"We are very pleased that TalentManager won top honors at the show," said Kent Plunkett, CEO of Salary.com. "As the newest addition to our Talent Management Suite, succession planning underscores our mission to help customers identify, reward and retain their highest performing employees and maintain business continuity. This application helps line managers collaborate with their HR business partners to nominate high-potential employees using Web 2.0 tools and make recommendations based on competency fit with vacant or planned positions. We're pleased to be recognized for our innovation and product leadership in the talent management industry."

With succession planning, human resource executives have the power to search for and select internal job candidates based on a combination of requirements including competencies, performance, readiness, potential and promotability for each position being planned. Providing as much visibility into candidate performance as needed, the system builds comprehensive employee profiles with key data for each candidate. HR executives can configure and customize profile views to zoom in on the information most relevant to a succession slate and can compare and rank candidates side-by-side. They also can collaborate online with other planners using message boards and polling tools to discuss and evaluate best fit and readiness - features that greatly increase the efficiency of the succession planning process. These virtual collaboration features make succession planning so easy and efficient for managers that they want to participate in it.

Waggener Edstrom (WE), a global public relations agency with employees in 16 offices around the world, relies on Salary.com to maintain a skills-driven talent management philosophy that helps them exceed the training and development needs of the global workforce, and retain and inspire its highest-performing workers.

Jeff Gabel, human resources analyst for WE, said, "Career development and retention of top talent is of paramount importance and we rely increasingly on Salary.com to zero in on the specific competency development needs of our employees and to continually evolve the industry leading learning programs that we have become known for."

"Our most senior level executives and board of directors expect us to constantly identify, inspire and retain the most talented PR professionals in the industry," said WE's Learning Lead, Daniele Joudene. "For a company of our size, with global operations, we need as much visibility as possible into the core competencies and the 'readiness' of our employees to move to the next level. Salary.com's software helps us develop global talent strategies to ensure we always have the right people in the right roles and that we prioritize the most critical capabilities to develop and retain our current and future talent."

About Salary.com, Inc.
Salary.com is a leading provider of on-demand compensation and talent management solutions helping businesses and individuals manage pay and performance. Salary.com's highly configurable software applications, proprietary data and consulting services help HR and compensation professionals automate, streamline and optimize critical talent management processes including: market pricing, compensation planning, performance management, competency management and succession planning. Built with compensation and competency data at the core, Salary.com solutions provide businesses of all sizes with the most productive and cost-effective way to manage and inspire their most important asset — their people. For more information, visit www.salary.com.

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