TMP Worldwide Hosts

I-Fair Connecticut

STAMFORD — TMP Worldwide Inc., a provider of global recruitment solutions, including the Internet career portal Monster®.com, has announced a partnership with the State of Connecticut that will host an Internet-based job fair offering employment opportunities with companies and organizations based in the state.

“I-Fair Connecticut” launched this week ifair.ct.monster.com and will run for 60 days as a link from www.monster.com. To date this year, Monster.com has posted over 38,000 jobs in Connecticut.

“Attracting and retaining skilled workers in Connecticut is our number one priority,” said Connecticut General Assembly Senate Majority leader George Gepsen. “Our partnership with Monster.com for I-Fair Connecticut allows tens of thousands of workers across the nation to instantaneously reach out to Connecticut businesses so they can fill job vacancies. The job fair helps to highlight the variety of opportunity available in our state.”

In addition to the direct link from ifair.ct.monster.com, visitors to Monster.com who wish to explore career opportunities in Connecticut will be prompted to go to the I-Fair Connecticut site if they use the key word “Connecticut,” or conduct job searches in targeted categories including accounting/auditing, advertising/marketing/PR, banking, biotech/pharmaceutical, consulting services, financial services, healthcare, insurance, and retail sales.

Visitors to Monster.com will also be guided to I-Fair Connecticut via several initiatives, including banner advertisements on its home page, I-Fair hyperlinks throughout the site, banner ads that appear when job searches are made in neighboring states, and e-mail and links from partner sites such as Southwestern Area Commerce and Industry Association (SACIA), The Connecticut Technology Council, and the Fairfield County Information Exchange and Sacred Heart University, among others.

The site will offer state-specific job opportunities, content and hotlinks to I-Fair Connecticut sponsors, including Aetna US Healthcare, CK Associates LLC, The Gartner Group, Pitney Bowes, Inc., Oxford Health Plans, and zUniversity.com. These companies will use the site for the duration of the I-Fair for targeted recruiting. Use of the I-Fair link and site is free of charge for job seekers. Although the site launched on September 11, I-Fair Connecticut will continue to all company sponsors and new job listings for the duration of the site.

“We’re excited about this opportunity to provide a comprehensive range of online recruitment services to Connecticut’s companies,” said Jim Treacy, COO and executive vice president of TMP Worldwide. “TMP and Monster.com are the future of recruiting. This initiative with Connecticut-based companies is an opportunity to apply our intern-to-CEO philosophy and address the full range of their human capital needs.”