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BrassRing.com Selected as "Most Job-Seeker Friendly Site" in WEDDLE's User's Choice Awards Competition

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - March 11, 2002 - BrassRing LLC, the largest provider of Talent Relationship Management (TRM) systems and innovative eRecruiting services, today announced that its technology-focused career board, BrassRing.com, the leading career board for technology-related jobs and tech career event information, has won a WEDDLE's User's Choice Award as the "Most Job-Seeker Friendly" Specialty Site. The awards honor excellence in online job sites as judged by HR practitioners, recruiters and job seekers.

This is the first-ever WEDDLE's User's Choice Awards competition, which is conducted by WEDDLE's,a research and publishing firm specializing in online employment resources, and sponsored by Bernard Hodes Group, a recruitment communications and staffing solutions provider. The competition is the only opportunity for HR professionals and job seekers to vote for their top online picks. Online voting occurred from January 1 to December 31, 2001, on the WEDDLE's web site, www.weddles.com/awards.

"The WEDDLE's User's Choice Award means a lot to BrassRing because it's voted on by the users," said Robin Rasmussen, president of BrassRing Sourcing, a division of BrassRing. "Being selected as the 'Most Job-Seeker Friendly' site is especially meaningful because it says we're succeeding at reaching our target audience with a user-friendly site that provides a valuable resource to recruiters and candidates."

Winners were selected among both general purpose and specialty sites in these categories: best overall, best customer service for recruiters, best information for job seekers, most "recruiter friendly," and most "job seeker friendly." More than 5,000 ballots were cast.

"The Internet is the most important advancement in employment since the resume," said publisher Peter Weddle, "but with more than 40,000 such sites available, it's very hard to know which sites offer the best service. That's what the WEDDLE's User's Choice Awards are all about. They put the real users, rather than pundits and professional critics, in the driver's seat on the Information Superhighway."

The American Staffing Association has called Peter Weddle the "Zagat" of the online employment industry for his advertising-free publications on web sites for recruiters and job seekers.

In addition to the Weddles User's Choice Award and CAREERXROADS Awards in 2002 and 2001, BrassRing has been named to Forbes Magazine's Best-of-the-Web directory, Upside's 2001 Hot 100 List of Privately Held Companies, IDC's list of the Top 10 eRecruiting providers, and Information Week's Top 100 ASPs. Last year, BrassRing was awarded HR Executive's Top 10 New Products of 2000, and earned first place in the 2000 HR Technology Conference Electronic Recruiting Shootout.

About WEDDLE's

WEDDLE's mission is to help recruiters and job seekers maximize their ROI ... their return on the Internet. It publishes a range of newsletters, guides and directories about employment-related sites on the Internet. Its "Newsletter About Internet Resources for Successful Recruiting & Retention" is currently distributed in over a dozen countries. For more information about WEDDLE's and the User's Choice Awards, please visit the WEDDLE's web site at http://www.weddles.com/awards. Voting for the 2003 User's Choice Awards is already underway.

About Bernard Hodes Group

As a fully integrated recruitment communications and staffing solutions provider, Bernard Hodes Group (http://www.hodes.com) offers a full array of services to clients in the human resources industry. These services range from advertising, e-recruiting technologies such as Hodes iQ (http://www.hodesiQ.com), consulting, media planning and employer branding to assessments and metrics, research, resume sourcing, Web development and more. The company is headquartered in New York City, with over 70 offices and affiliates around the globe. Bernard Hodes Group is a subsidiary of the Omnicom Group (NYSE: OMC) one of the world's largest communications groups.

About BrassRing

BrassRing LLC is the leader in eRecruiting and talent management innovation. BrassRing serves as the trusted partner of more than 5,000 companies, which rely upon BrassRing's Talent Relationship Management (TRM) systems, candidate sourcing technology, and recruiting services for their talent management needs. Investors in BrassRing LLC and its affiliates include The Washington Post Company, Tribune Company, Gannett Co., Inc., and Accel Partners. For additional information, visit www.brassring.com.

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