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

WALTHAM, MA, - April 2, 2003 - BrassRing, the leading provider of talent management solutions, today announced that its career board, BrassRing.com, has won a WEDDLE's User's Choice Award as the "Most Job-Seeker Friendly" Specialty Site for the second year in a row. The awards honor excellence in online job sites as judged by HR practitioners, recruiters and job seekers.

Since winning the award last year for its career board, BrassRing has adopted the same high-quality user-interface for all of its candidate facing products, including its flagship talent management solution, BrassRing Enterprise (available in both ASP and on-site versions), and the numerous career boards the company manages for its professional association and MBA partners. As a result, whenever a candidate applies for a job at a company or association powered by BrassRing, he or she will have the same familiar and award-winning experience as on BrassRing's commercial career board.

This is the second annual WEDDLE's User's Choice Awards competition 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, 2002, on the WEDDLE's web site, www.weddles.com/awards.

"The WEDDLE's User's Choice Award is important to BrassRing because it's voted on by the job seekers we seek to serve," said Robin Rasmussen, executive vice president of services for BrassRing. "More importantly, however, BrassRing has been able to leverage its recruiting expertise across the range of talent management solutions we provide to candidates and recruiters alike, providing the same award-winning experience across the board."

WEDDLE's User's Choice Award 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.

"These awards are significant for two reasons," says WEDDLE's editor and publisher, Peter Weddle. "First, there are over 40,000 employment-related sites on the Internet, so they can help others find some of the best sites online. Second, these awards are conferred by the toughest judges in the world—the job seekers and recruiters who use the sites—so selection is indeed an honor."

About WEDDLE's

WEDDLE's is a leading publisher of print guides, directories and other publications about the employment resources on the Internet. The American Staffing Association has called WEDDLE's publisher, Peter Weddle, the "Zagat" of the employment industry. Each year, WEDDLE's publishes two consumer guides—its Recruiter's Guide to Employment Web Sites and its Job Seeker's Guide to Employment Web Sites—and an address book to the 40,000+ online job boards and career portals—its Directory of Employment-Related Internet Sites. For more information about the WEDDLE's User's Choice Awards, visit the WEDDLE's web site at www.weddles.com/awards.

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 80 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 delivers talent management solutions that help companies engage people. The company offers clients a custom blend of recruitment software, talent consulting, talent acquisition products and recruitment process management. The world's most diverse and successful organizations rely on BrassRing's talent management expertise to achieve competitive advantage. Investors in BrassRing LLC and its affiliates include The Washington Post Company, Tribune Company, Gannett Co., Inc., and Accel Partners. BrassRing has earned a number of prestigious industry awards, including Upside's 2001 Hot 100 List of Privately Held Companies, IDC's list of the Top 10 eRecruiting providers, Forbes Magazine's Best-of-the-Web 2001 directory, Information Week's Top 100 ASPs, HR Executive's Top 10 New Products of the Year, CAREERXROADS Top Online Employment Site and WEDDLE'S User's Choice Award.

For more information about BrassRing, visit www.BrassRing.com.

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