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APG and Chally Form Strategic Alliance to Provide Intelligent Hiring and Organizational Development Solutions

Human Performance Consulting Firm Adds Premier Assessment Services

TIBURON, Calif. (Aug. 26, 2003) - Advantage Performance Group (APG), one of the world's largest human performance consulting networks, today announced a strategic alliance with The HR Chally Group (Chally), a provider of candidate assessment tools and organizational development services for sales, customer service and management positions. Clients of APG can now leverage unique methods from Chally to evaluate the skills and talent of existing employees and predict success of future hires.

With more than 30 years of research into what makes sales and marketing professionals successful, Chally currently creates EEO-compliant assessment tools that predict success with 25% to 30% more accuracy than conventional screening methods like interviews and personality tests. With this alliance, APG provides organizations with a validated tool for pre-screening new hires and for organizational development analysis, in which companies assess the skills and talent of their organizations to match employees with the most suitable job.

"Chally has the most foolproof assessment tools available on the market today," said Mark Little, senior vice president, Monster.com. "Paired with APG, we have a team that can help us make the best assessment and best training decisions for our fast-moving organization."

With 80% of Fortune 500 companies missing their revenue targets, many companies are focusing their efforts on building sales and marketing teams with new and different skill sets to increase top line sales success. APG can now help these companies train current employees and make candidate selections that meet new standards of excellence with expediency and accuracy.

"We're thrilled to be working with APG moving forward, and very excited about their comprehensive approach to employee selection and development, which complements our research and assessment services," said John G. Wood, vice president Business Development, The HR Chally Group.

"This is another example of how we, as an independent training group, seek out and align ourselves with the best resources to better serve our clients. Now, in addition to 'making the training right' to meet specific business objectives, we can also strengthen the organization by predicting the success of new and existing employees with almost foolproof accuracy," said Glenn Jackson, president, APG.

About The HR Chally Group

For more than a quarter century, organizations around the world have used The HR Chally Group to evaluate and identify the strategies and personnel they need to create effective sales, marketing and organizational structures. Chally's precursor was founded in 1977 with a grant to develop the first actuarially based employee selection test for the Department of Justice. Today Chally serves over 2,000 customers with selection testing services to accurately predict future work effectiveness available in four languages. Working from the largest database of sales benchmarking information available today, Chally continually identifies and updates the specific employee skills and competencies that prove to be essential to organizational success. Chally offers a variety of services and products including: personnel assessment testing (employment testing), selection validation, customer and market audits and benchmark analyses.

About Advantage Performance Group

Advantage Performance Group (APG) is one of the world's largest and fastest growing human performance consulting networks, and was recently named as one of the largest management consulting companies in the San Francisco Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times. APG partners with world-class developers of training solutions and then applies a unique methodology to help organizations maximize their training ROI. By "making the training right" rather than focusing on "writing the training," APG has helped dozens of industry leaders maximize their training investments, including: Toyota, DaimlerChrysler, Edward Jones, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and Bristol-Myers Squibb. APG can be reached at <http://www.advantageperformance.com>.