Gerard Murphy Appointed President and CEO of Peoplefluent…from Peoplefluent

July 18, 2012

 

Top Software Executive to Lead Business during Strong Momentum Phase as Company Delivers Consecutive Quarter Bookings Growth of Nearly 30 percent and Year-Over-Year Recurring Bookings Growth of 52 percent

 

HRchitect includes Peoplefluent in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems vendors and top Talent Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 15 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

Peoplefluent™, offering a unique combination of best-of-breed social, mobile and cloud-based suite solutions for Talent Management, Vendor Management and Workforce Compliance and Diversity, today announced the appointment of Gerard Murphy as President and CEO of the business.  Murphy, previously CEO of SunGard’s Brokerage and Clearance segment, will drive Peoplefluent’s corporate growth strategy and further advance the Company’s product innovation in the marketplace.  Having served as Chairman and CEO for the last year and a half, Charles S. Jones, will remain Chairman of Peoplefluent.

Murphy joins Peoplefluent during a time of strong momentum.  During the second quarter, ended June 30, 2012, every business unit posted double digit year-over-year growth, with new bookings growth of 42 percent and annual recurring bookings growth of 52 percent.  Year-to-date bookings grew, on a consolidated basis, 21 percent over the same period last year and momentum from Q1 2012 to Q2 2012 was very strong, with 29 percent quarter over quarter growth.  While the Company saw continued strength in global markets, in North America, Peoplefluent’s annual recurring revenue bookings growth was 178 percent in Q2 2012 versus the same quarter a year ago.  Not only did the Company see growth in new bookings, but Peoplefluent also improved retention rates by 17 percent in North America during the first half of 2012.

From 1995 to 2010, Murphy held a range of positions within SunGard, repeatedly promoted from sales executive positions into top management.  Exceeding targets and expectations, he ultimately served as CEO of the Brokerage and Clearance segment of the business.  While CEO of this division, one of the largest of ten business segments within SunGard, Murphy was responsible for $350 million in sales revenue and 1,200 employees worldwide.  From 2007-2010, Murphy steadily increased annual sales year-over-year by 10-20 percent and increased EBITDA by nearly 129% during 2004-2010.  His experience within the business includes identifying, completing and integrating acquisitions (including the largest acquisition ever executed within SunGard), managing operations and IT integration, general management and operational excellence and customer-focused business growth strategies.

“I am very pleased with the evolution of Peoplefluent in the last year and tremendously proud of the strong team that enabled it.  We are grateful for the endorsement delivered by our customers, old and new, who have fueled the rapid acceleration of our business,” said Mr. Jones.  “Now is the perfect time to transition the leadership position to a proven operations and sales executive who will drive continuous improvement, infuse the market with our best-in-class solutions and systematically deliver best outcomes for customers.  Gerry is an outstanding leader on every count, and it is with great pleasure and ongoing support that I confidently place him at the helm.”

Commenting on his appointment, Murphy said “I have taken my time to find the perfect fit, and I am delighted to be stepping in as CEO of Peoplefluent.  This is without question a dynamic and innovative growth business – one that is coming to the Talent Management arena with a new playbook.  The team is strong and the opportunity to deliver expanded and relevant models and services to customers worldwide is compelling.”

Prior to his tenure at SunGard, Murphy was with Fidelity Investments/National Financial Services Corp. for four years.  He began his career at Legg Mason Wood Walker in Boston.  Murphy received a BS in Economics from St. Michael’s College.

Murphy will be based in the Waltham office and will report to Mr. Jones.

To learn more about Peoplefluent, please visit www.peoplefluent.com

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GoodLife Fitness Selects Peoplefluent Recruitment Management Solution

March 13, 2012

 

Peoplefluent Expands Reach into Canadian Market, Providing RMS Product to Largest Health Club Company in Canada

HRchitect includes Peoplefluent in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems vendors and top Talent Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 15 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

Peoplefluent™, offering a unique combination of best-of-breed mobile and SaaS suite solutions for Talent Management, Vendor Management and Workforce Compliance and Diversity, today announced details of its latest expansion into the Canadian market by partnering with GoodLife Fitness. The largest fitness company in Canada, GoodLife employs approximately 10,000 people across the country and boasts almost 300 locations. With continued growth expected, the company will rely on Peoplefluent’s Recruitment Management System (RMS) to improve the efficiency of its hiring processes.

