G4S Chooses Lumesse TalentLink for U.S. Talent Acquisition…from Lumesse

February 11, 2012

 

Talent Management Firm Met Requirements for Powerful, Configurable SaaS Solution Accessible Across the U.S.

HRchitect includes Lumesse in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems 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!

 

Lumesse, a global leader in integrated talent management solutions, today announced that G4S has selected Lumesse to implement a new TalentLink (Talent Acquisition/e-recruitment) solution throughout the U.S.

G4S is the world’s leading international security group working to safeguard the welfare and prosperity of millions of people globally. It is headquartered in the United Kingdom with international offices in 125 countries, employs 635,000+ people and maintains a focus on hiring highly committed, talented and specialized staff.

In the U.S., G4S provides a unique combination of personnel, project management, investigative services, risk management and technology security solutions delivered by a number of specialist business units and needed a single applicant tracking solution to support the hiring requirements across all employee levels within each business.

Last year, G4S conducted a complete review of its multiple U.S. recruitment processes, which led to the decision to implement a local version of its award winning career center technology and to identify the best partner in the U.S. to automate its existing paper-based candidate processing and management activity.

Lumesse demonstrated its ability to seamlessly integrate with the G4S career center, support G4S’s commitment to legislative excellence and provide fully configurable functionality to automate and manage multiple recruitment processes. Equally it gave G4S senior management the confidence to deliver a solution that local hiring managers and recruiters could use effectively.

Lumesse has already begun implementing TalentLink for G4S.

Jenni Myles, chief HR officer, G4S Americas, said, “There were several key objectives of the G4S evaluation, which included providing the best and most engaging candidate experience, exceeding legislative compliance, reducing the time-to-hire to drive efficiency into the hiring process, redeploying saved management hours and reducing the cost per hire.  The Lumesse TalentLink solution will fully meet our needs. It will give us an innovative approach to recruitment that will make a real difference in filling all positions, as well as reducing the administrative burden in the recruitment process. One of the most exciting opportunities will be to demonstrate to our customers how advanced and robust our recruitment process is and to show how we will continually ensure to provide the very best people in the volumes they require.”

According to Lumesse CEO Matthew Parker, “With Lumesse TalentLink, G4S will benefit from improved employer branding, faster turnaround, improved candidate communication and reduced cost-to-hire in a highly competitive market for volume and specialized security skills. As a true SaaS solution, it offers a highly-effective way to deploy an enterprise-class talent acquisition solution to a global organization.”

For more information, please visit www.lumesse.com

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Matt Lafata, HRchitect


Latest Version of Lumesse TalentLink Released to Global SaaS Customers…from Lumesse

October 20, 2011

 

Enhances Usability, Global and Local Compliance, Reporting and Career Website Tools

HRchitect includes Lumesse in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems 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!

 

Lumesse, a global leader in integrated talent management solutions, today announced that it has made the latest version of its enterprise talent acquisition (e-recruitment) solution, Lumesse TalentLink, available to its rapidly growing software as a service (SaaS) customer base through its worldwide data centers.

Version 11.2 of Lumesse TalentLink delivers an enhanced API (TalentHub) that allows customers and partners even greater flexibility when integrating and extending Lumesse TalentLink to build career websites, interact with search technology and connect via social media. Based on customer demand, the business intelligence (BI) apps originally released in Version 11.1 have been extended to deliver even more real-time insight to users. Other new capabilities include support for the new EU Temporary and Agency Workers Directive, compatibility with OpenOffice documents; time-saving workflow enhancements such as a job advert wizard; and additional capabilities to deliver a faster, more tailored candidate experience.

Lumesse CEO Matthew Parker said, “With Lumesse TalentLink v11.2 we continue to bring innovations to our SaaS talent management product that give our global customers more information, more choice and more flexibility, as well as helping them meet critical local legislative requirements such as candidate data retention rules and the EU Agency Workers Directive.”

