June 21, 2009
Delivers New Calendar and Productivity Enhancements
HRchitect includes Bullhorn in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems vendors that businesses should consider. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, talk to HRchitect first. We have unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation.
Bullhorn, the global leader in On Demand, front office staffing and recruiting software, today announced new, significant capabilities to drive collaboration and productivity among recruiters and staffing professionals. Bullhorn Spring Edition, available now, includes a completely new calendar to foster collaboration, and several productivity enhancements, including resume preview for linked candidates and contacts and added flexibility to conduct candidate searches in the United Kingdom using Bullhorn’s Integrated Resume Search sourcing tool. The new calendar is part of Bullhorn Mail and is fully integrated with Bullhorn’s On Demand Integrated Front Office as a premium feature in its Corporate and Enterprise Editions.
“We’re very excited about the new features in the Bullhorn Spring Edition, particularly the ease of use and flexibility we’ve built into our calendar. This newest version of Bullhorn offers enhancements that map to the needs of our current customers and new features that are part of our strategic vision for Bullhorn as a cornerstone, mission-critical application that drives sales and recruiting at staffing and recruiting firms around the globe,” said Phil Costa, Senior Director of Product Management at Bullhorn.
For more information on Bullhorn, please visit www.bullhorn.com
Matt Lafata, HRchitect
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June 18, 2009
The partnership will focus on providing SMBs a more effective and cost-efficient means for managing applicants
HRchitect includes MrTed and SmartRecruiters in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems vendors that businesses should consider. Jerome Ternynck, CEO of MrTed appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on May 22, 2009. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, talk to HRchitect first. We have unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation.
MrTed Ltd., provider of the free and easy applicant tracking system (ATS) SmartRecruiters, today announced a partnership with First Advantage (NASDAQ: FADV), a global risk mitigation and business solutions provider. The partnership will focus on providing small-to-midsized businesses a more effective and cost-efficient means for managing applicants.
SmartRecruiters, one of the fastest-growing ATS on the market, is the only fully functional, 100-percent free SaaS ATS to connect users with recruitment-related services, which is what prompted First Advantage to team up with SmartRecruiters. “The partnership with SmartRecruiters will provide our clients access to a cost-effective recruiting solution and provide SmartRecruiters’ customers an array of integrated screening solutions that can be used to improve the quality of hire,” stated Paige Vesuvio, vice president of marketing for Employer Services at First Advantage.
The first services from First Advantage will be available to users of SmartRecruiters by the third quarter of 2009 and will include background checks and I-9 verification. First Advantage’s experience in employment pre-screening will help SmartRecruiters’ users improve screening quality and reduce compliance issues by preventing double entries, omissions and other human errors. With one click and one interface, users will find these services easy to use and intuitive.
By creating a partnership such as this, SmartRecruiters and First Advantage will not only provide small and midsized businesses with significant cost savings, but also, by adding services immediately within the ATS, recruiters and hiring managers should expect to save a tremendous amount of time. In addition to access to First Advantage’s services, SmartRecruiters users have direct posting access to some free posting sites, including SimplyHired, Indeed, GoogleBase and Recruit.net. Most recently, Yahoo!Hotjobs has been added to the growing list of available paid job boards.
“We are excited to continue executing on our strategy of providing free technology that is supported by pay-per-use services,” said Jerome Ternynck, CEO and co-founder, MrTed. “We are pleased that First Advantage understands and shares this vision and is willing to partner with us to achieve our common goals. First Advantage truly understands the value of SmartRecruiters.”
For more information on MrTed, please visit www.mrted.com
Matt Lafata, HRchitect
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June 17, 2009
PrincetonOne HirePursuit, the recruitment process outsourcing arm of PrincetonOne, a total recruitment services provider based in Skillman, NJ, has announced it will extend its partnership with iCIMS to fulfill its applicant tracking needs.
HRchitect featured iCIMS in our May 2008 release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems vendors that businesses should consider. iCIMS participated in the Talent Acquisition Systems panel on June 10, 2009 as part of theHRshow2009 event. iCIMS competed in the HRchitect Beauty Pageant on Talent Acquisition Systems in November 2008 and mid-market Talent Acquisition Systems in January 2009, where they were crowned the winner of each. Adam Feigenbaum and Susan Vitale from iCIMS also appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on December 12, 2008. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, talk to HRchitect first. We have unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation.
