BIZTREE AND ISCOPIA PARTNER TO LAUNCH HIRE-IN-A-BOX

MONTREAL – January 19th, 2012 – Iscopia, a leading provider of online recruitment and applicant qualification solutions, and Biztree, the leading provider of business document template software with over 4 million users worldwide, today announced the signing of a multi-year agreement whereby Biztree will distribute Iscopia’s AQS™ online hiring solution to its small business customers, branding it as Biztree Hire-in-a-Box. Users of Biztree’s flagship Business-in-a-Box document template software may access the advanced hiring capabilities of Biztree Hire-in-a-Box by visiting the Biztree Hire-in-a-Box web site at http://www.biztreehireinabox.com/.

Leveraging Iscopia’s award-winning AQS platform, Biztree Hire-in-a-Box is a complete, online hiring solution designed to meet the specific recruiting requirements of SMBs. Offering an intuitive, user-friendly workflow, Biztree Hire-in-a-Box includes over 100 customizable, pre-built job descriptions; links to relevant job boards, including very special offers on Monster.com (USA) and Workopolis (Canada); job-specific questionnaires and reports; an automatic candidate ranking system; interview guides; and online reference checks. Optional paid services include psychometric tests as well as background screening, which can both be used to further validate candidates before a formal job offer is made.

“The philosophy behind Biztree Hire-in-a-Box is very similar to that of Business-in-a-Box: include everything a small business needs to achieve its immediate objectives. In the case of Biztree Hire-in-a-Box, that means everything required to attract, qualify and hire the right people,” declared Jonathan Defoy, CEO of Biztree Inc. He added, “By working with Iscopia to develop Biztree Hire-in-a-Box, we can further deliver on our core mission of empowering business people to reach their full potential.”

“With its millions of users, Biztree has demonstrated its success in both marketing to small business owners and providing them with what they need to be successful,” said François Plamondon, President and CEO of Iscopia. He added, “We share Biztree’s philosophy that technology can be used to reduce, simplify, and automate repeatable processes and we are extremely excited by the opportunity to work with them to make Biztree Hire-in-a-Box’s capabilities available to an even broader array of small business owners.”

Availability
Biztree Hire-in-a-Box is available immediately at www.biztreehireinabox.com. Users can benefit from a fully functional free trial before purchasing the product. Purchase options include the ability to pay for a single job opening or to purchase a subscription that allows users to publish and fill multiple job openings at a significant discount over a twelve month period.

Biztree Hire-in-a-Box can also be accessed from within the hundreds of job descriptions and interview guides developed by Iscopia and bundled with Biztree Business-in-a-Box, which can be downloaded from www.biztree.com.

About Biztree Inc.
Since 2001, Biztree has been increasing the productivity of business people in over 200 countries. Its flagship product, Business-in-a-Box, is the world’s most popular business document templates software. It provides over 1,500 templates of contracts, agreements, letters, board resolutions, spreadsheets, plans, proposals, press releases, policies and more. Today, Business-in-a-Box is used by more than 4 million entrepreneurs, middle managers and executives. For more information please visit www.biztree.com.

About Iscopia
Headquartered in Montreal, Iscopia has been providing recruitment and assessment solutions since 1993. In collaboration with a network of channel partners, Iscopia offers on-demand online hiring solutions–backed by scientific research and delivered over the web as Software as a Service–that enable organizations to recruit the best candidates and promote the most deserving employees. First launched in 2004 and the winner of the 2009 OCTAS prize for innovation, Iscopia’s AQS™ platform enables small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) to hire better employees quickly, simply and economically, while reducing employee turnover. For more information about Iscopia and its family of online hiring solutions, please visit www.iscopia.com. For ongoing company news, please follow Iscopia on Twitter at www.twitter.com/iscopia.

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CONTACT 

Biztree Inc.
Jonathan Defoy, CEO
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Iscopia
Kenneth Trueman, Director of Marketing
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