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BrassRing Systems Announces Enterprise 3.8; Talent Relationship Management Leader Adds New Features, Including Wireless Recruiting, to Flagship Product.


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BrassRing Systems, the largest provider of Talent Relationship Management (TRM) solutions for Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies, today announced the newest version of its flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , BrassRing Systems Enterprise 3.8, (formerly Hiresystems). The web-based TRM solution includes wireless recruiting technology and other new features designed to help growing companies find, engage and deploy better people faster.

As the first Application Service Provider (ASP asp, popular name for several species of viper, one of which, the European asp (Vipera aspis), is native to S Europe. It is also a name for the Egyptian cobra (Naja haja). ) for enterprise Talent Relationship Management, BrassRing Systems pioneered the delivery of large-scale enterprise-wide systems -- delivered solely through a browser browser

Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used
 -- enabling and accelerating effective TRM for sophisticated, fast moving companies. In addition to offering wireless capabilities, BrassRing Systems has added several new features to BrassRing Systems Enterprise 3.8, including web sourcing and spidering technology, enhancements to Joboo, its corporate job hosting solution, and new candidate communications tools and interview scheduling capabilities.

"BrassRing Systems is committed to delivering breakthrough technology to help our corporate clients find, hire and retain the best talent for their organizations quickly and easily," explained Mark Lange, vice president of product development for BrassRing Systems. "Enterprise 3.8 represents the convergence of a number of innovations that help our installed base take Talent Relationship Management to the next level."

"While the economy may be slowing, skilled people remain in short supply and the competition is no less intense," said Dr. Michael Boyd, Manager of Human Resourcing Strategies Research for IDC. "The entire employment process management industry is going to have to offer increasing value to their customers in 2001, and BrassRing Systems is well positioned to enhance and improve the way large corporations execute and manage their hiring strategies and activities."

BrassRing Systems Enterprise 3.8 addresses key elements of Talent Relationship Management including finding, engaging and deploying talent:

Finding Talent

BrassRing Systems Wireless Recruiting

Providing recruiters with additional flexibility in the way they identify and manage talent, BrassRing Systems is the first company in the TRM space to introduce wireless recruiting. Now with BrassRing Systems Enterprise new wireless recruiting technology, users with web-enabled Palm(TM) VII hand-held devices will have a direct connection to their BrassRing Systems application from a college campus, career fair, the airport, or anywhere their search for talent takes them. Additionally, recruiters can review, evaluate, and communicate with candidates and drive forms of TRM transactions without traditional Internet Internet

Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the
 connections.

"Given the need for speed and flexibility in today's hiring environment, the ability to enter candidate information into our TRM system remotely is a revolutionary innovation," explained Richard Le, Staffing Technology Manager at CIGNA CIGNA CG (Connecticut General Life Insurance Company) INA (Insurance Company of North America) . "We're looking forward to taking advantage of many of the new features of BrassRing Systems Enterprise 3.8."

BrassRing Systems Sourcing Gateway

BrassRing Systems has also teamed up with three leading web sourcing and spidering technology companies - AIRS, TalentBlast and Easytrieve.com -- enabling clients to find and source candidates anywhere on the Internet. The addition of the candidate-sourcing gateway to Enterprise 3.8 allows employers to launch one or more spidering providers within the Enterprise 3.8 application. This technology allows employers to source both passive and active candidates to fill open positions more effectively.

BrassRing Systems Joboo 1.5

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 new talent is through their own corporate job sites, and BrassRing Systems(TM) Joboo 1.5, the latest version of the corporate job hosting solution, helps companies simplify and accelerate their online recruiting efforts. With its latest customization, reporting, and client site-specific enhancements, Joboo provides customers with additional flexibility to make their job sites look and feel more like their corporate web sites. BrassRing Systems Joboo is available together with BrassRing Systems Enterprise 3.8 and is also sold separately.

BrassRing Systems Cut & Post 2.5

BrassRing Systems Cut & Post 2.5 resume submission application enables a job seeker job seeker also job·seek·er
n.
One who seeks employment.
 to directly input their candidate data and resume into both BrassRing Systems Enterprise and Joboo. The Cut & Post functionality has been enhanced to recognize international resume (or curriculum vitae curriculum vitae CV, resume Medical practice A formal listing of a person's professional education, objectives, work history, including location and dates of service at a particular hospital, health care facility, university, the role filled at the time of service, ) formats, making it user-friendly for international recruiting. Candidate data can be instantly sent to a recruiter's system through their desktop, allowing users to search new candidate records immediately.