GoodLife, based in London, Ontario and sponsor of the annual GoodLife Toronto Marathon, is undergoing a rapid expansion of its brand. Anticipating further growth, the company upgraded its recruiting solution for its growing staffing requirements. As GoodLife hires almost 300 employees per month, the company was looking for a way to improve hiring processes by implementing a robust and flexible solution that would be able to keep up with expected growth. The company licensed Peoplefluent RMS to achieve improvement in its applicant tracking process, increased onboarding efficiency and greater quality of hire while speeding the candidate decision process.

RMS is the first Peoplefluent product to be used by GoodLife and went ‘live’ in December, ensuring that the company was sufficiently staffed for the annual increase in membership at the beginning of the new year. The first stage of the process will be to help GoodLife improve its applicant tracking process, enabling the company to find the right talent from its candidate pool. Such an improvement will accelerate the entire hiring process for the organization and result in a more efficient time to hire and reduced hiring costs.

Along with improved hiring and onboarding processes, GoodLife will benefit from RMS being able to integrate seamlessly with the advanced analytics engine that is part of the GoodLife Marketing Recruitment Platform. Combining the robust applicant tracking of RMS and its advanced analytics capabilities   with the marketing platform has already delivered actionable business insights related to sourcing, hiring procedures and financial reporting.

“As we plan to open more locations and increase our hiring throughout 2012, we needed to partner with an organization that could keep pace with our hiring needs and help us to improve our recruitment strategy,” said Steve Groves, vice president & CIO, GoodLife Fitness. “After considering several different vendors, we realized that Peoplefluent provided the best solutions to help us meet our goals.”

To learn more about Peoplefluent, please visit www.peoplefluent.com

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Peoplefluent Delivers Latest Version Of Widely Deployed Recruiting Management System…from Peoplefluent

August 17, 2011

 

New Look and Feel Advances User Experience; Enhancements Improve Workflows and Add Platform-Agnostic Framework for Mobile Applications

HRchitect includes Peoplefluent in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems vendors and top Talent Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 14 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

Peoplefluent, offering a unique combination of best-of-breed mobile and SaaS suite solutions for Talent Management, Vendor Management and Workforce Compliance and Diversity, today unveiled details of Version 5.0 of its Recruitment Management System (RMS).  With this version, the single sign-on user interface to Peoplefluent’s global RMS has been updated to align with the UI of its award-winning talent management system. This significant user interface change will also be reflected in the company’s Vendor Management System (VMS) offering later this year.

Intelligently driving decisions in an actionable manner, RMS 5.0 eliminates the “hunt and search” approach to finding important information that is a challenge for other recruiting systems, by placing data and analysis at the forefront of the solution. Proactively harnessing the power of corporate data is part of Peoplefluent’s vision, exemplified with their launch of the Decision Views platform in 2009 and validated by the company’s 2011 acquisition of Aquire, a global leader in workforce planning and analytics solutions.

In response to the increase of the number of enterprise smartphone and tablet app users – forecast to be as high as 830 million by 2016 according to ABI Research – Release 5.0 has a platform-agnostic framework that better positions the application to take advantage of mobile devices such as the iPad (see Peoplefluent’s Fluency on the Move mobile applications launched earlier this month). This change also increases the number of browsers supported by RMS such as Firefox, Chrome and Safari.

“As more organizations seek to enable their workforces with applications that traverse a wide range of devices – desktops, laptops, smartphones and tablets – it’s crucial that we be platform-agnostic and deliver the industry’s leading user interface. Our clients are telling us that having relevant data presented to them in an intuitive, easy-to-navigate manner enables them to gain efficiencies and make better business decisions more quickly. Peoplefluent is committed to listening closely to our customers and turning their requirements into reality,” said Tom Tisdale, SVP of Sales for Peoplefluent.

Recognizing how busy HR professionals and corporate recruiters interact with applications, colleagues and candidates, Version 5.0 of RMS incorporates a number of significant Recruiting Portal user interface updates that add value without changing the respective task such as: 

  • Workflow improvements that increase hiring workflow navigation and visibility
  • Dashboards using drag-and-drop widgets that provide easy access
  • A redesigned contemporary user interface featuring interactive icons and intuitive navigation

To lend further support, substantive application changes include the ability to view full lists of candidates and improved candidate search functionality; visual indicators highlighting where candidates are in the workflow; “export on-the-fly” capability; and email spell check and calendar tools. RMS 5.0 adds to the self-service administration capabilities of career site management, putting greater control in the hands of customers.  For example, customers may choose to deployment options that let candidates complete a full job application on their mobile devices. With RMS 5.0, organizations can readily edit the text at their career sites, ensuring convenience, cost savings and the flexibility needed to support employment branding initiatives.

