ADP Acquires The RightThing…from ADP

October 10, 2011

 

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ADP, a leading provider of human resource outsourcing, payroll services, tax and compliance services, benefits administration and integrated computing solutions for vehicle dealers, today announced that it has acquired privately held The RightThing, a leading recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) provider. The RightThing is also the parent company of AIRS, a widely recognized leader in recruitment training and technology. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

The RightThing acquisition not only broadens ADP’s market-leading HR Business Process Outsourcing (HR BPO) capabilities, but also complements its existing applicant tracking and talent management solutions, enabling ADP to build an even more robust end-to-end talent acquisition portfolio to help clients establish a highly effective process for managing their workforce.

“With the addition of The RightThing’s industry-leading RPO services, technology and management team, ADP will not only expand into a strategic adjacent market, but will also immediately become a principal player in the RPO industry,” said Regina Lee, President of ADP’s National Account Services, Major Account Services, GlobalView and ADP Canada business units. “Expansion into complementary markets -such as RPO- will be of great benefit to our clients and is a critical element in our plan to grow our business. This acquisition underscores ADP’s commitment to help our clients drive business success by helping them better manage talent, make quality hires and control costs associated with the recruitment process.”

HR organizations are increasingly focused on utilizing cost effective, scalable recruiting models such as those provided by the RPO industry. The RightThing solutions and services are among the most respected in the industry. The RightThing is ranked as a top RPO provider, according to Everest Research, and has been recognized by HRO Today magazine as a leading enterprise RPO provider for the past several years.

“The RightThing, a leader in the RPO market, brings a standardized model that helps buyers realize significant efficiency in their recruitment function. ADP will be able to make great use of this inside its holistic, integrated HR BPO solution,” said Rajesh Ranjan, Research Director at Everest Group, an advisory firm on global services. “It’s a good match of culture, service model and scale.”

“Becoming a part of ADP is a terrific opportunity that enables us to gain access to the vast global resources needed to significantly expand our reach,” said Terry Terhark, Chief Executive Officer of The RightThing. “The combination of ADP and The RightThing will create immediate and strategic benefits for both businesses in the areas of operational delivery, service breadth, and leading-edge solutions. In addition, we expect to deliver a unique value proposition to clients that are looking for proven HR outsourcing solutions.”

For more information on ADP, please visit www.adp.com. For more information on The RightThing, please visit www.therightthing.com

 

 

Matt Lafata, HRchitect


AIRS Launches Industry’s First Social Sourcing Certification…from AIRS

June 30, 2009

 

As social networking becomes an integral part of recruiting, AIRS, the leader in recruitment training, announced today at the Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM) 61st Annual Conference & Exposition in New Orleans, the launch of a new certification aimed at ensuring recruiters are equipped with a through and up-to-the minute understanding of sourcing via social media.

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As social networking becomes an integral part of recruiting, AIRS, the leader in recruitment training, announced today at the Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM) 61st Annual Conference & Exposition in New Orleans, the launch of a new certification aimed at ensuring recruiters are equipped with a through and up-to-the minute understanding of sourcing via social media.

As the industry’s first designation focused on social media, AIRS Certified Social Sourcing Certification (CSSR), can be obtained following the completion of AIRS Social Sourcing class and certification exam. Recruiters will walk away with the ability to use advanced tactics and techniques to find the deep wells of passive candidates, demonstrate the key players in social recruiting, better understand how they strategically benefit recruitment strategy and learn how to leverage social media to build an employment brand that creates a viral funnel of talent. Class attendees are also eligible to earn course credits towards their PHR®/SPHR®/GPHR® certifications

A recent AfterCollege survey of 670 college students found that over 82% of respondents use social networks on a regular basis. As Generation Y quickly becomes the largest generation in the workplace, the need for social sourcing expertise is imperative.

“As best-practices in recruitment continue to evolve, social media, networking and micro blogging are driving the future, said Chris Forman, President of AIRS, a company of The RightThing. “AIRS new Certified Social Sourcing Certification is a smart and economical investment to establish recruiters as experts and begin fully utilizing the low-cost, robust sourcing options social recruiting offers.”

