Kenexa Unveils Breakthrough in Assessing Candidates for Employment

WAYNE, PA--(Marketwire - May 28, 2008) - Kenexa Performance Indicators™ (KPI) (NASDAQ: KNXA), a web-based suite of pre-employment assessment tools designed to identify prospective employees who have a propensity to be engaged, to work well in a team and to demonstrate excellent customer service orientation, is now available.

"Kenexa has been continually researching the impact of employee engagement. These results have allowed us to deliver a suite of assessment tools that truly measures an individual's propensity to be an engaged employee and therefore, will be one who drives customer satisfaction, promotes teamwork and delivers higher levels of productivity," said Troy Kanter, president and chief operating officer, Kenexa. "Turnover is highly disruptive to productivity and the customer experience. Now more than ever, it's critical to properly assess job candidates to determine one's engagement capacity because fully engaged employees directly translate into better business results."

Kenexa's vast knowledge and expertise in job candidate assessments and employee engagement measurement helps organizations determine if applicants will deliver higher levels of customer satisfaction and be engaged with the company to excel at job-related tasks. Engaged employees are more productive, can provide higher levels of customer service and are better advocates of their organizations.

In addition to the direct measure of engagement, the KPI suite includes the assessment of customer service satisfaction, teamwork, sales, safety and job productivity indicators. These tools can be used individually or as an integrated solution to predict each area of performance and can be used in assessing candidates for hourly or full-time positions.

About Kenexa

Kenexa Corporation (NASDAQ: KNXA) is a global leader in building the world's greatest workforces using a combination of software, employee research science and business process optimization. Kenexa's global solutions include applicant tracking, onboarding, recruitment process outsourcing, employment branding, skills and behavioral assessments, structured interviews, performance management, multi-rater feedback surveys, employee engagement surveys and HR Analytics. Kenexa is headquartered in Wayne, Pa. with offices in eighteen countries worldwide. Additional information about Kenexa and its global products and services can be accessed at www.kenexa.com.