Version 5.0 of Peoplefluent’s RMS is available now. 

For more information, please visit www.peoplefluent.com.

 
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Peoplefluent Integrates with LinkedIn…from Peoplefluent

July 27, 2011

 

Peoplefluent Delivers Customers Immediate Access to Talent Pool of Over 100 Million Candidates Worldwide; Increases Quality of Hire and Streamlines Recruiting Processes

HRchitect includes Peoplefluent in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems vendors and top Talent Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 14 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

Peoplefluent, offering a unique combination of best-of-breed suite solutions for Talent Management, Vendor Management and Workforce Compliance and Diversity, today announced it is working with LinkedIn to connect its customers with over 100 million potential applicants worldwide, further generating quality of hire and streamlining recruiting processes. Today’s news, in conjunction with the “Fluency on the Move” mobile product line introduced by Peoplefluent earlier this month, underscores the Company’s intuitive talent management strategy designed to drive engagement by creating innovative, immediate and interactive  experiences through the communities, devices and methods naturally preferred and undertaken by the user.

“The individual is today’s new system of record.  In an emerging landscape, where shifting cultural and professional dynamics and rapidly evolving technology enablement have changed the relationship between employees and employers, LinkedIn has become the preeminent resource for individual Talent Profiles,” said Charles S. Jones, Chairman and CEO of Peoplefluent. “Consistent with our overarching intuitive talent management strategy and recent product innovations, we are helping our customers find the talent they need by giving them the easy, engaging and immediate ability to meet potential candidates where they already are — in their own powerful interactive communities.”

Concur, as a global leader in integrated travel and expense management, is the first of several Peoplefluent customers to expand its existing Peoplefluent Recruiting Solution with the “Apply With LinkedIn” integration.  The company will implement the “Apply with LinkedIn” functionality across all of its career sites and its corporate site, in a phased strategy over the next several months, beginning with TripIt, their leading mobile trip organizer. 

“LinkedIn represents a highly qualified and professionally engaged pool of talent, and it’s in Concur’s best interest to make the application process as easy as possible,” said Shelly Holt,Director of Global Staffingfor Concur. “We are committed to reaching and identifying the highest quality candidates for our rapidly growing business units like TripIt, and to making every interaction with our business a simple and welcoming experience. We are delighted about the impact that this integration will have on our recruiting initiatives, beginning with TripIt.”

Further expanding the functionality of its broad Recruiting Solution, Peoplefluent has developed key product integrations with LinkedIn’s leading professional platform.  With this effort, Peoplefluent is streamlining the application process for job seekers and broadening the candidate pool for companies worldwide. 

Citrix, a leading provider of virtual computing solutions that help people work from anywhere on any device, strives to provide the company’s hiring managers and candidates with simple, efficient tools, such as Peoplefluent’s Talent Management suite.  “As a long-term Peoplefluent customer, we’re excited to enhance the recruiting and application experience with this innovative technology,” said Rich Berger, Senior Director Citrix Global HRIS. 

“This is a great tool for candidates to streamline their application experience with Citrix.  We are strengthening our social media and bridging the gap between LinkedIn profiles and our application process,” said Melissa Thompson, Director, Citrix Talent Acquisition.  “We look forward to adding ‘Apply With LinkedIn’ to our Peoplefluent RMS implementation later this summer.”

Peoplefluent will offer two “Apply With LinkedIn” plug-in integration options to its Recruiting Solution customers.  The first option will, through a one-click apply process, populate relevant LinkedIn profile information into the Peoplefluent recruiting system. Designed to streamline the application process for people who maintain rich professional profiles on LinkedIn, this will serve to broaden our customers’ applicant pool of high-quality candidates both actively and passively looking for new opportunities.  The second option couples the convenient submission process of the first, while adding compliance and candidate screening alternatives for global enterprise customers.  A one-click process will access a candidate’s profile data and populate the information into existing application forms on the career site. This process further allows the candidate to provide supplemental application documents, complete assessment forms and provide any other data necessary that is not typically stored in a profile, but is required as part of the application process. 

For more information, please visit www.peoplefluent.com.

 
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Leading Organizations Energize Their Talent Acquisition Strategy with Peopleclick…from Peopleclick

November 20, 2009

 

Peopleclick Experiences Strong Momentum Across All Three Product Lines

HRchitect includes Peopleclick in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems vendors that businesses should consider. Peopleclick participated in the Talent Acquisition Systems panel on June 10, 2009 as part of theHRshow 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.

