Clarian Health Partners Selects Hire.com to Launch New Recruiting Initiatives; Referrals Seen as Key to Finding Nurses, Healthcare Employees.

Business Editors; Medical/Healthcare Writers

Hire.com announced today that its leading suite of talent management solutions will be used by Clarian Health Partners -- Methodist Hospital, IU Hospital and Riley Hospital for Children -- to manage all aspects of the healthcare network's staffing needs.

Through tightly integrated functionality between Hire.com software and Clarian information systems, the healthcare organization will set up both internal and external private talent communities from which recruiters and hiring managers can maintain ongoing relationships with highly skilled candidates at greatly reduced costs. Among the more compelling applications Clarian will implement is a Hire.com-powered referral management system, which will help locate hard-to-find nurses as well as specialized healthcare workers. Clarian's talent management initiatives will launch at the end of this month.

"In the healthcare industry -- now more than ever -- it's critical that open positions are filled as quickly as possible with the best people for the job," said Tal Moise, vice president of innovation at Clarian, responsible for the company's overall Internet strategy. "Incorporating Hire.com's solutions into our enterprise portal gives our staff the power to do just that. Applicants' backgrounds are recorded through our external portal at www.clarian.org. Using this information, candidates are instantaneously profiled and subsequently, Clarian is able to recommend to them an individualized selection of applicable openings, both at the current time and in the future. Enhancing this functionality further, Hire.com's applicant tracking solutions give us a simple, automated way to keep in touch with these candidates and monitor the status of every job request."

Since referred candidates are typically of the highest quality talent, the least costly to acquire and have a lower turnover rate, Hire.com's referral management system will play a key role in streamlining Clarian's talent initiatives. Hire.com's referral management system was built with the passive candidate in mind. It enables multi-level marketing and tracking of all referral activity across an organization's various departments.

Suellyn Ellerbe, Lead, Office of Budget, Finance and Resource Management at Clarian, comments: "In our line of work, nurses are at a premium, with most already employed and not looking for a job. Since one of the best ways to reach the nursing community is through other nurses, Hire.com's referral management system will be instrumental in helping us automate a results-oriented program that benefits both referrers and referees."

"Forward-thinking companies like Clarian Health Partners recognize the importance of building relationships with the highest quality, hard to find candidates so they're ready to hire at a moment's notice," said Kevin Bethke, CEO of Hire.com. "Hire.com will provide customer-proven solutions to help Clarian develop and access the largest and highest quality supply of talent from external and internal resources."

Hire.com continues to lead the market with innovative recruiting, sourcing and hiring applications. Hire.com pioneered the use of permission-based candidate relationship marketing, the sourcing and capturing of passive, as well as active candidates, and the ability to prescreen and deliver interested, qualified, and available high quality candidates immediately to the desktops of hiring authorities.

About Clarian Health Partners

Clarian Health Partners, comprised of Methodist Hospital, Indiana University Hospital and Riley Hospital for Children, is an Indiana-based, private, non-profit organization, offering a broad base of tertiary services, specialized pediatric care and a Level 1 Trauma Center. Clarian is Indiana's largest, most comprehensive health center and is one of the busiest hospital systems in the nation. Clarian Health's mission is to improve the health of patients and the community through innovation and excellence in care, education, research and service. To fulfill its mission, Clarian uses the combined resources of its sponsoring institutions and its continuing affiliation with the Indiana University School of Medicine, one of the nation's leading medical education and research centers.

About Hire.com

Hire.com empowers organizations to optimize their talent resources through an integrated suite of talent management solutions. Since 1998, Hire.com's customer base has expanded to over 120 clients, including Fortune 500 companies and others that have global talent needs. With customers like AT&T, EDS, Electronic Arts, Roche, Royal Caribbean, Southern Company, H&R Block Financial Advisors and Swales Aerospace, Hire.com has enabled these organizations to individually establish private talent communities of candidates from more than 150 countries. More information on Austin, Texas-based Hire.com is available at www.hire.com or by calling 1-800-953-HIRE.