| November 21, 2000 Hunt-Scanlon and Fortune Forge Media Alliance Stamford, CT, November 21, 2000 - Hunt-Scanlon Advisors, the nation's leader in providing market intelligence to recruiting professionals and senior-level executives, today announced that Fortune Magazine will be the exclusive media partner for the company's upcoming conference, "Achieving Human Capital Advantage." The two-day forum is designed to help senior-level executives, HR professionals, executive recruiters 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. "This alliance enables both Fortune and Hunt-Scanlon to benefit from each other's highly targeted senior-level audience," said Dean W. Fichtner, chief marketing officer of Hunt-Scanlon. "We are delighted to have our conference aligned with one of the world's elite business publications." Hunt-Scanlon's conference agenda, speakers and subject matter are ideally suited toward the informational needs of Fortune's executive-level readership, said Mr. Fichtner. "Both of our organizations acknowledge the opportunities that exist in analyzing issues in the human capital sector, and we hope to collectively leverage our products and services accordingly," added Mr. Fichtner. The Hunt-Scanlon human capital conference will feature presentations from leaders of Fortune 500 companies, venture capital firms, investment banks, human resource consulting firms and executive search firms embracing progressive strategies to withstand the talent crunch. Senior executives and chief executives from companies including Verizon Communications, GE Capital, PepsiCo, UBS Warburg, Accel Partners, CareerEngine, Christian & Timbers, E-Finance Works, General Atlantic Partners, Heidrick & Struggles Ventures, Korn/Ferry International, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Ninth House Networks, Russell Reynolds Associates, Saba and Watson Wyatt Worldwide will share new perspectives on how they are reinventing human capital management strategies to achieve competitive advantage. Among the presentations to be discussed: The CEO as Chief Recruiting Officer; The State of the Art of Talent Seeking; Defining Human Capital Advantage; Talent Agents and Hired Guns; Management Assessment: How to Identify Your Talent Within; and What Makes You the "Employer of Choice" in the New Economy. The Hunt-Scanlon human capital 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 Dean Fichtner, Chief Marketing Officer 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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