PrincetonOne HirePursuit, the recruitment process outsourcing arm of PrincetonOne, a total recruitment services provider based in Skillman, NJ, has announced it will extend its partnership with iCIMS to fulfill its applicant tracking needs. The companies began working together in 2004 and recently signed a three-year agreement. iCIMS is a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of Web-based business solutions. The company has more than 750 clients worldwide and is one of the largest and fastest growing vendors in the space.
PrincetonOne HirePursuit is dedicated to providing the most effective and efficient services to both clients and candidates and regularly analyzes its processes for any areas of improvement. After researching many applicant tracking systems, it was determined that iCIMS’ Talent Platform remained the most efficient and technologically advanced option and provided the service and capability that best fit PrincetonOne HirePursuit’s needs and the needs of its clients. Michelle Gillin, Vice President, HirePursuit, stated, “PrincetonOne HirePursuit has been a longtime partner with iCIMS. Once we made the strategic decision to not develop proprietary software, we committed to constantly evaluating the marketplace to review applicant tracking systems to ensure that we are providing the best solution for our customers. Year after year, iCIMS has proven that it is truly the best in applicant tracking.”
iCIMS’ Talent Platform is a state-of-the-art Talent Management Solution that creates a one-stop recruiting resource to streamline internal recruiting operations, saving corporations time and money through integration, automation and collaboration. The Talent Platform was ranked as one of the top five largest providers of Applicant Tracking Systems by the 2009 Workforce Management Hot List and is consistently recognized by industry analysts as one of the most intuitive and easy-to-use solutions available today. The company has been named to Inc. magazine’s Inc. 5000 list for the past two years and has won numerous industry awards including HRchitect’s “Beauty Contest” for talent acquisition and mid-market applicant tracking solutions. iCIMS’ solutions are also endorsed by TMP Worldwide Advertising & Communications, the global leader in human capital solutions, both domestically and abroad.
For more information on iCIMS, please visit www.icims.com
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May 26, 2009
Product to Enhance Service Excellence of Global Workforce Solutions Leader
HRchitect includes Bullhorn in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems vendors that businesses should consider. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, talk to HRchitect first. We have unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation.
Bullhorn, the global leader in On Demand, front office staffing and recruiting software, today announced it has been selected by Kelly Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: KELYA, KELYB), a world leader in workforce management services and human resources solutions. Kelly Services will utilize Bullhorn software to enhance the applicant recruitment and placement process across its U.S. Professional and Technical divisions and drive the delivery of continued service excellence to its customers.
“We selected Bullhorn for its premier software solution as well as for the company’s proven industry experience and thought-leadership, said Steve Armstrong, senior vice president and general manager for Kelly Services. “Bullhorn demonstrated a solid grasp of Kelly’s technology needs and presented a comprehensive solution to improve and streamline recruiting, record-keeping and placement of qualified candidates with customers.”
Bullhorn’s staffing and recruiting software will enable Kelly staff to access and view all related files of an employee such as resumes, job orders, notes or assigned tasks linked through an integrated email function. All documentation is completely visible in a single view allowing broader functionality by more than one user. The result is improved efficiency when processing an applicant.
“As a leader in workforce solutions, Kelly Services understands the need for a robust solution that can handle thousands of users and millions of requests each day for sharing information across their wide network of branch offices,” said Art Papas, CEO and co-founder of Bullhorn. “We’re very excited to partner with Kelly Services and look forward to helping the company continue its growth through the use of software solutions that enable fast and effective ways to generate, source and fill job orders.”
For more information on Bullhorn, please visit www.bullhorn.com
Matt Lafata, HRchitect
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May 22, 2009
Taleo Products, Customers and Partners Set Best Practices to Meet CEO’s Top Priority: Finding and Keeping the Right People
HRchitect featured Taleo in our May 2008 release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems vendors that businesses should consider. Taleo will participate in the Talent Management Systems panel on June 10, 2009 as part of theHRshow2009 event. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, talk to HRchitect first. We have unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation.
Taleo (NASDAQ: TLEO), the leading provider of on-demand talent management solutions, today celebrates its ten-year anniversary with success across every measure of its business: high customer satisfaction, growth, innovation, and industry accolades. Taleo’s software for attracting, developing, motivating and retaining top talent has not only propelled its own success, but also the success of its customers, which includes a third of the Global 100 and more than 3,400 small and medium-sized businesses.
