Recruitsoft and DDI Form Strategic Alliance

Human capital management industry leaders align to deliver customers a more robust solution

San Francisco, CA and Pittsburgh, PA – December 6, 2001 –

Recruitsoft, Inc., the leading provider of staffing management solutions for large corporations and Development Dimensions International (DDI) (www.ddiworld.com), a global human resources consulting firm specializing in selection system design and leadership development, announced a strategic partnership today.

The partnership brings together DDI's 30 plus years of experience in developing legally-defensible, competency-based selection and assessment systems and tools with Recruitsoft's industry-leading solution that systematizes and automates the recruiting and internal talent deployment processes and delivers true workflow, enterprise-wide. Benefits of the partnership for Recruitsoft and DDI clients include greater quality through the additional assessment expertise provided by DDI, as well as increased accuracy made possible through Recruitsoftâs systematic approach to recruiting and talent deployment, faster time to hire and significant operational synergies.

"We are pleased to be working with DDI, as they are leaders in assessment, with a 30 year history and unsurpassed body of knowledge in this area," said Louis Tetu, Recruitsoft chief executive officer. He added, "This alliance will provide our customers with access to this significant knowledge base."

"DDI is committed to helping organizations create a more competitive workforce. By integrating DDI's selection and assessment consulting and content expertise as well as online tools for screening, testing, assessing and applicant tracking with Recruitsoft's technology solutions, our respective clients will be able to rapidly identify top talent and expand workforce capability," said Bill Byham, chairman and CEO of DDI. "And this will lead to a competitive advantage for the company," he said.

About DDI
Since 1970, DDI has helped thousands of organizations achieve superior business performance through selecting, developing and retaining extraordinary people.

DDI's two major areas of expertise include:

• Helping companies find and hire better people faster.
• Building leadership capacity and capability, enabling organizations to meet their current and emerging business needs.

DDI's innovative solutions, including Web-based technologies, are customized to the needs of each client by a team of 1,000 experienced associates in 70 locations around the world. Clients include: Coca Cola, General Motors, Sanofi~Synthelabo, AT&T Wireless, and Bank of America. For more information about DDI, visit www.ddiworld.com.

About Recruitsoft
Recruitsoft enterprise-wide talent flow for leading companies across many industries. Among Recruitsoft clients are Hewlett-Packard, Dow Chemical (NYSE: DOW), Agilent Technologies, Hasbro, Deloitte & Touche, Bombardier Aerospace and Transportation, MetLife, and Sutter Health. Among the benefits Recruitsoft brings to large organizations are faster time-to-hire, lower cost-per-hire, and ultimately, increased quality of hires. Recruitsoft is considered to be the best-practice ASP for recruitment management solutions, based on its proprietary ACE Staffing™ methodology, designed in collaboration with large corporations to improve the corporate recruiting and internal talent matching and deployment processes through reengineering. Recruitsoft is a member of the HR-XML consortium.

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