TMP Worldwide's BioView.com Ranked Among Elite Career Websites Receives Top Honors for Second Consecutive Year

OAKLAND, Calif., Jan 16, 2002 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- BioView.com, a premier online career site for the biopharmaceutical industry and an interactive product of TMP Worldwide Inc. (NASDAQ: TMPW), the world's leading supplier of human capital solutions, including the pre-eminent Internet career portal Monster.com(R), has received top honors from CareerXroads for the second consecutive year.

After reviewing more than 4,000 websites, CareerXroads 2002 selected BioView.com as one of the 50 Best of the Best Websites for job, resume or career management information.

CareerXroads is the world's leading reference guide to employment websites. Each year, CareerXroads publishes an annual guide to job boards announcing its 50 Best of the Best - a list of the premier websites in the online employment industry. According to CareerXroads, BioView.com exemplifies the goal of providing added value to the job seeker or recruiter. The list of 50 Best of the Best websites can be viewed at http://www.careerxroads.com/news/50best02.html.

"Recognition again this year on CareerXroad's Best of the Best Websites list is not only a great honor," said Pamela Bailey, Director at BioView.com, "it also confirms that BioView.com is among the elite, not just in our industry niche, but in the online recruiting industry as a whole. Our goal is to help the top employers in the biopharmaceutical industry attract the top talent in the market. This award indicates that we are on the right path."

Launched in September 1997 to make both job hunting and recruitment in the biopharmaceutical industry fast, easy, efficient and economical, BioView.com has become one of the top sites for biopharm careers. It receives more than 3.5 million hits and 600,000 page views a month, displays more than 1,900 active jobs and houses 14,000 resumes in its database. Other site resources include a daily news feed and email, a personalized job alert service, layoff news, industry links, and tools to help candidates and recruiters manage their activities.

"We're also concerned with building a strong community of industry participants through valuable and timely industry-specific content," noted Bailey. "We're continually improving BioView.com to make our site even more useful and versatile for our users."

About BioView.com

Since its inception in 1997, BioView.com has become a popular place on the web to search for biopharmaceutical jobs and resumes. BioView.com offers job seekers an unprecedented variety of tools with which to manage their job application process. Job seekers will also find a vast array of resources on the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, from daily industry news, comprehensive company profiles and information, and links to industry websites, to college and university links, relocation and salary information, and career advice and tips.

Further, BioView.com offers biotech and pharmaceutical employers a quick and comprehensive set of tools to post and manage their job openings and fill their open positions faster. As an added bonus, jobs posted to BioView.com also appear on its network of sites, which includes BioWorld Online, BioCompare.com, BioSupplies.com, BioPortfolio.com and others--thus expanding the reach of the job postings. And through its Corporate Career Center technology, we can power the Career section of a corporate website, allowing companies to take advantage of the simple and comprehensive tools found on BioView.com and gain exposure to our traffic. BioView.com also offers a fully searchable resume database to corporate subscribers and a resume search agent to help simplify the resume search process.

About TMP Worldwide

Founded in 1967, TMP Worldwide Inc., with more than 10,500 employees in 33 countries, is the online recruitment leader, the world's largest Recruitment Advertising agency network, and one of the world's largest Executive Search and Executive Selection agencies. TMP Worldwide, headquartered in New York, is also the parent company of Monster.com, the leading global career portal on the Web, 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 480 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.

Special Note: Except for historical information contained herein, the statements made in this release constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties, including statements regarding the company's strategic direction, prospects and future results. Certain factors, including factors outside of our control, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements, including economic and other conditions in the markets in which we operate, risks associated with acquisitions, competition, seasonality and the other risks discussed in our Form 10-K and our other filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which discussions are incorporated in this release by reference.

CONTACT:
BioView.com
Holly Larsen, 510/208-5744
hollyl@bioview.com