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BioSpace.com Strengthens Local Market Candidate Reach Through RegionalHelpWanted.com Acquisition

    SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- BioSpace, the world's leading
niche online bioscience career and news community, announced today the
expansion of its reach to local regional candidates through the acquisition
of RegionalHelpWanted.com by its parent company, onTargetjobs. With the
inclusion of RegionalHelpWanted.com's network of over 350 geographically
focused Internet job boards, BioSpace now offers biotechnology,
pharmaceutical, medical device and academic organizations an improved value
proposition to reach local bioscience candidates.

    Over the past 13 years, BioSpace has grown to enjoy the Web's most
passionate and loyal community of bioscience industry and academic
professionals. Leveraging RegionalHelpWanted's next wave of advertising
opportunities through geo-specific Web portals reinforced with local radio
advertising, bioscience businesses can now target a growing network of
candidates on both an industry and regional level. Local markets served by
RegionalHelpWanted.com, including the Bay Area and Research Triangle Park,
complement BioSpace's existing industry Hotbeds. The network also provides
solutions to many emerging bioscience regions including cities in Arizona,
South Florida, Central New York and Washington State.

    "BioSpace is pleased to offer to bioscience industry employers expanded
targeting for their job postings," said Wes Crews, CEO of BioSpace. "Life
science professionals search for career opportunities on both industry-wide
and local levels, and BioSpace's alliance with RegionalHelpWanted.com will
help connect across each of these expansive recruiting networks qualified
job seekers and employers."

    "We are pleased to announce the acquisition of RegionalHelpWanted.com,
as it helps to deliver with increased precision qualified candidates to
businesses of all sizes," said Allen Paschal, CEO of onTargetjobs, the
parent company of BioSpace. "As the effectiveness and popularity of niche
Internet communities and employment sites grow to rival the larger
horizontal job boards, the addition of RegionalHelpWanted.com's
geo-targeted audience diversifies and strengthens the value proposition to
our existing industry- focused client base."

    About BioSpace

    BioSpace, http://www.biospace.com, is globally recognized as the most trusted
provider of career solutions and Web-based resources and information to the
biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device and academic markets. For
over 20 years BioSpace has helped to accelerate communication and discovery
among business and scientific leaders in the biopharmaceutical market. With
a well- established site infrastructure and loyal online audience,
BioSpace.com offers an unparalleled distribution channel for recruitment,
investment, product, event and other life science industry messages.
BioSpace is a subsidiary of onTargetjobs, http://www.ontargetjobs.com.

    About onTargetjobs

    onTargetjobs (http://www.ontargetjobs.com) is the parent company of
BioSpace.com (http://www.biospace.com), Hcareers.com (http://www.hcareers.com),
HEALTHeCAREERS.com (http://www.healthecareers.com), MedHunters.com
(http://www.medhunters.com), JobLoft.com (http://www.jobloft.com) and CareerBank.com
(http://www.careerbank.com), providing online career services to the
biotechnology, pharmaceutical, hospitality, restaurant, healthcare,
accounting and finance markets.

    onTargetjobs invests in leading niche internet job sites, serving a
defined geographic or vertical industry or job function.

    About RegionalHelpWanted.com

    RegionalHelpWanted.com (http://www.regionalhelpwanted.com) owns and operates
over 350 local job boards across the U.S. and Canada in strategic alliances
with local broadcasters.



SOURCE BioSpace




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