One-Stop SaaS Hiring and Recruiting Platform Outperforms Competing Solutions; Wins Sole Gold in Best Advance in Talent Acquisition Technology Category

San Francisco, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 12/23/2014 -- SmartRecruiters, the company that empowers the new way of hiring, announced it has been awarded gold for Best Advance in Talent Acquisition Technology in the annual Brandon Hall Group Excellence in Innovation Award program.

SmartRecruiters outperformed competing solutions and is the sole gold winner of "Best Advance in Talent Acquisition Technology." A panel of veteran, independent senior industry experts and Brandon Hall Group senior analysts and executives evaluated the entries based upon criteria including product, unique differentiators, value proposition and measurable results.

"Our mission at SmartRecruiters is to disrupt the entire recruiting industry with a platform that makes it easy and seamless for companies to hire great talent, and for people to find the jobs they love. It's an honor to close out 2014 with this recognition from Brandon Hall Group," said Jerome Ternynck, Founder and CEO of SmartRecruiters.

"The award-winning initiatives and the skill and strategy that went into them is inspiring. The innovation represented by winners such as SmartRecruiters can serve as models for success for many others that strive to push their organizations to the next level," said Rachel Cooke, Chief Operating Officer of Brandon Hall Group.

The SmartRecruiters cloud-based platform allows companies to quickly source, engage and hire great people. It streamlines recruiting and hiring processes, giving hiring managers and recruiters everything they need to post jobs, manage candidates and make the right hire. SmartRecruiters also positively transforms the candidate experience by improving the way hiring managers interact with candidates through features such as one-click job applications and its mobile hiring app.

About Brandon Hall Group, Inc.
With more than 10,000 clients globally and 20 years of delivering world class research and advisory services, Brandon Hall Group is the most well-known and established research organization in the performance improvement industry. We conduct research that drives performance, and provides strategic insights for executives and practitioners responsible for growth and business results. Brandon Hall Group has an extensive repository of thought leadership, research and expertise in Learning and Development, Talent Management, Leadership Development, Talent Acquisition and Human Resources. At the core of our offerings is a Membership Program that Empowers Excellence Through Content, Collaboration and Community. Our members have access to research that helps them make the right decisions about people, processes, and systems, combined with research-powered advisory services customized to their needs.

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About SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters empowers a new way of hiring with a one-stop shop cloud platform that makes it possible for smart businesses to find and hire great people. The centralized workspace spans the entire recruiting process, including deep integration of a marketplace where a company's best recruitment partners are never more than a few clicks away. SmartRecruiters delivers a collaborative experience for hiring teams where they can successfully discover, engage and close top talent. Unlike traditional outdated systems, SmartRecruiters' candidate-first approach ensures the right people stay connected with companies and choose to not opt out. More than 70,000 companies including 1-800-FLOWERS, Associated Materials, Goodwill, NAPA Auto Parts, NewsCred and The Onion rely on SmartRecruiters to hire enough of the right people fast enough to support their business goals. Founded in 2010, SmartRecruiters is backed by Mayfield and Rembrandt Ventures and is based in San Francisco, CA.

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Leading Cloud Hiring Platform Empowers International Customers to Recruit More Candidates with Localized One-Click Job Application

San Francisco, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 10/23/2014 -- The SmartRecruiters platform now supports over 21 languages, empowering hiring teams to manage global recruiting efforts by targeting candidates in their native language. International customers such as BlaBlaCar, General Mills Europe, Erento, and Brainly using SmartRecruiters are also able to post to any job board in the world through the SmartRecruiters Store -- where hiring teams can find all the recruiting services and tools they need within its easy-to-access marketplace.

"The SmartRecruiters platform has made it easy for us to hire top talent as we expand across Europe," said Fred Mazzella, CEO of BlaBlaCar. "With a complete set of recruiting tools found in The SmartRecruiters Marketplace, we'll be able to quickly scale our future international hiring initiatives across every geographical location we're targeting. Our worldwide recruiting and hiring efforts are completely packaged into one fast and easy platform."

SmartRecruiters' customers can now offer their candidates career page s, job advertisements and one-click apply job applications in these 21 languages: Afrikaans, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, and Swedish.

"More than ever, recruitment is a global game," said recruitment expert Bill Boorman. "SmartRecruiters is making a big move to empower enterprises all over the world, as well as increasing the fluidity of their talent pipeline across national borders."

In early October, the company expanded its resource and development operations by tripling its office space in Krakow, Poland.

"Today's top businesses are not constrained by geographic limitations. They can hire everywhere," said Jerome Ternynck, CEO of SmartRecruiters. "We want to enable every business to tackle hiring from a global perspective, offering software that speaks the language of prospective talent."

Jerome Ternynck will keynote at the HR Tech Europe conference in Amsterdam at 4:45pm on October 23 in Amsterdam and discuss how the recruiting market is shifting toward candidate-driven experiences.

The SmartRecruiters cloud-based platform allows companies to quickly source, engage and hire great people. It streamlines recruiting and hiring processes, giving hiring managers and recruiters everything they need to post jobs, manage candidates and make the right hire. SmartRecruiters also positively transforms the candidate experience by improving the way hiring managers interact with candidates through features such as one-click job applications and its new mobile hiring app.

About SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters empowers a new way of hiring with a one-stop shop cloud platform that makes it possible for smart businesses to find and hire great people. The centralized workspace spans the entire recruiting process, including deep integration of a marketplace where a company's best recruitment partners are never more than a few clicks away. Unlike traditional outdated systems, SmartRecruiters delivers a collaborative experience for hiring teams where they can successfully discover, engage and close top talent. More than 70,000 companies including 1-800-FLOWERS, Associated Materials, Goodwill, NAPA Auto Parts, NewsCred and The Onion rely on SmartRecruiters to hire enough of the right people fast enough to support their business goals. Founded in 2010, SmartRecruiters is backed by Mayfield and Rembrandt Ventures and is based in San Francisco, CA.

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SmartRecruiters becomes a more comprehensive applicant tracking system for LinkedIn sourcing and recruiting

San Francisco, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 10/21/2014 -- SmartRecruiters, the company that empowers the new way of hiring, today announced an expansion of its integration with LinkedIn, which operates the world's largest professional network on the Internet with more than 313 million members in over 200 countries and territories. SmartRecruiters, as a Certified Talent Solutions Partner, provides organizations with more seamless management of their LinkedIn-related sourcing and recruiting activities.

"Companies are demanding comprehensive solutions to improve recruiting performance," said Jerome Ternynck, CEO of SmartRecruiters. "Traditional ATS tools are siloed, ineffective and prevent recruiters from collaborating to engage the best candidates. Our integration with LinkedIn redefines ATS integration and brings our customers the solutions they need to find the right people to propel their business forward."

This expanded integration creates multiple benefits for recruiters, hiring teams, and candidates. It includes:

- LinkedIn Cross System Awareness: Joint SmartRecruiters and LinkedIn Recruiter customers can now both easily view LinkedIn member profile data and recruiter activity directly within the SmartRecruiters platform and also know when a candidate already exists within SmartRecruiters while sourcing within LinkedIn. This not only allows a recruiter to quickly find candidates in LinkedIn but also easily bring them into SmartRecruiters for evaluation by the entire hiring team.

- Quick Post for LinkedIn: Any SmartRecruiters customer can easily purchase and post an open position to LinkedIn. Pro customers can utilize their pre-purchased LinkedIn job slots directly from within the SmartRecruiters Store, reaching LinkedIn's 313 million members as potential candidates.

- LinkedIn Apply: Any LinkedIn member can quickly apply for an open position simply by connecting their LinkedIn profile to the position within the SmartRecruiters hiring platform. By using LinkedIn Apply combined with SmartRecruiters' innovative design, customers recognize an industry-leading 44 percent click-to-apply ratio.

"LinkedIn continues to integrate with leading recruitment platforms that complement LinkedIn Talent Solutions," said Scott Roberts, Head of Enterprise Business Development at LinkedIn. "We recognize SmartRecruiters as a leader and we welcome the opportunity to serve joint customers in their efforts to acquire top talent and to help candidates find great opportunities."

To learn more, visit http://www.smartrecruiters.com/linkedin and register for the live webinar "LinkedIn for SmartRecruiters" on October 28 at 10am PT.

About SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters empowers a new way of hiring with a one-stop shop cloud platform that makes it possible for smart businesses to find and hire great people. The centralized workspace spans the entire recruiting process, including deep integration of a marketplace where a company's best recruitment partners are never more than a few clicks away. Unlike traditional outdated systems, SmartRecruiters delivers a collaborative experience for hiring teams where they can successfully discover, engage and close top talent. More than 70,000 companies including 1-800-FLOWERS, Associated Materials, Goodwill, NAPA Auto Parts, NewsCred and The Onion rely on SmartRecruiters to hire enough of the right people fast enough to support their business goals. Founded in 2010, SmartRecruiters is backed by Mayfield and Rembrandt Ventures and is based in San Francisco, CA. To learn more, visit http://www.smartrecruiters.com.

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Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts Recognizes SmartRecruiters’ Mobile App and Blog for Creative Excellence

San Francisco, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 10/01/2014 -- SmartRecruiters, the company that empowers the new way of hiring, has been awarded three W3 Awards, including both a gold and a silver for its mobile hiring application and a silver for its corporate blog.

The W3 Awards honors excellence on the Web, and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award-winning sites, videos and marketing programs. The awards are sponsored and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from acclaimed media, interactive, advertising and marketing firms. In its ninth year, the W3 Awards received over 4,000 entries.

"We are honored to be recognized by the W3 Awards for our ongoing commitment to infuse collaboration, creativity and innovation in the way we build our recruiting software solutions," said Jerome Ternynck, CEO and founder of SmartRecruiters. "Our goal is to make the hiring process seamless and our mobile hiring app was designed with convenience and simplicity in mind. In addition, as we gain industry leadership, more of our audience looks to us for hiring and recruiting thought leadership. Our blog is a place for that engagement and we will continue to make it a useful resource destination."

"We were once again amazed with the high level of execution and creativity represented within this year's group of entrants. Our winners continue to find innovation and forward-thinking ways to push the boundaries of creativity in web design," said Linda Day, the director of the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts. "On behalf of the entire Academy, a huge congratulations to this year's winners for their dedication and commitment to excellence on the Web – job well done!"

The SmartRecruiters mobile app gives recruiters and hiring teams the ability to take the recruiting process on the go, to better engage top talent in real-time and make faster, better hires. The company recently launched the next generation of its cloud hiring platform, the only collaborative one-stop shop with everything hiring teams need to source and engage the right talent while delighting candidates throughout the entire process. The platform delivers built-in social referrals, a people and mobile-centric user interface, candidate pipeline and sourcing analytics and a robust open API – all imagined for a world where employees love to use their company's hiring solution and candidates enjoy applying for jobs. The SmartRecruiters mobile app received a gold in the mobile applications category for business and a silver in the mobile application category for productivity.

