Recruitsoft first in 2003 buyer's guide

Company scores highest thanks to overall combination of its applications, business dimensions, professional services, training and education programs and global initiatives.


Recruitsoft, Inc. the provider of staffing management solutions for large organizations, has announced the company has been ranked first in The 2003 Buyer's Guide to Talent Management Systems published by the Talent Market Group and HR.com, through its Intellectual Capital Group (ICG) research division. The guide evaluates vendors providing staffing and talent management solutions to small, medium and large companies, according to 35 distinct categories, of which overall Recruitsoft, serving large organizations, was ranked the leader.

The 2003 Buyer's Guide to Talent Management Systems is a collaborative effort between HR.com's research division, ICG Group, and The Talent Market Group, and is designed to help HR professionals make investments in the right services and technology to help support their company's business strategies and objectives for Talent Management. The report recognizes Recruitsoft for its leading solutions overall based on criteria such as its applications, business process engineering, business dimensions, professional services and global initiatives.

According to ICG Senior Research Analyst Allan Schweyer, Based on our tests and evaluation to date, Recruitsoft ranks first overall in our 2003 Buyer's Guide to Talent Management Systems. We congratulate them on their commitment to the highest standards in providing robust enterprise staffing management solutions. He added, Recruitsoft applies best practices and methodologies to engineer and optimize their customers' staffing processes, allowing for long-term process improvements that better manage sourcing expenditures and optimally allocate talent enterprise wide.
According to Agilent Technologies' Global Staffing Programs Manager Nancy Alens, The staffing process has become increasingly self-service, and responsibilities are being driven to hiring managers. We have successfully deployed Recruitsoft's solutions, including the Hiring Manager WebTop, to thousands of hiring managers. Hiring Manager WebTop works in tandem with Recruitsoft's solutions but focuses on the unique needs of hiring managers, enabling enterprise-wide collaboration that cuts across business silos. She added, Recruitsoft's configurable workflow platform helps us to define the requirements in our process for all stakeholders upfront, ensuring our staffing processes are repeatable and scalable across the 40 countries in which we conduct business. Candidates are also communicated with throughout every step of the process, which is important to us.

Recruitsoft Chief Executive Officer Louis Tetu stated, Our configurable workflow platform is designed to meet the diverse needs and business intricacies of our large customers located around the world. We offer best practice workflows that can be designed according to fields such as job function, location, organization and work group. Our solutions continue to build upon past achievements and our R&D group, comprised of 175 professionals, continues to enhance our solutions based on the evolving needs of our customers and the HR industry at large.

He added, With the launch of Recruiter WebTop in 1999, Recruitsoft introduced the first paradigm shift in online staffing with our skills-based solutions and ACE Staffing Methodology. Today, we marry the ACE Staffing Best Practices, which have been honed through 120 large-scale implementations, with our configurable workflow platform to re-engineer the entire staffing process to optimize staffing management, allowing organizations to find quality candidates faster, while reducing cycle-time, costs, and employee time-to-contribution to increase productivity enterprise-wide.

Company continues to invest in its infrastructure
Recruitsoft began 2002 with 249 employees and ended with 350 employees, representing an increase of 31 percent over 2001, in support of its growth in customers during the year. Additionally, Recruitsoft continually evaluates and enhances its computing infrastructure based on the company's growth projections and available technology. Based on Recruitsoft's anticipated growth for 2003, the company has developed its fifth generation technical architecture model to ensure continued speed, scalability and reliability relating to its computing, storage and network infrastructure offerings.

Recruitsoft Chief Financial Officer Jean Lavigueur stated, We continue to invest in people and to scale our offerings to support our large customers around the world. Today, Recruitsoft solutions are at work in more than 65 countries for more than 140,000 users and we have offices across North America, Europe and Asia.

Recruitsoft Enterprise Staffing Solutions include comprehensive services, methodologies and toolkits to deliver ACETM Staffing Best Practices through a fully configurable, workflow-enabled suite of software applications. The software applications support every aspect of the staffing supply chain, from requisition management, sourcing, resume management, searching and pre-screening to retention, enabling true e-headhunting and optimal staffing management. Recruitsoft Enterprise Staffing Solutions help large organizations to: find highly qualified candidates faster; better assign people to jobs; increase return on human assets; optimize the use of resources; shorten the overall time to contribution; increase retention of the best and brightest contributors, enterprise-wide; and importantly, improve overall performance from the hired workforce, resulting in increased productivity.

About Talent Market Group, Inc.
The Talent Market Group, Inc. (TMG) is a consulting firm based in San Francisco. TMG offers strategic talent management systems design, talent management system implementation and integration services. For more information visit www.talentmarketgroup.com

About HR.com
HR.com is committed to providing Human Resources (HR) professionals with the information, tools and resources they need to successfully manage the people side of their business. HR.com provides daily news, an online library of over 6,000 articles, insights, tools, studies, surveys, discussion groups, and directories of vendors and consultants. The Intellectual Capital Group (ICG), a division of HR.com provides leading edge research that identifies and analyzes trends and technologies in the HR Market, to help clients choose the appropriate technology and partners. ICG develops independent research reports, called RedBooksTM, supplies Saratoga Institute's Workforce Diagnostic System, and conducts networking events as well as Lunch and Learn webinars to further enable HR to become more strategic, knowledgeable and accountable.

About Recruitsoft
Recruitsoft delivers services and technology to manage enterprise staffing and optimize talent flow for large organizations such as Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Dow Chemical (NYSE: DOW), Fortis, Starbucks Corporation, PepsiAmericas, P & G, Thomson, Agilent Technologies, The Gillette Company, Deloitte & Touche, Bombardier, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and UnitedHealth Group, among many others. Recruitsoft's full-service offering includes the software, services and computing infrastructure to enable large corporations to rapidly improve staffing processes and generate significant ROI.