Employment Eligibility Solution Gives Employers Big Picture View, Integration into Talent Management Solutions and an Easy Way to Maintain Compliance view article »

Peopleclick, Inc. announced today the launch of Peopleclick Interview Scheduling at the National Restaurant Association Show in Chicago. Peopleclick Interview Scheduling is a new component of Peopleclick's Talent Acquisition Suite that will enhance a company's interview scheduling experience for both the recruiter and candidate.
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BeelinerPeople is the latest product to be introduced by worker survey specialist, Spinfish/ROG, Inc. People is intended to automate the process of surveying new employees on their onboarding experience. It integrates with a company's HR database, checks employee start dates and automatically calculates which employees should receive a survey at any particular date. view article »

Sendouts, provider of on-demand services for the recruiting and staffing industry, will give its users access to thousands of unique telephone-sourced mid-level passive candidates through Sheila Greco Associates’ (SGA) ExecutiveTracker. Sendouts Pro users can now source directly from SGA ExecutiveTracker, which houses the most comprehensive list of executives currently employed at major companies – both private and public – across all industries. view article »

Career site Vitruva, Inc. released a new, reliable online job matching system it guarantees will never miss the best qualified candidates. view article »

TalentDrive, provider of SaaS recruitment technology, released an  on-demand training program offering clients the flexibility of choosing their training sessions.

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Enwisen today announced the release of Version 4.1 of AnswerSource Onboarding, a component of Enwisen’s AnswerSource Workforce Portal suite. AnswerSource Onboarding 4.1 orchestrates a rich onboarding experience vs. simply automating “to do” lists, while providing HR and hiring managers with consolidated, simplified dashboards to easily and quickly track onboarding status. view article »

SuccessFactors, a provider of on-demand performance and talent management solutions, today announced the availability of SuccessFactors Business Performance Accelerators.

 

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Abso, provider of integrated talent management solutions, is now offering electronic verification of Social Security numbers directly with the Social Security Administration's database. Through Abso, HR managers can electronically verify SSNs pre-hire to eliminate delays during onboarding and to streamline hiring process tasks. view article »

NAS Recruitment Communications announced the release of NAS Total Source Tracker. An end-to-end HR metrics suite provides results data on employer media activity to help recruiters improve investment allocation, sourcing strategies, lead generation and candidate experience through the careers portal into the ATS. view article »

Advanced Personnel Systems, Inc.released Version 13, an upgrade to its SmartSearch talent acquisition and recruiting business software. Version 13 features tools to support Web 2.0 sourcing allowing users to search and import data from popular social networking and internet sites, including Google, ZoomInfo, Pipl, LinkedIn, Facebook and others. It also upgrades performance and reliability of its CSV importing tool using .NET technology, and improved its cell-phone text messaging capabilities. view article »

VCG is now offering an enterprise version of its on-demand Pointwing Front Office recruiting software. Version 1.4 gives technically savvy and capable staffing and recruiting firms the ability to host Pointwing on their own hardware servers at their own location view article »

Available immediately to Bullhorn customers  Integrated Resume Search and JobCast for Yahoo! HotJobs now allows recruiters to source candidates and post jobs in real time on HotJobs without exiting Bullhorn or launching a new interface. view article »

LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network with more than 35 million members, has introduced LinkedIn Talent Advantage, a suite of solutions for recruiters. The newest feature of Talent Advantage is a “viewer-aware” hiring technology called LinkedIn Custom Company Profiles, designed to help companies present information that is relevant based on a job-seeker’s function, industry, location, etc. view article »

Knowledge Infusion, a provider of strategic advisory and consulting services focused on HR, announces Optimization Services. The services are designed to help HR, IT, and business leaders meet the demands of changes in the current business environment and provide business strategies where HR is faced with constantly changing imperatives like layoffs, reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, and doing more with less.

Knowledge Infusion Optimization Services are offered on a tiered engagement level varying from 1-2 day workshops, to short-term diagnostic engagements, to custom, client-configured packages

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ATS provider myStaffingPro announces the release of optimized career portals for customers. Under the guidance of search engine optimization expert Joel Cheesman, myStaffingPro’s redesign will offer career portal templates that adhere to search engine optimization best practices. view article »

Sendouts launches the SourcePro Toolbar, a web 2.0 ready add-on for Internet Explorer. This new sourcing tool enables recruiters to import candidate resumes and profiles from social networking sites and major job boards directly into their Sendouts Pro database quickly and accurately. view article »

Cytiva Software Inc. a provider of on-demand recruiting software solutions, has a free, new program to help businesses uncover wasteful spending in their recruiting process.

