10 Innovative Years

Over the past 10 years, PageUp People has come a long way from being a two-person customised applications service provider to now selling a full suite of integrated talent management solutions with offices globally and some of the world's largest organisations as clients.

1 October 1997

PageUp Australia Pty Ltd was founded by Karen Downie and Simon Cariss straight out of university. PageUp Australia was a customised web-based applications service provider for Government, SME and Corporate clients

Access Guardian, a non web-based program that assisted companies in maintaining and managing their access databases, is commercialised by PageUp Australia

PageUp Editor is commercialised. The PageUp Editor tool enabled authorised employees to manage the corporate website as easily as using MS Word
PageUp E-Zine is commercialised. The PageUp E-zine tool allowed for effective online communication with the capacity to create newsletters and marketing material to promote their business using email or SMS. The tool allowed for the communication to be sent to a few or thousands of customers
PageUp e-Trans is commercialised. The PageUp e-trans tool allowed clients to sell from the existing corporate website. By providing convenient and comprehensive online product information and automating the sales process to take orders, clients saved time and money
PageUp SMS is commercialised. The PageUp SMS tool allowed clients to send anywhere from a several to thousands of bulk sms communication to customers with one easy step

PageUp People is commercialised. The PageUp People online Recruitment Management solution allows employers to manage all facets of the recruitment process from advertising jobs, collecting and screening resumes to advanced reporting via the Web

Post the completion of the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the SOCOG (Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games) successfully uses PageUp People for the redeployment globally of 2,500 Olympic employees. "We had to have an online recruitment management system to outplace the 2,500 Olympic employees quickly and well", explains Alison Hatchard, Project Manager, SOCOG for Lee Hecht Harrison (Global Career Management Services)
Channel 9 Software Awards Finalist

PageUp opens offices in Sydney, Australia
Popularity of PageUp People grows significantly with several of Australia's largest organisations signing up with PageUp

PageUp is awarded an Australian Achiever Award for Excellence in Customer Service- (highly recommended 83.37%)
PageUp is listed 33rd in the 2004 BRW Fast 100 with an average growth of 83% over three years and a growth rate of around 250% for the 2003/04 financial year
PageUp is announced as The Age / D&B (Dun & Bradstreet) 2004 Victorian Business of the year in the I.T. & Business Services Category.
PageUp is announced the winner of the 2004 Telstra & Victorian Government Small Business Award
PageUp is listed 45th in the 2005 BRW Fast 100 with average growth of 95.87% over 3 years
PageUp is awarded an Australian Achiever Award for Excellence in Customer Service- (highly recommended 89.72%)

Karen Cariss, PageUp CEO, is listed 28th in BRW's Top 50 Female Entrepreneurs
PageUp is awarded the B3000 Innovation Award
PageUp is listed 30th in the 2006 BRW Fast 100
PageUp is announced as a finalist for the AGRIA Award for Best Supplier to the Graduate Industry

PageUp is awarded an Australian Achiever Award for Excellence in Customer Service (highly recommended 89.72%)
PageUp is listed 34th on the SmartCompany50 awards. The award is for 50 of Australia's fastest growing and innovative companies that are building national and international businesses

PageUp announces another year of record growth of 50% increase of revenue for the 2006/07 financial year, taking the revenue to approximately $5.5million

Karen Cariss, PageUp People CEO, named a finalist in the Ernst and Young Enterpreneur of the Year for the Southern Region

Karen Cariss, PageUp People CEO, named the winner of the Young category for the Ernst and Young Enterpreneur of the Year for the Southern Region

PageUp People is listed 26th on the SmartCompany50 awards. The award is for 50 of Australia's fastest growing and innovative companies that are building national and international businesses