Kenexa Announces General Availability of Kenexa Recruiter BrassRing Release 9

Suitable for Large Multi-National Organizations, Latest Version Features Numerous Functional Enhancements

WAYNE, Pa. (December 4, 2006) - - Kenexa® (NASDAQ: KNXA), a leading provider of talent acquisition and retention solutions, today announced the delivery of release 9 of its Kenexa Recruiter BrassRing applicant tracking system (ATS.)  Delivered via software-as-a-service (SaaS), Kenexa Recruiter BrassRing is ideal for large multi-national organizations with more than 10,000 employees with strong global requirements, such as multiple languages and localized functionality. 

 With this release, all Kenexa Recruiter BrassRing clients have been automatically upgraded to release 9.  While all the new functionality is immediately available to all clients, each client has the flexibility to configure and rollout the new functionality on their own timetable.  Highlights of this version include:
 ·        Candidate marketing, enabling highly branded, candidate-personalized e-mail communication templates to engage active candidates, attract passive candidates, and support an organization’s employment brand

·        Requisition creation enhancements, such as additional means to default data from organization to user level and more ways to differentiate roles to support clients’ multiple-role requisition creation business processes

·        Enhanced user interface with easy-to-use navigation and client-tested usability

·        Automated candidate purge that supports the establishment of one or multiple sets of business rules for automatically purging candidate data

·        Open integration, featuring HR-XML compliant integration interfaces to support multiple in- and out-bound integrations

·        Event manager supports event administration for small- and large-scale interviewing and assessment events, with automated scheduling for candidates, staff, activities and site coordination

 Rudy Karsan, Kenexa CEO, commented "Release 9 of Kenexa Recruiter BrassRing is the culmination of our development efforts since our acquisition of BrassRing.  This version has 70 specific updates in 17 functional areas and has been re-branded as Kenexa Recruiter BrassRing, which better reflects the combined intellectual property."
 
 About Kenexa

Kenexa Corporation (NASDAQ:KNXA) provides outsourcing, employee research and software to help organizations more effectively recruit and retain a productive workforce. Kenexa solutions include applicant tracking, employment process outsourcing, onboarding, skills and behavioral assessments, structured interviews, performance management, multi-rater feedback surveys, employee engagement surveys and HR Analytics. Headquartered in Wayne, Pa. (outside Philadelphia), Kenexa employs more than 1200 people worldwide. More information about Kenexa and its global locations can be accessed at www.kenexa.com.

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