Talent is typically up to 70% of the company’s operating expense and a business’ best competitive differentiator and investment for future growth, according to a recent global CEO survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers. In fact, today’s economy has driven increasing adoption of Taleo’s software products that help businesses better focus their efforts and successes in finding, hiring, developing, assessing and keeping their biggest lever for recovery and future success: their people.
There is a proven correlation between companies that manage their staff’s well and those that manage better bottom lines. A Great Workplace Employment Study conducted at the end of 2008 found that businesses rated as great places to work fared better in revenue growth, had far fewer layoffs and suffered zero bankruptcies or bail-outs compared to other businesses. Likewise, there is a direct link between the businesses faring the best in this economy and Taleo’s customer base. Today, Taleo’s customers include 48 of the Fortune 100, 30 of the Global 100, and 20 customers ranked among the very best places to work including: Starbuck’s, Ernst & Young and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
“The first decade of our business, we focused on delivering to our customers the very best products on an easy to access on-demand (or Software-as-a-Service) delivery model. We also set out to prove that the SaaS business model could be profitable for our shareholders. That dual focus on innovation and profitability has helped Taleo grow to a size and success that we share with less than 1% of the more than 3,000 technology companies that started with us in 1999,” said Michael Gregoire, Chairman and CEO of Taleo.
“In the process of building a great talent management company, we’ve also built an amazing talent management community. In this economic environment, businesses have the key to their own recovery walking in – and out of – their offices every day. Taleo, our customers and our partners are creating proven, successful, practices that companies of any size, in any industry can employ to be better employers and drive better businesses.”
Built for growth, Taleo has moved from its beginnings providing Canada’s first job board to becoming the world leader in software for talent management. The company incorporated May 25, 1999, selling its first on-demand software to large enterprises such as Bombardier and HP, who are still clients today. Taleo went public in 2005 and since that time revenue has grown over 133%, to more than $168 million in 2008, and the company entered 2009 with an application revenue backlog of $315 million.
In the last year alone, Taleo:
- Gained scale through the acquisition of Vurv, effectively doubling its customer base and cementing its position as the de facto global leader in online recruiting.
- Entered the performance management software segment, and is on track to close its 100th performance management customer this quarter. Further, last week Taleo Performance was awarded the CODiE award for the “Best Human Resources Solution” by the Software & Information Industry Association.
- Set the bar for customer service and support. In addition to the customer renewal rate in excess of 95%, Taleo recently was the first talent management vendor to secure certification by the Service and Support Professionals Association, receiving an “outstanding” rating.
“Taleo always been a very well run, well-oiled machine, but it has gotten red-hot in the last 12-18 months,” said Rick Fletcher, president and founder of Human Resources consulting firm, HRchitect. “They have definitely become the talent management category killer in terms of product strength and company viability. Taleo is particularly hot in the enterprise and the lower market with its Business Edition.”
For more information on Taleo, please visit www.taleo.com
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May 13, 2009
Automated Onboarding Decreases Talent Procurement Costs and Time-to-Hire
Leading workforce software and service solutions provider, Agile•1, announced today the release of ATS Onboarding with the latest version of its AccelerationATS talent procurement system.
AccelerationATS v.2.5.2 automates the onboarding of talent with configurable processes and new-hire portals that centralize onboarding tasks (i.e., documents, employment forms, etc.) for completion. AccelerationATS v.2.5.2 includes E-signature capabilities, integrates with standard HRIS, payroll and third-party services, and facilitates Rapid I9 services. Enhanced encryption and data security satisfy Safe Harbor certification requirements for international data privacy protections.
- Configurable Onboarding Process: Allows customized onboarding based on job title, organization, location and regulatory requirements.
- Customizable New-Hire Portal: Promotes corporate branding and socialization while directing new-hires and HR onboarding staff to tasks to be completed and reviewed before the new employee can start work.
- Online Management of Employee Documentation: Employee forms are pre-populated using information captured during the candidate creation process, reducing time and errors. HR onboarding staff receive updates as items are completed.
- Enterprise System Integration: Expedites background checks, mandatory drug and alcohol testing, payrolling and verification of the employee’s eligibility for employment in the U.S. through Rapid I9, a Web-based system overseen by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
AccelerationATS Onboarding expedites the start of new-hires while ensuring compliance with government regulations, company standards and job requirements. “In today’s business climate, it’s critical that businesses have the agility to properly onboard new talent and resources in time to meet emerging market opportunities,” said Ryan Baca, Vice President, Agile•1. “Adding Onboarding to the Acceleration talent procurement suite exemplifies Agile•1’s commitment to delivering total workforce solutions for our customers.”
