Slippery Rock University to Utilize TMP Worldwide's CollegeWare Solution for its Enrollment Management Operations

-- Web-based System to Help Maximize Efficiency and Results of University's On- and Offline Communications with Prospective Students--

NEW YORK, May 20, 2002 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- TMP Worldwide Inc. (NASDAQ: TMPW), the world's leading supplier of human capital solutions, including the pre-eminent Internet career portal Monster(R), today announced that Slippery Rock University ("The Rock") (www.sru.edu) is implementing its CollegeWare(TM) enrollment management system (www.tmped.com) to help streamline communications with prospective students.

The Rock is the latest in a growing number of institutions - including The University of Dayton, Columbia College, The University of Arkansas and Yale University utilizing CollegeWare's flexible, cost-effective solution to increase the efficiency and return on investment of their enrollment operations.

TMP Worldwide's CollegeWare is a highly advanced Web-based system that allows colleges and universities to more effectively and efficiently manage enrollment operations and information. Delivered via an ASP model, the system enables higher education institutions to automate critical on- and offline enrollment operations, allowing schools to better communicate with, and manage, their "prospect and inquiry" pools of applicants.

"With the dramatic increase in channels of communication that we have with prospective students, it has become necessary to integrate all enrollment communications into one management system to ensure maximum efficiency," said James Barrett, Director of Admissions at Slippery Rock University. "We believe CollegeWare is the most advanced system on the market and will allow us to correspond with prospective students and applicants in a multitude of ways. Its real-time capabilities will also enable us to manage and access enrollment files with greater speed and accuracy."

CollegeWare's flexible interface and wide array of features help institutions reduce the costs of enrollment operations and increase efficiencies. Offering a centralized data bank with seamless integration to campus-wide or legacy systems, it is the only tool that enables the integration and management of on- and offline communications, including voicemail, email, letters and enclosures, with prospective students. Since CollegeWare is Web-based, the system requires no physical hardware or additional overhead commonly associated with client-server solutions and allows upgrades to be delivered automatically to schools at no additional cost. As a result, CollegeWare is priced considerably lower than any other existing solution currently available.

In addition, CollegeWare's integrated online application module allows students to complete admissions applications that are delivered to the institution in real-time. Unlike other third-party solutions, CollegeWare applications are delivered seamlessly at no additional cost to the institution. Application data is available immediately in CollegeWare, and completed applications may be converted to PDF files for easy printing.

"A more competitive admissions landscape together with the confluence of on- and offline communications has created the need for greater organization and more personalized communication between institutions and their prospect pool," said John Meagle, Vice President of Educational Marketing at TMP Worldwide's Advertising and Communications, North America. "By leveraging our technology to further streamline cumbersome data, school representatives can spend more time pursuing their prospect pool with targeted, personal communications driven by back-end research and insight, prompting increased return on investment."

CollegeWare is the latest offering in TMP Worldwide's broad array of online educational properties, which includes FastWeb, CollegeLink, MonsterLearning and MonsterTRAK. TMP Worldwide's Educational Marketing Group (www.tmped.com), a full-service advertising agency dedicated solely to the recruiting and enrollment needs of post-secondary educational institutions, developed the CollegeWare solution.

About TMP Worldwide

Founded in 1967, TMP Worldwide Inc., with more than 10,000 employees in 32 countries, is the online recruitment leader, the world's largest Recruitment Advertising agency network, and one of the world's largest Executive Search & Executive Selection agencies. TMP Worldwide, headquartered in New York, is also the world's largest Yellow Pages advertising agency and a provider of direct marketing services. The Company's clients include more than 90 of the Fortune 100 and more than 490 of the Fortune 500 companies. In June 2001, TMP Worldwide was added to the S&P 500 Index. More information about TMP Worldwide is available at www.tmp.com.

Monster, headquartered in Maynard, Mass., is the leading global careers website, recording over 47 million unique visits during the month of April 2002 according to independent research conducted by I/PRO. Monster connects the most progressive companies with the most qualified career-minded individuals, offering innovative technology and superior services that give them more control over the recruiting process. The Monster global network consists of local content and language sites in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Belgium, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Luxembourg, India, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Finland and Scotland. Monster is the official online career management services sponsor of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games and 2002 and 2004 U.S. Olympic Teams. More information about Monster is available at www.monster.com or by calling 1-800-MONSTER.

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