Lumesse TalentLink v11.2 includes numerous enhancements in the area of web services. Many companies want to build extensive recruiting functionality into their corporate websites, to use Internet search technology and particularly social media to find and attract talented candidates, and to deliver a fast, interactive candidate experience. The ability of Lumesse TalentLink to make available its power through web services APIs gives career site developers huge flexibility in building unique, creative career websites.

Actionable information on recruiting campaigns and recruitment metrics continues to be a growing requirement for many companies. The enhanced BI apps capability in Lumesse TalentLink v11.2 brings flexible, user-defined, multi-dimensional drill-down reporting on key talent acquisition metrics to the workspaces of users and managers. Reportable metrics include job listings, requisition status, candidate applications, hires and time-to-fill. The configurability of the BI apps means that individuals can create actionable intelligence that works for them, enhancing efficiency and creating greater insight into hiring decisions and progress.

The new capabilities provided in Lumesse TalentLink v11.2  supporting the EU Temporary and Agency Workers Directive add to the unique capability Lumesse TalentLink already offers in its Contingent Workforce support. Both fully employed and contingent (contract) workers can be managed with Lumesse TalentLink on a fully equal basis, a key benefit for the growing number of employers and managed service providers that employ both kinds of staff.

Among many other new features, Lumesse TalentLink v11.2 also introduces support for the file formats used by OpenOffice, including documents, spreadsheets and presentations, improving efficiency and compatibility for users of this popular open source application suite.

Lumesse TalentLink v11.2 is available immediately to all customers.

 

For more information on Lumesse, please visit www.lumesse.com

 
Matt Lafata, HRchitect


Lumesse Acquires SaaS-based Learning Experts Edvantage Group…from Lumesse

October 5, 2011

 

Brings Talent Management Firm Award Winning Learning and Content Platform, Hundreds of Customers

HRchitect includes Lumesse in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems 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!

Lumesse, a global leader in integrated talent management solutions, this week announced that it has signed a binding agreement to acquire Edvantage Group.

Over 500,000 users across hundreds of organizations use Edvantage Group’s SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) learning solutions to develop employee skills and competencies. Edvantage Group brings Lumesse world-class capabilities in learning management, content development and management, online content delivery, and custom course development. The two companies already share a number of customers and have pre-existing integrations between their respective product sets. The acquisition includes all customer contracts, intellectual property, assets and goodwill of the business and, subject to the usual regulatory approval by the Norwegian competition authorities, is expected to close during October.

“People love to learn, and learning is rising up the corporate agenda as every successful business needs to retain and develop its people as part of a full talent management strategy,” said Matthew Parker, CEO at Lumesse. “Acquiring Edvantage gives Lumesse an award-winning learning and content platform that will enhance the 2012 product roadmaps for both Lumesse TalentLink and Lumesse ETWeb. We are very excited to be welcoming this great company, its many high-profile customers, and its talented employees to the growing Lumesse family.”

Edvantage Group founder and CEO Thomas Berglund, who will be responsible for the Global Learning business in Lumesse, added: “We are very proud that we have been acquired by one of the world’s most people-focused software companies, with a truly global footprint, local expertise, financial strength and a passion for what they do. This acquisition secures a promising future for our customers, employees, partners and other stakeholders.”

The acquisition will accelerate the global growth of Lumesse, strengthen its leadership in Europe, extend its product set and increase its customer base by over 200 new companies to a total of over 1,900 in 70 countries worldwide. Already offering some of the most complete talent management solutions in the industry, Lumesse will broaden its products further to include Edvantage Group’s learning management system, award-winning content authoring platform, extensive range of on-demand content, and its custom developed e-learning programs. Lumesse customers will be able to easily provide formal, informal, social and mobile learning opportunities to employees as a part of a fully integrated talent development strategy.