For more information on Agile 1, please visit www.agile1.com
Matt Lafata, HRchitect
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May 12, 2009
New product transforms talent acquisition process through scalable, cost-saving hiring solution
The Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) division of Spherion Corporation (NYSE: SFN) today announced it has launched RPO One(SM), an industry-leading, standardized RPO product that will allow companies to recruit top talent quickly via a highly scalable, cost-effective hiring solution. In today’s uncertain business environment, companies are looking for a talent acquisition model that meets the immediate demands of their business, while adjusting to the ebbs and flows of the economy. RPO One is designed to streamline the entire recruitment process, offering clients a timely, steady and fluid supply of talent to meet their evolving business needs.
RPO One is an all-encompassing solution that incorporates the most critical elements of the candidate hiring process, including: an innovative and highly advanced Applicant Tracking System (ATS); a comprehensive reporting package; and standardized workflow and service level agreements. Additionally, its fast-track implementation process of only six weeks, enables companies to realize the bottom-line benefits of RPO at record speed.
Spherion’s RPO One product enables companies to manage potential hires with a best-of-breed applicant tracking system. By instituting this technology, companies will experience immediate recruitment benefits from their RPO engagement. Depending on the organization’s needs, Spherion can also manage the ATS investment that the client has previously incorporated in their talent acquisition process. The built-in ATS provides a sharpened focus on recruiting and allows the organization to identify the best candidates in an accelerated timeframe.
“In today’s challenging hiring market, many organizations are engaging in RPO to take their recruitment process to the next level,” said Rebecca Callahan, senior vice president of Spherion’s Recruitment Process Outsourcing division. “RPO One will innovate and organize a company’s talent acquisition strategy while significantly lowering costs. Additionally, HR organizations will see a marked improvement in the quality of candidates and a notable reduction in the time it takes to fill positions.”
With RPO One, the entire recruitment engine – from sourcing and screening to hiring and on-boarding – has been standardized in order to provide more consistency in the hiring process. This will enable companies to see accelerated results during an RPO engagement and direct benefits to their bottom-line.
Spherion RPO provides end-to-end delivery of RPO services, as well as management of select areas of the recruiting process, for companies’ unique hiring needs. Leveraging a dedicated team of seasoned recruiters, Spherion RPO helps clients find the best candidates across a comprehensive range of positions. Working with a company’s talent management leadership, Spherion RPO helps clients optimize their talent acquisition process through a scalable recruiting solution that results in higher quality talent, improved time-to-fill, enhanced sourcing capabilities and significantly reduced hiring costs.
To learn more about Spherion’s RPO services, visit: www.spherionrpo.com.
Matt Lafata, HRchitect
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April 22, 2009
Sean Bisceglia, CEO from TalentDrive will be participating in the HRchitect WebMingle on April 24, 2009.
TalentDrive, the creator of the innovative SaaS recruitment technology, TalentFilterSM, announced today a partnership with myStaffingPro, one of the fastest and comprehensible “hosted” ATS solutions available. This partnership combines the strength of TalentFilter’s advanced sourcing and matching technology with the full-featured applicant tracking and recruiting system of myStaffingPro, offering users access to thousands of applicants everyday, 24/7.
This partnership brings users a seamlessly integrated, recruitment technology solution that offers advanced resume sourcing, precise matching and organized applicant tracking, all from one unified location. myStaffingPro’s 32,000 users will now be able to enter a job description and run a search of over 11,000 online job board locations, social media sites, and niche resume portals, pulling results according to the job posting requisition. myStaffingPro’s robust database in combination with TalentFilter’s advanced searching capabilities, provides recruiters the strongest recruitment technology on the market. By joining forces, TalentDrive and myStaffingPro offer recruiters a solution that helps find quality candidates to fill their open positions quicker and more effectively.
“We are excited by the opportunity to partner with a leading ATS such as myStaffingPro. A partnership with a strong ATS is a perfect fit in our eyes, providing recruiters a comprehensive tool that helps face the issue of sifting through the current glut of resumes online to find high quality candidates. Our goal is always to bring the most efficient solution to our clients, cutting unnecessary steps from the recruiting process—this partnership exemplifies this initiative,” said Sean Bisceglia, CEO TalentDrive.
