XING launches Recruiter Membership

The leading European online business network is now faster and more efficient for recruiting with a range of new features Hamburg, October 26, 2009 – XING (

www.xing.com) today launched its Recruiter Membership, with a range of new features specifically designed to make the search for new employees much more efficient. The new Recruiter Membership enables users to benefit from powerful new search filters optimized especially for recruitment purposes, such as “Career level”, “Professional experience”, “Company size” and “Industry” – thus limiting search results to the desired number of best-matching profiles. From now on, HR professionals and recruiters will be able to access an overview of up to 1,000 potential candidates for a job vacancy in a matter of seconds. Recruiter Membership also provides enhanced contact management capabilities. Up to 50 search alerts can be saved at any one time, producing automatic search results whenever a suitable prospective applicant registers on XING or whenever an existing member updates their profile to match a recruiter’s specific search criteria. Qualified experts and managers can also now state in their XING profiles that they are “interested in career opportunities”, and have the option of sharing this information with recruiters. Potential candidates can be bookmarked too, allowing recruiters to add personal notes to individual members and contact them directly via this filtered bookmark overview. Additionally, recruiter membership enables users to send up to 50 XING messages per day to members who are not yet part of their personal network. “By launching our new Recruiter Membership, we're now offering a professional e-recruitment solution that HR professionals can use for recruiting and their daily work. In the near future, we will also be introducing attractive fixed-price product packages for our XING Jobs section. With this range of features, we're the perfect partner for professional e-recruiting,” said Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck, CEO of XING AG. Recruiter Membership is now available at an introductory price of 29.95 euros a month and includes – in addition to the advanced recruitment functionalities – all the Premium advantages the business network has to offer. Current Premium Members can upgrade their memberships with immediate effect on XING. To learn more please visit

http://recruitermembership.xing.com/en/. E-recruitment on XING enables access to a broader pool of potential candidates
Advertised job vacancies on XING benefit from exposure to interesting candidates who may not be actively seeking a new job but who are nevertheless open to the prospect of new career opportunities. This represents a clear advantage for recruiters over traditional job sites, in terms of the number of prospective new hires they are able to reach. A total of more than 8 million business professionals already network on XING worldwide. Approximately 9 percent of XING members are Managing Directors, while over 40 percent hold managerial positions of some kind. The business network also acts as an ideal address book for its members, as  digital business cards are kept continually updated by the contacts themselves.

About XING:
XING is the leading European online business network. Over 8 million members use XING in 16 languages to do business, find jobs, and pursue a career. XING helps members get connected and stay in touch with their contacts with customized networking solutions and services. Members are active on XING because of the real value generated, with XING Jobs, over 30 thousand specialized groups, and over 90 thousand live networking events a year, organized by members for members. Since the 2006 IPO, the XING AG share has established a solid position for itself on the stock market, the first and to date only Web 2.0 company to do so. XING AG is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, and has local offices based in its key strategic growth markets.
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