KENEXA TECHNOLOGIES PARTNERS WITH BURNING GLASS

Award Winning Applicant Tracking System to Deploy Advanced Resume Parsing & Search Technologies

For Immediate Release

LINCOLN, NE (December 3, 2003)

Kenexa Technologies, the developer of the award winning Kenexa Recruiter applicant tracking platform, announced today that it has partnered with Burning Glass Technologies, the leading provider of resume parsing, screening, and search automation, to offer Kenexa Recruiter clients the most powerful tools ever for processing resumes and screening and ranking candidates.

"We take pride in offering our clients the most powerful and easy-to-use feature sets available," said Shawn Sterling, Vice President of Kenexa. "Every day, our clients face an ever growing volume of resumes. We chose to partner with Burning Glass because their technologies are so effective at finding the needle in the haystack."

"As a company, Burning Glass puts a lot of emphasis on developing partnerships with market leaders. We are proud to be working with a company like Kenexa because of its deep commitment to client service and because of the exceptional caliber of its people. This is a team that is as perfectionist as we are," said Matthew Sigelman, Chief Executive Officer of Burning Glass.

Through Kenexa's partnership with Burning Glass, Kenexa Recruiter customers will now have access to the world's most advanced technologies for reading and extracting data from resumes and for finding the most suitable resumes for a job. As a result, companies deploying Kenexa Recruiter will be able to reduce dramatically the time and cost of handling inbound applications as well as the effort of screening through unviable resumes.

Kenexa has deploy Burning Glass's leading-edge parsing tools to allow customers to capture automatically the widest range of resume facts with the highest levels of accuracy in the industry. ResumeXRay™ processes resumes in a variety of major document formats, including MS Word, HTML, RTF, and plain text, so no matter how job seekers send their resumes, there's never any need for manual data entry. Unlike other tools, Burning Glass captures far more than just contact information, extracting employers, positions, start and end dates, job descriptions, skills used, education, and certifications, among dozens of others. Resumes are then returned to the user instantaneously in a consistent order and format.

Through its strategic alliance with Burning Glass, Kenexa will also begin offering Kenexa Recruiter users unprecedented focus in searching for relevant resumes. All applications are automatically ranked according to their fit with the job description. More than just a keyword-matching engine, Burning Glass actually reads and understands the job description so that it can make matches based on inference and context. These new Burning Glass tools also put powerful search tools at users' fingertips so they can derive greater value out of their candidate databanks. Search based on a job description written in plain English, find more candidates who look like someone you're keen on, or search for a term within a targeted part of the resume. The Burning Glass search and match engine is remarkable in that it applies patented predictive matching technology to its scoring and search functions, enabling Kenexa Recruiter users to control what candidates they see, using levers like distance from job site, years of experience in a specific job, level of education, or other defining information.

About Burning Glass Technologies

Burning Glass develops the world's most advanced and effective solutions for resume processing, screening, and search. Quickly deployed and scalable, Burning Glass applications have demonstrated an 80% reduction in cost to screen resumes and are up to 4.5 times more likely to find the right candidate for the job than existing solutions - resulting in faster time-to-hire and higher quality matches. Built atop pioneering statistical natural language processing technology, Burning Glass data extraction tools operate at the highest level of accuracy and detail in the industry. Burning Glass controls several patents in the fields of data extraction, information interpretation, behavioral profile generation, entity matching, and machine learning.

Since 1999, Burning Glass solutions have been used by major employers, recruiting agencies, applicant tracking systems, and job boards throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

About Kenexa

Kenexa (www.kenexa.com) provides software and services for comprehensive talent acquisition and performance management. Kenexa services include employment process outsourcing, behavioral assessment, employee engagement surveys and linkage research. Named Forbes Magazine's Fall 2003 'Best of the Web', Kenexa's award-winning software solutions may be used in concert with Kenexa services and integrate with existing HR management systems, providing proven, short-term return on investment through direct cost reduction, fast implementation and process improvement.

After 16 years in business, Kenexa's customers vary in size and include more than 100 of the Fortune 500 and half of the Dow 30. Headquartered in Wayne, Pennsylvania (outside Philadelphia), Kenexa employs 400 people worldwide.

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