The SmartRecruiters blog is a collaborative media platform that provides insights into hiring and recruiting best practices from experts at SmartRecruiters, their client organizations, industry leaders, and top news outlets such as Forbes, The Huffington Post and Associated Press. To date, the SmartRecruiters Blog has published 750+ original blog posts by 225+ authors, garnering 2.5+ million page views. The blog received a silver in the company website – business blog category.

About SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters empowers a new way of hiring with a one-stop shop cloud platform that makes it possible for smart businesses to find and hire great people. The centralized workspace spans the entire recruiting process, including deep integration of a marketplace where a company's best recruitment partners are never more than a few clicks away. SmartRecruiters delivers a collaborative experience for hiring teams where they can successfully discover, engage and close top talent. Unlike traditional outdated systems, SmartRecruiters' candidate-first approach ensures the right people stay connected with companies and choose to not opt out. More than 70,000 companies including 1-800-FLOWERS, Associated Materials, Goodwill, NAPA Auto Parts, NewsCred and The Onion rely on SmartRecruiters to hire enough of the right people fast enough to support their business goals. Founded in 2010, SmartRecruiters is backed by Mayfield and Rembrandt Ventures and is based in San Francisco, CA. To learn more, visit www.smartrecruiters.com.

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Hiring Managers Gain Access to New Sets of Candidates Spanning Cultural and Professional Backgrounds

San Francisco, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 09/02/2014 -- SmartRecruiters, the company that empowers the new way of hiring, today announced a new partnership with Equality Magazines that gives hiring managers access to four new job boards through the SmartRecruiters platform, including Hispanic-Today, Women in Business & Industry, The Black Perspective and Veterans Enterprise. The addition of these job boards gives all SmartRecruiters customers the ability to reach a wider spectrum of demographics that contribute to stronger and more innovative workforces, while maintaining DOL and OFCCP compliance and meeting Good Faith Efforts for minority community outreach.

"The goal of our job boards is to advance diversity throughout America's workforce, connecting candidates from all backgrounds and experiences with companies seeking to hire from within a specific minority talent pool or a job seeker's own community," said Mark Cohen, VP of Business Development for Equality Magazines. "Partnering with SmartRecruiters is a great step forward in that direction, enabling us to reach the 70,000 and counting businesses nationwide that use SmartRecruiters to find and hire great people."

Since its founding in 1997, Equality Magazines has bridged the gap between a diverse, broad range of job seekers and companies looking to grow their workforces through targeted minority recruitment. A subsidiary of JMR Publishing Enterprises, Equality Magazines also provides news and career resources focused directly towards a targeted community demographic, with its own unique talent pool.

"Sourcing from a wide and diverse set of candidates is crucial to hiring the best people possible," said Bill Fanning, Vice President, Business Development for SmartRecruiters. "Our partnership with Equality Magazines gives SmartRecruiters' customers access to new pools of candidates with multitudes of professional and cultural backgrounds, which is vital to creating more qualified, productive and creative workforces."

The SmartRecruiters cloud-based hiring platform allows companies to quickly source, engage and hire great people. It streamlines recruiting and hiring processes, giving hiring managers and recruiters everything they need to post jobs, manage candidates and make the right hire. SmartRecruiters also positively transforms the candidate experience by improving the way hiring managers interact with candidates through features such as one-click job applications and its new mobile app.

About Equality Magazines
EqualityMagazines.com and its family of diversity recruitment vehicles have been at the forefront of minority recruitment, compliance and targeted community outreach. Since 1997 they have been advocates of promoting diversity and inclusion in America's workforce, bringing the vast and talented pools of African American, Hispanic, veteran, woman in tech and business and other specifically targeted talent pools to the companies that want to employ them.

About SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters empowers a new way of hiring with a one-stop shop cloud platform that makes it possible for smart businesses to find and hire great people. The centralized workspace spans the entire recruiting process, including deep integration of a marketplace where a company's best recruitment partners are never more than a few clicks away. SmartRecruiters delivers a collaborative experience for hiring teams where they can successfully discover, engage and close top talent. Unlike traditional outdated systems, SmartRecruiters' candidate-first approach ensures the right people stay connected with companies and choose to not opt out. More than 70,000 companies including 800-FLOWERS, Associated Materials, Goodwill, NAPA Auto Parts, NewsCred and The Onion rely on SmartRecruiters to hire enough of the right people fast enough to support their business goals. Founded in 2010, SmartRecruiters is backed by Mayfield and Rembrandt Ventures and is based in San Francisco, CA.

To learn more, visit www.smartrecruiters.com

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Gourmet ready-to-eat food distributor on track to save $100,000 while meeting national recruiting and hiring goals

San Francisco, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 08/21/2014 -- SmartRecruiters, the company that empowers the new way of hiring, today announced that its next generation cloud hiring platform is being used by Handmade Real Foods (HRF) to scale its recruiting and hiring efforts across the U.S. The SmartRecruiters platform has allowed the ready-to-eat food distributor to source candidates more efficiently and drive smarter, faster hiring decisions—leading to an expected $100,000 savings on the company's recruiting initiative this year.

"SmartRecruiters provides exactly what we need to grow our team," said Manny Parada, Human Capital Manager for Handmade Real Foods. "Since we started using the SmartRecruiters software, we have entirely transformed how we find and engage with candidates. The Pro features enable our hiring teams to manage the full spectrum of recruiting—easily connecting with candidates, monitoring applicant flow and tracking spending. We have no need for any other solutions now that we are using SmartRecruiters to hire the best talent."

