About Arbita
About Arbita
For nearly two decades, Arbita has been a source of innovation for the recruitment marketing industry. We were first to understand the implications of the web for recruiting, first to consider the needs of our customers during a period of great innovation and transformation, and first to create a new business model that addressed the pace of innovation and the needs of our customers.
Starting in 1993, Don Ramer, Founder and CEO of Arbita (operating under the name RecruitUSA) initiated the sale of online recruitment advertising for the America Online Career Center. In 1994, we became the first company to enable cross posting to the Internet’s Online Career Center (OCC) and the first to introduce a contract pricing model for Internet recruitment advertising that offered quarterly, semi-annual and annual billing options for unlimited service and support. Later in the same year, we began offering cross posting of job advertising to Internet newsgroups (one of the earliest examples of social networks).
By aligning with Calissifieds2000 (now part of Excite) in 1996, we became the first company to deploy a career network. In the same year, RecruitUSA secured cross posting agreements with CareerMosaic (now part of Careerbuilder), MonsterBoard (now Monster.com), CareerWeb (now Employment Guide) and CareerMagazine (now VerticalNet) and Yahoo Employment Classifieds. These cross posting agreements played a major role in our creation of the world’s first universal jobs advertising distribution system. By the end of the 20th century, RecruitUSA already boasted an advertising distribution network with more than 3,000 destinations and served as the job distribution system for many of the world’s leading talent management systems.
RecruitUSA’s early assumption of the vanguard in the recruitment marketing industry led to a significant private investment in 2000 led by the Washing Post Company, the Chicago Tribune, Accel Partners and Gannett. This transaction empowered RecruitUSA to forge new strategic relationships with leading talent management systems, secure the first “agency of record” relationship in the industry and develop innovative tools and techniques to help recruiters connect with candidates on the Internet, all around the world.
In the spring of 2006, RecruitUSA embraced a new vision and changed our name to Arbita. Our brand reflects the growing importance of globalization trends and our growing global capability. Today, Arbita works with more large companies in more countries through more recruitment marketing channels than any other recruitment marketing firm in the world. Since the beginning, Arbita has been connecting companies like General Dynamics, eBay, Pfizer and Cox communication with the best candidates on the Internet, all over the world. Our recruitment marketing technology, media and services have been developed with the belief that every client deserves a partner with their best interests at heart.
Our position as the most enduring brand in this market segment has not lessened our passion for innovation. In 2008, Arbita merged with JobMachine to create the industry’s first comprehensive recruitment marketing solution that includes consulting and education for recruiters and sourcers. Backed by a team of sourcing and interactive marketing innovators, Shally Stekerl’s JobMachine has formed the strategic backbone of Arbita Consulting and Education Services (ACES), an independent services group dedicated to developing recruiters and sourcers to achieve their full potential. Arbita has many exciting plans for 2009 and beyond, including new acquisitions, strategic partnerships, product and service innovations and research initiatives such as the Recruitment Genome Project. We humbly invite you to return to our web site frequently for updates.
