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HRMC’s Automated Candidate Assessment Platform to Integrate CareerMetaSearch’s “Push-Posting 2.0” Technology to Identify and Attract Passive Job Candidates

Partnership to provide companies with a comprehensive solution to identify, source, and assess the most coveted yet hard-to engage passive candidates—those who are not actively pursuing job opportunities.

Tampa, FL – January 10, 2007 – Human Resource Management Center, Inc. (HRMC), providers of “next-generation” selection, assessment, and management solutions, today announces a partnership that will integrate CareerMetaSearch’s Push-Posting 2.0 technology into HRMC AcclaimSM, its flagship assessment platform, allowing companies to recruit passive candidates.

Passive candidates are those who are currently working and are not actively pursuing external employment. Passive candidates are coveted by recruiters since they are typically among an organization’s top performers. As such, they are hard to identify and attract using traditional recruiting methods. The newly integrated HRMC-CareerMetaSearch solution combines Push-Posting 2.0 technology to identify these candidates and Acclaim’s assessment platform to whisk passive candidates through an intuitive screening process that gauges skills and culture fit (Acclaim does not require a resume—a big benefit since passive candidates are less likely to have a résumé on hand—certainly not one that’s been updated).

“Finding and attracting passive candidates is usually a matter of happenstance. Push-Posting 2.0 enables us to provide a systematic means of identifying these candidates; once they’ve been identified, Acclaim conducts a completely automated, intuitive interview, giving employers a seamless process for acquiring highly coveted talent,” says Ron Selewach, CEO of HRMC. “I should add that Acclaim makes the interview process simple, even inviting to the passive candidate. Hiring managers benefit by receiving top quality candidates matched to open positions and suited to the organization’s culture. We see this as a big win for our customers.”

“With hundreds of online job portals available you might think hiring talented people for your organization would be a snap. Most online hiring resources do little more than deluge companies with thousands of unqualified or mismatched resumes that seldom fit its hiring profile,” says Jason Gorham, CEO of CareerMetaSearch. “This partnership will result in tremendous cost-savings for companies as they incorporate this new technology into their hiring strategy. Together, HRMC and CareerMetaSearch add a dimension of quality and service unrivaled by other online providers.”

CareerMetaSearch’s Push-Posting 2.0 technology sources passive candidates by developing profiles based on the searches they conduct on the Web and then creating and sending targeted custom messages about highly compatible career opportunities. CareerMetaSearch’s Job Boomerang open positions and disseminates them to various job search engines, online classified sites, and leading web sites to increase exposure for available job opportunities. Once passive candidates apply online, Acclaim uses interactive voice-web (IVW) capabilities to screen, interview, assess, and rank individuals based on their skills as well as job and culture fit.

About HRMC

Founded in 1984, HRMC is a pioneer in applying cutting-edge technology to solve business' most pressing human capital challenges. The company's flagship HRMC Acclaim solution simplifies the management of all phases of the employee lifecycle and identifies opportunities for improvement.

HRMC's technology automates a range of interrelated processes within a flexible, user-friendly framework, enabling organizations to streamline the acquisition and assessment of talent, evaluate new employees' readiness to contribute, and analyze the impact of a company's culture on retention and performance. Whether accessed over the Web or the phone, users are led through an interactive experience that approximates true human dialogue, resulting in more effective interviews and employee surveys. HRMC is headquartered in Tampa, Florida and is privately held. For more information visit the company's Web site at www.hrmc.com.

About CareerMetaSearch

CareerMetaSearch.com is the world’s leader in “passive” candidate search technology, enabling enterprise class employers and recruiters to find the best qualified technology, executive and finance candidates, faster and cheaper than conventional job-boards such as Monster or CareerBuilder. For more information, contact pr@careermetasearch.com or 800-897-7016, or visit the company’s Web site at www.CareerMetaSearch.com.

