AIRS and MRI Form E-Recruitment Alliance.

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HANOVER, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 6, 2000

AIRS, the global leader in Internet recruitment training and Management Recruiters International, Inc. (MRI), the world's largest search and recruitment organization, announced a new strategic alliance today.

Under the agreement, AIRS will provide Internet recruitment training and services to MRI's 1,000 offices in the US and abroad. In addition, AIRS will build a dedicated Internet recruitment portal, provide daily recruitment news and information and offer preferred account management and aftercare services to MRI recruiters.

The alliance formalizes a relationship developing between AIRS and dozens of MRI offices over the past two years. "MRI was an early adopter of Internet recruitment strategies, and has been at the leading-edge of our industry's migration to the Web," according to Mike Foster, CEO of AIRS. "We're very pleased we can help them push the envelope even farther, by providing AIRS' latest research, information and software tools to their organization."

In a recent MRI survey, over 4,000 execs were asked to identify the greatest threat to the success of their companies in the 21st century. Fifty per cent of them considered an alarming shortage of qualified candidates to be the most significant peril to their growth. AIRS will help MRI attack this problem head-on by offering their recruiters a powerful portfolio of products. While MRI recruiters have over 35 years experience sourcing candidates, AIRS training services will extend their range to the 120 million people hidden in ISPs, virtual communities and the public Web servers of tens of thousands of companies, colleges and organizations on the Net.

Many MRI offices are already proficient with AIRS' candidate-hunting search process. "AIRS leads the industry in creativity and innovation," states Joni Lampl, Senior Vice President and Managing Partner, MRI-Pittsburgh. "Their proactive recruitment techniques are helping us find new candidates before our competitors get there, and build relationships with an ever-widening circle of contacts on the Net."

About AIRS

AIRS is the largest provider of Internet recruitment training services worldwide. AIRS Seminars, Corporate Training and SearchGuide publications have helped over 8,000 recruiters and high-growth companies define their active sourcing strategies via the World Wide Web. AIRS vertical portal at www.airsdirectory.com has become the starting point for hunting tens of millions of passive candidates hidden on the Net.

About MRI (www.BrilliantPeople.com)

Based in Cleveland, MRI has 1,000 franchise offices worldwide, system-wide billings of over $600 million and places 40,000 people in jobs annually. MRI is a subsidiary of Philadelphia-based CDI Corp. (NYSE:CDI), one of the world's largest staffing and outsourcing service providers. CDI increases the productivity and competitiveness of its Fortune 1000 customer base through customized technical, information technology, professional and administrative staffing and outsourcing solutions. CDI (www.cdicorp.com) employs nearly 32,000 people and generated over $1.6 billion in revenue in 1999.