BEIJING, Oct. 5, 2009 (PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall) -- ATA Inc. (Nasdaq: ATAI) ("ATA", or the "Company"), the leading provider of computer-based testing services in China, announced today that it has successfully delivered HR Select exams to People's Insurance Company of China (PICC) and to Zheshang Bank.
On September 26, ATA delivered to PICC the first nationwide underwriter and claims handling exam, involving more than 20 subjects, including Auto Insurance Underwriting, Auto Insurance Claims, Property Insurance Underwriting, Engineering Insurance Underwriting, Hull Insurance Underwriting, Shipping Insurance Underwriting, Agricultural Insurance Underwriting, Liability Insurance Underwriting, Casualty/ Health Insurance Underwriting, Energy and Aviation Insurance Underwriting and Claims Handling. The PICC exam was successfully delivered to 19,000 test takers in 230 sites across 55 cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, among others.
Separately, on the same date ATA delivered an HR Select exam to Zheshang Bank covering 54 subjects to 2,000 test takers in 53 test sites across 12 cities in China. As the 12th national joint-stock bank approved by the China Banking Regulatory Commission, Zheshang Bank highly values the ethics and professional skills of its employees and is committed to their training and performance appraisal. In 2008, Zheshang Bank adopted the computerized examination services provided by ATA. Following the success of the first exam, Zheshang Bank increased the number of subjects and doubled the number of test takers for this edition of the exam. ATA also provided exam operation, exam room monitoring and data analysis services.
"We are very pleased to announce the successful delivery of these exams under our HR Select assessment offering," commented Mr. Kevin Ma, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ATA. "This represents an important milestone in the development of our business, and we expect it will lay the foundation for us to continue to grow our exposure to private sector test sponsors as we diversify and expand our service offering and client base."
HR Select is a proprietary application, developed and engineered by ATA using leading international standardized assessment tools to test 150,000 different job skill sets, covering several areas of competency, including IT, foreign languages, finance, accounting, management, and legal. ATA has modeled over 600 job positions to create a test-item bank containing millions of test questions. Since launching this initiative in March, the Company has successfully created over 10,000 trial accounts.