Engaging Talent

BrassRing Systems Scheduling Module

With BrassRing Systems Enterprise 3.8, employers will have access to scheduling and communications tools to help streamline all aspects of the hiring process. BrassRing Systems Enterprise scheduling module integrates with Microsoft Outlook For the e-mail and news client bundled with certain versions of Microsoft Windows, see .

Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook
, allowing 24/7 access to create, review and manage master interview schedules and eliminate the bottlenecks in the process. Recruiters can schedule and request interviews via e-mail, create interview schedules for e-mail distribution, monitor time-to-schedule and access interview details -- all from one location. The streamlined approach frees users from administration, allowing them to spend more time developing relationships with candidates, and strengthen relationships among members of the hiring team.

BrassRing Systems Communications Module

Talent Relationship Management solutions help companies create and manage pools of talent by building long-term Long-term

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 relationships with internal and external candidates. With BrassRing Systems Enterprise new communications capability, written communication with candidates, including acknowledgements, offer letters, and new opportunity announcements, can be created automatically through the Enterprise 3.8 system. This capability also enables recruiters to search their databases and send mass targeted e-mails to a pool of matching candidates when a new position opens up. Embedded applications An application that permanently resides in an industrial or consumer device. Providing some type of control function and/or user interface, the software is typically stored in a non-volatile memory such as ROM or flash memory.  and EEO EEO Equal Employment Opportunity
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 forms in the e-mail provides candidates with self-service capabilities and eliminates administrative hassles of manually entering data intensive information.

Deploying Talent

eLink and Applicant Tracking

As seen in earlier versions of BrassRing Systems Enterprise, eLink, BrassRing Systems workflow The automatic routing of documents to the users responsible for working on them. Workflow is concerned with providing the information required to support each step of the business cycle.  management tool, links requisitions, candidate data and other essential information within the system and sends it directly to hiring managers or decision makers via e-mail. They can easily access the candidate data without having to be trained on the application. In addition, BrassRing Systems Enterprise tracking module automatically provides recruiters with at-a-glance candidate status, automatic candidate routing, contact reminders, unlimited personal folders, integrated e-mail, and workflow fully tailored to a company's unique requirements, making tracking candidates easy and efficient.

"As a leader in Talent Relationship Management, BrassRing recognizes the value of building long lasting relationships with job candidates, and with our own customers," said Lange. "All of the power of BrassRing Systems Enterprise 3.8 is accompanied by the world-class customer service that has helped us earn a 93 percent customer retention rate."

Availability

BrassRing Systems Enterprise 3.8 will be available in March. Additional information is available at www.brassringsystems.com.

About BrassRing Systems

BrassRing Systems, a division of BrassRing Inc., is the leading provider of Talent Relationship Management Solutions (TRM) for Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies. The company delivers a comprehensive suite of integrated hiring solutions that help companies develop and maintain productive relationships with both internal and external candidates. Since 1997, BrassRing Systems has provided end-to-end end-to-end

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 TRM solutions for companies as demanding and diverse as SAP, Unisys, CIGNA, Actuate and Union Pacific, among others. For additional information, visit www.brassringsystems.com.

About BrassRing Inc.

BrassRing Inc. is a leading provider of integrated recruiting solutions and Talent Relationship Management (TRM) systems designed to help companies hire better people faster. Created in September 1999 through the combination of several leading recruiting and hiring management firms, BrassRing Inc. consists of BrassRing Career Events, a leading sponsor of technology career fairs in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere.  and Europe; BrassRing Exchanges, a leading provider of online recruiting solutions for hard-to-hire candidates, including Information Technology employees, MBA MBA
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 graduates and candidates from diverse backgrounds; and BrassRing Systems, a leading provider of Talent Relationship Management solutions. BrassRing Inc. is owned by The Washington Post Company (NYSE NYSE

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), Tribune Company The Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB) is a large American multimedia corporation based in Chicago, Illinois. It is the nation's second-largest newspaper publisher, responsible for the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Hartford Courant  (NYSE:TRB TRB Transportation Research Board
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), Gannett Co., Inc (NYSE:GCI GCI Ground Circuit Interrupter
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), and Accel Partners. For additional information, visit www.brassring.com.

Note to Editors: BrassRing Systems is a trademark of BrassRing Systems. BrassRing Career Events and BrassRing Exchanges are trademarks of BrassRing Inc. Palm is a trademark of Palm, Inc. All other trademarks, registered trademarks and/or service marks mentioned in this document are property of their respective owners.
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