Headway Corporate Resources Boosts Hickory Farms' Seasonal Retail

             Recruitment to More Than 3700 Nationwide Employees



    RALEIGH, N.C., Aug. 7 /EMWNews/ -- Headway Corporate Resources

announced that its Adaptive RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing) pilot

program with national retailer Hickory Farms has been expanded to over 600

retail stores and will provide more than 3,700 Hickory Farms associates for

their upcoming 2008 retail holiday season.



    Key to the pilot's success is Headway's exclusive National Recruitment

Center, which includes a proprietary database of nearly one million job

candidates, as well as various e-Recruiting technologies, methodologies and

regional delivery network. These combined resources power new associate

sourcing, screening, hiring and on-boarding services for Hickory Farms.



    Headway's Adaptive RPO recruitment solution for Hickory Farms enables

the hiring and deployment of retail associates in a faster and more

efficient manner than was previously achieved. In addition to the

recruiting and hiring of retail employees, Headway will also manage all

human resource and payroll responsibilities, thereby allowing Hickory Farms

to concentrate on its core activities of retail operations, store sales and

customer service.



    "Because of the success of the trial program, and Headway's deep

commitment and effort in exceeding our expectations, we decided to roll-out

their workforce solutions on a nationwide basis," stated Jim O'Neill, Jr.,

Vice President, Retail and Franchise Operations of Hickory Farms.



    Many retailers rely upon individual stores or districts to handle their

own recruiting and hiring efforts and are becoming overwhelmed with the

increased burdens and responsibilities to source, hire, train and retain

employees. Companies are finding that an outsourced recruitment solution

can provide a higher quality of retail candidates using less time and

money, which directly translates into a greater competitive advantage for

them.



    Suzanne Kinkel, EVP of Recruitment Process Outsourcing at Headway said,

"Today's recruiting landscape is dramatically different than a few years

ago, as most companies just do not have the recruitment power, technology

and resources to enable them to deliver the high-volume, high caliber

talent, like we can do, on a local, regional or national basis." She

further added that "because of our breadth and depth of recruiting

resources and expertise, we deliver these functions at a lower expense than

what they normally incur."



    Headway Corporate Resources' Adaptive RPO has the robustness,

flexibility and scalability to offer geographically precise recruiting,

which is a key component in acquiring high-volume, multi-unit retail

workers. For example, Headway's technology can literally locate thousands

of candidates within a 5 mile radius of a retail location, and then quickly

assess the most qualified ones, not only for the particular job, but also

for each specific location, as well.

    About Headway



    Headway Corporate Resources has been delivering innovative workforce

solutions since 1974. The company's award-winning human capital management

approach is comprised of two service divisions: Recruitment & Staffing and

Adaptive Workforce Solutions(SM). Headway provides comprehensive recruiting

and staffing resources, as well as large-scale, enterprise based, managed

workforce solutions on a national basis. Headway Corporate Resources ranks

among one of the top staffing and recruiting companies in the world and

serves an array of Fortune 1000 businesses. It has regional locations

across the country and offers a one-source workforce solution, enabling

businesses to achieve greater performance and financial savings with their

human capital efforts. Learn more about Headway Corporate Resources by

visiting http://headwaycorp.com.



    About Hickory Farms






    For more information on Hickory Farms, please visit

http://www.hickoryfarms.com



     Contact: Allison Dugan

     919-424-1053

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