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Google has stepped up its role in the recruitment advertising space including hiring a dedicated sales manager and the creation of a presentation to target potential customers. For those of you that were considering using pay per click advertising and aren’t familiar with google and its inner workings let me share a personal experience with you.

As our model and business relies heavily on the search engines to push ads out to reach passive candidates we are a heavy user and that includes financially as well. So that you would think for the amount of money, time and longevity of our relationship that we have had with Google (not withstanding the amount of money that Google has) that we would get quality customer service from an account manager.

Think again. Here are a couple of things you may not know about Google Customer Service.

• No Phone Number To Call

Have you ever tried to call Google? You can’t. They don’t provide one, they don’t want to talk to you, hear your feedback or deal with your problems. Just send money.

• Chat ID Just Installed

To offer some level of customer service Google now offers a chat id. However every time you chat with someone they give you a canned response, they ask you the same questions that you had answered three chat sessions prior and finally the dreaded “we will contact you back shortly” In my case shortly has been a week and counting.

• Minimum Spend

Google does offer an account manager to customers that spend at least $5000.00 per month with them. That means anything below this number you have no direct contact with the company and now your back at the above mentioned points.

• No Managers On Duty

After repeated calls and contact with Google (which by the way takes days to get any type of response) I thought I would speak with a manager. Boy was I wrong. With all the money that Google has I was told repeatedly that their was no manager available to take my call and then I was hung up on.

So in conclusion if you choose to deal with Google than I caution you as to if you ever have to deal with a person, get a question answered or have to correct something with your account because you will be out of luck. It’s amazing how a company can make so much money and still not appreciate a customer or know how to handle customer service.

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The last couple of months have been pretty hectic here at CareerMetaSearch.com and I wanted to share with you why. We have been diligently working on how and where we will position ourselves in the market. The reason for this is we get lumped into the job board category with 40,0000 other boards out there and this is the farthest thing from the truth and let me explain why.

1. Job Boards drive thousands if not millions of visitors to their home page to find a job

CareerMetaSearch drives quality not quantity to our client’s jobs and or home page on our site. WE NEVER BRAND OURSLEVES ONLY OUR CLIENTS!

2. Job Boards have become a Post n Pray mechanism that have become clearinghouses for mismatched and unqualified candidates.

CareerMetaSearch reaches passive candidates where they spend time online to reach the most desirable candidate for the employer

3. Job Boards take your money and run, they don’t care if you get 1 or 1,000 people. They are a transaction business

CareerMetaSearch works daily to make sure that our clients are receiving qualified candidates and partner with our clients to make sure our candidates get hired!

4. Job Boards have no metrics, analytics and can’t tell you where your candidates came from and how to get them the next time.

CareerMetaSearch knows exactly what worked and what didn’t to capture passive candidates even drilling down to the keyword that was used to capture said candidate.

5. Job Boards have no interaction with the client but to only fix a problem or take your money.

CareerMetaSearch partners with our clients weekly have scheduled conference calls to make sure that our clients are getting the most desirable candidates available

6. Job Boards only reach 30% of full time employed on the internet

CareerMetaSearch reaches 70% of the full time employed that utilizes the internet

7. Job Boards aren’t easy or cheap. For the amount of time and energy that an average recruiter spends with job boards the return on investment is extremely low.

CareerMetaSearch is a value added proposition to help you make hires by producing fewer more qualified targeted passive candidates

8. Job Boards have no loyalty to their customers and increase candidate competition.

CareerMetaSearch pricing is designed around the hiring of an applicant. We market and brand your positions and place them where your competition isn’t. You won’t have to fight with your competitors to hire your candidates.

9. Job Boards are reactive

CareerMetaSearch is proactive with our Push Posting 2.0 technology pushes your jobs out to candidates in order to attract, engage and get them to apply to your positions. We don’t wait for them to come to us we go to them!

10. Job Boards require a resume to apply

CareerMetaSearch has a two step applicant process to capture the passive candidate. If they don’t have a resume no problem we capture their information for the recruiter to engage them and present the opportunity to them without a resume!

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