Dice Holdings, Inc. Acquires onTargetjobs®

NEW YORK, Nov. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Dice Holdings, Inc. DHX is expanding its online recruiting business by acquiring onTargetjobs® from Warburg Pincus, including recruiting sites HEALTHeCAREERS™ and Hcareers®.

"This acquisition fits with our expansion strategy and adds the leading vertical recruiting services in healthcare and hospitality to our portfolio," said Michael Durney, President & CEO of Dice Holdings, Inc.  "It's no secret we've wanted to be bigger in online healthcare recruiting.  HEALTHeCAREERS is the leading specialty player and will complement our Health Callings service with different strengths and very little overlap.  The additional scale and new verticals will further diversify our company and create additional market opportunity."

The acquired online recruiting sites include:

• HEALTHeCAREERS combined with our Health Callings service will create the definitive online healthcare recruiting leader, delivering more than one million monthly unique visitors and providing access to nearly one million unique, healthcare-specific resumes.   HEALTHeCAREERS leverages exclusive relationships with more than 60 healthcare association partners to deliver complete access to healthcare audiences. 
• Hcareers will give the Company significant presence in the hospitality market, an industry with high levels of turnover and a strong community orientation.  Hcareers is the leading online career site for hotel, restaurant, food service, travel and other hospitality industries. 
• BioSpace® is the leading online community for industry news and careers for life science professionals.

Dice Holdings, Inc. purchased the outstanding shares of onTargetjobs for $50 million in cash.  The sites generated trailing 12 months revenues of approximately $38 million.  Prior to the acquisition, onTargetjobs separated and spun off to its shareholders the previously owned local business known as RegionalHelpWanted.com and certain other assets.

Stifel, Nicolaus & Company acted as exclusive financial advisor to Dice Holdings, Inc. on this transaction.

About Dice Holdings, Inc.

Dice Holdings, Inc. DHX is a leading provider of specialized websites for professional communities, including technology and engineering, financial services, energy, healthcare, hospitality and security clearance. Our mission is to help our customers source and hire the most qualified professionals in select and highly skilled occupations, and to help those professionals find the best job opportunities in their respective fields and further their careers. For more than 20 years, we have built our company by providing our customers with quick and easy access to high-quality, unique professional communities and offering those communities access to highly relevant career opportunities and information. Today, we serve multiple markets primarily in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

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