1,000 Small Businesses Switched to SmartRecruiters in Less Than Seven Months…from MrTed

May 8, 2009

 

Web 2.0 Recruiting System Helping Small Businesses Fill More Than 10,000 Jobs

MrTed’s CEO, Jerome Ternynck will participate in the HRchitect WebMingle on May 22, 2009.

Small businesses are hiring and they’re using SmartRecruiters, the free and easy applicant tracking system (ATS) from MrTed Ltd., to do it. Seven months ago, MrTed Ltd. unveiled SmartRecruiters, a Web 2.0 recruiting application that is 100% free and designed specifically for small businesses with up to 2,500 employees. Today, MrTed announced that 1,000 small businesses have signed-up to use SmartRecruiters since launch, making it the fastest-growing ATS in the recruiting software industry.

“After finding SmartRecruiters, I‘m not sure why any business would pay to use an ATS,” said Stepheny Booker, Staffing Coordinator for Pennsylvania MENTOR. “I don’t see why I would walk away from an Applicant Tracking System like SmartRecruiters for one where I would have to pay. What’s the point when I have everything I need in SmartRecruiters?”

SmartRecruiters is a fully functional, web-based ATS that gives recruiters all the tools they need to run their businesses. Within minutes of signing-up, recruiters can post and edit job listings, rate and screen candidates, and tailor the look-and-feel of corporate career web sites—all for free from within the application. Since launching in October, MrTed has added new functionality to the system, including integrations to SimplyHired, Yahoo HotJobs and Skype for improved recruiting and candidate communications. SmartRecruiters is delivered via the software-as-a-service model, so users never pay for application hosting, installation, maintenance, upgrades, additional users or storage.

“We are blown away by the response of small businesses to the launch of SmartRecruiters,” said Jerome Ternynck, CEO at MrTed. “Currently, small businesses are using SmartRecruiters to fill more than 10,000 jobs. We are excited to offer small businesses a better and free way to manage the recruiting function, and we are humbled to find that our system is in some small way contributing to hiring and economic recovery in the small business community.”

“Launching a recruitment solution during an economic meltdown seems somewhat counterintuitive. But when you think about it, even if overall hiring is down, the number of applicants for any given position is most likely up, so companies that are hiring must exert just as much or greater effort and expense to hire the best people,” said Laurie McCabe, a small business IT expert, blogger and partner at Hurwitz & Associates. “As the economy recovers and more SMBs start hiring again, the SmartRecruiters business model has potential to disrupt the ATS market in the same way that Google has done in many areas.”

The group of 1,000 small businesses now using SmartRecruiters includes companies from 45 different industries and countries, though approximately 90% of the businesses are in the US where unemployment is way up. Small business recruiters have been inundated with resumes from job seekers and while hiring is down, small businesses still need a system to manage the heightened level of activity, and many are using SmartRecruiters to prepare for hiring as the economy improves.

For more information on SmartRecruiters, please visit www.smartrecruiters.com

 
Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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MrTed Announces Partnership Agreement with HRchitect…from MrTed

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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MrTed Appoints HR Tech Expert Rick Vigilis to Lead North American Operations…from MrTed

March 26, 2009

 

MrTed’s CEO, Jerome Ternynck will be a guest on the HRchitect WebMingle on May 22, 2009.

 

MrTed Ltd, the leading global provider of Talent Acquisition Solutions, are pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Rick Vigilis as the Senior Manager of Operations for North America. Vigilis’s extensive experience managing and implementing human capital management technology solutions for global fortune 500 enterprises will add significant value in helping to expand MrTed’s rapidly growing presence in North America.

 

“Vigilis’s unique expertise makes him is a key find for MrTed and we are extremely excited to have him running our North American operations team. His vast experience in recruitment, RPO and HRIS enables him to see the big picture from all perspectives, the most important perspective being our customers. His leadership and vision will provide real value to our Senior Management team, in planning our future success,” said Jerome Ternynck, CEO of MrTed.

 

Vigilis, a respected leader in the HR industry, has touched on all areas of HR, from leading HR teams to implementing HR technology solutions. Vigilis most recently joins MrTed from Hewitt Associates where he managed the Recruitment Technology Group within the HRO business unit. In his role, he successfully led a large team of staff, managed several technology providers and various client implementations around the globe. Prior to his success at Hewitt, Vigilis demonstrated his star qualities at Taleo, where he worked his way up from project manager to director of professional services. His responsibilities at Taleo included overseeing numerous enterprise software projects, with full accountability for project costing, budgets, resources, quality control and overall project delivery.

