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PDI announced a distributorship

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MINNEAPOLIS (July 17, 2002) – Personnel Decisions International (PDI) today announced a distributorship with Human Resources Planning (HRP), a human resources consulting firm in Athens, Greece. Under the agreement, HRP will deliver PDI’s products and services. The alliance will extend PDI's global reach to serve current and new clients, expand its language capabilities and improve its ability to provide seamless, consistent solutions to global organizations.

“We always want to be able to answer our client's requests for global talent management services, in appropriate languages and locations," says Dennis Baltzley, Managing Director of PDI-EMEA. "We have several client organizations with operations in Greece, and we are very happy to have found HRP. This alliance will help us expand our mutual client relationships in this region.”

HRP currently delivers PDI’s multi-rater products and services and has begun translating these offerings. They plan to adopt other PDI products and services progressively.

“Our vision is to become the main Human Capital Consultants in Greece and Cyprus,” says Spiros Kapnias, Founder and CEO of HRP. “We believe delivering the high quality offerings PDI is known for will help us achieve that goal.”

Over the past several years, PDI has increased the range of products and services that can be delivered in multiple languages and formed alliances with several established consulting organizations in Europe and Latin America, including: Gren Communications in Poland (Krakow and Warsaw), Newton Human Resources Management Consulting in Italy (Milan), Sponsor Management Consulting in Spain (Barcelona and Madrid) and Portugal (Lisbon), Talentos Unicos Ltda. in Colombia (Bogotá), and Dorsey, Rocha, and Associates in Brazil (São Paulo).

ABOUT HUMAN RESOURCES PLANNING (HRP)

HRP was founded in March 2001 with the aim to become the partner of choice in Human Capital Management. They specialize in HR strategy and systems, executive coaching and development, change management, resourcing and career consulting. All services are delivered by professionals who are experts in their field with extensive and successful past careers in industrial, commercial and service companies.

ABOUT HUMAN RESOURCES PLANNING (HRP)

PDI helps organizations worldwide improve their performance and achieve strategic results through people. They partner with their clients to:

• Understand the talent implications of their strategies;
• Design and implement solutions that improve individual leadership and organizational performance; and
• Accelerate change and drive lasting improvement throughout the organization.

Specific areas of expertise help clients:

• Improve talent decisions by accurately measuring performance readiness and potential;
• Develop strategy, utilizing information collected through "voice of the customer" feedback systems;
• Enhance sales effectiveness, including people development and implementation of strategic account management programs;
• Recognize and retain top talent, through the design or enhancing of talent management systems;
• Ensure they can execute their business strategies, by defining the performance and capabilities required; and
• Develop leadership capabilities.

For more information, contact PDI client relations at 920-997-6995 (in the U.S. 800-633-4410) or visit PDI's Web site at www.personneldecisions.com.