About Our Company

About Bertelsmann AG
Bertelsmann ist an international media company encompassing television (RTL Group), book publishing (Random House), magazine publishing (Gruner + Jahr), media services (Arvato), and media clubs (Direct Group) in more than 50 countries. Bertelsmann's claim is to inspire people around the world with first-class media and communications offerings - entertainment, information and services - and occupy leading positions in its respective markets. The foundation of Bertelsmann's success is a corporate culture based on partnership, entrepreneurial spirit, creativity, and corporate responsibility. The company strives to bring creative new ideas to market and create value.

About beRecruiter & Our Core Team

About beRecruiter Services, Inc. & Our State-of-the-art Applicant Management System
beRecruiter Services is a boutique New York City based HR Services provider that specializes in effective and easy-to-use web-based Applicant Management software. beRecruiter’s key strengths lie in automation, simplicity, user friendly operation, and the ability to centralize online recruiting but handle the complex needs of today’s autonomous and decentralized global organizations.

In addition to a robust Applicant Management System, beRecruiter can power multiple online company job boards & careers web sites simultaneously and in real time for the internal and external candidate base. Throughout the process there is a high emphasis at branding, company identification, and real time data transfer into the Applicant Management System.

beRecruiter Services also builds high-end state of the art job & career web sites and implements successful HR marketing strategies to complement and balance the recruitment, image building and retention of employees. The website www.createyourowncareer.com, managed by us, has recently been announced the no. 1 recruiting website in Europe and the US. beRecruiter continues to emphasize customer satisfaction while implementing solutions that generate significant process improvements, time savings, compliance, and overall cost savings for clients.

Our differentiator is our value and our "One Stop Shop" approach. We maintain relationships with top providers, boutique design and marketing agencies, top job boards, and other HR providers. Our dedication, efficiency, and project management approach enable us to bring together the "Techies, Management, HR and the Marketers” to achieve any company’s best interests! Another key industry differentiator is that all our systems come bundled with beRecruiter’s state-of-the art Personal Career Planner which enables relationship building with candidates, alumni, and prospects through a Job Agent with SMS capability, Calendar, Newsletter, and each user has the ability to view, save and re-use an online application at a later date.

Our key client industries are primarily in media, magazine & book printing, magazine & book publishing, television, logistics and outsourcing, as well as online retail and direct-to-consumer companies. Clients can be found across the United States and Canada.

Miodrag Sasa Perin
Director - beRecruiter Services, North America
Miodrag Perin's philosophy is based on teamwork, knowledge, best-practice, and efficiency. Miodrag's direct style and project management approach help focus on the customer, product, and project goals at all times. Miodrag has over 10 years of work history at Bertelsmann, Inc. In 2001, his group began building and branding corporate and divisional recruiting web sites. To deal with the challenges of a decentralized organization, the group decided to pursue a co-branded approach by including images, logos, and content from all of its companies & divisions. This synergistic approach has resulted in the popularity of the site and continues to attract top talent worldwide. Miodrag has also been instrumental in introducing several levels of process automation; including the build of Bertelsmann's state-of-the art Applicant Management System known as the BeCruiter. His group recently re-launched Bertelsmann's International Jobs & Careers web site known as Create Your Own Career (www.createyourowncareer.com). His current responsibilities are to manage the current North American product and service portfolio, grow the external customer base, continue to invest in R&D, blueprint future offerings, and grow strategic partnerships with other quality players in the recruiting and technology marketplace. The BRS team continues to look for innovative ways to reduce costs, improve processes, and save the client valuable time.
Miodrag has a an MBA from Binghamton University and a BBA in International Marketing and Business Law from Pace University's Lubin School of Business.



Christian M. Vasquez
Manager, Global Technology Solutions (Technical Specialist) - beRecruiter Services, North America
Christian has been with the department for the last 8 years and was very instrumental in helping to create beRecruiter into a world-class web-based Applicant Management tool. His responsibilities range from serving as technical consultant for online HR website projects across Bertelsmann to managing relations between programming teams overseas. Christian came to Bertelsmann as a graduate of Cornell University's School of Mechanical Engineering. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree and has internship experience at an e-commerce start-up in the late 1990's. He has also received a Project Management Institute certification.



Freddie Helrich
Senior Manager People Services & HR Solutions - beRecruiter Services, North America
Freddie is a true international Human Resources veteran, having been with the Bertelsmann organization for more than 10 years in a variety of different roles and initiatives ranging from transactional, operational, developmental and strategic, both at a company specific level for 2 plus years (Random House, Inc.) and corporate HR level (Bertelsmann Inc., Corporate Management Development, Bertelsmann University, and Bertelsmann Talent Services). He has been a member of the beRecruiter Services, North America team since August of 2007 and comes as no stranger to our product as he was an original beta tester for the recruitment system in 2001 before it was even web-based. He has been providing front-line feedback for many years on enhancements and improvements that can be made to our system from the true front-line hr professional perspective. Freddie has been instrumental in keeping us “tuned-in” to our customers needs and addressing their concerns.

Freddie came to us as a graduate with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Studies and a minor in Creative Studies from the State University of New York College at Buffalo. He is a New York native who had some additional work experience working for a start-up (Kozmo.com) and life experiences of traveling and working abroad for over two years.