 

Vigilis commented “I am extremely pleased to have joined such a dynamic company, with a real vision for innovation and focus on client value and satisfaction. MrTed’s success lies in listening to their customers and providing them with the technology they need. I look forward to growing the business and making an immediate impact in the marketplace,”

 

Jon Holden, RPO Practice Lead of MrTed added ” I am delighted to have Rick onboard, in my 12 years in working in the Outsourcing space I have rarely met an individual with the qualities of Vigilis. His deep knowledge of RPO and expertise in delivery will be an asset to both MrTed and our RPO partners in North America”.

Vigilis’ career in the HR space spans an impressive fifteen years, leading implementation teams for some of the world’s largest organizations including; Accenture, Ernst &Young, Citigroup, JPMorganChase and Mercer Human Resource Consulting. Vigilis’ responsibilities at MrTed will include driving operations, managing a large team of project managers and leading the efforts in growing business opportunities to new levels in the North American marketplace.

 

For more information on MrTed, please visit www.mrted.com

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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MrTed Stuns Recruiting Software Market with Breakout 2008 Performance…from MrTed

March 6, 2009

 

Talent Acquisition Leader Reports Record Sales and Profits, As Customers Look to Lower Costs Associated With the Still-Critical Process of Employee Recruiting

 

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

 

Cost-cutting companies in 2008 swarmed to recruiting software leader MrTed, resulting in a sharp increase in both sales and profits for the award-winning provider of talent management solutions. For the year, MrTed grew sales by 30%, while profits follow with 30% year-over-year. The dramatic spike in both areas comes amid a rise in global unemployment and a widespread slowdown in the business software market. Despite the sagging economy, many enterprises and government agencies continue to recruit and hire; only now they are looking to do so more cost-effectively than in years past. For these companies that means automating key recruiting processes and deploying software that is inexpensive to deploy as well as to maintain – each of which is an area of strength for MrTed.

Hiring Less Expensively
A pioneer in delivering software-as-a-service talent management solutions and the largest non-U.S. recruiting software vendor, MrTed is expert at helping businesses lower recruiting costs and improve recruiting efficiencies. The company’s MrTedTalentLink solution is used by hundreds of large enterprises and numerous Fortune 1000 organizations. And late last year MrTed launched SmartRecruiters, a 100% free applicant tracking system (ATS) for the small and midsized business (SMB) community. MrTed’s wide variety of web-based recruiting applications automate the key business processes that drive employee hiring, and its solutions are delivered via the on-demand model, which significantly lowers the cost of hiring for companies and eliminates the need for internal resources to manage the recruiting system.

“The idea that companies are hiring and therefore need recruiting systems seems counterintuitive in a time of layoffs, but progressive enterprises clearly recognize that finding and hiring the best people—particularly in a down economy—is integral to a successful business recovery,” said Jerome Ternynck, CEO at MrTed. “While other talent management vendors tinker with performance and payroll applications of diminishing value, MrTed remains committed to delivering best-of-breed talent acquisitions software that help companies lower recruiting costs so they can grow their businesses. Our record growth in the past year is a strong indicator that MrTed has identified the correct balance between systematic collaboration with users, resource allocation to fuel product innovation, and the regular release of stand-out talent management applications.”

Key Growth Areas
Growth was the theme across MrTed’s business in 2008. Multiple segments of the company, including its enterprise and channel sales businesses, grew rapidly. At the same time, MrTed expanded its reach into a new market with the introduction of SmartRecruiters, a product designed specifically for U.S. SMBs. Following are a few of the highlights:

• Fortune 1000 business on the rise – MrTed continued to grow its base of Fortune 1000 customers last year, as more industry leaders chose MrTedTalentLink to ensure the highest-quality candidate experience and optimum recruiter effectiveness. MrTed’s solutions allow enterprise organizations to lower the cost of, rather than cutting back the process of, tracking, assessing and managing the candidates who will meet talent requirements across the business.

