Latest Release of Kenexa Recruiter BrassRing Helps Organizations Lower Recruitment and Hiring Costs

Kenexa, a global provider of business solutions for human resources, today announced details of the newest release of Kenexa Recruiter BrassRing. This award-winning secure Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution is designed for global organizations seeking to cost effectively and efficiently source and track employment candidates throughout the recruiting process.

While optimizing costs has always been a priority for businesses, the current economic climate has brought with it a new sense of urgency. The latest release of Kenexa Recruiter BrassRing (KRB) helps organizations reduce recruiting expenses while finding the best candidates.

The latest release consists of three major enhancements: new portal pages, a Data Insight Tool, and hourly and high volume hiring capabilities.

ó New Portal Pages: As part of the comprehensive user interface update, KRB now provides an updated experience for recruiters, hiring managers and other end users, enabling them to view pertinent data easily and efficiently.

ó Data Insight Tool: This new, market-leading reporting tool allows end users to develop powerful reports for improved visibility and optimization of the recruiting processes. By further simplifying business-critical processes such as reporting, Kenexaís clients are able to facilitate cross-organization report scheduling and sharing, powerful collaboration and process standardization.

ó Hourly and High Volume Hiring: Hiring managers now have workflow capabilities, screens and features to streamline their unique recruiting processes–whether hourly, high volume, retail or other industries. This new capability allows organizations to conduct both hourly and professional hiring on a single, unified platform.

ìKenexa remains the leader in global talent management technology because we are continually updating our solutions to meet our clientsí needs. During this global economic crisis, corporate recruiters are faced with shrinking budgets and, at the same time, an ever-increasing number of applicants. They need reliable, cost-effective solutions and Kenexa Recruiter BrassRing gives them that, and more,î said Mark Nesline, vice president, product development, Kenexa Recruiter BrassRing.

According to recent Knowledge Infusion research, Jason Corsello, Vice President, Center of Excellence, Knowledge Infusion, observed, ìKenexa continues to make significant investments in its technology strategy, including existing BrassRing products, expanding a common services framework that spans legacy and new products and building a completely new ë2xí technology platform.î He continued, ìUnlike its talent management competitors, Kenexa offers a broad range of services including qualitative research and insight, assessments and value-added services such as employment branding. They are the only talent management vendor applying human sciences as a foundation for their products and services.î

Kenexaís announcement of KRB release 12 is on track with its overall objectives to help clients overcome global economic challenges with world-class talent acquisition and retention solutions. Recently recognized for its leadership role in its category, Kenexa ranked No. 10 on Forbes Magazineís list of ìAmerica's Fastest-Growing Tech Companies.î Other recent news includes the company expanded presence in China through a joint venture with R&J Management Consultants.

ìAs the job market and the global economic circumstances potentially become more challenging, we see more companies looking to strategic talent management as their single-most competitive advantage. Kenexa is prepared not only to withstand the economic crisis, but to continue our research and development of quality products to meet the needs of current and prospective customers,î said Larry Kleinman, global practice leader, talent management, Kenexa.