Edvantage Group has won many high-profile clients for its learning solutions, including Virgin Atlantic, 7-Eleven, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, Sony Ericsson, SEB and the UK MOD. Recent awards for its solutions include the 2010 UK E-Learning award winner for ‘E-learning Company of the Year’ and the 2011 Brandon Hall Award winner for ‘Best Advance in Technology for Rich-Media Authoring’ category. Edvantage Group has highly skilled people in the UK, the Nordic regions and across Europe.

“Since its founding in 1999 Edvantage Group has become recognized in the e-learning market for its strong client relationships, award-winning technologies and talented employees,” said. “We think they are a great fit for the Lumesse culture and we are looking forward to combining their strengths with ours during 2012 to bring a superb, fully integrated learning offering to our customers and to the global market.”

For more information on Lumesse, please visit www.lumesse.com
Matt Lafata, HRchitect


Lumesse Mobile Now Available in Apple, Android and Blackberry App Stores…from Lumesse

September 27, 2011

 

Brings Mobility, Instant Access to Key Information About Candidates, Jobs, Interviews, Colleagues and Hiring Processes

HRchitect includes Lumesse in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems 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!

Lumesse, a global leader in integrated talent management solutions, today announced the availability in the most popular app stores of its mobile interface for Lumesse TalentLink.

Lumesse Mobile is now available for customer smartphones or tablets in the Android, Apple iOS and BlackBerry app stores.

Lumesse Mobile is a device-independent mobile application that supports an engaging way of working and collaborating, bringing mobility and instant access to key information about candidates, jobs, interviews, colleagues and hiring processes.

“Our customers told us they needed a way for their hiring and HR managers to access key information and decision making capabilities in Lumesse TalentLink while away from their desktops,” said Lumesse CEO, Matthew Parker. “We’ve responded by making Lumesse Mobile a core capability within Lumesse TalentLink and made it available for free download from the major app stores. It’s another example of our ‘Apps for Everything’ philosophy, which is setting the pace in the global talent management market.”

Lumesse Mobile brings a personalized recruitment experience to all types of users with a focus on engagement, efficiency and go-anywhere collaboration. Lumesse Mobile supports faster decision making, reduces process bottlenecks, provides instant insight to information regardless of time and location, and encourages greater collaboration among colleagues.

With Lumesse Mobile, users can:

  • Have secure and easy access to relevant data – seamlessly connected with Lumesse TalentLink.
  • Be relevant – create a personalized view of their most relevant information.
  • Work independently, but stay connected – get insights on new joiners in their organizations.
  • Collaborate for success – connect with colleagues on the move.
  • Reduce bottlenecks — manage, evaluate, review and approve on the go.
  • Connect with the world – post new jobs to social networks.
  • Engage with colleagues — maintain and share personal profiles with colleagues.

Lumesse Mobile is now available for all customers on Android, Apple iOS and BlackBerry devices. The application is optimized for efficient use of mobile data, connecting securely to the SaaS-based Lumesse TalentLink platform through any mobile data connection. Lumesse has committed to releasing regular updates of Lumesse Mobile to increase its capability to reflect the growing power of smart phones and tablets among its customer base, and the increasing use of such devices as primary enterprise information tools.

Using Lumesse Mobile starts with a simple app store download, then logging in with company credentials to provide a secure, user-personalized and user-relevant environment seamlessly connected to Lumesse TalentLink’s robust SaaS platform. Unlike mobile browser based apps, the application is optimized for both slow and fast mobile connections and designed to deliver an individual, highly-personalized, enjoyable user experience with data and functionality specific to the role of the user. Lumesse Mobile brings the power of an enterprise talent acquisition platform to a wide range of user roles, including HR managers, hiring managers and corporate executives, offering a next-generation, app-based interface that delivers only relevant information and capabilities at any time and in any global location.

For more information on Lumesse, please visit www.lumesse.com
Matt Lafata, HRchitect


Lumesse adds ISO/IEC 27001 information security certification to its SaaS-based talent acquisition solutions…from Lumesse

July 27, 2011

 

HRchitect includes Lumesse in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems 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!

