July-2008: Bond recognised by Gartner

BOND RECOGNISED BY GARTNER
Bond International Software joins the Gartner Magic Quadrant for
e-Recruitment Software for the first time.

2 July 2008: Bond International Software, the global provider of recruitment &
human capital management software and services, today announces that it has been
added to the 2008 Gartner Magic Quadrant for e-Recruitment Software – the first time
that Bond has been included. Gartner notes that Bond “has a solid global service and
support infrastructure, as well as a global product foundation. Its experience in the thirdparty
staffing firm market provides it with credibility in the corporate recruiting market
and it has financial viability through its stock market listing”.

Software vendors were assessed according to two primary criteria – Ability to Execute
and Completeness of Vision – resulting in 22 vendors being selected for inclusion in the
quadrant from a total surveyed base of 128. Only vendors that had over 100 erecruitment
software customers, 1,000 employees and more than $25 million in total
revenue were included in the research, so as, according to Gartner, “to reflect the
continuing maturing and consolidation in the market”.

Bond is a rapidly growing provider of web-based e-recruitment and talent management
software to the corporate market. Bond Talent is a powerful and versatile web-based
application specifically developed for organisations who wish to streamline their in-house
recruitment processes and save costs, used by some of the best known corporations,
including HBOS, Habitat, The Co-operative Group and easyJet.

Tim Richards, Managing Director of Bond International Software, comments, “We are
delighted to be recognised within the industry in this way. Gartner’s emphasis in the
report on recruitment automation to improve efficiency, whilst supporting industry &
geographic needs and recruitment challenges, highlights precisely our functionality and
ethic. Our software products are designed not as ‘out-of-the-box’ solutions, but as
flexible platforms from which we can evolve an entirely tailored solution to meet any
business’ recruitment needs.”

The Gartner report also highlighted areas in which the customer base expects to see
development in the functionality of recruitment software, most notably candidate
relationship management, workforce planning and interview management. Richards
comments, “We already provide many of the services mentioned in the areas of required
development. Those requirements that are not currently within our portfolio will be in the
very near future and are already being actively pursued in our research division.”

For more information on the Gartner research, please see: Magic Quadrant for e-
Recruitment Software by James Holincheck, 10 June 2008