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February 19, 2008 NEW YORK, NY

Sterling Integrates Background Screening Services With Taleo's Talent Management Platform

Integrated Solution to Provide Employers with Improved Recruiting Efficiency and Quality

Sterling Testing Systems, Inc., the leading, private provider of pre-employment screening services, announced today that it has entered into an alliance with Taleo (NASDAQ: TLEO), the leading provider of talent management solutions. Under the terms of the agreement, Sterling's background screening services will be integrated with Taleo's leading on demand recruiting solution, Taleo Enterprise Edition.

Sterling's certified integration with Taleo Enterprise Edition 7.5 will allow customers to quickly and more efficiently initiate background screens from the Taleo talent management platform. With this integration, applicant data can be securely and automatically transferred to Sterling, eliminating the need for faxing or redundant data entry. The result is a more efficient, accurate and timely screening and on-boarding process.

"Sterling Testing Systems is proud to partner with Taleo," said Paul Mladineo, Vice President of Strategic Development, Sterling. "Our companies share a mutual commitment to building long-term customer relationships based on quality of service and expanding technology. Our proprietary, technology-based Court DirectSM platform has enabled Sterling to provide the fastest criminal record searches in the industry. We fully expect that Taleo's customers will experience measurable productivity improvements in their hiring management processes driven by the individual and integrated efficiencies of our solutions."

"In order for employers to recruit qualified candidates, hire talented employees, meet aggressive time-to-hire metrics and properly screen final candidates, they must use a world-class talent management platform with a tightly integrated, robust background screening process," said Fred Harding, Vice President of Global Alliances, Taleo. "With this alliance, Taleo can offer employers an end-to-end recruitment and screening solution that will help them streamline and simplify the complex talent acquisition processes common to large enterprises."

"Sterling and Taleo have developed technology solutions between their systems in the past to help McGraw-Hill streamline our recruitment and pre-employment screening process," said Brian Jensen, Vice President of Talent Acquisition at The McGraw-Hill Companies. "With the announcement that Sterling and Taleo have entered into an enhanced partnership and will be offering a seamless integration, McGraw-Hill is excited that we will continue to be able to rely on two of the industry-leading HR solution-providers to deliver a full-cycle talent acquisition and screening solution."