Lumesse, a global leader in integrated talent management solutions, is pleased to announce that it has been successful in winning ISO/IEC 27001 certification for its Lumesse TalentLink talent acquisition (e-recruitment) services. As a provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) integrated talent acquisition and talent management solutions for 1,700 of the world’s leading companies, security of data relating to job applicants and employees is an increasingly important priority for Lumesse customers in a connected world:

“We are seeing increased interest in mobile data access, especially in the light of our recent launch of the Lumesse Mobile* app for Android, Apple iOS and Blackberry, and our ‘Apps for Everything’ philosophy,” said Matthew Parker, Lumesse CEO. “That puts even greater emphasis on having world-class information security controls, so the award of ISO/IEC 27001 certification to our global TalentLink services couldn’t be more timely. It also underlines our commitment to compliance and to the internationally accepted standards that major global customers increasingly demand of SaaS and cloud-based service providers.”

ISO/IEC 27001:2005 specifies the requirements for establishing, implementing, operating, monitoring, reviewing, maintaining and improving a documented Information Security Management System within the context of the organization’s overall business risks. It specifies requirements for the implementation of security controls customized to the needs of individual organizations or parts thereof. ISO/IEC 27001:2005 covers all types of organizations, including commercial enterprises, government agencies, and not-for profit organizations. For more information please visit: http://www.iso.org/iso/home.htm

* Lumesse Mobile is a device-independent application that works on Android, Apple iOS and BlackBerry devices. The application is optimised for efficient use of mobile data tariffs, connecting securely to the SaaS-based Lumesse TalentLink platform through any mobile data connection. Lumesse has committed to releasing regular updates of the app to increase its capability to reflect the growing power of smartphones and tablets, and the increasing use of such devices as primary corporate information tools.

For more information on Lumesse, please visit www.lumesse.com
Matt Lafata, HRchitect


Latest Version of Lumesse TalentLink Released to Global SaaS Customers; Extends ‘Apps for Everything’ Philosophy…from Lumesse

July 22, 2011

 

HRchitect includes Lumesse in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems 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!

Lumesse, a global leader in integrated talent management solutions, has made the latest version of its enterprise talent acquisition (e-recruitment) solution, Lumesse TalentLink, available to its rapidly growing SaaS (software as a service) customer base through its worldwide data centers. Version 11.1 of Lumesse TalentLink further develops the Lumesse ‘Apps for Everything’ philosophy with powerful, configurable reporting apps instantly available to add to the user workspace. In addition, V11.1 brings extensive new capabilities in the areas of self-service configuration and also enhances the ability of customers to meet local business and legislative requirements, such as data retention compliance, within a global project. Lumesse TalentLink v11.1 is available immediately to all customers.

Lumesse CEO, Matthew Parker said: “With Lumesse TalentLink v11.1 we are again increasing the technical leadership in talent acquisition that we offer to our global customer base. Our intuitive and accessible ‘Apps for Everything’ user experience, combined with our SaaS technology, means that customers can access and enjoy the new benefits of Lumesse TalentLink from day one of a new release. This version also underlines our promise of being the only global company making talent management work locally, with new capabilities that directly support local needs and local staff in their daily jobs.”

The new, apps-based reporting capability in Lumesse TalentLink v11.1 brings flexible, user-defined, multi-dimensional drill-down reporting on key talent acquisition metrics to the workspaces of users and managers. Reportable metrics include job listings, requisition status, candidate applications, hires and time-to-fill. The configurability of the reporting apps means that individuals can create a reporting environment that works for them, enhancing efficiency and creating greater insight into hiring decisions and progress.

Lumesse TalentLink V11.1 also introduces enhanced searching capabilities, improvements to the contingent workforce timesheet management functionality and a new Workspace Library to allow for easier personalization of the user experience. Lumesse TalentLink v11.1 is available immediately to all customers.

