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February 26, 2010 - Reliant and The Persimmon Group Announce Strategic Partnership

Reliant Attends State and Regional SHRM Conferences

September 1, 2009 - Compliant Pharmacy Alliance Chooses Reliant as HR Provider

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Reliant Articles on HRTools Website

~Dr. Wright on HRTools.com: Employee Feedback You Can Depend On: Implement Employee Surveys for Sound Business Reasons
~Spotlight on President and CEO of Reliant, Chris Wright, Ph.D

Reliant Articles on HRTools Website

~Dr. Wright on HRTools.com: Competency Modeling: How to Build Your Dream Team
~Dr. Wright on HRTools.com: No Qualified Employee Left Behind
~Dr. Wright on HRTools.com: Creating the Ideal Salesforce

Abso® and Reliant Live Partner to Help HR Teams Work Smarter

Reliant & NowHire Announce Strategic Partnership

Tech Talent - Reliant Live Gains With Web Products:

The guys behind Reliant Live have turned the most pervasive tech element on your desk into your HR department’s dream tool. Reliant, which provides web-based Strategic Talent Management (STM) solutions and services to more than 1,000 organizations, has built its business on helping its customers “acquire, develop and retain a talented workforce,” said Dr. Chris Wright, Reliant founder, CEO and president. “In terms of technology, we are leading our field in that everything that we do is Internet-based,” Wright said. “We are a completely web-hosted solution, and we have created our software products using some of the latest technologies.”

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"Talent Acquistion called Keys to Success"

McKay Edge Is First To Enter Chinese Market

McKay Edge Assessment Group announced today a historic market expansion into China. MacKay Edge will be the first employment skills testing firm to provide web-based skills testing to Chinese employers.

Tulsa, OK (PRWEB) March 31, 2006 --McKay Edge Assessment Group www.mackayedge.com), an emerging leader in employee hiring, selection and development solutions, announced an agreement to provide skills testing solutions to Career Match Solutions, Inc. (www.careermatch.cn). Career/Match provides China's first fully integrated e-Recruitment solution offering video resumes, first-to-last applicant qualification reporting, psychometric assessment and skills testing, as well as other unique features not available on any other job board or e-Recruitment site.

McKay Edge will utilize its newly developed web-based testing platform, Edgeforce to provide skills testing ranging from office and clerical tests to industrial and manufacturing. Edgeforce is the new on-demand testing engine developed by McKay Edge to provide plug-in free and platform independent assessments across the globe. Bryan Wempen, President of McKay Edge Assessment Group, is enthusiastic about this market expansion. We have translated our skills assessments into six languages, including Traditional and Simplified Chinese, in order to support our global expansion.

Don Carter, CEO of Career Match Solutions, says, We are extremely pleased to partner with McKay Edge to offer the Edgeforce solution in China. This unique skills testing platform together, with our e-Recruitment solution, will provide a complete screening mechanism for finding the right talent for employers in China faster and more cost effectively.

McKay Edge has also signed a contract with a large European staffing agency to provide skills testing to their offices in France, Belgium and Germany. Wempen explains, We have developed Edgeforce with ultimate flexibility in mind so that we can adapt our technology to the emerging markets around the world. Flexibility and fairness are very important to us. Edgeforceâ"¢ allows our testing to be accessed over a low bandwidth connection, and doesn't require any special browser plug-ins to function correctly.

With a workforce of over 700 million, China is a virtual untapped source as an employment skills testing market. The idea of being first in China is amazing. We are confident that this expansion will fuel our expansion globally.

Media Contact:
Bryan Wempen
Phone: 888-825-6080 ext. 103
bryanw@reliantlive.com

About McKay Edge

McKay Edge has been helping companies improve employee selection, streamline hiring, and increase performance by offering superior assessments since being founded in 2000.

About Bryan Wempen:

Mr. Wempen brings experience ranging from leadership in a multi-national staffing company to pioneering technology-based start-ups. Wempen was a former Officer and Regional Vice President of Labor Ready Inc., a publicly traded staffing company [NYSE:LRW] with sales over $1.1 billion USD in annual revenue. While working with Labor Ready, Mr. Wempen was appointed Officer and Regional Vice President of Operations, Eastern U.S., Puerto Rico and United Kingdom, the largest operations area with sales exceeding $400 million USD generated from 300+ locations at that point in time.

Talent Strategy becomes McKay Edge Assessment Group

Tulsa, Okla. July 1, 2005 Talent Strategy, Inc., an innovator in selection and development solutions, is entering a new phase of growth as McKay Edge Assessment Group.

Talent Strategy has remained a small, privately held provider of assessments since 1999. In expanding its vision by adding products and providing services globally, Talent Strategy has taken the next step with the company image by changing its name to McKay Edge Assessment Group. The Company provides services in United States, Canada, Mexico and Australia.

Today, McKay Edge provides companies with pre-employment assessments that test applications business skills, personality and cognitive ability prior to investing valuable training time (money).

Based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, McKay Edge enables companies to increase employee tenure and reduce turnover by providing quality assessments. Implementing employment assessment tools is key to providing a successful long-term, sustainable recruitment strategy.