Handmade Real Foods creates fresh entrees, side dishes, appetizers, soups and holiday meals for many of the premier specialty, grocery and club stores and restaurants nationwide. As a result of the company's recent addition to the Arlon Group's investment portfolio, Handmade Real Foods expanded into two new facilities and increased its distribution across the U.S., prompting the need for additional people to manage its growth.

Prior to SmartRecruiters, Handmade Real Foods turned to headhunters and external recruiters to seek out and engage new candidates. Handmade Real Foods now uses SmartRecruiters to streamline its hiring process while significantly reducing recruiting expenses. SmartRecruiters' at-a-glance candidate pipeline dashboard and new sourcing analytics, available in the Pro version, provide Handmade Real Foods with full visibility of hiring costs and top sources of candidates.

Handmade Real Foods also personalizes engagement with applicants by using other SmartRecruiters Pro features, including a dedicated hiring success manager and a custom, easy-to-navigate candidate interface.

"Our integrated platform ensures greater success throughout the recruiting and hiring process for companies that are expanding rapidly like Handmade Real Foods," said Jerome Ternynck, CEO of SmartRecruiters. "Hiring managers gain deep insights into who the candidates are, where they're coming from and the cost and time to recruit them—crucial details for quickly building a high-quality team that is finely tuned to the needs of the business. This is the future of hiring great people."

The SmartRecruiters cloud-based platform allows companies to quickly source, engage and hire great people. It streamlines recruiting and hiring processes, giving hiring managers and recruiters everything they need to post jobs, manage candidates and make the right hire. SmartRecruiters also positively transforms the candidate experience by improving the way hiring managers interact with candidates through features such as one-click job applications and its new mobile app.

About SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters empowers a new way of hiring with a one-stop shop cloud platform that makes it possible for smart businesses to find and hire great people. The centralized workspace spans the entire recruiting process, including deep integration of a marketplace where a company's best recruitment partners are never more than a few clicks away. SmartRecruiters delivers a collaborative experience for hiring teams where they can successfully discover, engage and close top talent. Unlike traditional outdated systems, SmartRecruiters' candidate-first approach ensures the right people stay connected with companies and choose to not opt out. More than 70,000 companies including 1-800-FLOWERS, Associated Materials, Goodwill, NAPA Auto Parts, NewsCred and The Onion rely on SmartRecruiters to hire enough of the right people fast enough to support their business goals. Founded in 2010, SmartRecruiters is backed by Mayfield and Rembrandt Ventures and is based in San Francisco, CA. To learn more, visit www.smartrecruiters.com/.

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Ride-Sharing Startup Aims to Increase Workforce on the Heels of $100 Million Fundraising with Cloud Hiring Platform

San Francisco, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 07/10/2014 -- SmartRecruiters, the only end-to-end hiring platform that managers and candidates love, today announced that it will drive recruiting and hiring for BlaBlaCar, the world's largest long-distance ride-sharing network. Paris-based BlaBlaCar recently raised a $100M Series C funding round led by Index Ventures and will use SmartRecruiters' cloud hiring platform to increase its global workforce. The key reason BlaBlaCar chose SmartRecruiters is the platform's ability to let hiring managers source candidates across many countries who speak multiple languages.

"We need a team of hyper-motivated, talented employees to fuel our rapid growth phase," said Fred Mazzella, CEO of BlaBlaCar. "SmartRecruiters provides the ideal solution to help us build that team and is aligned with us on the concept of being people-powered – just as BlaBlaCar offers a people-powered transportation network, SmartRecruiters provides a people-powered platform that lets us tap into our employees' connections to quickly find, engage and hire great candidates across the globe. SmartRecruiters gives us what we need to support our international culture, vision and goals."

BlaBlaCar connects drivers who have empty seats with passengers looking for a ride to offset distance travel costs. The company has eight million members and operates in 12 European countries.

BlaBlaCar will use the SmartRecruiters platform to centralize its entire hiring process, from attracting to engaging to closing candidates. SmartRecruiters' built-in social integration will let BlaBlaCar's hiring managers draw upon one another's social networks to source applicants in the countries the company is targeting for expansion – including additional European nations as well as Brazil, Turkey and India.

The platform will also power BlaBlaCar's careers section on its corporate Facebook page, letting the company turn its one million fans into a talent pool at click's reach. Whether through the SmartRecruiters web-based or mobile app, hiring managers will be able to engage with applicants in languages such as English, French, Spanish, Polish, German, Swedish and Mandarin. In addition, SmartRecruiters' analytics lets BlaBlaCar continuously track its candidate pipeline and measure the success of its hiring strategy.

"BlaBlaCar is redefining an important segment of the transportation industry and needs a modern approach to talent acquisition that will propel its business forward," said Jerome Ternynck, CEO of SmartRecruiters. "The SmartRecruiters platform enables BlaBlaCar to hire the all-stars it needs to support the company's critical growth phase and ongoing success."

The SmartRecruiters platform allows companies to quickly source, engage and hire great people. It streamlines recruiting and hiring processes, giving hiring managers and recruiters everything they need to post job ads, manage candidates and make the right hire. SmartRecruiters also positively transforms the candidate experience by improving the way hiring managers interact with candidates through features such as one-click job applications and a mobile-ready design.

