Vancouver, B.C., - May 10, 2006 - Talent Technology Corporation (TTC), providers of award-winning recruitment, quality of hire, and other human capital software solutions, today announced the addition of Camille A. Olson to its Advisory Board. Ms. Olson is a partner of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. With more than 650 attorneys, Seyfarth Shaw is one of North America´s largest labor and employment law firms. Ms. Olson is a member of the firm´s Labor and Employment Law Steering Committee, and is Chair of its Employment Law Committee.
"Like our customers, we know that every step an employer takes in sourcing, screening, hiring, and on-boarding employees carries legal obligations and risk - our solutions need to respond," said Dr. David Jones, Chairman of TTC. "While our company works hard to stay abreast in the ever-changing world of legal compliance, someone like Camille adds tremendously to our comfort that we know, and are doing the right thing," Jones continued.
"I look forward to working actively with TTC," said Ms. Olson. "Already, we are developing an audit tool that I believe will break new ground in the way employers use both technology and people to accomplish their recruitment and hiring objectives," she added. "We all know it boils down to finding the best total solution, while identifying and minimizing any potential legal risks along the way. That´s where I think I can contribute the most at TTC," Ms. Olson concluded.
Camille Olson´s 20 years of practice have spanned all areas of labor and employment law. Most recently, she was lead defense trial counsel in one of the largest sexual harassment cases ever brought by the United States government against a private employer. She has litigated discrimination cases through both successful summary judgment motions and favorable jury verdicts in the context of EEOC pattern and practice cases, as well as individual matters.
Throughout the last ten years Ms. Olson has also assisted state lobbying efforts and members of Congress and individuals testifying before Congressional Committees in connection with pending legislation. Recently, Ms. Olson provided testimony to both the House Banking Committee on the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and to the EEOC on issues relating to the restructuring of the Agency. She also worked closely with employer associations in connection with various issues relating to the OFCCP´s, EEOC´s, and U.S. Department of Labor´s enforcement policies and their effect on employers.
Ms. Olson has published numerous articles and book chapters on various labor issues. She publishes a column entitled "Ask Seyfarth" that answers a wide range of employment-related questions in The Inlander. Recently, she has also been quoted on labor and employment issues in publications such as: The Chicago Tribune, Crains Chicago Business, the Wall Street Journal, Presstime, Editor & Publisher, HR Magazine and HR Wire. She has recently been described as "a media law whiz" in the San Francisco Daily Journal.
Ms. Olson joins current and former TTC Advisory Board members who include Harold Poling, former Chairman and CEO of Ford Motor Company; Deborah Smith, former senior human resources executive with Merck & Company, Xerox, Bausch & Lomb, and Coty; Peter Ciceri, former President of Compaq Canada, and Dr. Leaetta Hough, co-founder of Personnel Decisions Research Institute (PDRI) and Past-President of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP).
About Talent Technology Corporation
Talent Technology Corporation owns and operates businesses that develop, market and provide services associated with recruiting, hiring, and related workforce management technology solutions. Through its divisions, HireDeskTM and Resume Mirror, Talent Technology Corporation provides a range of award-winning recruiting and hiring technology that automates and improves the quality of the employment process in a variety of industries, providing a clear return on investment for its clients. Learn more about us at www.talenttechnologycorp.com or call 604-244-1115 for additional details.
About Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Seyfarth Shaw has over 650 attorneys located in nine offices throughout the United States including Chicago, New York, Boston, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento as well as Brussels, Belgium. Seyfarth Shaw provides a broad range of legal services in the areas of labor and employment, employee benefits, litigation and business services. The firm´s practice reflects virtually every industry and segment of the country´s business community. Clients include over 200 of the Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, newspapers and other media, hotels, health care organizations, airlines and railroads. The firm also represents a number of federal, state, and local governmental and educational entities. For more information, please visit www.seyfarth.com.
About HireDesk
HireDesk provides on demand recruitment and hiring software solutions for corporations and recruitment firms. HireDesk is the first company to seamlessly integrate competency-based assessment and hiring tools, a full-feature applicant tracking system, and post-hire performance metrics into a highly configurable, single-platform solution for mid-market corporations. HireDesk also offers solutions targeted to each recruiting discipline -- Executive Search, Permanent Placement, Temporary Staffing, Contract Staffing, Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) -- as well as hybrid solutions to support multi-discipline and multi-divisional recruitment environments. HireDesk was founded in 1999 and is a division of Talent Technology Corporation. Visit the Web at www.hiredesk.com or call 1-866-747-3375 to learn more about HireDesk and its offerings.
About Resume Mirror
Resume Mirror, a division of Talent Technology Corporation, provides innovative software components, online services and focused applications to the HR and Recruiting industry. Leading HR system vendors, job boards, resume processing companies and large corporate and staffing companies use Resume Mirror technologies and services to enhance their recruiting applications. We offer high quality resume extraction and intelligent search and match technologies that easily integrate with any recruiting application. These products enhance the functionality and deliver measurable improvements to current resume processing and search methods. Some of our customers and partners include companies such as Oracle, PeopleSoft, HRchitect, The AESC, Engenium, Aquent, Bernard Hodes Group, WCC, Authoria (formerly Hire.com), SonicRecruit, MSX International, SAIC, VirtualEdge, HireDesk, CGI, SAP and ERP Solutions. For more information on Resume Mirror, please visit www.resumemirror.com.
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