Calling All Resumes--The Hiring Machine Wants You; Breakthrough Career Site Virtually Ensures Best Candidate Identification; Puts Job Behind It.

Business Editors

NASHUA, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 29, 2003

The Hiring Machine(TM) Corporation (www.hiringmachine.com), the most comprehensive hiring solution, today announced a bold initiative to obtain one million new resumes from job seekers across the nation to further populate its existing database of three million resumes. The company is seeking resumes from all fields and job levels--from senior executives to new college grads. The goal is to become the most complete job resource available to recruiters, HR professionals and job seekers from skilled and hourly to C-level.

The Hiring Machine is so confident in the ability of its technology to locate the best candidate for any job that it will select one qualified job seeker from among those submitting new resumes for a Senior Sales Account Manager position. As an added incentive, ten applicants selected at random from the one million submitted resumes will be awarded free career consultations from RL Stevens, the oldest, largest and most successful privately held career firm in America, including resume and cover letter writing assistance, interviewing and negotiating tips and networking skills.

The Hiring Machine's team is comprised of a core group of executive recruiters, industry veterans and senior executives from Monster.com and will officially launch in November 2003. The Hiring Machine was developed from the ground up by those who truly understand the pain of the hiring process and want to improve it not only for fellow HR professionals, but for the job candidate as well.

"Over 15 years of working in the trenches as an executive recruiter has taught me that there is a crying need for a better hiring solution. For job candidates the hiring process is too often frustrating and time consuming with submitted resumes often falling into a black hole. On the other side, organizations are so overwhelmed that they cannot locate the best person for the job or even let a candidate know their resume has been received," said Timothy J. Goumas, president and CEO of The Hiring Machine. "We've set out to change all that. Our unique resume analysis technology ensures that the qualifications listed on a job seeker's resume have been reviewed and analyzed with a high degree of accuracy, ensuring that employers find the best candidate for the job with reduced time-to-hire and cost-per-hire."

"The Hiring Machine's innovative technology is certain to outperform run-of-the-mill job sites and will provide a much needed, end-to-end recruiting solution for the highly demanding Human Resources industry," said Peter Ransom, CEO at Innovative Staffing Services, Inc. "The Hiring Machine captures all the best functionality available today to HR and recruiting professionals, and puts it all in one place in an intuitive and user-friendly manner. It's truly a single tool, full services 'hiring machine'."

"The Hiring Machine is really moving to differentiate from other job boards by deploying a precise, natural language search technology that'll help employers filter resumes and assure qualified job seekers that they'll get the kind of consideration they deserve," says Joseph McCool, editor-in-chief of Recruiting Trends, a 40-year-old monthly newsletter published by Kennedy Information, Inc. "Job seekers need some confidence that their resumes are reaching employers' radar screens."

The Hiring Machine Difference

The Hiring Machine's solution, which will formally launch in November 2003, is an integrated suite of services that simplify the entire hiring process from requisition development to offer letter generation. The solution, available to users through simple Web browser and Internet access, not only provides a "Recruitment Dashboard" with immediate access to all of the tools HR professionals need to locate the best hire, but also uses a revolutionary technology to automatically simplify the resume review process.

This unique resume analysis is made possible through intelligent language processing technology. Unlike keyword search such as Boolean Logic being used by many online recruitment sites today, The Hiring Machine ensures that resumes will be reviewed and analyzed with accuracy against the job requisition, virtually guaranteeing that recruiters and HR managers find and hire the best candidate for the job. This also provides candidates with peace of mind that they are being given a fair shake at each job they apply for.

For job candidates, services include resume posting and management, job searching, career searching, professional resume writing assistance, salary resources and information on associations and user groups. Candidates that apply for a job on The Hiring Machine also benefit by knowing that there is no longer a black hole and that their resumes are being reviewed using The Hiring Machine's superb resume analysis technology.

Submitting Resumes to The Hiring Machine

Submitting resumes to The Hiring Machine is easy; simply visit http://www.hiringmachine.com and click on the large "Resumes Wanted" button. You can upload your resume as a Word document or create one online by filling out a simple form.

The Senior Sales Account Manager position will be filled by an individual with eight to ten years professional experience with a background in telesales and sales, a thorough knowledge and understanding of the HR industry and experience with start-up companies. The position will be at The Hiring Machine's Nashua, NH headquarters, with telecommuting as an option.

About The Hiring Machine

The Hiring Machine, the most comprehensive hiring solution on the market, enables employers to hire the best candidates faster at a fraction of the cost. The Hiring Machine's integrated suite of applications includes everything a Human Resources professional needs from requisition development to job offer letter generation and everything in-between. The system contains groundbreaking resume analysis technology that ensures a candidate's resume is considered, and is easily integrated with all HR management systems. For more information visit www.hiringmachine.com.