Matt Ferguson is an American

United States

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 CEO for the largest online job site CareerBuilder.com. An alumnus of Indiana University

Indiana University

Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...

, Ferguson also holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and a law degree from Northwestern University School of Law

Northwestern University School of Law

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Between 2001 and 2006, Ferguson took CareerBuilder.com from a budding contender in the online recruitment space, to the leader in traffic, jobs and revenue through investment in cutting-edge technology

Technology

Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...

, committed customer service

Customer service

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, aggressive sales

Sales

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 strategies and multi-faceted marketing

Marketing

Marketing is the process used to determine what products or services may be of interest to customers, and the strategy to use in sales, communications and business development. It generates the strategy that underlies sales techniques, business communication, and business developments...

campaigns. Ferguson is especially popular with CareerBuilder employees for making book recommendations during quarterly companywide conference calls, and for originating CareerBuilder's annual employee day at Wrigley Field.

Awards

In 2004, Crain’s Chicago Business named Ferguson one of the “40 under 40”.

In 2007, Ferguson was awarded the Staffing Professional of the Year by the Staffing Management Association of Greater Chicago formerly EMA Chicago.