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HireRight and Recruitsoft Form Strategic Partnership

Human resources leaders join to provide enhanced services to organizations worldwide

Irvine, CA and San Francisco, CA – March 18, 2002 –

HireRight, Inc., the leading Web-based background screening provider and Recruitsoft, Inc., the leading provider of staffing management solutions for large corporations, today announced the formation of a strategic partnership.

The partnership brings together HireRight’s industry-leading service offerings such as criminal record checks, employment and education verifications, professional reference checks, credit and motor vehicle record checks, drug screening, as well as a number of additional specialized pre-employment verification services with Recruitsoft’s staffing management solution, which manages the entire staffing supply-chain from requisition management, sourcing, resume scanning, searching and pre-screening to retention, enabling true e-headhunting and effective staffing management.

“We are very pleased to be partnering with HireRight, an industry leader in background screening solutions, which are a very important part of the selection process for many of our Global 1000 customers,” said Fred Harding, Recruitsoft director of global alliances. “We selected HireRight due to its advanced technology and robust services offering, allowing for additional options for our diverse customer base,” he added.

“HireRight is committed to offering Recruitsoft customers the most comprehensive background screening service in the industry,” said Eric Boden, HireRight’s president and chief executive officer. “The advanced automation built in to our Web-based solution has allowed us to expand our services while maintaining the fastest turnaround times and ensuring the utmost in thoroughness and accuracy for our customers,” he added.

About HireRight
HireRight is the leading provider of Internet-based background screening and pre-employment services. The company’s background verification, drug screening, skills testing and behavioral assessment tools enable organizations worldwide to consistently hire the best candidates. Many of the world’s most innovative and successful companies have selected HireRight due to its technologically advanced, industry leading offering and superior customer service. By selecting HireRight, human resources and security professionals worldwide gain the peace of mind associated with partnering with the industry leader, while enjoying the convenience of working with a single background screening service provider. Additional information about the company is available at www.hireright.com.

About Recruitsoft
Recruitsoft powers enterprise-wide staffing management for leading companies across many industries. Recruitsoft clients include Hewlett-Packard, Dow Chemical (NYSE: DOW), Agilent Technologies, The Gillette Company, Deloitte & Touche, Bombardier Aerospace and Transportation, UnitedHealth Group, Sutter Health, among many others. Recruitsoft’s full-service offering includes the software, services and computing infrastructure to enable large corporations to rapidly improve staffing processes. Recruitsoft is considered to be the best-practice ASP for staffing management solutions, based on its proprietary ACE Methodology ™ , designed in collaboration with large corporations to improve the corporate staffing and internal talent matching and deployment processes, through reengineering. Recruitsoft is a member of the HR-XML consortium. In recognition of its exceptional staffing methodology and technologies, Recruitsoft has received many accolades, including: “Best Response Time” – RPK Group, September 2001; “Best Overall Customer Satisfaction” – ERE Research, July 2001; “Best Hiring Management System (HMS)” – HR.com, 2001; “Top 100 B2B Internet Suppliers” – VerticalZOOM™, October 2000; “ASP of Distinction” – VARBusiness, September 2000; and “Top 10 HR Products of the Year” - Human Resources Executive, November 1999.

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