“As an ATS provider, the opportunity to integrate an advanced search capability to our system, allowing our clients to continually grow their database, was an obvious decision. This partnership allows our users a unified tool that truly cuts the fat out of the recruitment process and improves overall efficiency. We are pleased to be joining forces with a fellow recruitment technology and are anxious to see the benefits our clients will experience,” said Bob Schulte, CEO myStaffingPro.
For more information on TalentDrive, please visit www.talentdrive.com. For more information on myStaffingPro, please visit www.mystaffingpro.com
Matt Lafata, HRchitect
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April 11, 2009
Company Poised to Introduce Semantic-Search Technology to $10 Billion Talent Acquisition Industry
Seattle-based TalentSpring, Inc. announces that its open funding round, where it secured $1.6 Million in investment from Second Avenue Partners and private investors, is now closed. The funding has enabled TalentSpring to bring its revolutionary semantic-search technology to the $10 Billion talent acquisition industry. After two and half years in development, TalentSpring is currently piloting its SaaS talent sourcing service to more than 50 medium- and large-sized organizations and expects to release to the market in May 2009. The service empowers recruiters and hiring managers to automatically search social networking sites, job boards, and corporate applicant tracking systems (ATS) to find the best matched job candidates for open positions.
“We’re solving a huge problem for recruiters by automating the candidate sourcing process of manually reading and ranking resumes,” says Bryan Starbuck, CEO and Founder of TalentSpring. “TalentSpring’s technology will allow every recruiter to become an expert candidate sourcer and will save organizations substantial amounts of money.” Starbuck explains, “Today, recruiters have to read through an average of 200 resumes to find one good candidate. Not to mention, it is not uncommon for a recruiter to read 2,000 resumes to actually fill a position. The task is so time consuming that the best candidates for a position are often overlooked because recruiters simply don’t have time to find them. Or by the time they’re found, they’ve been hired by a competitor.”
By employing semantic-search technology to candidate sourcing, TalentSpring find resumes that are similarly matched to the attributes listed on the job requisition. This process greatly increases the pool of potential high-quality candidates and is a major innovation over today’s Boolean search method which only finds candidates whose resumes contain the exact Boolean logic and keyword(s) the recruiter used.
If a candidate’s resume doesn’t have the exact keywords used in the search, it is discarded before ever being read by a recruiter. The result is that organizations are not able to take advantage of the large available labor pool to find the best matched candidates for their positions.
For more information on TalentSpring, please visit www.talentspring.com
Matt Lafata, HRchitect
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April 11, 2009
Navicus Expands Talent Management Suite with Integrated Competency and Performance Based Assessments Products from Global Human Asset Systems.
Navicus, a leading Employment Screening and Talent Management software service provider, today announced the launch of Talent Intelligence, a competency and performance based assessment product offering. The introduction of competency and performance based assessments from Global Human Asset Systems, LLC (GHAS) is another way Navicus delivers on its promise to help companies of all sizes by providing integrated solutions that enable organizations to bridge strategy and execution gaps, cultivate top talent, optimize workforces, and drive business productivity. Companies can add objective Talent Intelligence to their hiring or right-sizing decisions either as a standalone or through the Navicus Applicant Tracking and Performance Management modules.
The Talent Intelligence process is streamlined and impactful. The assessment tests have been developed and researched from over thirty years of successful psychometric practice by Dr. George Paajanen. The tests are validated in over 240 studies, used for hiring in over 300 organizations, presented in dozens of professional conferences, reported and reviewed in dozens of journal articles, and taken by over 140 million applicants. The design features of the test have been derived from extensive applied research, offering advantages over conventional assessment instruments. The tests provide accurate prediction of job performance, in a form that is fast and easy for applicants, and produces significant returns on investment.
Talent Intelligence can be configured to include an online behavioral assessment that gets the interview started online by collecting 3-5 confirmed achievements. Designed by Dr. Tom Janz, author of pioneering research and a major book on Behavioral Interviewing, the Talent Intelligence (Behavioral Interview Online) saves both companies and candidate’s time while enabling shorter, deeper, and more satisfying final decision interviews.
“The addition of Talent Intelligence better enables us to deliver a well rounded and complete picture of applicants. In today’s hiring environment it is imperative for companies to implement efficient talent acquisition and development strategies since applicant flow is increasing from higher unemployment rates and there is increasing visibility relative to employee productivity. By incorporating competency and performance based assessments into a talent management strategy it is estimated that companies can realize a 100-200% increase in hiring accuracy and significant increases within the tracking of employee goals thus, leading to a more productive workforce,” says Jesse Berger, CEO of Navicus.
