Divers Direct Selects The Learn.com LearnCenter Platform to Provide Newly Hired Employees with Rapid, Effective, On-Demand Sales Training

Learn.com®, the leader in on-demand workforce development and productivity, announced today that Divers Direct, a leading SCUBA equipment retailer, headquartered in Dania Beach, Florida, has selected the LearnCenter® platform to provide on-demand, product-specific training to its new sales associates.

Sunrise, FL (PRWEB) May 23, 2007 -- Learn.com®, the leader in on-demand workforce development and productivity, announced today that Divers Direct, a leading SCUBA equipment retailer, headquartered in Dania Beach, Florida, has selected the LearnCenter® platform to provide on-demand, product-specific training to its new sales associates.

"One of our objectives was to train an individual at all six of our locations without the expense of travel. In addition, since we experience increased hiring at certain points throughout the year, we need to get new employees trained as quickly as possible without having to wait for a trainer to visit them," said Kathy Smith, HR Manager at Divers Direct.

"The LearnCenter platform will allow us to train our new associates efficiently and effectively by compressing the training time of our new sales associates, which allows them to learn our products more rapidly. We appreciate the user friendliness of the LearnCenter platform - both from an administrator's and a user's point of view. The LearnCenter platform is also SCORM-compliant, which is important because we create our own courses. In addition to Learn.com's great technology, the company's service has been great and we have been very impressed with the implementation and client support teams," added Smith.

About the LearnCenter Platform
Built on Learn.com's award-winning Learning Management System (LMS) technology, the LearnCenter platform has grown into the industry's leading and most complete Talent Management Suite (TMS). The LearnCenter platform manages the entire pre-hire to retire lifecycle by creating a cost effective, high quality training, development and measurement environment designed to empower users with visibility into and control of their career planning while providing management with real-time business intelligence. Learning Management, Performance Management, Content Management, Online Authoring, Succession Planning, Collaboration, e-Commerce, Portal Authoring and more are included within one solution, with one interface and one partner - Learn.com.

About Divers Direct
Divers Direct was founded in 1984 in Key Largo, FL and is one of the U.S. largest retailers of SCUBA, Snorkeling, and Watersports Gear and related accessories. It comprises six retail super-stores in Florida as well as one of the Internet's most active Web stores.

The company stocks over 25,000 different products for SCUBA Divers and Snorkelers of all kinds. Divers Direct offers only top quality brands at the most competitive prices with customer service second to none. For more information, contact Divers Direct at 1-800-DIVE-USA or visit http://www.diversdirect.com.

About Learn.com
Learn.com® is the worldwide leader in on-demand workforce development and productivity with more than 50 million end users around the globe. Our broad suite of on-demand solutions can fully automate the pre-hire to retire lifecycle within any organization. Learn.com's unwavering commitment to understanding client needs, goals and objectives allows us to partner with our clients to increase business performance.

The Learn.com family of solutions includes the award-winning LearnCenter® talent management suite, the WebRoom™ Web conferencing suite, the CourseMaker Studio® Authoring Tool, Mentor® EPSS and the 1,000 title Learn2® online course library.

For more information please visit www.learn.com or call 954-233-4000

Learn.com, its logo, LearnCenter, CourseMaker Studio, Mentor and Learn2 are registered trademarks of Learn.com. All other trademarks are respectfully acknowledged.

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