About BlaBlaCar
BlaBlaCar is a long-distance ride-sharing community that connects people looking to travel long distances with drivers making the same journey, so they can travel together and share the costs. Each passenger makes a contribution for their seat, and drivers cover their motoring costs but do not make a profit. Every month, more than 1 million BlaBlaCar members share journeys of around 200 miles. The web and mobile platform are engineered to create a secure, trust-based community with full member profiles and even a preference for members to specify how chatty they are, from "Bla" and "BlaBla" to "BlaBlaBla", hence the name BlaBlaCar. For more information visit http://blablacar.com.

About SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is the hiring platform to source, engage and hire top talent. The SmartRecruiters platform gives hiring managers and recruiters everything they need to post a job, manage candidates and make the right hire. The SmartRecruiters hiring platform offers recruiting management software deeply integrated with the best recruiting service providers to make hiring social, collaborative, enjoyable and easy. Founded in 2010, SmartRecruiters is backed by Mayfield and Rembrandt Ventures and is based in San Francisco, CA. Its 70,000+ organizations have already created 450,000+ jobs. To learn more, visit: www.smartrecruiters.com

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Brings Decade of Experience Leading Winning Marketing Campaigns in the SaaS Sector to Accelerate the Hiring Revolution

San Francisco, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 07/08/2014 -- SmartRecruiters, the only end-to-end hiring platform that managers and candidates love, today announced that Lena Waters joined the company as Vice President, Corporate Marketing. She will lead the company's marketing, communications and demand generation programs as well as develop SmartRecruiters' global brand strategy.

Waters brings more than a decade of experience in high-performance marketing for fast growing SaaS companies. Most recently, she served as Vice President, Demand and Customer Marketing at Responsys, which Oracle acquired earlier this year. Prior to Responsys, she spent three years as Director of Marketing at EmailLabs. Honored as Best Marketer by the American Business Awards in 2006, Waters has spent her career building cross-functional teams and marketing programs that attract key audiences and contribute measurably to business growth.

"Lena's ability to tell compelling stories and create memorable experiences through marketing is second to none," said Jerome Ternynck, CEO of SmartRecruiters. "Lena will focus on building a solid community of recruiters that share a similar vision – to embrace the next generation of hiring. Her experience in modern demand generation and brand building will enable us to directly reach our targets and increase adoption of SmartRecruiters."

Since its founding in 2010, SmartRecruiters has enabled 70,000+ businesses across a multitude of sectors—including retail, tech and healthcare—to reduce their time to hire by 75 percent and cost to hire by 70 percent, while increasing applicant volume by 250 percent.

"SmartRecruiters is driving the recruiting and hiring industry into a new space, revolutionizing how companies attract, engage and close candidates," Waters said. "Our goal is to help companies do away with today's outdated technology and broken processes and embrace the next era of recruiting – I'm thrilled to be part of a team that is committed to a new future for hiring."

About SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is the hiring platform to source, engage and hire top talent. The SmartRecruiters platform gives hiring managers and recruiters everything they need to post a job, manage candidates and make the right hire. The SmartRecruiters hiring platform offers recruiting management software deeply integrated with the best recruiting service providers to make hiring social, collaborative, enjoyable and easy. Founded in 2010, SmartRecruiters is backed by Mayfield and Rembrandt Ventures and is based in San Francisco, CA. Its 70,000+ organizations have already created 450,000+ jobs. To learn more, visit: www.smartrecruiters.com

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Brings 18 Years of Sales Leadership in the Human Capital Management Sector to Drive Growth

San Francisco, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 06/30/2014 -- SmartRecruiters, the only end-to-end hiring platform that managers and candidates love, today announced that Bill Fanning joined the company as Vice President, Business Development. Fanning's extensive sales experience across human capital management (HCM), talent management and recruitment advertising will help SmartRecruiters maximize engagement with its customers and partners to drive new business growth.

Fanning comes to SmartRecruiters after 18 years of building and leading sales teams at fast-growing HCM organizations. Most recently he was Vice President, Employer Sales at JobTarget and Director, North American Field Sales at TheLadders.com. Fanning's previous positions include senior business development and sales roles at PeopleSoft, Oracle, TMP Worldwide and ADP.

"The skills and expertise that Bill has across sales and recruitment will help drive SmartRecruiters' expansion," said Jerome Ternynck, CEO of SmartRecruiters. "He has built high-performing sales teams, developed winning sales models and created tight-knit sales cultures—an ideal mix of experience to scale our company growth."

Since its founding in 2010, SmartRecruiters has enabled 70,000+ businesses across a multitude of sectors—including retail, tech and health care—to reduce their time to hire by 75 percent and cost to hire by 70 percent, while increasing applicant volume by 250 percent.

"SmartRecruiters provides organizations with a platform that finally makes recruiting collaborative, enjoyable and easy," said Fanning. "I look forward to bringing companies a solution that lets them quickly succeed in their hiring efforts, while delivering an effective channel to new partners that helps them expand their reach across more smart companies."

About SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is the hiring platform to source, engage and hire top talent. The SmartRecruiters platform gives hiring managers and recruiters everything they need to post a job, manage candidates and make the right hire. The SmartRecruiters hiring platform offers recruiting management software deeply integrated with the best recruiting service providers to make hiring social, collaborative, enjoyable and easy. Founded in 2010, SmartRecruiters is backed by Mayfield and Rembrandt Ventures and is based in San Francisco, CA. Its 70,000+ organizations have already created 450,000+ jobs. To learn more, visit: www.smartrecruiters.com

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Makes It Possible for Eatery Chain to Reach Aggressive Staffing Goals for 15 Locations and 4 Food Trucks in Competitive Employment Climate

San Francisco, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 06/19/2014 -- SmartRecruiters, the only end-to-end hiring platform that managers and candidates love, today announced that it powers recruiting and hiring for The Melt. The "fast casual" restaurant chain needed to support expansion of its chef-inspired grilled cheese eateries throughout California. The Melt uses SmartRecruiters to source candidates, personalize engagement with job applicants and drive smarter, faster hiring decisions to meet its staffing needs in a highly competitive employment market.

