Insource America Creates Katrina Relief Job Bank for Hurricane Victims:
Insource America to Provide Employment Services for Evacuees Who Have Been Rendered Unemployed by Hurricane and Floods

HOLBROOK, N.Y., Sept. 15, 2005: Insource America, Inc. – Insource America announced its plans today to support the re-employment efforts of all the individuals whose jobs have been displaced or lost due to the devastation left in Hurricane Katrina’s wake. The Holbrook-based IT support company, who only last week announced its plans to donate the technical support services of its Help Desk to companies and organizations whose businesses had been crippled by Hurricane Katrina, unveiled its recruitment/employment solution today. The Insource America Katrina Relief Job Bank boasts a web portal designed exclusively to provide a practical vehicle for displaced workers to find new work with companies and organizations both within their geographic regions and beyond.

The site, www.insourceamerica.net, provides both a way for individuals to post their resume and for corporations and organizations to participate by advertising their open opportunities for employment. Job seekers can search for job openings within specific geographic territories, or simply search for opportunities based on keywords within advertised job postings. Conversely, employers may search resumes for certain skill sets that are requirements for that particular employment vacancy.

What makes the Insource America Katrina Relief Job Bank so valuable is that it is supported by a US-based Help Desk staff that is available to assist the hurricane victims 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Moreover, as many job seekers will undoubtedly be unable to access their existing resume with many computers damaged or completely inoperable due to water damage, and paper copies rendered unreadable and/or altogether lost in the wreckage of the floods, Katrina victims can call a toll-free phone number at the Insource America Help Desk to verbally relay their resume over the phone to the Help Desk staff.

The Help Desk support analyst will in turn electronically build the job seeker’s resume online for the individual and post it to the Job Bank site where it will be available for perusal by participating companies across the nation. Additionally, for those individuals looking to take a more proactive role in their job hunt, Insource America Help Desk staff will do a search online of currently available opportunities that match the search criteria defined by the job seeker, while they are on the phone with Katrina victims. If the job seeker indicates interest in applying for a particular job, the Help Desk staff will immediately forward the job seeker’s resume on to that company for review by their Human Resources department.

“We want to be their eyes, ears, voice and in all reality --- their Internet access,” explained Bob Venero, the President of Insource America. “This is a lifeline for these folks. We’ve got good, hard-working Americans here, many of whom have lost homes, jobs and more importantly loved ones. They need to re-build their lives and one of the first steps will be finding employment so they can support both themselves and their families. Insource America was founded on the principle of putting Americans back to work ---- this is the next evolution of that and we are dedicated to helping as many hurricane victims as we can in this effort, and in making it as easy as possible for these folks to begin helping themselves.”

Initial plans for the program called for the expected and more traditional online facilitation of matching job seekers and recruiting companies. The idea of using phones and/or faxes in addition to solely utilizing an online vehicle such as the Internet, while seemingly archaic in today’s fast-paced technical culture, is critical for this program to be successful. “The fact that people can simply pick up a phone and call a toll-free number and just verbally share their skill set and employment history and know that a working resume will then be created for them and disseminated to prospective employers across the country, is incredibly valuable to these folks,” explained Venero. “It’s one less thing they have to worry about among a veritable sea of worries and challenges they are now facing in an effort to rebuild their lives.”

For those individuals who have lost their jobs as a result of Hurricane Katrina and are seeking employment, as well as those companies who would like to participate in the Insource America Katrina Relief Job Bank from a recruitment level, please visit www.insourceamerica.net or call our toll-free number (866) 383-5193 for more information.

Insource America™ is an initiative designed to offer an alternative to offshore IT outsourcing. The program takes individuals off of various government assistance programs, as well as students enrolled in cooperative and vocational programs, and gives them skills and certification in IT Help Desk support. Participants go through an eight-week training program and upon successful completion, go live at the Help Desk to gain real-life experience working with Fortune 1000 companies while embarking simultaneously on certification paths for industry leaders like Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, etc. Insource America is structured to support rates that are competitive with current outsourcing options such as those available in India, China and Canada, in an effort to get Fortune 1000 Companies to consider “insourcing” their IT Help Desk support program.

Media Contact:
Shannon Mallozzi
Vice President of Marketing & P.R.
Insource America
Phone: 631-472-5500
Fax: 631-472-1975
smallozzi@insoureamerica.net
smallozzi@ftei.net