For more information on Navicus, please visit www.navicus.com
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April 10, 2009
Software-as-a-Service Provider Secures Position as One of the Top Three Providers of Talent Acquisition Solutions and Narrows the Gap Between Industry Runner-Up Kenexa
HRchitect featured iCIMS in our May 2008 release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems vendors that businesses should consider. iCIMS competed in the HRchitect Beauty Pageant on Talent Acquisition Systems in November 2008 and mid-market Talent Acquisition Systems in January 2009, where they were crowned the winner of each. Representatives from iCIMS also participated in the HRchitect WebMingle in December 2008.
iCIMS, the third-largest provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) talent acquisition solutions, announced today record breaking first quarter numbers with more than 50 new customer signings, adding such organizations as H&R Block (NYSE: HRB), QinetiQ North America, Universal Protection Services, Spectrum Healthcare Resources, Feed the Children and NATCO (NYSE:NTG) to the company’s rapidly growing client base.
This first quarter of 2009 proved to be a trying time for many talent acquisition solution vendors; however, while competitors remained stagnant and were even forced to layoff, iCIMS rose to the occasion reflecting the viability of both the software offerings and the company. To date, iCIMS has grown at an unprecedented rate and projects record breaking numbers for the remainder of 2009. iCIMS is currently recognized as one of the top three providers of talent acquisition solutions behind Taleo (NASDAQ: TLEO) and Kenexa (NASDAQ: KNXA) and the leading private provider in the industry. Kicking off the fiscal year with this degree of first quarter momentum puts iCIMS on track to rapidly narrow its gap behind industry runner-up Kenexa.
iCIMS’ Talent Platform has differentiated itself from competing vendors this past quarter and ascended as an industry leader; this expedited rise to the top largely attributed to the Talent Platform’s cost-effectiveness, overall flexibility and award-winning customer support. In today’s economic market organizations are seeking to invest in highly configurable software that is powerful enough to meet their talent management needs today, yet flexible enough to expand and meet their evolving organizational needs in the future, and because of this iCIMS’ Talent Platform has stood out above the rest. Furthermore, as the highly configurable Talent Platform became Mac and multi-browser compatible in Q1, clients were afforded even greater flexibility with iCIMS’ software offerings. Additionally, as opposed to other talent management systems requiring costly modules, add-ons, and data integrations, the iCIMS Talent Platform operates on one single-source solution. This one-stop Talent Management solution eliminates the mounting expenses associated with maintaining and training users on multiple systems, providing a cost-effective option for customers.
The new client additions join more than 700 worldwide organizations who currently power their talent management initiatives using the iCIMS Talent Platform. Thus far, 2009 has shown an increasing number of small and mid-sized organizations turning to iCIMS’ Talent Platform as a full Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) tool to manage their pre- and post-hire Talent Management programs. This one-stop solution allows SMB clients to use iCIMS as their HRIS system of reference while taking advantage of such pre and post-hire tools as onboarding, performance management, employee management, surveys, referral programs and more. Additionally, the company continues to see strength as a replacement Applicant Tracking System at the enterprise level. Many of iCIMS’ clients, such as H&R Block, SWS Group (NYSE:SWS), 2Wire and more, have migrated from starter systems to the Talent Platform. These companies rely on iCIMS’ unified platform to streamline their hiring management programs and to provide the collaborative tools necessary to succeed in today’s business environment.
“As a company, we take great pride in announcing our numbers for this first fiscal quarter.” said Colin Day, President and CEO of iCIMS. “These numbers truly reflect the strength and longevity of iCIMS’ Talent Platform. With more than 50 new customers in Q1, and now over 700 clients on the Talent Platform, iCIMS is on track to not only maintain, but surpass, our position as the third largest provider of talent acquisition solutions in the industry.”
For more information on iCIMS, please visit www.icims.com
Matt Lafata, HRchitect
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April 9, 2009
Leading HR consulting firm offering services to help SMBs maximize value of SmartRecruiters deployment
HRchitect includes MrTed in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems vendors that businesses should consider. MrTed’s CEO and Co-Founder, Jerome Ternynck, will appear on the HRchitect WebMingle on May 22, 2009.