As a leader in recruitment training, AIRS certifications are widely recognized professional standard for modern-day talent acquisition. Training over 60,000 recruiters since 1997, Certified Social Sourcing Certification (CSSR) is AIRS fourth professional certification joining AIRS Certified Internet Recruiter (CIR), Advanced Certified Internet Recruiter, (ACIR) and Certified Diversity Recruiter (CDR). Upcoming online CSSR classes will be held Friday, July 24 and Wednesday, August 5.

Building out its social media training classes, AIRS also recently launched a popular, four part, online LinkedIn Learning Series, providing recruiters with the tools needed to develop a successful LinkedIn strategy. Topics include how to impact your professional HR influence, creating a profile for superior personal marketing, building an effective brand and learning leading edge recruiting tactics.

For additional information about AIRS new Certified Social Sourcing Certification (CSSR), or LinkedIn Learning Series, please visit http://www.airstraining.com.

 
Matt Lafata, HRchitect


AIRS and ZoomInfo Team Up To Provide Recruiters with Unrivaled Intelligence…from AIRS

February 5, 2009

 

Increasing the power of its market leading SourcePoint technology, AIRS, a company of The RightThing and ZoomInfo, the most comprehensive source of business information on people and companies, today announced an expanded partnership and a powerful set of new solutions for recruiting professionals.

 

Taking integration to the next level, the expanded partnership will provide corporate recruiters and HR professionals using the all-in-one talent solution AIRS SourcePoint, with unrivaled free access to passive candidates through ZoomInfo’s database of more than 45 million professionals and 5 million companies.

 

Existing and new customers of SourcePoint can now seamlessly search via name, company and title for ZoomInfo profiles. With the purchase of a Premium ZoomInfo add-on, customers can also identify potential candidates via an in-depth candidate search of over 20 different characteristics such as credentials, geography, industry, diversity, and education.  

 

 “Integrating ZoomInfo into SourcePoint’s robust pool of over 3,000 job boards allows us to continue to deliver unmatched recruitment technology to the market and provides our clients with the most complete solution to meet their growing needs” said Chris Forman, President of AIRS. “Keeping pace with the challenges of this economic downturn, corporate recruiters can depend on AIRS to push the envelope in delivering powerful tools that enable them to reinvent how they find passive and active candidates.”

 

An established leader in the recruiting industry, ZoomInfo’s client base is comprised of over 1500 companies which include 19 of the top 20 search firms who use ZoomInfo PowerSearch to find candidates, build business and get beyond mere databases of resumes and job seeker profiles.

 

“Corporate recruiters are demanding new tools, technologies and best practices for finding highly qualified passive and active candidates,” said Sam Zales, President of ZoomInfo. “Through our partnership with AIRS, ZoomInfo is furthering our commitment to corporate recruiters by providing access to the most comprehensive database of people and companies through SourcePoint, one of the most powerful recruiting platforms available today.”

 

For more information on AIRS, please visit www.airsdirectory.com. For more information on Zoominfo, please visit www.zoominfo.com

 
Matt Lafata, HRchitect


CandidateStatements.com Adds Web 2.0 Tools to Personalized Recruiting Platform…TotalRewards Software

January 29, 2009

 

CandidateStatements.com Adds Web 2.0 Tools to Personalized Recruiting Platform, Delivering Unrivaled Candidate Experience — Revamped release allows recruiters to add audio and video testimonials when creating personalized candidate websites

 

Total Rewards Software today announced the addition of Web 2.0 capabilities to CandidateStatements.com, its personalized, candidate experience platform. With this latest release, HR recruiters can now enhance their company’s personalized messaging by leveraging Web 2.0 capabilities such as audio, video and real-time candidate communications.

