BridgePath.com Declares, 'Grunt Work is Dead!;' Oh My Gosh, They Killed Kenny's Grunt Work!

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 2, 1999--

Local authorities today announced the death of grunt work, which was brutally murdered by the BridgePath Recruiters Network on Halloween at approximately 9:22 p.m. BridgePath.com (http://www.bridgepath.com) is a lead suspect in the crime since it built the BridgePath Recruiters Network, the only 100% Internet-based contact management and customer relationship management system for recruiting and staffing firms.

"Yeah, I did it. And I'll continue to do it," confessed the BridgePath Recruiters Network. "Grunt work is lousy because it slows the process of making placements. With grunt work dead, third-party recruiters can focus on the brainwork of recruiting. Firms everywhere are thanking me."

The BridgePath Recruiters Network eliminates the grunt work of cold calling, finding phone numbers, reading resumes, setting-up interviews, tending to IT issues, and other tedious recruiting tasks. The BridgePath system provides third-party recruiters with contact management, relationship management, research management and full sales management capabilities.

"I posted bail this morning because the BridgePath Recruiters Network is a daily necessity for recruiters," stated Auren Hoffman, CEO at BridgePath.com. "Grunt work is dead! Now third-party recruiters can spend additional time acting as growth consultants, building client and candidate relationships, and making more placements."

"BridgePath.com offers third-party recruiters both a strategic and tactical advantage," commented Cliff Scheffel, president at Scheffel & Associates, a CFO recruiting firm. "The BridgePath system has allowed our firm to automate and integrate marketing, data management, and aspects of candidate development. The result is a faster, more efficient process allowing us to attract and retain clients like eBay, Excite, Inktomi, and Rubric."

The BridgePath Recruiters Network eliminates most of the grunt work associated with recruiting and allows third-party recruiters to do what they do best -- recruit, provide clients with needs analysis, understand the company culture, make effective placements that allow the company to strategically grow, conduct detailed research, negotiate salaries, build strong e-relationships with thousands upon thousands of candidates, clients and third-party influencers, and make more money.

According to the police department, Kennedy Information, the leading provider of research and information on executive recruiting, and AIRS, one of the largest providers of Internet recruitment training services worldwide, are accomplices in the crime since they both endorse the BridgePath Recruiters Network.

Key features of the BridgePath Recruiters Network include:

--Specialized contact management system.

--Communication system to build e-relationships with contacts. BRN helps recruiters electronically send personalized newsletters, customized birthday cards, job announcements and other communications.

--Tracking system for all job orders. Recruiters have an inventory of all activities associated with a job order.

--Advanced sales tools so recruiters can prospect, manage leads and build client relationships.

--Candidates can input their information, update their information, apply to jobs and paste their resumes directly into a branded site that looks like the recruiter's Web page. No more data going stale.

--BRN helps in keeping track of the recruiter's candidates.

--As an application service provider (ASP), the BridgePath system allows recruiters to work from the office, from home, from the client site or from the road. Some of BridgePath's clientele even work from their vacation destinations. Recruiters can work on the same project from different locations without having to sync databases and lose information.

--Internet-based system allows for automatic upgrades, zero installation of software, no IS person needed and no maintenance required. Everything is outsourced to BridgePath.com.

Product Availability

The 100% Internet-based BridgePath Recruiters Network is available immediately starting at $1,000 per quarter for a single-user implementation. Price breaks are available for large accounts.

About BridgePath.com

BridgePath.com (http://www.bridgepath.com) provides the first full service 100% Internet-based contact management and customer relationship management system for recruiting and staffing firms -- the BridgePath Recruiters Network. BRN takes the grunt work out of recruiting so third-party recruiters can focus on the brainwork of making more placements, conducting intelligent searches, acting as growth consultants, building long lasting candidate and client e-relationships, and prospecting for new business.

BridgePath.com has strategic partnerships with Kennedy Information, AIRS, Recruiters Online Network Inc. and other key recruitment organizations and services. With more than 40,000 recruiting firms in the U.S., BridgePath.com is providing the underlying infrastructure that will help drive the nation's recruiting industry.

Founded in 1996 as one of the first Internet job boards, BridgePath.com sent employment opportunities to over 200,000 candidates from around the country. Over 2,000 employers have used BridgePath.com's services -- resulting in over 5,000 interviews and over 1,000 hires. BridgePath.com leveraged its market knowledge and evolved into providing the BridgePath Recruiters Network.

Product information can be obtained via BridgePath's Web site located at http://www.bridgepath.com or by phone at [phone].

BridgePath.com - Grunt Work is Dead!

Editor's Note: To view a live demo of the BridgePath Recruiters Network over the Web, please call Mel Ochoa at [phone].

The BridgePath logo, the BridgePath Recruiters Network and BRN are trademarks of BridgePath, Inc. Other product and service names mentioned are the property of their respective owners.