Creativ.es Job Site Will Award a Beta Tester and Social Inluencer Admission to SXSW® Interactive in March - An Inspiring and Educational Opportunity

Online, January 8, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Creativ.es (pronounced Creatives), a job site that exclusively serves the needs of companies recruiting design, development and advertising talent, launched a contest that will send a beta tester and a social influencer to the South by Southwest (SXSW®) Interactive conference in Austin, Texas March 9-13, 2012.

Through this contest, Creativ.es encourages beta testers to test the functionality of the web and mobile job sites and encourages social influencers to help promote awareness of Creativ.es through social media channels.

"We are looking to engage industry professionals in a challenge to utilize their skills and test Creativ.es on various browsers, platforms and devices." said Kirk Erickson, Founder of Creativ.es. "We also invite the creative industry to share Creativ.es to a larger audience and in return we hope to inspire and educate a few people for their efforts."

The most tech savvy beta tester will receive free admission to SXSW Interactive. The other SXSW admission will be awarded to one of the socially influencing participants - at a minimum, all they have to do is share the 'Beta Testers & Social Influencers' job on Creativ.es to Twitter or Facebook and follow Creativ.es on one of the social networks.

Ideal participants include web developers and engineers, designers, socially creative communicators, creative recruiters and hiring reps actively pursuing technical and creative talent to participate. The contest period is from Jan. 6 to Feb. 6, 2012. Winners will be announced on Feb. 7, 2012. For more details about the Creativ.es contest, visit http://blog.creativ.es.

"Whether people currently love what they do, or if they are looking for new a career we feel SXSW® Interactive offers a great opportunity to grow personally and professionally" said Erickson "We have also included a few of our new friends at Method, Gilt, MAYA, Factory, Gyro and other clients for their respect in giving us an opportunity to help in their recruiting efforts."

About Us
Creativ.es is a self-funded, Denver-based start-up that launched into public beta in Sept., 2011. Creativ.es offers an end-to-end premium service that includes account creation, job posting and custom background design, all while monitoring the company's career page to keep their job listings current on Creativ.es. This service has been provided complimentary during the beta. It is also completely free for companies to post national/international creative jobs on the site for 30 days. Creativ.es is making the job site more engaging and graphic by extending a companies brand with their logo and a full background image to the job posting. Creativ.es was built from the ground up as a mobile solution, allowing users to view, manage and even post jobs on any smart phone or tablet.

As creative people ourselves, we launched our site as a way for companies recruiting great creative talent to differentiate their job postings in an economical way.

About SXSW® Interactive
SXSW® Interactive has become the place to experience a preview of what is unfolding in the world of technology. For more information about SXSW® Interactive, visit http://sxsw.com/interactive/about. SXSW® is not a sponsor of the Creativ.es promotion and is in no way affiliated with Creativ.es. SXSW® and all trademarks are property of SXSW®.