Hire.com counts among its clients KPMG Consulting, Sprint, EliLily and Co., IBM, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, GT Interactive,AT&T, SBC, Motorola's Broadband Communication Sector, EDS, MCIWorldCom and Ingersoll-Rand. Hire.com powers the career Web sitesfor more than 150 corporate customers. The e-recruiter's investorsinclude Austin Ventures, Crosspoint Ventures, Kleiner PerkinsCaufield & Byers and TL Ventures while corporate investorsinclude the Hearst Corp., Pulitzer Inc., Essex Investment Co. LLCand Dell Computer Corp.

In conjunction with the acquisition, Hire.com will be marketingTalentProfiles. "The ART technology strengthens Hire.com's marketleading position as the gatekeeper between the corporate recruitersand the Internet by augmenting Hire.com's solution with anautomated talent sourcing solution that will substantially increasea corporation's ability to build private talent pools for continualsourcing and speed hiring," says Jim Hammock, chairman and CEO ofHire.com.

All of the existing ART employees, including a world classdevelopment team and Terrance Baker, founder, president and CEO ofART, are being absorbed by Hire.com. ART will maintain itsCalifornia office.