"We're finding more of the right candidates faster, which is essential given how quickly we're growing," said Amy Brewster, Head of Recruiting at The Melt. "Our hiring teams are constantly analyzing our talent pipeline to keep track of every candidate and collaborating on the go through the SmartRecruiters mobile hiring app. The platform gives us the confidence that we will be able to build the highest quality team at every Melt location."

The SmartRecruiters platform enables The Melt to provide a positive and engaging candidate experience, enabling the chain to hire 35 people in less than six weeks. Following its 2009 grand opening, the grilled cheese eatery quickly developed a following and spread across California, from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Today, The Melt serves its "grilled cheese happiness" in 16 restaurants and four food trucks throughout the state, with continued expansion in the works.

"Fast-growing businesses like The Melt need a modern approach to meet their staffing needs. Outdated methods and tools simply cannot keep up in a connected world," said Jerome Ternynck, CEO of SmartRecruiters. "The SmartRecruiters integrated platform improves the hiring process from start to finish and provides the most effective way to connect with candidates—a must in today's competitive recruitment environment."

The SmartRecruiters platform allows companies to quickly source, engage and hire great people. It streamlines recruiting and hiring processes, giving hiring managers and recruiters everything they need to post jobs, manage candidates and make the right hire. SmartRecruiters also positively transforms the candidate experience by improving the way hiring managers interact with candidates through features such as one-click job applications and a mobile-ready design.

About The Melt
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, THE MELT is simply "Grilled Cheese Happiness™". Currently operating 16 locations throughout California, this fast casual eatery combines chef-inspired, all-natural, wholesome food with innovative online ordering technology in aeco-n friendly environment. The growth of THE MELT is fueled by a solid management team led by Flip Video founder Jonathan Kaplan and a top-tier board of directors including Ron Johnson, former head of retail operations at Apple; Mike Moritz, Bruce Dunlevie and Michael Marks, three prominent silicon valley venture capitalists; and Michael Mina, a James Beard award winning chef and restaurateur. For more information visit http://www.themelt.com.

About SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is the hiring platform to source, engage and hire top talent. The SmartRecruiters platform gives hiring managers and recruiters everything they need to post a job, manage candidates and make the right hire. The SmartRecruiters hiring platform offers recruiting management software deeply integrated with the best recruiting service providers to make hiring social, collaborative, enjoyable and easy. Founded in 2010, SmartRecruiters is backed by Mayfield and Rembrandt Ventures and is based in San Francisco, CA. Its 70,000+ organizations have already created 450,000+ jobs. To learn more, visit: www.smartrecruiters.com

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Important hire will strengthen the eCommerce approach of the SmartRecruiters Marketplace

San Francisco, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 06/16/2014 -- SmartRecruiters, the only end-to-end hiring platform that managers and candidates love, today announced that former Head of Product and Program Management at eBay Digital Jahan Shafizadeh joined the company as Director of Product. He will lead ongoing development of SmartRecruiters' product offerings that enable businesses to find and hire great candidates.

Over the last decade, Jahan has held a number of roles at eBay, including Head of Product and Program Management for eBay Digital, Head of North American Business for eBay's Trust Factors division and Global Product Lead for the company's Global Catalog and Classification Infrastructure team. Prior to eBay, Shafizadeh held several senior roles at Accenture, focusing on program management and product development.

"Jahan will be instrumental in guiding our product strategy to continually raise the bar in how we meet hiring managers' needs. We look forward to the impact Jahan will have on the advancement of the SmartRecruiters platform, helping us achieve our mission to revolutionize hiring," said Jerome Ternynck, CEO of SmartRecruiters.

Since its founding in 2010, SmartRecruiters has enabled 70,000+ businesses across a multitude of sectors—including retail, tech and healthcare—to reduce their time to hire by 75 percent and cost to hire by 70 percent, while increasing applicant volume by 250 percent.

"Companies of all sizes face tremendous challenges when it comes to recruiting and hiring for the many different roles they must fill across their organizations. It's a real problem that needs a real solution," said Jahan. "Only SmartRecruiters gives businesses the 100 percent complete set of recruitment tools and touch points they need to find, engage and hire great people. I'm thrilled to join a team that is transforming an industry and delivering the best possible experience to everyone involved in the recruiting and hiring process."

About SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is the hiring platform to source, engage and hire top talent. The SmartRecruiters platform gives hiring managers and recruiters everything they need to post a job, manage candidates and make the right hire. The SmartRecruiters hiring platform offers recruiting management software deeply integrated with the best recruiting service providers to make hiring social, collaborative, enjoyable and easy. Founded in 2010, SmartRecruiters is backed by Mayfield and Rembrandt Ventures and is based in San Francisco, CA. Its 70,000+ organizations have already created 450,000+ jobs. To learn more, visit: www.smartrecruiters.com

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Visit us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/SmartRecruiters

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Energy efficient, Eco-friendly Home Improvement Leader Meets Recruiting and Hiring Goals to Drive Aggressive Business Growth

San Francisco, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 06/12/2014 -- SmartRecruiters, the only end-to-end hiring platform that managers and candidates love, today announced that it powers recruiting and hiring efforts for Energy One. With SmartRecruiters, Energy One significantly expanded its workforce in 2013, which contributed to the company's record-setting 62 percent year-over-year business growth. Continuing its momentum in 2014, the company is increasing its salesforce to drive business expansion.