• More RPOs choose MrTed – Several recruitment process outsourcer (RPO) firms adopted or expanded their use of MrTedTalentLink, based on the strength of its cost/benefit rationalization combined with its power to help RPOs replicate processes across widely varying, customer-defined recruiting continuums. The solution can accommodate the broad array of technologies, methodologies and reporting which are often dictated by RPO’s diverse base of client companies. RPOs praise MrTedTalentLink’s ‘one-to-many’ infrastructure for enabling the cost-cutting and economies of scale that deliver financial benefit. Chris Hornsby, business solutions manager at RPO, Ochre House, said: “We wanted to be in a position to offer our clients a tailored solution underpinned by our in-house consulting, implementation and ongoing support capability. MrTed provides us the ability to offer such solutions.”

• SMBs take notice – Over 400 SMBs have signed-up to use MrTed’s feature-rich, Open SaaS, pay-per-use ATS, SmartRecruiters, since the product was launched in October 2008. Targeted to the six million U.S. businesses with as many as 2,500 employees, SmartRecruiters serves the new generation of web-savvy SMB recruiters with a free, easy-to-use, open architecture. MrTed’s SMB users understand the value gap between the practical, efficient SmartRecruiters approach and the licensing and hosting fee burden of the traditional ATS. “SmartRecruiters is designed to disrupt the ATS market in the same way Google has with many of its free services,” said Peter Gold, founder at Hire Strategies, a UK-based a consulting business that helps large employers maximize social media as part of their talent management strategy. “The launch of SmartRecruiters, and its instant success in the market, demonstrates MrTed’s savvy grasp of SMB needs.”

“Undoubtedly these are challenging times for businesses, if enterprises ever were going to rationalize their recruitment function, now is the good time to do, and on that subject we are extremely optimistic,” noted Ternynck. “The combination of strong domain expertise, our best-of-breed Talent Acquisition Solution for Enterprise and RPO market and our exciting new solution for the SMB market has MrTed well-positioned to support clients to standardize and automate processes to increase the efficiency and reduce costs”.

 

For more information on MrTed, please visit www.mrted.com


Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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MrTedTalentLink™ Version 2.81 with Advanced Web 2.0 Self-Configurability Raises the Bar in Talent Acquisition Solution Standards…from MrTed

March 2, 2009

 

Customer Collaboration Drives MrTed Development Release Model for Best-in-Class Talent Acquisition Solutions

 

HRchitect includes MrTed in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems vendors that businesses should consider. MrTed also participated in the Talent Acquisition Systems in November 2008.

 

MrTed, the leading global provider of Talent Acquisition solutions, today announced the general availability of MrTedTalentLink Version 2.81 enabling worldwide companies of all sizes to optimize the process of acquiring and deploying talent. The release represents MrTed’s consistent and committed delivery of advanced solutions that maximize talent acquisition efficiency for both recruiters and candidates in the application process.

 

Version 2.81’s robust, forward-thinking features and enhancements are in keeping with MrTed’s spirit of collaboration with its customer community. Released only three months after the general availability of the revolutionary MrTedTalentLink V28, MrTed demonstrates its resolve to incorporate user feedback in developing the product roadmap to production of the best Talent Acquisition available.

 

MrTed’s iterative approach to development and deployment gives users the continuous flow of upgrades they need to keep pace with recruiting complexity in an ever-changing workforce. Version 2.81 introduces configurable forms templates that make it possible for users to customize candidate profiles, making it easier to view, manage, and assess candidate information. Additional new features improve candidate portal security and streamline the candidate experience when they activate, access, or withdraw their applications. Version 2.81 also delivers functionality enabling time zone management and postal code look up, and facilitates improved communication between candidates and recruiters. MrTedTalentLink’s SaaS delivery model facilitates rapid implementation and fastest time-to-benefit.

 

“With this release MrTed again demonstrates the power of working closely with our users in a model of collaboration and continuous improvement,” said Jerome Ternynck, CEO of MrTed. “The result, MrTedTalentLink Version 2.81, provides innovative improvements that meet our user requirements for superior security, flexibility, and effectiveness while reinforcing MrTed’s leadership in Talent Acquisition excellence.”

 

For more information on MrTed, please visit www.mrted.com

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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Free Applicant Tracking System Shakes Up Recruiting Software Market…from MrTed

February 4, 2009

 

350+ Small Businesses Sign-up for SmartRecruiters ATS Within 90 Days of Launch

 

HRchitect includes MrTed in our list of top Talent Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. SmartRecruiters also participated in the HRchitect Beauty Pageant on mid-market Talent Acquisition Systems on January 16, 2009.

