Equifax and Mcgraw-Hill/London House Partner To Increase Product Offerings

Consumers Win With One-Stop Shopping

ATLANTA, OCTOBER 14, 1996 - Equifax Employment Services, the largest pre-employment screening company in the United States, today announced a national strategic partnership with McGraw-Hill/London House designed to simplify the hiring assessment process for corporate America.

Equifax will begin offering McGraw-Hill/London House’s Personnel Selection Inventory (PSI) - 3T assessments as part of its services to employers while McGraw-Hill/London House, the industry leader in human resource assessments, will begin offering Equifax’s pre-employment background checks as part of its services.

Tony Hungerford, vice president of Equifax’s Employment Services Division, said, "In today’s competitive marketplace, companies are only as good as their people. It’s imperative to choose the best candidate for a job the first time. McGraw-Hill/London House and Equifax are ensuring customers will do just that by offering them access to each company’s products at the same time. It’s a total solution."

McGraw-Hill/London House PSI-3T measures the likelihood an individual will leave an organization prematurely; commit theft; use or sell drugs on the job or have a propensity for violent or argumentative behavior. The assessment also indicates if an applicant is trying to present socially desirable responses instead of actual attitudes/opinions and it measures the degree to which an applicant understood and completed the questions. Versions of the assessment are available to comply with existing state pre-employment laws.

Equifax employment components that will be offered include credit histories for employment purposes, employer checks, educational verification, criminal history checks, Social Security verification and motor vehicle records.

"Leveraging our sales forces in this way makes good business sense because our products complement one another," explained Sam Maurice, president of McGraw-Hill/London House. "Equifax’s pre-employment background checks examine what an individual did in the past whereas McGraw-Hill/London House’s assessments predict how potential employees are most likely to act in the future. This partnership helps us provide an even more extensive pre-employment analysis for our customers."

For more information about Equifax’s pre-employment background checks or McGraw-Hill/London House’s PSI-3T assessments, call Equifax Employment Services at 770/740-7426.

McGraw-Hill/London House, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, is a leading human resource assessment and consulting firm. The Rosemont, Illinois-based company helps businesses improve the quality of their work forces by offering assessment programs for selection and placement, learning and development, planning and advancement and organizational development.

Equifax Inc. (NYSE: EFX), committed to Global Information Leadership for the Information Age, is the leading provider of information services that help businesses grant credit, authorize and process credit card and check transactions, insure lives and property and control health care costs.