Energy One works with SmartRecruiters to recruit and hire employees for its headquarters in Austin and across its satellite offices throughout Texas, Utah and Ohio. The company is regularly looking for candidates to join its field marketing team to canvas cities and conduct door-to-door sales of its energy-efficient windows and doors. To meet its business goals, the company needed a more streamlined recruiting and hiring approach to generate better sales candidates, closely manage the recruiting process and hire people that fit both job specifications and the company's friendly, motivated culture.

"Finding ways to easily connect with top candidates is a must in today's competitive workforce environment," said Jerome Ternynck, CEO of SmartRecruiters. "For businesses to accelerate the hiring process and propel their business forward, attracting and hiring the right talent is imperative. We're providing innovative companies like Energy One with an integrated platform for recruiting to make the hiring process more engaging and successful."

The SmartRecruiters platform allows companies to quickly source, engage and hire great people. It streamlines recruiting and hiring processes, giving hiring managers and recruiters everything they need to post jobs, manage candidates and make the right hire. SmartRecruiters also positively transforms the candidate experience by improving the way hiring managers interact with candidates with features like one-click job applications and a mobile-ready design.

"The SmartRecruiters platform has totally streamlined our hiring process, enabling us to find specialized candidates more efficiently in key markets," said Lisa McIntosh, Vice President of HR at EnergyOne. "The consistency with which SmartRecruiters helps us identify and hire amazing candidates lets us position EnergyOne for rapid expansion in 2014."

About Energy One
Energy One is one of the fastest growing home improvement companies in the nation. The company markets and installs high performance energy-efficient windows and patio doors. Energy One prides itself on high principles and its commitment to serving homeowners' needs with the philosophy, "Energy Efficiency Through Quality and Education." To learn more, visit: http://www.energyonewindows.com

About SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is the hiring platform to source, engage and hire top talent. The SmartRecruiters platform gives hiring managers and recruiters everything they need to post a job, manage candidates and make the right hire. The SmartRecruiters hiring platform offers recruiting management software deeply integrated with the best recruiting service providers to make hiring social, collaborative, enjoyable and easy. Founded in 2010, SmartRecruiters is backed by Mayfield and Rembrandt Ventures and is based in San Francisco, CA. Its 70,000+ organizations have already created 450,000+ jobs. To learn more, visit: http://www.smartrecruiters.com

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Brings deep expertise in delivering talent sourcing solutions to the large enterprise

San Francisco, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 06/12/2014 -- SmartRecruiters, the only end-to-end hiring platform that managers and candidates love, today announced that former Oracle Product Strategy Director Jim Milton joined the company as Senior Director of Enterprise Strategy. Milton's decade of experience building go-to-market sourcing solutions for global businesses will enable him to drive enterprise business growth at SmartRecruiters.

Milton spent four years leading enterprise product strategy at SelectMinds, which Oracle acquired in 2013. After the acquisition, Milton owned product strategy for Oracle's Taleo Social Sourcing Cloud Service line. Prior to SelectMinds and Oracle, Milton held positions at LinkedIn, TheLadders.com and Apex Systems in product, sales and marketing functions.

"Jim's deep experience in the enterprise market and social recruiting will be instrumental in enabling us to meet demand from global organizations that want to reinvent the way they attract, engage and hire people to generate greater business success," said Jerome Ternynck, CEO of SmartRecruiters. "We are confident that Jim will help us increase the footprint of the SmartRecruiters platform across the enterprise."

Since its founding in 2010, SmartRecruiters has enabled 70,000+ businesses across a multitude of sectors—including retail, tech and healthcare—to reduce their time to hire by 75 percent and cost to hire by 70 percent, while increasing applicant volume by 250 percent.

"SmartRecruiters is the only company in the space trying to drive innovation of the core recruiting platform, rather than create incremental solutions to parts of the problem," said Jim. "The SmartRecruiters team aims to reinvent recruiting, and I'm thrilled to be part of this mission."

About SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is the hiring platform to source, engage and hire top talent. The SmartRecruiters platform gives hiring managers and recruiters everything they need to post a job, manage candidates and make the right hire. The SmartRecruiters hiring platform offers recruiting management software deeply integrated with the best recruiting service providers to make hiring social, collaborative, enjoyable and easy. Founded in 2010, SmartRecruiters is backed by Mayfield and Rembrandt Ventures and is based in San Francisco, CA. Its 70,000+ organizations have already created 450,000+ jobs. To learn more, visit: www.smartrecruiters.com

Read the blog: www.smartrecruiters.com/blog/
Follow us on Twitter: @smartrecruiters
Visit us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/SmartRecruiters

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New App Brings Easy-to-Use Mobile Solution to Android Users, Helping Meet All Recruiting and Hiring Needs

San Francisco, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 03/18/2014 -- SmartRecruiters, the only end-to-end hiring platform that managers and candidates love, today announced the release of its first ever hiring app for Android. In order to attract the best talent, companies need to engage with candidates in real time. The introduction of the SmartRecruiters Hiring App for Android gives those executives making hiring decisions the ability to take the recruiting process on the go, to better engage top talent in real time and make faster, better hires.

