StepStone has added 22 New Customers and Ä650,000 of Sales

During the 4th quarter, StepStone has added 22 new customers for its solutions products and generated total sales in excess of Ä650,000.

The EasyCruitHR product, acquired by StepStone in October 2004, has been selected by 10 new customers. These include Stabburet, Connect Search & Selection, Kredinor, Riksklagare, SATS, Deloitte, Din Gode Rekrutteringspartner, Adecco Select, MacDonalds and Storebrand. With customers in Sweden and the UK, as well as in Norway, StepStone has already successively introduced the product into new markets through its established organisations.

StepStone OneStep has been selected by 10 new customers in Denmark, Sweden and Belgium, including TUI, Passage Fitness, Gordios, Biovitrum, Nobel Biocare, Occasio, Systemet and Puratos.

Also in the quarter, the YIT Group selected the HireEnterprise product from StepStone. YIT is a leading provider of Building Systems, Construction Services, Services for Industry and Data Network Services with a turnover in excess of Ä2.4 billion.

A number of established and successful users of StepStoneís solutions, including Novare, Carrefour Belgium and Toyota Europe, have renewed their contracts during Q4.

StepStone Solutions products are delivering impressive results and financial returns to its customers. At Novare, where HireEnterprise is used on behalf of multiple clients including the telecommunications operator 3, hiring times have been reduced from between 8 and 10 weeks to 6 weeks, giving an immediate increase in capacity of 30%. In its first 9 months of operation, the system has been used to recruit over 400 people with only 8 in-house recruiters, and built a talent community of over 24,000 candidates.

In addition, during Q4 the first online recruitment sites for Canon, based on the use of the HireEnterprise technology from StepStone, have gone live, supporting recruitment of English, French and German speaking candidates. Roll out in other markets will continue during Q1 2005. According to John Ryrie, general manager of European HR strategy at Canon, ìThe StepStone Solutions approach truly is a quantum leap in terms of recruitment best practices. We see it as providing an opportunity for HR to add measurable benefits to our organisation. Improving the quality of the people we employ touches everyone in the company.î

ìIn Q4 we passed the 100 mark in terms of the number of organisations across Europe who have adopted our recruitment solutions,î said Colin Tenwick, CEO of StepStone. ìI believe that this clearly establishes StepStone as Europeí s leading provider in this expanding market.î