HR-XML Certifications Expand Globally

Latest HR-XML Certification Awards to CareerJunction, Manpower France, and Volt Information Sciences, Inc.

LAS VEGAS, NV, 2007 June 26 -- The HR-XML Consortium announced today that it has awarded certifications to CareerJunction, Manpower France, and Volt Information Sciences, Inc. The award for Volt Information Sciences, Inc. was a renewal of an earlier certification. The certification for Manpower in France is in addition to an earlier certification granted to Manpower. The certification for CareerJunction is the first awarded to that company.

• CareerJunction is South Africa's number one online placement solution. CareerJunction was established in 1997 with the aim of providing a state of the art Online Recruitment solution for both CareerSeekers and Recruiters by delivering new levels of speed, ease and efficiency to both sides of the recruitment spectrum. With over 650 companies already advertising on our website, CareerJunction is the market leader with innovative Online Recruitment products and solutions. For more information, please visit: http://www.careerjunction.co.za.
  
  
• Manpower in France is one of the leaders in the employment services industry with a turnover of 4,8 billion Euro in 2006. Organized in a network of 1,130 branches (including 1,030 branches under Manpower brand), Manpower in France delivers services to more than 90,000 customers (from SMEs to global companies), whatever the industry (services, transport and logistics, construction, etc). ISO 9001:2000 certified, the 4,700 employees of Manpower in France assign more than 130,000 people every day. For more information, please visit http://www.manpower.fr.
  
  
• Volt Information Sciences, Inc. is a leading provider of global infrastructure solutions in technology, knowledge-based services, and human capital acquisition for its FORTUNE 100 customer base. Operating through an international network of 350 Volt Workforce Solutions locations, the human capital segment fulfills IT, engineering, administrative, and industrial workforce requirements of its customers, for both professional search and contingent/contract personnel as well as managed services programs and Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) services. For additional information, please visit: http://www.volt.com.

The HR-XML Consortium’s "HRcertify program" certifies HR solutions that conform to the HR-XML Consortium’s interoperability standards. Organizations that successfully complete the HR-XML Consortium’s certification process are awarded a logo to use on their websites and a conformance statement within a registry located at www.HRcertify.org. The HR-XML certified logo indicates that the solution provider is a technology leader and is ready to integrate flexibly and opportunistically with customers and partners.

Other HR-XML Consortium certified companies are: Acxiom Information Security Services; American Background; Applicant Insight Limited, Inc.; BenefitsXML Inc.; BrassRing; Business Information Group (BIG); Candidate Manager Ltd; CareerBuilder.com LLC; Certiphi Screening, Inc.; ChoicePoint; ClearStar.net; deverus; eWork Exchange Inc.; ExecuTRACK Solutions; Fidelity Investments; First Advantage; The Gallup Organization; HireDesk; HireRight; HR Services, Inc.; InfoMart; IntelliCorp; JobFlash; Jobpartners Ltd.; Justifacts Credential Verification, Inc.; Lawson Software, Inc., Manpower; MetLife Inc.; milch & zucker; Monster; MrTed Limited; onTargetjobs; Oracle; PeopleBank; Peopleclick; Questionmark; Resume Mirror, Inc.; SHL Group PLC; SHPS; Sovren; Sterling Testing Systems; Taleo; Truescreen, Inc.; Unicru; USA-FACT; USIS; Valtera; Volt Information Sciences, Inc.; and Vurv.

"We congratulate these organizations for achieving HR-XML Consortium certification," said Chuck Allen, HR-XML Consortium Director. "HR decision-makers are making compliance with open standards part of the criteria they use when procuring HR solutions. We are pleased to see that the value of HR-XML Certification increasingly is recognized around the world," Allen remarked. For information about the HR-XML Consortium’s certification program, please visit http://www.hrcertify.org

About HR-XML

The HR-XML Consortium, Inc. (http://www.hr-xml.org) is the recognized authority on, and leading source of, global interoperability standards for human resources management. Membership within the HR-XML Consortium is open to HR professionals, vendors, consultants, and other users or providers of HR systems and services. For further information, visit http://www.hr-xml.org/forms/join.