| October 10, 2000 Hunt-Scanlon Hosts 2001 Human Capital Conference; Industry Leaders to Discuss Ways to Achieve Competitive Advantage Stamford, CT, October 31, 2000 - Hunt-Scanlon Advisors, the nation's leader in providing market intelligence and online information resources to senior-level executives and executive recruiting professionals, has announced its first conference of the 2001 season: "Achieving Human Capital Advantage." The two-day symposium is designed to help mid- to senior-level executives, executive recruiters, HR professionals and leaders of emerging growth companies better understand how to overcome the challenge of securing top talent in today's competitive labor market. The conference will be held February 7 and 8 in New York City at The Waldorf-Astoria. Scheduled to appear will be key speakers and panelists from Fortune 500 companies, venture capital firms, investment banks and executive search firms who are successfully winning the "War for Talent." Senior executives from companies including Accel Partners, ChiefMonster.com, GE Capital, General Atlantic Partners, Heidrick & Struggles International, Hewlett Packard, Korn/Ferry International, PepsiCo and UBS Warburg will share new perspectives on how they are reinventing human capital management strategies to achieve a competitive advantage. Among the presentations to be discussed: The CEO as Chief Recruiter; The State of the Art of Talent Seeking; Human Assets on the Balance Sheet; Talent Agents and Hired Guns; Identifying and Developing Leaders from Within; Rethinking the "Employer of Choice" Concept; and Creating Winning Recruitment and Retention Strategies. "The key consideration when measuring company performance today is the capability and influence of an organization's management team," said Dean W. Fichtner, chief marketing officer of Hunt-Scanlon. "Companies that acknowledge and quantify the value of management assets are those poised to excel in today's New Economy environment, where talent is in the shortest supply ever recorded. We expect this conference to provide an excellent forum for learning and sharing with peers. Delegates will leave with a better understanding of what they need to do to gain an edge in this fierce labor market." The Hunt-Scanlon conference - "Achieving Human Capital Advantage" - will be held in New York on February 7-8, 2001. For more information on the conference or to register online, visit www.hunt-scanlonconferences.com or call Joe Palmer, Director of Marketing at (800) 477-1199. ABOUT HUNT-SCANLON Hunt-Scanlon Corporation (www.hunt-scanlon.com) is the leading authority on the executive search and online recruiting industries, providing a range of information products and services relating to executive search, staffing, Internet recruiting, human resources and corporate diversity. These include daily real time newswires, the monthly newsletters Executive Search Review, Online Recruiting Strategist and Diversity Monitor, as well as directories of executive recruiters and Select Guides to executives in six functional staff areas (top management, human resources, finance, information technology, sales and marketing). Hunt-Scanlon is a widely quoted news source frequently referenced in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, BusinessWeek, The New York Times, Investors Business Daily, Bloomberg Newswires and Crain's. Through a separate operating unit, Hunt-Scanlon Advisors, the firm also provides comprehensive market intelligence studies, market trend surveys and forecast indicator reports on the executive search and online recruiting industries to major corporations. The company's flagship recruitment portal for senior executives, hunt-scanlon.com, is a growing online marketplace connecting buyers and sellers of recruiting services worldwide. Within this portal, Hunt-Scanlon operates four leading web sites, including executiveselect.com, recruiterlink.com, diversityonline.com and leadersonthemove.com. A third operating unit of Hunt-Scanlon, the Institute for Corporate Diversity, is the leading diversity database and research publisher in the U.S. Hunt-Scanlon acquired the diversity institute in 1999 and now publishes Diversity Monitor, the monthly trade newsletter, as well as Diversity in Corporate America, the largest diversity executive reference guide in the U.S. Contact Information:
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