For more information on Lumesse, please visit www.lumesse.com
Matt Lafata, HRchitect


Lumesse TalentLink Mobile Brings the Power of Mobile ‘Apps for Everything’ Philosophy to Enterprise Talent Management…from Lumesse

June 15, 2011

 

For Android, Apple iOS, BlackBerry Devices

HRchitect includes Lumesse in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems 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!

Lumesse, a global leader in integrated talent management solutions, today announced that it has unveiled a groundbreaking new mobile capability to better support enterprise talent management: Lumesse TalentLink Mobile.

Employees, managers and HR staff will be able to use an intuitive mobile application for Android, Apple iOS and BlackBerry devices that supports a new way of working and collaborating, bringing mobility and instant access to critical company information on people, jobs, candidates, interviews and hiring processes.

The introduction of Lumesse TalentLink Mobile is part of the company’s broader ‘Apps for Everything’ philosophy, taking talent management beyond the browser. ‘Apps for Everything’ brings a personalized, app-based recruitment experience to all kinds of smartphone and tablet devices, with a focus on engagement, efficiency and go-anywhere collaboration. This new mobile capability has the benefit of supporting faster decision making, reducing process bottlenecks, providing instant insight to information regardless of time and location, and encouraging greater collaboration among people.

Using Lumesse TalentLink Mobile starts with a simple app store download, then logging in with company credentials to provide a secure, user-personalized and user-relevant environment seamlessly connected to Lumesse TalentLink’s robust SaaS platform. Unlike mobile browser based apps, the application is optimized for both slow and fast mobile connections and designed to deliver an individual, highly-personalized, enjoyable user experience with data and functionality specific to the role of the user. Lumesse TalentLink Mobile brings the power of an enterprise talent acquisition platform to a wide range of user roles, including HR managers, hiring managers and corporate executives, offering a next-generation, app-based interface that delivers only relevant information and capabilities at any time and in any global location.

Among the capabilities of Lumesse TalentLink Mobile are: 

•        Securely logging in to Lumesse TalentLink through a robust, mobile-optimized security protocol to access user role-specific data and functionality.

•        An efficient, mobile-optimized user interface that delivers only relevant, context-sensitive information based on profiles.

•        Accessing and updating a mobile-friendly version of personal profiles to share with colleagues.

•        Approving job requisitions and reviewing available positions.

•        Accessing candidate lists and inviting people for interviews.

•        Sharing opportunities out through mobile social media channels such as Facebook and Twitter.

“Lumesse TalentLink Mobile is the first step in our vision of ‘Apps for Everything’ in a fully integrated talent management platform,” said Matthew Parker, Lumesse CEO. “Our customers tell us that rapidly accessing key information on people and opportunities, wherever they happen to be working, is critical to hiring the best people and improving the candidate experience.. “In the kind of companies that are using Lumesse TalentLink, the ability to work rapidly with colleagues across geographical, time and language boundaries cuts the time and cost of finding, hiring and onboarding new people.”

Lumesse TalentLink Mobile will be available early summer 2011 on Android, Apple iOS and BlackBerry devices. The application is optimized for efficient use of mobile data, connecting securely to the SaaS-based Lumesse TalentLink platform through any mobile data connection. Lumesse has committed to releasing regular updates of Lumesse TalentLink Mobile to increase its capability to reflect the growing power of smartphones and tablets, and the increasing use of such devices as primary enterprise information tools.

For more information on Lumesse, please visit www.lumesse.com
Matt Lafata, HRchitect


StepStone Solutions Continues Strong Growth in First Quarter of 2011…from StepStone

April 29, 2011

 

Talent Management Firm Registers Almost 40% Increase in Revenue Over Q1 2010; Signs 79 New Customers

HRchitect includes StepStone in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems 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!

StepStone Solutions, a global leader in talent management, today announced continuing strong revenue growth and particularly high levels of new customer acquisition during the first three months of 2011.

