Hire.com Posts Healthy Gains in Worldwide Medical Products and Services Market.

AUSTIN, Texas -- Kaiser Permanente, Zimmer, and Florida Hospital Embrace Innovative Recruiting, Candidate Relationship Solutions to Build Strong Talent Communities

Hire.com (www.hire.com) the leader in Global Enterprise Recruiting, today announced major customer wins in the worldwide medical products and services market. Kaiser Permanente, America's leading provider of integrated health plans, Zimmer, a world leader in orthopaedics, and Florida Hospital, the second busiest hospital system in the U.S., join the ranks of Roche Diagnostics, Clarian Health Partners and Quest, among others, demonstrating the ongoing adoption of Hire.com's customer-driven solutions in the multi-billion dollar, global healthcare market. Today's news follows an announcement several weeks ago of similar customer gains in financial services and insurance, accentuating the company's growth in major markets in North America and abroad.

Kaiser Permanente selected Hire.com's flexible software and customer support services for sourcing, screening, selecting and tracking high-quality candidates to help the company recruit and hire more than 1,500 new employees monthly throughout its provider network. As part of a strategic initiative to share HR services, the company will leverage its recruiting investments across the Kaiser network. By consolidating recruiting efforts, the staffing team will provide more consistent staffing processes, improve service to hiring managers, and increase responsiveness to interested candidates, in addition to other improvements that foster collaboration among its business units.

"Attracting a full spectrum of dedicated healthcare, information technology and business professionals in a competitive marketplace requires us to be strategic, organized, creative, efficient and targeted in our recruiting and hiring processes," said Joe Disbennett, Kaiser Permanente's HR SSO Recruitment Team Lead and SCAL Director of Recruiting. "As one of California's, and the nation's, largest and most respected employers, with a broad range of career opportunities, it's essential that we build the most capable systems for our recruiters. Their success in attracting qualified new employees is essential to our success in delivering quality healthcare to our members," Disbennett said.

Florida Hospital is an acute-care health care system with 2,801 beds throughout Florida. With a comprehensive network of 17 hospitals and 12 Centra Care walk-in urgent care centers, Florida Hospital treats more than one million patient visits each year. The Florida Hospital system is the 2nd busiest system in the country.

Florida Hospital offers a wide range of health services for the entire family, including many nationally and internationally recognized programs in cardiology, cancer, women's medicine, neurology, diabetes, orthopaedics and rehabilitation. For the last three years, U.S. News & World Report has recognized Florida Hospital as one of "America's Best Hospitals." In addition, because Florida Hospital performs more complex cardiac cases than any other facility in the country, MSNBC selected Florida Hospital as the premier focus of their hour long special -- "Heart Hospital."

Founded in 1927 and headquartered in Warsaw, Indiana, Zimmer is the worldwide pure-play orthopaedic leader in the design, development, manufacture and marketing of reconstructive and spinal implants, trauma and related orthopaedic surgical products. In October 2003, the Company finalized its acquisition of Centerpulse AG, a Switzerland-based orthopaedics company and the leader in the European reconstructive market. The new Zimmer has operations in more than 24 countries around the world and sells products in more than 80 countries. As a result of the acquisition of Centerpulse, reported 2003 sales were $1.9 billion. Full-year 2003 pro forma worldwide sales of Zimmer and Centerpulse were approximately $2.6 billion. The new Zimmer is supported by the efforts of more than 6,500 employees.

"Explosive growth in all segments of the worldwide healthcare market has driven competition for talent to an unprecedented level," said Larry Orecklin, Hire.com chief executive officer. "We're very pleased that more and more healthcare product and services companies are turning to Hire.com to help develop and deploy recruiting and hiring processes with the speed and agility offered by HireEnterprise."

About Hire.com

Hire.com is a leading provider of Global Enterprise Recruiting solutions that enables businesses worldwide to hire and retain top-quality talent faster than any other solution in the market. Global 2000 companies, including BP, Roche Diagnostics, Prudential, Reuters, Kaiser and SITA, have invested in Hire.com's unique modular system to achieve competitive advantage today and to prepare for their future talent management needs. HireEnterprise is a two-time award-winning product as named by HR Executive Magazine's Top 10 HR products of the year. Customers named Hire.com "Best in Customer Service" in Electronic Recruiting Exchange (ERE)'s 2002 and 2003 Annual Industry Surveys. More information on Hire.com and its proven solutions can be found on the Hire.com website at www.hire.com or by calling 800-953-HIRE (953-4473).