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Dublin, CA., Jan. 24, 2011 — Taleo Corporation (NASDAQ: TLEO), the leading provider of on-demand talent management solutions, today announced TalentWise as the winner of its 2011 Partner of the Year Award. This year’s recipient added significant value to Taleo customers by offering a powerful blend of fresh thinking and leadership to deliver top talent management solutions and drive growth.

“We pride ourselves on developing relationships and aligning with only the best companies, and that’s what makes these awards important. TalentWise has provided outstanding leadership by offering cutting edge human resource management solutions to our mutual clients to help them proactively manage their business needs,” said Michael Boese, Taleo’s Senior Vice President of Taleo Business Edition and Talent Grid Field Operations. “Strong partnerships have long been a pillar of Taleo’s success as evidenced by our 140 plus solutions partners across our talent management spectrum.”

TalentWise is an industry leading employment and drug screening company focused on providing businesses with the information they need to make sound and legally compliant hiring decisions. The organization helped close and deploy more than 60 joint customers in 2010, enabling small and mediums businesses to launch screening requests directly from Taleo Business Edition Recruit™ and Taleo Business Edition Onboard™.

The success of the partnership with TalentWise has accelerated as they have helped pioneer Taleo Solution Exchange™ capabilities to provide customers with rich solution content for understanding, decision making, and engagement. Many of Taleo’s Premier Partners experienced significant sales growth in 2010. This trend is anticipated to increase as Taleo continues to make partner access easier and more convenient through the online partner community and Talent Grid.

About Taleo

Taleo's (NASDAQ: TLEO) cloud-based talent management platform unites products and an ecosystem to drive business performance through talent intelligence. Approximately 5,100 customers use Taleo for talent acquisition, performance, learning, and compensation management, including 48 of the Fortune 100. Further, Taleo's Talent Grid cloud community harnesses the expertise of Taleo customers, more than 200 million candidates, and 140 partners and industry experts.