UNICRU LAUNCHES SMART ASSESSMENT DS FOR HIRING MANAGERS

Unicru, one of the nation's leading providers of technology-based hiring solutions for recruiting and retention of hourly workers, announced the launch of Smart Assessment, a decision support system that uses artificial intelligence for hiring hourly employees.

Smart Assessment technology (patent pending) "learns" patterns contained in a company's employment history data and applies that knowledge to the selection of prospective employees. The first implementation of Smart Assessment technology will be used to forecast an applicant's tenure within a two-month range with over 70 percent accuracy.

On average, customers using Unicru's current recruiting technology have seen decreases in employee turnover of 10 to 30 percent and reduced hiring time by more than half. Unicru's on-site job center and Web-based employment application makes it easy for candidates to apply, dramatically increasing the number of job applicants being processed. In addition, customers have seen improved sales and greater employee effectiveness. Unicru's Smart Assessments take these results to the next level, allowing hiring managers to identify the right person for the right job faster and more consistently.

"For the first time, it is economically and technically feasible to bring world-class behavioral prediction to the hourly labor market, which includes over 110 million workers in the United States alone," according to Dr. David Scarborough, manager of strategic information products at Unicru. "Smart Assessments represent a breakthrough in employee selection decision support that allows companies to do a better job in hiring by learning from their own employment lifecycle history."

Artificial intelligence, which is used by stock market analysts to predict fluctuations in trading prices, has never before been applied to the human capital management field. With the advantages of adaptive technology and a paperless data flow, hiring managers have more tools to make informed employment decisions. As a result, clients using Unicru's Smart Assessment technology can expect to see additional reductions in employee turnover in the range of 10 percent and more.

"Unicru's Smart Assessment technology is going to help our hiring managers make wise decisions when recruiting hourly workers," said Laurie Saylor, director of employee relations and staffing at The Sports Authority. "With the information the Smart Assessment technology provides, my company will now be able to predict employee tenure, thereby reducing turnover and increasing ROI."

"This Smart Assessment technology marks the ingenuity of Unicru," said Sharon Ward, director of enterprise business applications for The Hurwitz Group. "Unicru continues to increase the value of human capital management for the market by bridging the digital divide between hourly workers and their employers with recruiting technology that matches the right applicant with the right job."

In the future, Unicru will add Smart Assessment modules available to customers including predictions for employee performance, attendance, dependability and culture/team fit.

About Unicru

Unicru Inc, formerly Decision Point Systems, provides technology-based hiring solutions for the recruiting and retention of hourly workers, via on-site electronic application centers, back-office processing of an employer's online hiring system, and a Web site for hourly workers and employers. The company's services are used nationwide with over 12,000 on-site electronic application centers and a new Internet presence. Unicru currently processes applications at a run rate of 3.2 million per year. Customers include Toys R Us, Blockbuster Video, Target, Macy's West and Hollywood Entertainment. For more information about Unicru, visit the company's Web site at www.unicru.com.

Contact Unicru, Suzame Tong, 503-596-3257, stong@unicru.com.