[0] Headhunter.net Forms Alliance With American Hospital Association and Its Affiliated Organizations.

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ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 2001

Atlanta-based Headhunter.net (NASDAQ: HHNT), a leading online job awareness and recruiting site, today announced a partnership with the American Hospital Association (AHA).

The association is the nation's largest hospitals and health systems group with 5,000 institutional members, the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE), the American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration (ASHHRA) and AHA's 12 other personal membership groups with a combined total of more than 35,000 members.

Headhunter.net will be the exclusive provider of these organizations' online career sites, which are expected to be up and running by the end of January.

According to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data, health care is among the fastest growing segments in the workforce, currently employing 12 million people and providing job opportunities for as many as four million new employees over the next eight years. While the demand for health care workers is increasing, the available talent pool is decreasing, leading to a serious employee shortage in critical health care areas such as nursing. Statistics suggest that the increasing number of health care specialists retiring combined with an aging population contribute to the difficulty in maintaining a strong workforce in the health care field.

"Clearly, Headhunter.net recognized a tremendous opportunity to offer the health care field a streamlined and faster approach to finding, screening and hiring health care workers," said Bob Montgomery, President and CEO of Headhunter.net. "Partnering with the AHA and its affiliates gives Headhunter.net the opportunity to utilize its tremendous strengths in business development, information technology, and sales and marketing to provide this deserving field the quality employees it needs."

"Headhunter.net's commitment to be a market leader and the strength of its national reach made them an ideal partner," said Neil Jesuele, Executive Vice President, American Hospital Association.

Last August, Headhunter.net acquired MiracleWorkers.com, a leading health care recruiting site on the Web.

Among the online career centers that Headhunter.net will power is the American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration (ASHHRA). ASHHRA members are human resources professionals who work in the individual hospitals and are responsible for hiring the hospital staff. Additionally, members of the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) are leaders within the nursing field who have major recruiting responsibilities in hospitals and health systems. ASHHRA and AONE, as well as all the AHA affiliate organizations, will have co-branded sites where their members will receive discounted rates to post jobs and to search for jobs for free.

Other AHA-related membership organizations participating in this strategic partnership include:

      -- American Society for Healthcare Engineering

      -- American Society for Healthcare Environmental Services

      -- American Society for Healthcare Food Service Administrators

      -- American Society for Healthcare Risk Management

      -- American Society of Directors of Volunteers Services

      -- Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management

      -- Health Care Executive Assistants

      -- American Society for Healthcare Central Service Professionals

      -- Society for Healthcare Consumer Advocacy

      -- Society for Health Strategy & Market Development

      -- Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care

      -- AHA At-Large Members

"Given the workforce challenges in hospitals and health systems, we are excited about this relationship as an effort to help our members cost effectively meet the growing demand for qualified individuals in numerous clinical and non-clinical positions," AHA's Jesuele added. "Headhunter.net meets the diverse needs of our individual membership groups and will serve our members nationwide."

About Headhunter.net

Headhunter.net (www.Headhunter.net) is a leading national online recruiting and job awareness network, empowering candidates and corporations to manage the job search process. The site features more than one million resumes and more than 250,000 jobs representing 10,000 of the nation's top employers across virtually every industry. Attracting more than six million job seeker visits a month, Headhunter.net distinguishes itself by providing job seekers privacy when searching and applying for jobs, and allows job seekers and job posters to manage and track the visibility and performance of their listings. In addition to its Atlanta headquarters, Headhunter.net has offices in Annapolis, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, Philadelphia, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Tampa and Washington, DC.

About The American Hospital Association

The AHA is a not-for-profit association of health care provider organizations and individuals that are committed to the health improvement of their communities. The AHA is the national advocate for its members, which includes 5,000 hospitals, health care systems, networks, other providers of care and 35,000 individual members. Founded in 1898, the AHA provides education for health care leaders and is a source of information on health care issues and trends. For more information, visit the AHA Web site at www.aha.org.

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