Kenexa Expands Recruitment Process Outsourcing Team With Strategic New Hire

WAYNE, PA--(Marketwire - July 31, 2008) - Kenexa® (NASDAQ: KNXA), a leading provider of recruitment and retention solutions, today announced that Craig Julien has joined the company as director of Global Product Management and Marketing for its Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) division. He has spent the last 13 years in the HR outsourcing industry, with the last four years focused on the talent acquisition and management sector, where he was a general manager for one of the top five applicant tracking system (ATS) vendors.

Julien has demonstrated considerable expertise in a number of areas, including service delivery and management, sales, product management, business development and strategy. Prior to his tenure in the HR industry, he held a number of positions in operations management at a large national insurance carrier. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California at Irvine.

Phil Stewart, RPO practice leader and chief people officer, Kenexa, said, "Craig brings a wealth of experience and a track record of success that will reinforce Kenexa's commitment to the RPO space. As we continue our impressive growth in this category, his leadership will benefit our customers, our employees and our organization."

Designed to operate effectively in a global business environment, Kenexa is providing recruitment process outsourcing to clients on six major continents. Kenexa's large-scale recruitment campaigns and staffing operations help organizations build globally competitive workforces while reducing operating costs, creating variable cost structures, improving candidate quality and expediting speed-to-market.

About Kenexa

Kenexa (NASDAQ: KNXA) is a global leader in building the world's greatest workforces using a combination of software, employee research science and business process optimization. Kenexa's global solutions include applicant tracking, onboarding, recruitment process outsourcing, employment branding, skills and behavioral assessments, structured interviews, performance management, multi-rater feedback surveys, employee engagement surveys and HR Analytics. Kenexa is headquartered in Wayne, Pa. with offices in eighteen countries worldwide. Additional information about Kenexa and its global products and services can be accessed at www.kenexa.com.