Agilent Technologies Engineers Its Global Recruiting Process With Recruitsoft

Agilent Technologies Chooses Recruitsoft to Integrate and Automate its Recruiting Supply Chain

San Francisco, CA – February 20, 2001 –

Recruitsoft, the leading provider of Web-based hiring management systems, announced today that Agilent Technologies, a principal supplier of innovative technologies for communications and life sciences, has selected Recruitsoft to engineer its global recruiting process.

"Agilent Technologies has 47,000 employees serving customers in more than 120 countries around the globe," said Louis Tetu, Recruitsoft CEO. "Such depth and breadth of service requires a powerful recruiting process solution, one that not only fits its global needs but optimizes global recruiting to help the company achieve competitive advantage based on the quality of its hires. We at Recruitsoft are looking forward to helping Agilent create this competitive advantage by powering its global recruiting process."

Recruitsoft’s Recruiter WebTop™ powers the career Web pages of large corporations and provides a complete business application over the Internet that supports every aspect of the corporate recruiting process, from requisition management, skills-based profiling and email alerts about ACE candidates, to candidate background checking and communication management. Recruiter WebTop™ uses a proprietary pre-screening methodology based on skills assessment, making it easier for candidates and recruiters alike to manage the entire recruiting process. By targeting the right candidates, pre-screening them, and managing the entire process to allow the corporate recruiter to spend more time conducting in-depth candidate interviews and assessment, Recruitsoft helps to increase the quality of hires, reduce time to contribution for new hires and increase retention rates.

About Recruitsoft
Recruitsoft delivers the most complete online recruiting solutions for leading companies across many industries. Recruitsoft clients include Hewlett-Packard, Dow Chemical (NYSE: DOW), MetLife, Hasbro, Deloitte & Touche, Bombardier Aerospace and Transportation, Cabletron Systems (NYSE: CS), Sutter Health and now, Agilent Technologies. Recruitsoft is considered to be the best-practice ASP for recruitment management solutions, based on its proprietary ACE Recruiting™ process technology, designed in collaboration with large corporations to re-engineer and streamline the corporate recruiting process. Recruitsoft is the first Hiring Management System (HMS) to integrate all areas of candidate sourcing. Accessible via one-click, these sourcing services include: job postings on the corporate Web site, the company Intranet, job boards, advertising in all print media, and contract-assisted candidate sourcing. Recruitsoft is a contributing member of the HR-XML consortium.

Recruitsoft also maintains iLogos Research, a division which studies and monitors trends in the Internet recruiting industry. iLogos Research periodically publishes reports and indices and is dedicated to understanding the needs of large corporations seeking qualified talent.

Recruitsoft is funded in part by Bain Capital Ventures; Telesystem Software Ventures LP (Telsoft) and Telesystem Ltd., a Red Herring Top 100 company; General Catalyst; Omnicom (NYSE:OMC), the world’s leading provider of marketing communications and advertising services, through its Internet investment arm, Communicade; and an investment partnership comprised of employees of Bain & Company.

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