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PEOPLESCOUT SIGNS NEW MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR RPO CLIENTS, EXPANDS GLOBAL FOOTPRINT
- PeopleScout Delivering RPO Services in More Than 25 Countries

Chicago , IL - November 2, 2009 - PeopleScout, announced it is delivering recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) services in more than 25 countries and 20 languages, to support several recent new client signings and existing client scope expansions. In addition to providing solutions in North America, PeopleScout is delivering RPO services in China, Singapore, Philippines, Japan, Australia, South Korea, New Zealand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Argentina, Ecuador, Chile, Guatemala, United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Greece, Spain and several others.

PeopleScout's aggressive expansion into international markets over the past two years comes in response to its clients' increasing global hiring needs. For example, Covance, one of the world's largest and most comprehensive drug development services companies, is engaged in an exclusive end-to-end RPO contract for PeopleScout to fill positions across four continents, including North America, South America, Australia, and Asia. The three year multi-million dollar recruitment services engagement has PeopleScout responsible for the hiring of Professional and Hourly positions, including Clinical Research Associate, Bio Statistician, Data Manager, Nurse, Research Assistant, Statistical Programmer, Study Coordinator and Technologist.

"Covance selected PeopleScout as its sole global RPO provider due to their outstanding customer service, scalability, comprehensive reporting, and proven capability to support our growth objectives in key global markets" said Raúl Valentín, Vice President of Global Recruitment and Rewards at Covance. "To date, PeopleScout has reduced cost per hire, reduced time to fill, and improved our candidate quality across four continents."

PEOPLESCOUT EXPANDS GLOBAL FOOTPRINT THROUGH RECENT CLIENT SIGNINGS: "PeopleScout's successful delivery of RPO services to several clients on a truly global scale offers a proven and well tested solution for potential buyers with global talent acquisition needs," said Patrick Beharelle, Chief Executive Officer of SeatonCorp, PeopleScout's parent company. "This investment made by PeopleScout over the past two years in developing global delivery capabilities represents a significant competitive advantage."

About Covance
Covance, with headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey, is one of the world's largest and most comprehensive drug development services companies with annual revenues greater than $1.7 billion, global operations in more than 20 countries, and more than 9,600 employees worldwide. Information on Covance's products and services, recent press releases, and SEC filings can be obtained through its website at www.covance.com.

About PeopleScout
PeopleScout is a division of SeatonCorp, a best-in-class staffing and recruiting company recently named by Crain's Chicago Business as one of Chicago's largest privately held companies. PeopleScout is a leading provider of recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) services aimed at helping companies with their exempt and non-exempt hiring needs. The firm's suite of services includes RPO, employment branding, on-boarding, and employee retention. Annually, PeopleScout facilitates over 184,000 hires via partial-cycle RPO engagements and end-to-end RPO engagements. Industries served include airline, financial services, telecommunications, retail, utilities, insurance, pharmaceutical, and transportation.

PeopleScout's clients include some of the more recognizable names in the Fortune 500 list of companies. PeopleScout has succeeded in being selected for four consecutive years to HRO Today Magazine's Baker's Dozen - the closely watched list of industry - leading RPO providers - as well as being named #1 in large deal capabilities. The firm also has also been recognized as the #1 RPO Provider by The Black Book of Outsourcing on its "2008 Top Ten HRO: Recruitment Process Outsourcing/RPO" list. For more information, please visit us at www.peoplescout.com or call 800-966-4803.

For More Information
Gerry Sullivan
Vice President, Solutions Development
(312) 915-5036
gsullivan@peoplescout.com

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