It hasn't been formally announced yet, but earlier today one of our partners, Beyond.com, acquired another of our partners, HRHQ / JOBANIMAL.COM INC., owner of hundreds of niche job boards. My congratulations to both parties.

CollegeRecruiter.com has worked with Beyond.com for the past 4.5 years and we referred HRHQ to Beyond shortly afterwards. Since its founding in 2000, HRHQ has seen tremendous growth in revenues yet managed to stay small, nimble, and client focused. It is a true pleasure working with them.

Beyond provides job search and resume bank functionality to JobAnimal, CollegeRecruiter.com, and 15,000 other career sites. Although you could describe JobAnimal as the holding company for hundreds of niche job boards powered by Beyond, what really defines JobAnimal is their “Short-List PRO” technology, as well as customizable, scalable services, and the application of sound recruiting to provide their clients with the best, qualified candidates.

Unlike the practice of simply advertising in local newspapers or on job boards that may simply overwhelm the clients of JobAnimal with resumes or applications from all kinds of unqualified candidates, JobAnimal effectively does the upfront work of qualifying a short list of candidates and providing them to its clients in the manner that best suits their current hiring strategy. In addition, JobAnimal's fees are based on a volume of candidate leads model and that tends to significantly reduce the costs of the employer's recruitment process.