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Adea Group Launches Recruiting Campaign for Technical Professionals on
H-1B Visas in Dallas, Austin, Atlanta and Tampa


By BusinessWire Thursday May 3 6:51pm


DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 2001--


Strong Growth Continues for Adea On Mission Critical Projects With
Specialty Skills


The Adea Group continues to experience strong growth and will be looking
to fill 100 development and programming positions on mission critical
projects at several client locations.


Adea is seeking candidates with high levels of experience especially
those with fiber optic and streaming backgrounds. They are focusing on
recruiting technical professionals with H-1B visas who have recently
been laid off and in their one month grace period to seek another
employer. The positions are on various long-term telecom client projects
in Dallas, Austin, Atlanta, and Tampa.


"We have been fortunate to have experienced a 33% growth rate between
the fourth quarter of last year and the first quarter of this year,"
said Doug Ortega, executive vice resident of The Adea Group. "We are
currently focusing on professionals with H-1B visas because they most
likely have the level of experience we need for mission-critical
projects and a sense of urgency in securing new employment if they have
been recently laid off."


Based in Dallas, TX, the Adea Group is the fastest growing national
provider of flexible technical staffing solutions for leading Fortune
500 firms. Offices are also located in Atlanta, Austin, Tampa,
Washington D.C., and India. Its client list includes ACS, Alcatel,
American General/US Life, Applied Materials, Applied Teravision,
BroadCloud, Burlington Northern-Santa For example, City of Austin,
ClearCommerce, CompUSA, Compaq, CSC, Dell, Ericsson, Gamestop.com,
General Bandwidth, Hart IS, IBT Technologies, JB Hunt, Job Corp,
Merinta, Nortel Networks, Oracle, The Sabre Group, SBC Technologies,
Sheshunoff, Southwest Airlines, Sprint, State of Texas, Sterling
Commerce, The Associates/Citibank, TRICON, Unisource, United Parcel
Service, USPS, Verizon, and Verizon Wireless.


SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT


This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the
meaning of Section 27a of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Although the Company believes that
the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are
reasonable, it can provide no assurance results will meet or exceed such
expectations. All brand names mentioned herein are trademarks of their
respective owners.


Contact:
The Adea Group, Inc., Dallas

Howard LaMunion, 214/274-9500

lamunion@consulttus.com