McKay Edge delivers an integrated employee lifecycle platform that provides companies a solid benchmark to make decisions.

Our goal to assist businesses reach objectives, by reducing time spent with unqualified applicants, remains the same, said Bryan Wempen, President of MacKay Edge Assessment Group. Since 1999, our loyal clients have helped us consistently achieve our business goals, and we continue to grow.

The re-branding which has been under development for approximately five months is designed to emphasize the new image along with new product lines.

McKay Edge Assessment Group will launch a re-branding campaign to introduce the new name to clients and the public this month. The Company anticipates all products to be released under the new McKay Edge brand by July 15, 2005. The Web site is now available at mackayedge.com

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Leo Burnett Worldwide selects CorporateSurvey.com to manage its Global Climate Survey

PennWell Publishing Company, Sequoyah Technologies, and CorporateSurvey.com introduce Dental Office Sites by Dental Economics.

Tulsa, Okla. (Jan. 1, 2004) Three Tulsa-based companies; PennWell Publishing Company, Sequoyah Technologies, and CorporateSurvey.com have partnered to release a new suite of online tools for Dentists called Dental Office Sites by Dental Economics .

The purpose of these powerful online tools are Patient Acquisition and Retention (PAR), said Dan Collier of Sequoyah Technologies. Dental Economics is one of the oldest and most respected dental publications in the world. Our research among dental professionals helped to guide the development of these new online tools, said Dr. Wright.

This suite of online tools provides many unique features including:

The entire suite of products is extremely affordable at $75.00 month. If Dentists acquire one new patient through their web site or retain one patient, who otherwise would have left, using the patient satisfactions surveys the dentist has paid for the service for the entire year.

In addition, the online tools are easily maintainable by the dentist or staff members within the dentist's office. "Our research shows that dentists do not want a product that is difficult to work with or that requires the assistance of many IT professionals", said Dan Collier. These tools were designed to be used by anyone, regardless of his or her familiarity with the Internet.

The Dental Office Sites by Dental Economics suite of online tools will be introduced at the Southwest Dental Conference in Dallas, TX on January 8-10th. Dental Economics will also begin a serious of advertisements and articles in their publication beginning in January.

CorporateSurvey.com and acclaimed author Clifton Taulbert collaborate to create RAI Online Assessment.

Tulsa, Okla. (Nov. 17, 2003) - Clifton Taulbert, the Pulitzer nominated author of the book, Eight Habits of the Heart, and president of the Building Community Institute, based in Tulsa, is expanding his reach into the corporate world. Taulbert has partnered with Dr. Chris Wright of CorporateSurvey.com, a local management consulting firm that specializes in online research. Taulbert and Wright formed the partnership and together their companies developed a new business climate assessment tool.

The purpose of this survey is to assist businesses in establishing a climate baseline, allowing for a more focused approach to leadership and diversity training, said Taulbert. Thus, maximizing their employees potential and ultimately increasing their bottom line.

Taulbert asserts that all employees have barriers, real or perceived, that keep them from becoming fully engaged.

As long as these barriers exist, employees cannot have fully engaged minds which are essential for a company to really reach its potential, said Wright. Our R.A.I. assessment will help build and develop these fully engaged minds.

Wright said this is a proactive, rather than a reactive, approach and that this new program of assessment and learning educates employers in building an environment that welcomes and values its diversity moving compliance to opportunity.

Taulbert says that successful work environment all demonstrate the presence of three primary components: Respect, Affirmation and Inclusion, or R.A.I. Taulbert states, "Without the presence of R.A.I., there is a great likelihood of diminished productivity and fulfillment."

"This survey can be administered company-wide and is designed to measure the presence of R.A.I.",said Wright. "We ask employees questions directly related to their personal experiences, observations and feelings of respect, affirmation and inclusion within their workplace."

Once the employees complete the desktop survey, several reports are generated and analyzed, said Wright. Then the findings are presented to the executive officers of the company.

"This baseline of employee feedback is critical to help executives have first-hand knowledge of how their employees view their workplace," said Wright. "This also allows the executives to understand what they need to do to improve their organization's work environment."

"Here we have the opportunity to really shed some light on what is keeping employees from feeling a sense of belonging and being fully engaged," said Taulbert. "The leaders of the company must then be committed to taking advantage of both the challenges and the opportunities."

To assist the executive officers in facilitating change, Taulbert offers interactive half-day and full-day workshops. Doug Decker of the Building Community Institute coordinates the administration of the survey and its resulting executive reports, as well as arranging for the learning workshops, which are then delivered by Taulbert or one of the Institute's certified staff members.

"The workshops are successful because we engage the employees to be open and honest with forward thinking," said Decker.

Taulbert said his Eight Habits of the Heart are the central piece of the workshop because they drive the building community process, essential for a productive and successful 21st century workplace.

"The way to dismantle workplace barriers is to build a community branded by R.A.I.," said Taulbert. "That is what the Eight Habits of the Heart are all about."

Some of the Companies that have been through the R.A.I. workshops and R.A.I assessment include: Lockheed Martin, Capital One Dallas, Memorial Health Care Systems and Kansas Gas Services, a division of ONEOK.