WANTED Announces New Open Platform Supplying Current Job Openings to Career and Education Sites
WANTED's database of more than 5.0 million active job openings in the US and Canada is now accessible via a simple, streamlined automated interface
QUEBEC CITY, July 14, 2014 /CNW Telbec/ - WANTED Technologies (TSXV: WAN), the leading supplier of "big data" analytics for the human capital marketplace, announced that its real-time database of more than five million currently available job openings in the US and Canada is available for integration into consumer-facing career and education sites.
WANTED collects real-time job opening information from more than 25,000 online sources of jobs and now makes this data available to clients and partners through an automated, Application Programming Interface (API). This rich set of real-time data is now easily available to consumer-oriented websites offering jobs, career guidance and educational services.
"With our software, we have the ability to organize massive amounts of real-time job information," said WANTED President and CEO, Bruce Murray. "And with the API access to our database, our partners can now incorporate our real-time job opening information into their own job-seeker-facing applications."
WANTED provides business intelligence dashboards and real-time employment information to Corporate HR departments, staffing firms, online career/education sites and to government agencies. The Company's industry-leading WANTED AnalyticsTM dashboard allows clients to make better, more efficient human capital decisions.
In addition to making its data and analytics available through its online dashboard, WANTED's API opens up its database to enable third-party developers to access the same real-time data. The online interface to the WANTED database enables partner to query the database, receive the results of that query and then incorporate those results into their own applications.
"In particular, this method of accessing our data opens up the possibility for consumers to access our data via applications developed by our clients and partners," said Murray. "This same capability will be available as our database expands globally, as well."
WANTED has been aggregating and storing information on job openings since 2005. The Company now maintains a cumulative database of more than one billion records describing the dynamics of the employment marketplace. This includes talent supply and demand data, as well as metrics on difficulty-of-hire, compensation and employment trends for detailed sets of skills and certifications.
Additionally, WANTED announced that it had issued a total of 880,000 stock options to directors and officers, each at an exercise price of $1.05 and expiring in 10 years.
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 (TSXV: 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.
Contact: Mr. Bruce Murray, President and CEO
Tel: (212) 242-6140
Mr. Martin Auclair, VP Finance and CFO
Tel: (418) 523-6663, ext. 337
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