MrTed Ltd., provider of the free and easy-to-use applicant tracking system (ATS) SmartRecruiters, today announced a partnership with HRchitect, the leader in HR systems strategic consulting. MrTed and HRchictect understand that ‘purchasing’ an ATS isn’t part of your daily responsibilities … nor should it be. With this agreement, MrTed can offer HRchitect’s expertise to SmartRecruiters’ users, so they can benefit from consulting services to ease implementation, integration with other applications, and increase client satisfaction.
HRchitect will provide new users with a free webinar, “Tips and Tricks for the SmartRecruiters ATS,” that will help small and medium-size clients get up and running quickly. Also, users can choose to receive a complimentary “cheat sheet” from HRchitect and SmartRecruiters on how to set up their free ATS in a few minutes and then inform others within the organization about their ‘purchase.’ If users need an extra level of assistance, HRchitect will provide consulting services for a fee to provide training and services related to the SmartRecruiters ATS.
“Partnering with HRchitect will provide SmartRecruiters users with implementation consulting for their free ATS if they need it,” said Jerome Ternynck, CEO and co-founder, MrTed. “We are also pleased to provide our clients with the opportunity to benefit from world-class HR systems consulting that HRchitect provides.”
“As the leading ATS and Talent Management Systems consulting firm, we follow vendors very closely to stay on top of this dynamic industry,” stated Matt Lafata, VP of Sales & Marketing for HRchitect. “Innovation from applicant tracking and talent management vendors is still very high, and we were intrigued when MrTed introduced their free SmartRecruiters ATS in the Fall of 2008. HRchitect is available to help SmartRecruiters users get up and running as efficiently as possible while also helping to integrate SmartRecruiters with any other HR or Talent Management applications.”
For more information about MrTed and SmartRecruiters, please visit www.mrted.com or www.smartrecruiters.com
Matt Lafata, HRchitect
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April 8, 2009
Solution Provides HRsmart Customers with a Streamlined Process for Safe, Efficient Hiring
HRchitect includes HRsmart in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems vendors that businesses should consider.
HireRight, a leader in on-demand employment background and drug screening, has announced an alliance agreement with HRsmart, a leading provider of talent management software, employee performance management, applicant tracking, and human resource software solutions. The new HireRight Pre-integrated Solution for HRsmart will allow business users to manage their background and drug screening programs through the HRsmart Applicant Tracking System (ATS).
“Partnering with HireRight and offering their world-class employment screening solution within our Applicant Tracking System is a great value-add for our customers,” said Hanny Shehadeh, chief product officer for HRsmart. “Integrating the screening application allows our customers to streamline their hiring process and verify important candidate information with convenience.”
HireRight background and drug screening services are accessible through HireRight Pre-integrated Solution for HRsmart, enabling HRsmart customers to manage their employment screening program from a single location. The solution is delivered via the HireRight Connect integration framework, a scalable and secure integration environment designed to support pre-integrated screening solutions with ATS, custom integrations with third-party applications, and secure data feeds with third-party systems.
The robust HRsmart Applicant Tracking System includes a comprehensive dashboard tailored to the individual user, an easy-to-use and innovative functionality to help manage day to day activities, deep integrations for sourcing talent, managing assessments, communicating with Human Resources Information Systems, and now running employment background checks and drug tests through HireRight.
“HireRight is proud to partner with HRsmart, a recognized leader in talent management. As employers look to secure top talent, it is critical that they not only find well-qualified candidates, but that they also verify the credentials of each individual to create a high-performing and safe work environment. We expect our relationship with HRsmart will provide mutual customers with an efficient means for making smarter hiring decisions,” said David Nachman, vice president of business development at HireRight.
For more information on HRsmart, please visit www.hrsmart.com and for more information on HireRight, please visit www.hireright.com
Matt Lafata, HRchitect
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March 27, 2009
Newton, Inc. Launches Their Next-Generation Online Recruiting Software to Streamline the Hiring Process and to Welcome Recruiting Into the Web 2.0 Era — A new breed of applicant management and recruiting software aims to shake up the human resources field. Newton, a new web-based hiring software application, launches with the intent of simplifying the hiring process and increasing collaboration between hiring manager and recruiters. Incorporating Web 2.0 design principles and 5 years of hands on development by recruiters, Newton’s recruiting software is guaranteed to increase productivity.
