HISPANIC FIRM UNVEILS SUPERIOR PUERTO RICO RECRUITMENT PROGRAMS TO CORPORATE STAFFING

The Auffant College Connection now will help U.S. corporate
recruitment partners open the door to
Puerto Rico professional/technical/medical/educational talent.

Woodbridge, VA -- April 2, 2001. For the first time, U.S. corporations will be able to experience a Puerto Rico high quality regional recruitment program and website which was used only by selective U.S. colleges and universities -- a significant improvement over current corporate recruitment efforts. The Auffant College Connection, a leading developer of academic college recruitment programs since 1988, today announced it will be demonstrating its LaZonaUniversitaria.com technology at the Puerto Rico Career & College Fair, May 8-9, in San Juan, Puerto Rico (USA).

LaZonaUniversitaria.com is a leading national Hispanic online recruiting portal that empowers prospective undergraduate and graduate students to manage their college search process in the United States. The site features the famous" CALIENTE section which provides students Spanish written college profiles with the capacity of setting online interviews, attend teleconferences, observe webcasting and review college streaming videos. When combined with regional recruitment fairs LaZonaUniversitaria.com has delivered dramatic improvements in partner recruitment efforts. This successful program will now be open to U.S. corporate partners.

Until now, there has been no other efforts to provide continuity in the corporate recruitment of Puerto Rico talent", says Agustin Auffant, President and CEO of the Auffant College Connection. LaZonaUniversitaria.com gives recruiters and diversity managers the ability to target an untapped market of exceptionally well educated and eager professionals in a variety of fields. The end result is that Auffant College Connection can significantly improve how recruitment is done in Puerto Rico for a variety of industry players".

The Auffant College Connection is also launching its LaZonaUniversity.com network for partners who want to enable first to market" trials of its technology in Latin America. The site has received a number of inquiries from candidates in Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Spain and Mexico. Interested companies are invited to visit their english version site www.TheUniversityZone.com (www.LaZonaUniversitaria.com) or contact the company directly.

About The Auffant College Connection

The Auffant College Connection founded in 1988, is a leading developer of Hispanic recruitment solutions, committed to ensuring that every Hispanic Internet user can experience direct first hand information about the multitude of career and educational opportunities in the United States through high technical supported regional and virtual recruitment modules.

Through its offices in Woodbridge, VA (headquarters) and San Juan, PR, Auffant College Connection develops and consults on some of the most advanced recruitment tools available on the market today. In 1994, the company began its presence on the Internet by testing early stages of VoIP softwares at his founders apartment in Worcester, MA.

The organization is lead by his founder Agustin Auffant, a 20 year record entrepreneur with success in recruitment, implementation of regional fairs, and counseling. His experience spans in the technical areas of e-recruiting, teleconferencing, streaming video, webcasting and intelligence research. He also is President of The Auffant Group, Inc, a research recruitment consulting which mold and lead several recruitment strategies for a wide range of organizations including Start-ups, B2B, E-commerce and Software/Hardware Development companies, To learn more, visit www.theuniversityzone.com, www.lazonauniversitartia.com, or call (703) 494.9629

Contact: Agustin Auffant
         Auffant College Connection
         TEL: 703.494.9629
         FAX: 775.855.3887
         auffant@lazonauniversitaria.com