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Brookline, MA, June 25, 2008 - Zapoint today announced the availability of LifeChart™ 2.0, a highly interactive and visual representation of today's resume and online profile. Their patented LifeChart is the visual rendering of Zapoint's patent pending algorithm that analyzes a person's skills and achievement and presents the results in an objective, logical and comparable format; creating a standard and reusable currency for the entire recruitment industry

"Most economists would agree that a single currency is the best way to trade within a single territorial area," said Christopher Twyman, Founder and CEO for Zapoint. "The combination of a person's skills and achievements become the currency of the recruitment industry. Zapoint quantifies those credentials and represents them visually and objectively helping to create a single, standard format for comparing candidates. The LifeChart 2.0 provides recruiters and professionals alike an interactive facility for better managing career information and candidate assessment."

Zapoint has built a single talent management platform that can be used by professionals, recruiters, and enterprise organizations creating a single talent currency for recruiting, maintaining and developing talent. "The Zapoint LifeChart, or Talent Profile provides Talent Mobility " said Joe Brooks Vice President of Product Management at Zapoint. "The Lifechart creates a talent currency that can be used seamlessly and consistently by enterprises, universities, recruiters and professionals."

Zapoint provides integrated talent management solutions in the following areas:

• » For professionals, Zapoint provides interactive and visual tools to record their skills and achievements, create career territories to compare themselves against other Zapoint users in similar or adjacent territories, and a secured networking facility for managing peer, mentor and mentee connections.
• » For recruiters, Zapoint provides a unique search capability to instantly pinpoint the highest potential candidates, avoiding lengthy and costly filtering and assessment services. Later this summer, Zapoint will also be unveiling there latest product addition, Zapoint4recruiters that will provide dynamic resume filtering from multiple sources, networks and job boards; career site management, applicant tracking and enterprise on-boarding features.
• » For enterprises, Zapoint provides advanced talent management solutions for better recruiting, maintaining, and developing their workforce. Zapoint enterprise talent management provides an integrated suite of products that address four distinct areas for medium and large enterprises - Talent Planning & Assessment, Recruiting, Performance Management, Simulation and Communication.

About Zapoint

Zapoint, one of the fastest growing talent management software vendors in the market. With Zapoint's leading Talent Management Platform, organizations can more effectively recruit, maintain and develop their workforce capital to and sustain competitive advantage. Founded in 2007, Zapoint serves customers in virtually every country in the world. For more information, please visit www.zapoint.com

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Zapoint

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chris@zapoint.com

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Brookline, Mass. – October 8, 2007 – Eight prominent leaders within the human resources and technology industries will lend their expertise to Zapoint as members of its board of advisors. Richard Moore, Dr. Lewis Rambo, Larry Stybel, Michael Yung, Laura Avakian, Barbara Addison-Reed, James Jandl and Martha Whyte have agreed to play pivotal roles in the growth of Zapoint as the Company takes the recruiting and career management industry by storm. Founded in 2007, Zapoint helps tech-savvy, career-minded individuals take charge of their career. Unlike dated, inefficient job boards, Zapoint incorporates the latest components of social networking with search and career management tools to bring the next generation of online recruiting to employees and employers..

We are entering an established industry with a whole new approach - said Chris Twyman, Zapoint’s founder and CEO. - Our board knows the human resources and technology industries inside and out and that knowledge will be indispensable to us as we launch our product offering and navigate the challenges and opportunities that come our way in the coming months and years.;

The members of the Zapoint Board of Advisors include:

• » Richard Moore has more than 30 years experience in technology and is currently the CEO of Odeo, a digital media search and delivery company aimed at improving the podcasting experience. Richard has held multiple executive-level positions including serving as president and COO of Financial Fusion Inc., a subsidiary of Sybase Inc.
• » Dr. Lewis Rambo brings more than 20 years of experience with leadership roles within the human resources industry. His area of expertise includes human resources management, organizational development, team building and diversity.
• » Larry Stybel is a seasoned executive within the career management industry. He is the former president of the Boston Human Resource Association and has served on multiple boards within the human capital space, which include The National Human Resource Association and The New England Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors..
• » Michael Yung has been in the financial industry for almost twenty years. He was formerly senior vice president of the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS PaineWebber) and was also a vice president with CitiGroup.

Also joining the board are Laura Avakian, the former vice president of human resources at MIT; Barbara Addison-Reed, the vice president of Human Resources at Bentley College in Waltham, MA; James Jandl, the vice president of executive recruitment at Oxford Global Resources; and Martha Whyte, the head of alumni relations at Hult International Business School in Cambridge, MA.

The job market is becoming increasingly more compact as employers and job seekers alike are growing more selective in their search for the perfect fit - said Richard Moore. Zapoint is addressing this issue in a fresh way that other career-oriented tools are not. I believe Zapoint has hit on something unique – it’s virtually changing the way we all approach career management.

About Zapoint

Brookline, MA-based Zapoint aims to fundamentally change the hiring process by combining online recruiting, career management and social networking into a tool that serves employers and employees alike. Zapoint lets people create LifeCharts that more effectively showcase their experience and skills to prospective employers and forge meaningful connections with past and present colleagues. Employers gain from the Zapoint system’s ability to quickly narrow down a candidate pool to only the most qualified people. Founded in 2007, Zapoint is privately held and funded. For more information, visit www.zapoint.com.

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