Federated Department Stores Honored with Three Wins at 2005 ER Excellence Awards

San Francisco, CA - WetFeet, Inc., provider of hiring management systems, WetFeet RecruiterTM, today announces Federated Department Storesí honors for excellence at the recent ER Expo 2005 Spring Conference. Federated won the first annual ER Excellence award for Best Corporate Careers Website and received Honorable Mention for two additional awards, the Most Strategic Use of Technology and Recruiting Leader of the Year for Susan Burns, Operating Vice President of Employment Initiatives and College Relations at Federated Department Stores.



Nominees for the Best Corporate Careers Website award were judged on the innovative, interactive, and comprehensive nature of their online recruitment sites. Federated Department Storesí Retailology career site (www.Retailology.com) exemplifies excellence in all these facets with its individual branded sites, profiles of success, career paths, job descriptions, video presentations, a self-assessment tool, dedicated college recruitment site, training and development info, and seamlessly integrated job search engine, which also delivers custom screening questions by position.

Originally designed to educate students on careers in the retail industry, Federated has greatly expanded Retailology and its online presence by launching individually branded career websites for each of its retail and support divisions, including Macyís and Bloomingdaleís, and implementing WetFeet Recruiterís Hiring Management System enterprise-wide. This has enabled Federated to integrate job posting, job searching, and online applications across all divisions of the company with an extremely robust, content-rich, and easy-to-use candidate interface. Federated also contributed to the development of WetFeet Recruiterís recently implemented Enterprise Interview Scheduler, the industryís first integrated candidate self-service technology for high-volume interview scheduling, a factor that contributed to the firmís additional recognition in the Most Strategic Use of Technology award category. Retailology currently receives an average of 11,600 visitors a day.

In addition to these corporate awards, Susan Burns, Federatedís Operating Vice President of Employment Initiatives and College Relations, earned an Honorable Mention in the individual category of Recruiting Leader of the Year. Susanís vision and devotion to excellence have enabled Federated to develop and establish its employment brand and recruitment website into the dominant career portal in the retail industry. Susan has been instrumental in collaborating with WetFeet to provide technical solutions that streamline the recruiting process and improve both recruitersí and candidatesí experiences.

Hosted by the Electronic Recruiting Exchange, the ER Excellence Awards is an annual awards program recognizing excellence in corporate recruitment practices throughout the world. The awards are judged by a leading panel of recruiting industry experts and practitioners, including Dr. John Sullivan, Gerry Crispin, Lou Adler, Kevin Wheeler, as well as top staffing executives from T-Mobile and Starbucks.

Federated has been a pioneer in the retail industry in utilizing technology to distinguish its employment brand, improve the candidate experience, and provide informative, up-to-date, interactive information. WetFeet celebrates this industry recognition of excellence for Federatedís Retailology corporate careers website.

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