SkillsNET® Forms Strategic Alliance with Cognisco

WAXAHACHIE, TX April 2007 -

SkillsNET® today announced that it has successfully completed the process to become an official Cognisco partner. This new partnership will allow SkillsNET to offer their customers an end-to-end solution. This solution will combine job classification and analysis with person performance and analysis together with design and development of intelligent online learning and assessment solutions.

Cognisco is a global intelligent assessment and learning solutions company working in over 130 countries in 31 different languages with its international headquarters in the UK. Its unique, online knowledge assessment systems enable customers, including some of the world’s biggest brands, to accurately assess and measure levels of individual understanding and confidence. By bringing together expertise in IT, statistics, psychology and linguistics, Cognisco provides its customers with critical data which enables companies to reduce risk, reduce cost and increase operational performance. Cognisco believes in enabling individuals to reach their true potential so that employers can continuously improve business performance.

SkillsNET enables companies and organizations to optimize their workforce to meet the changing market forces by providing next generation of foundational human enterprise technology and solutions, regardless of size of industry. Through advancing the science of skills content management, SkillsNET architect best practice and service solutions for customers.

Michael Brown, CEO of SkillsNET said, "The signing of our agreement with Cognisco reflects our commitment to deliver easy to use, web based solutions for the effective implementation of workforce management strategies. Working in partnership with Cognisco allows SkillsNET to offer an incredibly valuable total solution approach, helping us to extend our service offering and ultimately maximize client results.”

Cognisco CEO Mary Clarke commented, "Our business has achieved success because we are continually able to provide our expanding base of clients with learning and development solutions that allow businesses to gain a better and more accurate understanding of the capability of their entire workforce. The Partner Agreement with SkillsNET is important, not only as an extension of our product offering but also because it enables us to serve the increasing demand for job classification and analysis. Cognisco assessment solutions are applicable internationally across all business sectors and the rigor of the process, and accuracy of the data make the Cognisco intelligent assessment solutions invaluable to strategic decision makers.”

About SkillsNET
SkillsNET provides a revolutionary tool suite and consulting service, which allows enterprises to rapidly capture work, worker, and workplace skill data elements (SkillObjects®) and their relationship to performance. The SkillsNET methodology allows employers to capture their workforce environment through web-based applications with minimal worker and capital investment. Highly trained Skills Analysts and Industrial and Organizational Psychologists, available on-site or via phone, assist the employee and employer through the data collection process. At the end of the process, employers receive a detailed analysis of the skill base required in their workforce, the level of skill in the current workforce, and the performance standards needed to operate in today's dynamic environment. SkillsNET methodology is aligned with the Department of Labor O*NET taxonomy. For additional information please visit www.skillsnet.com.