Peopleclick, Inc., the leading provider of talent acquisition and workforce compliance and diversity solutions, announces strong momentum across all product lines as several leading organizations have selected Peopleclick to transform their talent acquisition strategy. New clients utilizing solutions within the Peopleclick Talent Acquisition Suite include Pepco Holdings, Inc., Pike Electric, Volkswagen U.K., GENCO Supply Chain Solutions, University of Pennsylvania Health Systems and Steria Recruitment.

Peopleclick RMS is the first recruitment management system Volkswagen U.K. has implemented within its U.K. headquarters. “Volkswagen U.K. decided to partner with Peopleclick because they provide a world-class single-source solution for managing our entire recruitment process, giving Volkswagen the ability to achieve multiple hiring objectives within our organization,” said Lorna Fletcher, Resourcing Business Partner for Volkswagen U.K. “For the first time, Volkswagen is able to leverage its corporate brand to promote all positions under the Volkswagen Group umbrella.”

Several recent Peopleclick clients will be implementing more than one solution within the Peopleclick Talent Acquisition Suite. Both Pepco Holdings, Inc. and Pike Electric will be using Peopleclick RMS and Peopleclick CAAMS affirmative action software to manage their recruitment needs and diversity and compliance objectives. Steria Recruitment has deployed Peopleclick VMS to manage their clients’ temporary workforces and control spend and authorization processes thus increasing the effectiveness of their contingent labor program.

Lastly, GENCO has selected the Peopleclick CAAMS solution to monitor their affirmative action plans and goals. “GENCO is looking forward to our partnership with Peopleclick,” added Julie Arrington, Director of Teammate Services at GENCO. “Peopleclick CAAMS is a true enterprise software solution that will provide the most effective way for our company to fulfill our short and long range affirmative action and diversity initiatives. By providing greater flexibility and reporting capabilities, we will be able to perform cost-effective monitoring of our compliance and diversity goals on a regular basis.”

Peopleclick’s momentum has delivered record levels of new business for the company during the second and third quarters of 2009. “Organizations realize the strength of their workforce can affect the longevity of their business success,” said Mike DeFrancesco, Chief Financial Officer of Peopleclick. “Within one cohesive platform, our technologies provide clients with the most intuitive talent acquisition solutions available, making their job functions more effective. With the economy showing signs of recovery, new clients are implementing these solutions so they will be in a position to attract top talent and stay a step ahead of their competitors. Meanwhile, Peopleclick’s technology will provide these organizations with a holistic view of their hiring strategy to reduce costs, reduce turnover and manage their contract labor all in a compliant manner.”

To learn more about Peopleclick, please visit www.peopleclick.com

 

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Peopleclick and eQuest Renew Multi-Year Partnership…from Peopleclick

June 30, 2009

 

Partnership Will Provide Global Job Posting Support and Expanded Job Board Management Services to Peopleclick Clients

HRchitect includes Peopleclick in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems vendors that businesses should consider. Peopleclick participated in the Talent Acquisition Systems panel on June 10, 2009 as part of theHRshow 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.

Peopleclick, Inc., the leading global talent acquisition solutions provider, and eQuest, the global leader in job posting and internet recruitment management services, today announced a renewed partnership that will continue to provide Peopleclick clients advanced job posting services through the Peopleclick Recruitment Management System (RMS).

Through the multi-year partnership, Peopleclick and eQuest will offer clients the following: 

  • Additional domestic and European job board destinations
  • Online tracking systems confirming job delivery status
  • A new personalized metrics dashboard that evaluates the best performing career sites prior to choosing the desired job boards for delivery
  • Automated job delivery scheduling

Peopleclick and eQuest offer some of the most recognized international job boards focusing on leading career sites in Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa, Europe and the Americas.

“Through our agreement with eQuest, Peopleclick is able to provide our clients with high-value job posting options that will further develop their talent acquisition strategy,” said Ginny Gomez, SVP of Product Management and Marketing at Peopleclick. “Right now, organizations are focused on finding the brightest and most advanced candidates in the marketplace, and our long-term relationship with eQuest assures our clients that we continue to offer innovative partnerships that make tasks such as job posting more effective and efficient.”

“We are pleased to continue our partnership with Peopleclick,” said John Malone, President and Chief Executive Officer at eQuest. “eQuest is committed to providing new concepts and technologies that exceed expectation. We look forward to providing these to Peopleclick customers around the world.”

For more information on Peopleclick, please visit www.peopleclick.com

 
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