Taleo Corporation, the provider of talent management solutions, today announced that Blockbuster Inc., a leading global provider of in-home entertainment, has significantly expanded its existing relationship with Taleo by selecting Taleo Enterprise Edition to help it recruit the best talent for its 4,000 U.S. company-operated stores.

Blockbuster chose Taleo Enterprise Edition to replace its existing solution earlier this year based on the product's flexibility and configurability, and its single platform designed to streamline Blockbuster's high volume recruitment process, reduce the time to hire and provide store managers with a user-friendly hiring experience. Taleo's next generation ACE Retail Assessment 2.0 selection content provides a confidential, paperless application process that matches the overall job duties with an employee's background, allowing Blockbuster to identify and hire staff that best fit the company's job requirements.

"We pride ourselves on hiring bright, creative employees that are passionate about movies and games," said Jane Gray, director of recruiting for Blockbuster. "We analysed the products in the marketplace, and we were impressed by Taleo's success in retail and particularly with its tailored assessment testing approach. We believe this alliance will allow us to upgrade our store hiring solutions using next generation technology that will enable us to attract and identify a pool of employees who are a good fit with the company and will meet our high standards for customer service."



"We are thrilled that Blockbuster chose Taleo Enterprise Edition as its talent management solution, and we look forward to helping the company enhance its hiring processes," said Michael Gregoire, CEO and president of Taleo. "Too often, recruiting for hourly retail positions is paper-intensive and time-consuming. Our focus on solving this challenge for companies has resulted in hourly/retail becoming one of the fastest growing industries fueling Taleo's significant growth."

Taleo Enterprise Edition is the industry leading on-demand solution that helps hundreds of large enterprises manage and source professional, hourly and contingent workers from a single integrated platform with Enterprise consistency yet unprecedented local and brand flexibility. The latest version Taleo 7.5 was introduced last month, features Web 2.0 technologies and includes hundreds of enhancements that improve talent management processes for recruiters, hiring managers and job candidates.