HireStrategy.com Signs Agreements with Marriott, Apptus

RESTON, VA, August 1, 2000

HireStrategy.com, which provides e-recruitment services for Internet economy businesses and professionals, has signed executive recruitment agreements with global hospitality leader Marriott International, Inc., and Apptus, Inc., a Northern Virginia-based application infrastructure provider (AIP), part of the lucrative application service provider (ASP) industry.

HireStrategy will be exhibiting at “NEW 2000,” the 4th Annual Net Expo Washington at the Washington Convention Center, August 16-17.

In announcing the agreements, Paul Villella, President and CEO of HireStrategy, said: “We are proud to have been selected by Marriott and Apptus to provide staffing services. These are two very different kinds of companies. Marriott is a well-established, global leader in the hospitality industry, and Apptus is a start-up in an exciting new area of information technology. But both companies are committed to recruiting and retaining the highest quality employees, and both have put HireStrategy to work for them.”

Reston, Virginia-based HireStrategy is helping Marriott recruit executive staff for its Bethesda, Maryland headquarters. Marriott has designated HireStrategy as a “vendor of choice” for staffing services. Marriott, the world’s leading hospitality company, has more than 2,000 operating units in the United States and 57 other states and territories. The company employs 145,000 and has annual sales of $18 billion.

According to Villella: “We have a close working relationship with the Human Resources professionals at Marriott. We provide Marriott with highly-qualified, pre-screened candidates for mid- to senior-level positions.”

HireStrategy is helping Apptus, a new, Reston-based Application Infrastructure Provider (AIP), recruit information technology (IT) professionals. Apptus, which launched in late July, provides IT and Web-hosting services to companies and government agencies.

According to Mike Genebach, President and CEO of Apptus, “HireStrategy spent a lot of time up front getting to know us and our goals, objectives and needs. HireStrategy makes the staffing process quicker and more efficient for us; we don’t waste time sifting through mounds of paperwork and interviewing the wrong people. HireStrategy’s professional counselors have taken the time to consider our needs very carefully and to provide us with candidates who are not only qualified for the positions, but fit our company culture.”

HireStrategy’s Web site offers valuable career development resources and tools for candidates and proven recruitment and retention strategies for companies. “HireStrategy’s innovative approach combines the power of the Internet with personalized consulting,” says Villella. “We offer technology-based, customized services for companies, for candidates, for people interested in developing their career strategy and for others interested in finding out more about their futures in the New Economy.”

HireStrategy.com has created the leading career network for the Internet Economy. A recognized leader in helping start-ups, fast-growing and established companies build their business, HireStrategy’s innovative approach combines the power of the Internet with the value of consulting built on personal relationships. HireStrategy’s affiliates and strategic business partners include Potomac Tech Wire, Washington Techway, Fast Company, The McLean Group, Columbia Capital, Brainbench, AllBusiness.com, PlanetIT.com, Microsoft, Red Herring, Salary.com and Business 2.0. HireStrategy’s customers include America Online, Bell Atlantic, Xpedior, Nextel, Etensity, OneSoft, Network Solutions and e-know.

For more information about how to build your fast-growing company or to become a member of HireStrategy’s business network, visit our Web site, e-mail your request to Kristen Wilson, or call (703) 251-4410.