Recruitment Service Specially Designed for Employed Individuals

NEW YORK, NY (October 3, 2006) - Forbes.com today launched a new career center specifically
aimed at currently employed executives and professionals who require total privacy and
anonymity. The new Forbes.com Career Center, powered by QuietAgent.com, is free for job seekers; employers pay a fee once a job seeker accepts an invitation from the employer to release their personal information.

Individuals interested in registering with the Forbes.com Career Center will complete a basic
recruiting profile, list ideal career requirements (such as salary, locations) and select privacy settings (for instance, whether they prefer that specific companies never be allowed access to their profile.) Employers then use specific search criteria to sort through career seeker profiles and decide which individuals (who still remain anonymous) they wish to send an invitation to. Invitations include the job name, the location, salary range, benefits offered, brief job description, marketing page on the company, and a link to the company website. After receiving an invitation, the contacted job seeker can decline the invitation and remain private, or accept the invitation and release their private information to that one employer.

The new service takes people through a process that doesn’t involve job posting or advertising
fees. Career seekers are continuously considered for jobs that match their skills and meet all
their career aspirations, and employers of any size can register and search the database for
free, paying a small transaction fee only when a career seeker invitation is accepted.

“QuietAgent.com suits Forbes.com’s time-pressed, senior executive audience perfectly. Once
registered, the technology, and not the individual, does most of the leg-work, so that discerning in-work people can consider new career challenges and opportunities while remaining totally anonymous,” said Jim Spanfeller, president and CEO, Forbes.com.

“QuietAgent.com provides a breakthrough in the online recruiting market. Job boards have an
overabundance of posted jobs, thus delivering many unsuitable job alerts and applicants.
QuietAgent.com technology has set a new industry standard and we think this partnership is the
perfect extension for our brand,” said QuietAgent.com CEO Gary Scheier.

The technology gives Forbes.com a unique position in the $7b online recruiting market, where it
can address the needs of an estimated 90 percent of its readership who are working but not
actively job seeking.