H&R Block Financial Advisors Selects Hire.com Solutions to More Efficiently Identify and Attain the Highest Quality Talent

Business Wire, Feb 5, 2002

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AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 5, 2002

Hire.com, the leading provider of talent management solutions, announced today that H&R Block Financial Advisors, the investment services and securities arm of H&R Block, has selected Hire.com to power its entire sourcing, recruiting and hiring processes.

Through an integrated suite of Hire.com solutions, H&R Block Financial Advisors will be able to build and maintain its own private talent community of the most interested, qualified and available job candidates in the market.

"We have been extremely pleased with our results from Hire.com," said Tim Clifford, Western Divisional director, H&R Block Financial Advisors. "Whether we need to hire people today or tomorrow, Hire.com's solutions allow us to vastly improve our ability to identify and stay in constant communication with the most highly qualified candidates available -- those we feel can offer the greatest contributions to our organization."

H&R Block Financial Advisors has used Hire.com's Recruiting Center(tm) to power its corporate recruiting Web site since March 2001. Now, with Hire.com's Sourcing Center(tm) and Hiring Center(tm) solutions, H&R Block Financial Advisors can tap into an even larger number of highly qualified candidates, and better screen and track those individuals coming in through the Web. Additionally, these solutions enable H&R Block Financial Advisors to cut costs typically associated with internal applicant tracking processes.

"H&R Block Financial Advisors' success in sourcing, recruiting and hiring high-quality candidates is a testament to the results our technology delivers," said Kevin Bethke, CEO of Hire.com. "Now more than ever, we are focused on helping organizations cut costs and create even greater efficiencies in the entire talent management process. By using Hire.com solutions to optimize this process, H&R Block Financial Advisors is in a better position to gain a competitive jump when talent is scarce and hiring needs surge."

Hiring Center is the team-based workflow and process management applicant tracking system from Hire.com that facilitates collaboration among hiring team members and more accurately collects and utilizes candidate data. Sourcing Center optimizes and broadens organizations' ability to effectively find, reach and establish meaningful relationships with higher quality candidates meeting specific skills and job criteria.

Hire.com has been first-to-market in providing organizations with online, results-driven solutions previously available only through traditional -- more costly and inefficient -- recruiting methods. Hire.com innovated 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 candidate results directly to the desktops of hiring authorities.

About H&R Block

H&R Block Inc. is a diversified company with subsidiaries providing a wide range of financial products and services. In 2001, H&R Block served 19.2 million taxpayers -- more than any tax or accounting firm -- through its more than 10,400 offices located in the United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. H&R Block served another 2.3 million tax clients through its award-winning TaxCut(R) software program and through its online tax preparation services. Investment services and securities products are offered through H&R Block Financial Advisors Inc., member NYSE, SIPC. H&R Block Inc. is not a registered broker-dealer. H&R Block Mortgage Corporation and Option One Mortgage Corporation offer a wide range of home mortgage products. RSM McGladrey Inc. is a national accounting, tax and consulting firm with more than 100 offices nationwide, as well as an affiliation with 550 offices in 75 countries as the U.S. member of RSM International. Quarterly results and other information are available on the company's Web site at www.hrblock.com.

About Hire.com

Hire.com empowers organizations to optimize their talent resources through an integrated suite of Talent Supply Management solutions. Since 1998, Hire.com's customer base has expanded to over 120 customers, including 24 of the Fortune 500. With customers like AT&T, EDS, Electronic Arts, Roche, Royal Caribbean, Southern Company, Reuters 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 800/953-HIRE.