WorkLife Solutions, Inc. Establishes Exclusive Content Partner Consortium for AltaVista Live! Careers Channel

Business Wire, Jan 28, 2000

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 28, 2000

Internet Industry Consortium Announces Integrated

Career Portal Solution

WorkLife Solutions Inc. has established a Consortium of leading online employment and career development companies to provide job seekers, the self-employed and employers with the Web's first integrated career portal solution.

The Consortium -- which includes kforce.com, CareerPath, FreeAgent.com, KnowLedgepool.com, Ecruiter.com and CareerTV, -- also announced that the WorkLife Consortium was formed as a means to manage the content agreement for the AltaVista Live! Careers Channel (http://www.careers.av.com), a site that WorkLife has managed since March 1999. More than 47 million unique users worldwide visited AltaVista in December.

The Consortium's career portal content solution provides an integrated approach to providing a broad spectrum of employee and employer-related services, including executive search, workforce staffing, training, career counseling, management coaching, freelancers, education, job and resume management, certification, multimedia and employment advertising. The WorkLife Consortium also includes more than 1 million job listings, the largest consolidation of its kind on the Web.

&uot;A dynamic economy demands a more efficient and effective employment solution for both employers and employees,&uot; said Chani Pangali, CEO of WorkLife Solutions, Inc. &uot;This next wave in Web-based recruiting provides employees with a one-stop service that makes it easy and attractive to take an ongoing involvement in managing the full range of their career needs. It also improves the quantity and quality of candidates for employers.&uot;

WorkLife Solutions, Inc., which manages the WorkLife Consortium on behalf of its career and recruiting content members, is a leading provider of Internet Career Portals and Intranet Corporate Career Portals. WorkLife brought together the consortium of industry leaders from the major employment service segments as Content Partners to help end users easily access and navigate through a highly fragmented market of career-related services. Each of the Consortium members bring their respective areas of expertise together to enhance the job finding and career development options for job seekers, employers and self-employed professionals at the AltaVista Live! Careers Channel.

&uot;This consortium of industry leaders will further enhance the career content that WorkLife brings to AltaVista,&uot; said Ross Levinsohn, VP and general manager of New Media at AltaVista. &uot;Delivering a content-rich offering in the career management space complements our mission of providing customers premier Web-wide services.&uot;

Expanding from Job Seekers to Quality Candidates

The WorkLife Content Partner Consortium was formed to address a shift in employment trends as noted by many industry observers. The first phase of Internet-based recruiting focused on aggregating active job seekers and matching their resumes with announced employer openings.

But an increasingly tight labor market has created a demand for an expanded pool of potential candidates, often referred to as &uot;Career Minded Professionals&uot; or &uot;passive job seekers&uot; -- qualified workers who are not actively looking for a position, but committed to improving their career development process.

Combining the quality of a career development content with the broad reach of a major portal and the targeted reach of vertical portals increases the likelihood that employers will find quality candidates. The Consortium's integrated career portal content solution provides AltaVista Live! Careers channel with the content to drive repetitive visits by career minded professionals as well as the active job seeker.

Leaders Approach

Each segment of WorkLife's Content Partner Consortium is provided by a leader in the respective employment market segment. WorkLife Consortium members providing exclusive content to WorkLife include:

     Executive Search                   Heidrick and Struggles
                                          (Leaders Online)
     Staffing                           Kforce.com
     Job Board                          CareerPath.com
     Training                           Knowledgepool.com
     Career Counseling                  Kforce.com
     Freelancers                        FreeAgent.com
     Job &Resume Management            E-Cruiter.com
     Multi-Media Employment Advertising CareerTV

About AltaVista

AltaVista Company is the premier media and commerce network offering Internet users up-to-the-minute news, live video, content, search and shopping resources. The company integrates unique technology, products and services to deliver relevant results faster for both individuals and businesses. AltaVista is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif.

About WorkLife Solutions, Inc.

WorkLife Solutions, Inc. (www.worklife.com) is a leading provider of Internet career portals and corporate career portals. In 1995, WorkLife created one of the first career centers on Internet for MSN.com, aggregating more than 30 leading career, human resources and entrepreneur brands.