StepStone Solutions signed 79 new customers in the period January 2011 through March 2011 and also contracted with 134 existing customers for increased commitments to the company’s products. StepStone Solutions now serves almost 1,700 businesses in about 70 countries, with well over a million active users of its Software-as-as-Service (SaaS) products.

The company signed new customers in the first quarter in Austria, Belgium, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the US.

Matthew Parker, CEO, StepStone Solutions, said: “Our growth and global success in so many regions is a great start to the year. Including acquisitions, our business grew almost 40% over the equivalent period in 2010 as a result of both substantial enterprise wins worldwide, increasing use of our solutions by many existing customers and a continuing low level of customer churn.”

Among the highlights of the first three months of the year were the release of the latest version of StepStone Solutions’ MrTedTalentLink talent acquisition product, with major enhancements to the user experience and the web services API; the winning of a prestigious award — Best Talent Management Software Provider in Greater China 2010-2011; being again named as ‘Leader’ in Gartner’s 2011 Magic Quadrant for Employee Performance Management; and major successes with global customers such as Banque de France, RKW-Group, Knauf, and Peugeot Citroën.

For more information please visit www.stepstonesolutions.com
Matt Lafata, HRchitect


StepStone Solutions closes MrTed acquisition – expands capability to address global talent acquisition market…from StepStone

August 27, 2010

 

HRchitect includes StepStone in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems and Top Talent Management 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. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is here to help!

StepStone Solutions, a global leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Talent Management solutions, has completed the acquisition of privately-owned e-recruitment software provider MrTed. The acquisition adds over 130 customers to StepStone Solutions’ existing customer base of 1,500 global businesses, including names such as France Telecom, Heineken, SGS, Alexander Mann Solutions, Wolters Kluwer, and Randstad. The acquisition accelerates StepStone Solutions’ global growth, extends its product set and widens its existing SaaS capability. For more information see www.stepstonesolutions.com

MrTed’s highly regarded MrTedTalentLink product, a fully SaaS-based offering, is recognised for a high level of innovation and flexibility in its architecture, which allows it to be rapidly configured to support individual user requirements within the context of a standardised, SaaS-based corporate environment.  As such it delivers both high levels of  user satisfaction and operational efficiency while remaining cost-effective to deploy and manage in the largest, multi-national enterprise talent acquisition projects. MrTedTalentLink has earned top marks from industry analysts. Gartner Group,  positioned MrTed in the “Visionaries” quadrant of its 2009 Magic Quadrant for e-Recruitment Software.  In its 2009 and soon-to-be-published 2010 studies of talent acquisition systems, Bersin & Associates highlights MrTedTalentLink’s advanced cloud architecture, application portability and dynamic user interface.

“Our immediate experience of working with the MrTed team, customers and products has been very rewarding, with a strong similarity in our cultures and processes,” said StepStone Solutions CEO, Matthew Parker. “The increase that MrTed brings in many areas of capability, combined with the global reach, customer base and market expertise of StepStone Solutions, give us an unmatched ability to serve customers of all types and sizes in every market including Europe, Asia-Pacific and the US.”

“This acquisition makes absolute sense,” said Josh Bersin, president of Bersin & Associates, a leading research and advisory firm focused on enterprise talent management and learning.  “Combined, these two companies have significant global market share.  We estimate that the talent acquisition market will continue to grow by about 10% over the next year, with much of that growth coming from global expansion.  Stepstone Solutions is well positioned to capitalise on this opportunity.”

The MrTedTalentLink product will continue to be developed, marketed and fully supported under the ownership of StepStone Solutions.

“I’m delighted that MrTedTalentLink, our staff and customers have found such a great home under the StepStone Solutions brand,” said Jerome Ternynck, MrTed’s former CEO, who will continue to work with StepStone Solutions in an advisory capacity. “Our customers should be particularly pleased as this acquisition will enhance the value they will get from their investment in MrTedTalentLink through the greater resources of a major player like StepStone Solutions.”

For more information please visit www.stepstonesolutions.com
Matt Lafata, HRchitect


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