Newton, Inc. is a San Francisco-based enterprise software company that just successfully launched their first product, called Newton. Newton is a simple to use, web-based, applicant management and recruiting software application. The product is designed to organize and simplify recruiting programs through the use of modern Web 2.0 tools, making it easier for everyone to get involved with the hiring process.
Recruiting software is a niche that often flies under the radar, but can cost companies a bundle in IT systems and productivity. While many recruiting software vendors continue to tout features that aim to attract more candidates, Newton is designed to solve the bigger problem associated with streamlining the recruiting process: improving the communication and collaboration between recruiters and hiring managers.
“We are addressing recruiting software from a completely different angle,” says Joel Passen, co-founder of Newton, Inc. “Hiring lives and dies in two key areas: one, getting hiring managers engaged in the recruiting process; and two, empowering recruiters to collaborate with those managers and increase their accuracy.” Newton does both.
While Newton is a new face in the recruiting software arena, the application itself has been in development for nearly 5 years. Newton previously powered a successful recruitment outsourcing business run by founders, Steve Hazelton and Joel Passen. As the crown jewel of their recruitment service, Newton managed thousands of concurrent jobs, hiring managers and candidates, but only recently has the applicant tracking system been for sale to a general audience.
“Newton has been in the marketplace for nearly 5 years. We were able to test, design, redesign and gather feedback from literally hundreds of users before ever launching our product. This really allowed us to nail down usability before focusing on building out our feature matrix to make our marketing team happy,” says Passen.
Newton, which competes on the high-end with companies like Taleo and Kenexa, is built on the Flex platform with Ajax and a variety of open source tools. Newton is quite possibly the first Rich Internet Application designed for recruiting. “We chose Flex because it is makes Newton lightening fast, allowing us to build modules faster than our competition while retaining the simple user experience we are looking for,” explains Steve Hazelton, Newton’s CEO.
Hazelton is betting on Newton’s use of Web 2.0 technologies to win over customers. “The system resembles sites that you use in your everyday life as opposed to the clunky first-generation software that many companies force their employees to use,” he remarks. Hazelton created a company blog to highlight Newton’s design philosophy (http://newtonondemand.com/blog), which reads like a product manager’s manifesto to simplicity.
Today, Newton is targeted towards the 250,000 small and mid-sized companies in the U.S. The pricing for the online recruiting software varies depending on the number of administrative and staffing users, but an annual subscription generally costs under $2000. Newton also includes other perks such as expert support to help companies set up the system, import existing resumes and create a custom careers site.
Passen explains that the company is continually evolving Newton to meet the needs of the marketplace. One upcoming feature is a supplier management module that will allow companies to work with agency recruiters more effectively. Also in the works is an analytics module that utilizes the same user-friendly interface design principals as the core product, making reporting more visual rather than forcing users to rely on spreadsheets and pivot tables.
The founders of Newton are already looking ahead to other applications in the human resources technology space which they refer to as a “dusty corner.” “HR is evolving, but the tools of the trade have yet to make the leap,” says Passen. “We are interested in building simple software that makes people’s jobs easier.”
For more information about Newton please visit http://www.newtonondemand.com/
Matt Lafata, HRchitect
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March 27, 2009
JobDig, a leading employment focused media, advertising, and technology company, has introduced four new subscription packages for their applicant tracking system (ATS) – JobDig Tracker. The new packages have been developed to offer greater flexibility and availability to clients with demanding business requirements and tighter budgets caused from current market conditions.
The new packages continue to deliver businesses the ability to post positions, organize candidates, and improve the hiring process, however, are offered in tailor fit solutions starting at $49 per month. Adopting from past JobDig Tracker subscriptions, the new packages are available on a month-to-month basis with no required contracts with training and support included. Implementation time also remains consistent with clients being able to start working with their new system in less than one business hour.
“JobDig Tracker’s new subscription packages offer organizations the opportunity to implement the best valued solution in the applicant tracking system industry” said Jake Stupak, Product Specialist for JobDig Tracker. “JobDig strives to continually develop and redefine our solution to incorporate the latest in cost saving technology to provide a positive impact to our clients at a truly affordable price.”
JobDig Tracker is available with a competitive range of features including an applicant portal, job order tracking, reporting, resume parsing, candidate ranking/searching, online application builder, email tracking, audit trail, matching agent, calendar scheduling, and source tracking. Each is designed to reduce hiring campaign costs while helping HR professionals hire the most qualified candidates.
For more information about JobDig, please visit www.jobdig.com
Matt Lafata, HRchitect
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