StepStone Thriving in Q1, building on Strong Q4 Performance

StepStone today announced that both its Online and Solutions business units are experiencing strong demand in Q1, continuing to build on the excellent performance demonstrated in Q4 2006.

StepStoneís Online business continues to receive positive signs of continued momentum across all countries with record traffic; increased listings and high renewal rates from existing customers and a stream of new customers. Recent acquisitions, IT-Jobbank in Denmark, JobbSverige in Sweden and JobFinder in Austria all continue to grow as they benefit from group synergies in sales and technology. Q1 customer highlights include:

In Norway, StepStone has signed a partnership to be the exclusive supplier of job vacancies to Hegnar.no, the leading online Norwegian business newspaper.

StepStone Germany has completed a new agreement with Deloitte that will extend beyond 2007 into 2008.

Other important customers include the Recruiting Centre in The Netherlands and Telenor in Denmark.

StepStoneís Solutions business has seen a strong start to 2007 with some notable new customers and a rapid expansion of its global footprint - particularly in Asia and Central and Eastern Europe. Q1 customer highlights include:

Legal firm Linklaters and charity Save the Children have chosen StepStone to power their respective global e-recruitment requirements

Marriott and Atkins have expanded the reach of their platforms to support their local hiring activity in China.

PriceWaterhouseCoopers has expanded their solution into China

Denmark continues to dominate the local market with nine new contracts signed in this quarter - including AstraZeneca - which has selected EasyCruit as its e-recruitment tool of choice.

In the UK the Crown Prosecution Service has chosen StepStone, representing the biggest public sector transaction in the year to date.

Recently acquired ExecuTRACK is also performing well during the ongoing integration into StepStone. ExecuTRACK Q1 highlights include:

Platform release, 10.3, redesigned with StepStone branding and a new module ëMarket Compensationí that allows comparison of market data.

Major new customer win of EADS in Germany and France

Growing pipeline of potential agreements for customers which will adopt both ExecuTRACKís ETWeb platform and existing StepStone e-recruitment solutions.

ìThis is an exciting time for our business. We have just reported record breaking results for the fourth quarter of 2006 and StepStone continues to thrive in the first quarter of 2007,î comments Colin Tenwick, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of StepStone.

ìWe are strongly positioned as the leading European provider of Total Talent Solutions with expectations for continued growth in both our core businesses and our recent acquisitionsî

Colin Tenwick will be presenting at the Thomas Weisel Internet and Digital Media Conference, 2007 on Tuesday, 6 March 2007, San Francisco.