In today's fast paced business environment, managers and executives need to have all their resources at their fingertips anytime, anywhere. Companies who have not adopted an efficient mobile strategy are behind in the digital race and are losing out to competitors who have embraced mobility, therefore gaining access to more candidates.

While 33 percent of Fortune 500 companies have adapted their career sites for mobile devices, hiring managers still require a platform that will allow them to review resumes, collaborate with their team, and engage with candidates in order to be successful. With this need in mind, SmartRecruiters offers mobile recruiting solutions and has developed the Hiring App to give customers the ability to hire top talent in a more efficient way.

"I love the SmartRecruiters hiring platform," says Ted Taylor, Staffing and Recruiting Manager at OneSource Staffing Solution. "We do everything from our mobile devices these days, and being able to recruit top talent from anywhere is a must. Every executive needs to be able to mobile hire".

Android Hiring App

The Hiring App offers a personalized feed called the HireLoop, which keeps managers and recruiters informed and connected with both hiring teams and candidates on the go and in real time. The Hiring App allows hiring managers and recruiters to:

-Gain insights into their hiring activity in real time
-Access and share full candidate profiles and resumes as they come in
-Rate and review candidates on the go
-Collaborate with hiring team members during the entire review process
-Review feedback and ratings on each candidate as they happen
-Engage directly with candidates via multiple channels such as SMS, phone or social channels and schedule interviews
-Reject candidates that don't fit

"We are thrilled to extend our mobile recruiting capabilities to the Android community. We all know the importance of being mobile in today's working world and this app helps our customers quickly grab the attention of top talent" said Maksim Ovsyannikov, SVP Product at SmartRecruiters. "Following the successful release of our iPhone Hiring App, we are delighted to respond to our growing customer community who asked for this Android Hiring App "

SmartRecruiters Hiring App is available to download for free at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smartrecruiters.backoffice. First time SmartRecruiters users can create an account at http://www.smartrecruiters.com.

Learn more about the SmartRecruiters Hiring App for Android and iPhone.

About SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is the only end to end hiring platform that managers and candidates love. The SmartRecruiters platform gives hiring managers and recruiters everything they need to post jobs, manage candidates and make the right hire.

Our freemium cloud recruiting platform removes the complexity from the hiring process and gives business the best opportunity to find and hire top talent.

Founded in 2010, SmartRecruiters is backed by Mayfield and Rembrandt Ventures and is based in San Francisco, CA. Its 60,000+ organizations have already created 350,000+ jobs.

Hiring Made Easy.

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Former salesforce.com Executive Vice President Brings Experience, Passion, and a Drive for Disruption to Leading Cloud Hiring Platform

San Francisco, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 02/26/2014 -- SmartRecruiters, the leading cloud hiring platform to source, engage and hire top talent, today announced former Executive Vice President of salesforce.com, Brett Queener will join its team as President and COO. Queener will be applying his vast experience in Cloud solutions to help SmartRecruiters improve today's labor market and make hiring as simple and effective as possible.

Queener joined salesforce.com in 2003 when it had less than 150 employees and $25M in revenue. He played a variety of executive leadership roles in sales, R&D, and operations – contributing significantly to the company's historic and meteoric growth. As SVP of Operations, he defined and drove the company's successful sales and competitive strategy against the large existing incumbents. As EVP of products, he outlined and implemented salesforce.com's product strategy to evolve from a single product to several multi-billion-business lines. Over the last three years, Brett Queener served as GM of both the Data.com and Marketing Cloud business units.

"After an amazing decade plus at salesforce.com, I am excited to help lead a new mission that is as disruptive and impactful as my last," said Brett Queener. "SmartRecruiters solves a huge problem for all companies in an incredibly innovative & effective way. I consistently hear from CEO's and executives that hiring is their number one priority. Yet, despite the $400 billion spent a year on recruiting services & technology, they are still unable to find and hire the best candidates for the job. Until now."

The SmartRecruiters hiring platform offers recruiting management software deeply integrated with the best recruiting service providers to post jobs, make hiring social, collaborative, enjoyable and easy. Recruiting top talent takes an average of 100 days and at least $3500 to make a hire with a 30 percent chance of turnover in less than 12 months. Close to 56 percent of offers made last year were declined by candidates. SmartRecruiters dramatically eliminates this problem.

"We are thrilled to have Brett join the SmartRecruiters team," said SmartRecruiters CEO, Jerome Ternynck. "Brett's past success coupled with our team's intense drive to change the way hiring is done today is a guaranteed success."

"Our faith in SmartRecruiters' mission and potential to disrupt the recruiting and hiring industry goes far beyond our monetary investment," said, Rajeev Batra of Mayfield Fund. "Today's addition of Brett Queener to the SmartRecruiters team is a coup for the company and we look forward to participating in its future success."

The 60,000+ companies that use SmartRecruiters are able to reduce their time to hire by 75 percent and their cost of hire by 70 percent while increasing their applicant volume by 250 percent. SmartRecruiters users now have the power to selectively hire the best candidates in the industry.

About SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is the hiring platform to source, engage and hire top talent. The SmartRecruiters platform gives hiring managers and recruiters everything they need to post a job, manage candidates and make the right hire.

The SmartRecruiters hiring platform offers recruiting management software deeply integrated with the best recruiting service providers to make hiring social, collaborative, enjoyable and easy.

Founded in 2010, SmartRecruiters is backed by Mayfield and Rembrandt Ventures and is based in San Francisco, CA. Its 60,000+ organizations have already created 350,000+ jobs.

Hiring Made Easy. http://www.smartrecruiters.com/

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