 

Easy and affordable recruiting for small businesses was the mission of MrTed Ltd., a recognized leader in talent acquisition solutions, when, in October 2008, it launched SmartRecruiters, a 100% free applicant tracking system (ATS). Today, nearly three months later, SmartRecruiters is the fastest-growing ATS on the market.

 

SmartRecruiters combines elements of the Open Source and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) concepts. Like Open Source products, SmartRecruiters’ is free and features are determined according to the ‘wisdom of the community.’ And, as with other Web 2.0 solutions, SmartRecruiters is offered via the SaaS model, so users never pay for application hosting, maintenance or upgrades.

 

“Applicant tracking systems are important bread–and-butter applications for corporate HR managers and recruiters. However, they’re typically out of reach for small to mid-sized companies,” said Madeline Laurano, analyst for Bersin & Associates, a research and advisory firm focused on enterprise learning and talent management. “MrTed is taking a bold and innovative approach by providing small companies with a zero-cost solution from a reliable solution provider.”

 

Rapid Adoption

Intent on disrupting the stagnant ATS market, MrTed unveiled SmartRecruiters at the ERE Fall Expo in Hollywood, Florida. Relying solely on viral marketing tactics to promote the product, and targeting a small business market desperate for recruiting software that was both innovative and inexpensive, SmartRecruiters’ success in this short time has been nothing short of remarkable. Already, more than 350 small businesses have signed-up to use SmartRecruiters, which is nearly twice as much as the largest vendors in the industry have managed for the same period.

 

“We looked at dozens of web-based applicant tracking systems and found the ease-of-use and features in SmartRecruiters comparable to other recruiting systems costing hundreds of dollars per month,” said David Blankenship, Chief Operating Officer at Infoswell Media. “We were ready to start recruiting with SmartRecruiters in under one hour and now we post all our jobs using this innovative system. The available jobs page is accessed directly from our company web site and each of my hiring managers can review and rate the qualifications of every candidate applying for one of our posted positions.”

 

SmartRecruiters is the only fully functional, 100% free SaaS ATS to connect users with complementary recruiting services, such as job postings and background checks. Since launching in October, SmartRecruiters has enabled access to a network of free worldwide job-search sites through its partnership with eQuest, including SimplyHired, Indeed, GoogleBase, CampusAve, Resumes2Work, Kijiji and Recruit.net.

 

“After finding SmartRecruiters, I’m not sure why any business would pay to use an ATS,” said Stepheny Booker, staffing coordinator at Pennsylvania MENTOR, a trusted provider of life-enhancing services to hundreds of individuals and their families across the state of Pennsylvania. “I used another ATS system prior to implementing SmartRecruiters, but when I compared the systems, I found SmartRecruiters could easily handle our large volume of job openings and resumes. Of course the fact that SmartRecruiters is 100% free made the decision to replace the previous ATS that much easier.”

 

Why SmartRecruiters

Still in beta, SmartRecruiters is designed specifically for small business recruiters and hiring managers who, until now, have been forced to use expensive enterprise systems that are complicated and difficult to implement. By contrast, SmartRecruiters is easy to use, deploys in minutes, and is 100% free. As such, MrTed is eliminating a five-figure annual recruiting software expense for small businesses—and putting paid-for ATS vendors on-notice.

 

Likewise, SmartRecruiters works instantly, so users avoid lengthy and expensive implementation cycles typically associated with enterprise ATS deployments. And on-demand access to complementary recruiting services through SmartRecruiters saves time and streamlines hiring processes. In general, small businesses can expect to reduce recruiting costs by anywhere from $10,000 – $50,000 annually by using SmartRecruiters versus a competitive system.

 

“We are humbled by the response to SmartRecruiters and overjoyed to be helping more than 350 small businesses transform their recruiting processes,” said Jerome Ternynck, CEO at MrTed. “That SmartRecruiters has become the fastest-growing ATS in only three months is testament to the great need in the market for something new. We will continue to improve the application through input from the community and the addition of new services, and we are optimistic that SmartRecruiters will be the number one ATS in the industry by the end of the year.”

 

For more information on SmartRecruiters, please visit www.smartrecruiters.com

 
Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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