 

CandidateStatements.com is the first on-demand platform that dynamically creates personalized candidate websites that highlight the value of an employer’s combined compensation and benefits program, while delivering “employer of choice” messaging. The unique recruitment platform conveys personalized total compensation value, educates candidates on the company’s benefit programs, delivers “employer of choice” messaging and promotes the company’s history, mission and culture.

 

“Traditional recruiting technologies such as applicant tracking systems and job boards on career sites were designed to improve efficiencies and bring down recruiting costs,” said Ray O’Donnell, President and co-founder of Total Rewards Software, “However, Web 2.0 opens the door to a whole new world of personalized capabilities for candidates who are accustomed to high-tech social networking.”

 

“By providing a company with a platform to communicate all the components of pay and the value-added components of a job, Total Rewards’ CandidateStatements.com has created a unique opportunity: a company can state its case as employer of choice at a critical juncture, while showing a candidate the total rewards of the job,” wrote expert Paula Santonocito in the recruiting publication AIRS.

 

CandidateStatements.com can be licensed as a stand-alone application or as an optional module within the Total Rewards Software suite of on-demand, total compensation statement software products.


Matt Lafata, HRchitect


The RightThing Builds for Strong 2009…from The RightThing

January 13, 2009

 

The RightThing, leader in customized recruitment leadership, technology and outsourcing showed strong results in Q4 of 2008 securing over ten new outsourcing deals with clients including Roxane Laboratories, Daiichi Sankyo, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, The Scotts Company, Sciele Pharma, Kronos Incorporated, Praxair, Advantage Sales & Marketing, Albemarle Corporation, and Lexmark International.

 

The RightThing, leader in customized recruitment leadership, technology and outsourcing showed strong results in Q4 of 2008 securing over ten new outsourcing deals with clients including Roxane Laboratories, Daiichi Sankyo, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, The Scotts Company, Sciele Pharma, Kronos Incorporated, Praxair, Advantage Sales & Marketing, Albemarle Corporation, and Lexmark International.

 

With an escalating client list, the company has big plans for 2009 including further development of the recently established Centers of Excellence, and internal proprietary technology platform RecruitPoint. Additional enhancements to Transitions, The RightThing’s highly successful outplacement product is also in the works.

 

In addition to the company’s success, both Terry Terhark (CEO) and Jamie Minier (President) were named to the 2008 HRO Superstar list published by HRO Today. The list recognizes opinion leaders and others who have made a major impact on HR outsourcing in 2008 and are paving the way in 2009.

 

AIRS, the recruiter training and technology division of The RightThing, completed a robust fourth quarter securing over 450 new deals including ones with eTrade, Liberty Mutual and others. AIRS also released its fifth annual job board directory and launched several updated training courses including, SearchLab 2009 and XtremeLab 2009. Initiatives for the New Year include a new diversity recruiting program as well as online, self-instructed training courses.

 

For more information on The RightThing, please visit www.rightthinginc.com

Matt Lafata, HRchitect


AIRS and APS-SmartSearch Announce Partnership…from Advanced Personnel Systems, Inc.

December 13, 2008

 

Two leading recruiting industry service providers come together to offer integrated solution for sourcing and talent acquisition

 

HRchitect includes SmartSearch in our list of Talent Acquisition Systems vendors that businesses should consider.

 

AIRS, a company of The RightThing and the leader in recruitment training and technology, and Advanced Personnel Systems, Inc. (APS), a leader in talent acquisition management and recruiting business solutions, announced they have partnered to deliver customers an integrated environment for sourcing and processing candidates through AIRS SourcePoint and APS-SmartSearch system.

Under the agreement, APS-SmartSearch customers who use AIRS SourcePoint as their primary recruiting platform, can now seamlessly export their candidates into the SmartSearch database for building relationships, and managing further talent acquisition and staffing processes. The integration will be available on SmartSearch’s Version 13 release in January 2009, and offers customers higher recruitment productivity and a cleaner transfer of candidate information.

 

For more information on SmartSearch, please visit www.smartsearchonline.com. For more information on AIRS, please visit www.airsdirectory.com

 
Matt Lafata, HRchitect


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