comparethemarket.com Goes For Growth With Major IT Recruitment Drive

LONDON, February 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

comparethemarket.com, one of the UK's leading price comparison websites, has announced that it is expanding its IT capabilities, and seeking fresh talent to maintain the momentum of the company's recent growth.

The company is recruiting a number of roles across different disciplines, including QA Analysts, Senior Project Managers, Solutions Architects, Development Leads and Web Applications Developers.

The recruitment drive follows a significant period of growth for comparethemarket.com, due in part to the phenomenal success of its meerkat-themed marketing campaign, which has seen comparethemarket.com expand its product offering over the last six years to providecomparisons on credit cards, loans, mortgages, savings accounts and utilities as well as insurance. 

As part of comparethemarket.com's plans to continue its remarkable growth, the companyrecently made some ambitious changes to its internal IT structure, capabilities and working culture.Placing a huge emphasis on team work through the adoption of new agile development techniques, which has seen integrated working between product, IT and commercial development teams, the company has strived to build a fun and challenging environment where everyone is encouraged to think creatively. With thisrenewed focus on collaboration, fresh thinking and continuous improvement, comparethemarket.com has taken the simple concept of comparison and turned it into a successful, streamlined service.

Commenting on the recruitment drive, comparethemarket.com's IT Director James Lomassaid: "comparethemarket.com has grown at a rapid rate and we're keen to increase the pace still further. We are creating an environment in which every member of the team can contribute tothe delivery ofa website which offers the best possible experience to our customers. We are now looking for great people, technically excellent individuals who want to develop their careers and contribute to our new ways of working."

For more information, please visit http://www.comparethemarket.com/careers/

About comparethemarket.com

• comparethemarket.com was launched in 2006 and has grown rapidly over the past six years to become one of the UK's leading price comparison websites.  
• comparethemarket.com provides customers with an easy way to make the right choice for them on a wide range of products including motor, home, life, travel and pet insurance as well as utilities and money products such as, credit cards and loans.
• comparethemarket.com actively selects its brand partners, working with the best and most trusted organisations to ensure quality service to consumers.

comparethemarket.com is a trading name of BISL Limited.  BISL Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority.

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