ADEPT, founded in 1983 and headquartered in Framingham, MA, was recently ranked among the top-10 largest privately held IT staffing companies in New England. ADEPT uses an Internet-focused recruitment model, which accounts for 20 percent of placements and 40 percent of all new additions to its proprietary database of consultants. ADEPT experienced compounded annual growth of 27 percent from1996 to 2000, with 93 percent of revenues now generated by repeat business. ADEPT is the recipient of the Inc. Magazine/MCI Positive Performer Award, which salutes exceptional customer service, innovative techniques to identify and exceed customer expectations and ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit in customer focus.

Our acquisition of ADEPT adds to our forces one of the largest and well-known IT staffing firms in the Northeast corridor market, said Andrew Banks, Global CEO of TMP eResourcing. ADEPT is popular among the decision-makers in the banking, investment, insurance, telecommunications and pharmaceuticals industries as a reliable provider of talent to support their global operations and critical projects. With their client base and expertise in the Northeast, and Internet-based recruitment model, we can further enhance our temporary contracting service capabilities in information technology, telecommunications, and network engineering.

Tomasz Schellenberg, CEO and President of ADEPT, Inc., added, TMP offers our successful operation the worldwide reach and ready access to the most extensive and efficient candidate network, so that we can continue to support the global needs of our clients and respond to the larger opportunities they are offering. ADEPT is prepared to immediately integrate our systems, services and methodologies with TMP, to deliver the most comprehensive e-resourcing services available.