard-to-fill positions.

Clients in the staffing, HR, RPO, media, and government sectors use WANTED Analytics™ to find sales leads, analyze employment trends, gather competitive intelligence, forecast economic conditions, and source hard-to-fill positions.

About WANTED Technologies Corporation

WANTED Technologies (TSX-V:WAN) provides real-time business intelligence for the talent marketplace. Founded in 1999, the company's headquarters are in Quebec City, Canada, and it maintains a US-based subsidiary with primary offices in New York City. WANTED began collecting detailed Hiring Demand data in June 2005, and currently maintains a database of more than one billion unique job listings. For more information or to sample WANTED's services, visit www.wantedanalytics.com.

WANTED is also the exclusive data provider for The Conference Board Help Wanted OnLine Data Series®, the monthly economic indicator of Hiring Demand in the United States.

The TSX Venture Exchange does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. Any statement that appears prospective shall not be interpreted as such.

SOURCE: WANTED Technologies Corp.

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