Dubbed SonicSaves, the program offers businesses a free consultation with a SonicRecruit product specialist who will perform a diagnostic on their candidate management efforts and provide a detailed analysis of where they may be able to save money. view article »

SuccessFactors reports that client Palmetto Health, South Carolina’s largest not-for-profit health resource with 9,500 employees, has deployed its new Stack Ranker product. This new solution enables leaders to quickly and effortlessly rate and assess their talent across defined competencies, creating a visual and intuitive stack ranking of employees to accelerate a course of action.

 

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Cytiva Software Inc. provider of SaaS recruiting and talent management software, announced today the availability of new features for its talent acquisition solution, SonicRecruit.

New SonicFeedback allows organizations to create and assign feedback forms to any step of the recruiting process and gather key data to better manage their hiring.

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CKR Interactive has released ExCELLerate, a mobile recruitment marketing solution. ExCELLerate enables instant message delivery to motivated prospects and provides customized campaign options allowing for  mobile marketing versatility. view article »

Alstin Communications is offering recruiters new marketing ideas through a program it calls 60secondseminars. "SmaHRt ideas for busy people,"are short emails offering insight into some of today's most topical recruiting trends view article »

VisualCV, Inc., offering online profiles in place of paper resumes, has added new social networking features to its online resume creation and distribution service. These latest capabilities allow job seekers to integrate their VisualCV with popular social media sites like LinkedIn, and Facebook and share their qualifications with friends and colleagues on social networks like Twitter. view article »

HRmarketer.com has launched a new feature that will give clients access to hundreds of HR media and analysts on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. The social networking feature, announced today, is part of HRmarketer.com’s expanded media relations database. view article »

Exaserv, a SAP HCM services provider and HireAbility.com, a leader in resume processing services, have deployed a flexible and cost-effective resume parsing solution for the SAP E-Recruiting market.

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ATS myStaffingPro has added an Offer Approval module enabling HR professionals to request and receive hiring manager feedback on an applicant offer without logging into the system. view article »

SHL, a provider of talent assessments unveiled the final version of its Dependability and Safety Instrument tool, which identifies employees more likely to be unreliable and unsafe in the workplace. The new version identifies five risk levels – from low risk to very high risk – while taking less than 7 minutes for a candidate to complete.

Using a risk rating scale, the Dependability Index can effectively predict a candidate’s focus on customer service, accident rates and attendance rates. This level of screening is particularly suited for the hospitality, retail, call center and telecom sectors, as well as potentially hazardous or high risk professions in the construction, engineering, health care and security sectors.

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HRmarketer.com has launched a new SEO Center that will help clients improve their SEO and track their keyword rankings on Google, Yahoo!, and MSN—plus monitor the impact of web site content changes on their search engine rankings. view article »

AfterCollege has launched a low-cost alternative to custom email campaigns. Employers can reach students and alumni by posting featured announcements in weekly targeted email digests that are sent to over 200,000 job seekers.

“We rolled out our Featured Announcement email product in response to shrinking recruitment budgets and in order to make it as easy as possible for employers to share entry level opportunities that they would normally not share this way," says  Roberto Angulo, CEO of AfterCollege.

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BioHealthRx, a job board for the biotechnology, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and medical device industries, has added a job wrapping service for medical employers and recruiting firms.

 

 

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Avature, a provider of human capital management solutions, announced that it has released version 3.0 of its flagship product, Recruiting CRM. The new version includes Advanced Workflow Builder, Web Calendars, and integrated global SMS communication. view article »

Kroll, a leading risk consulting company, has deployed an upgraded eSignature technology that it says improves the efficiency of the background screening process. view article »

ATS vendor myStaffingPro has enhanced Hiring Manager Quick Response (HMQR) module with new scheduling capabilities. The module enables HR professionals to seamlessly request and receive feedback on applicants, and allows the hiring manager to manage interview scheduling. view article »

Not everyone can work effectively and efficiently at home. Yet for certain jobs, having a workforce scattered across the country, working from their homes, means a wider talent pool from which to draw and lower operating costs.

Now comes PreVisor, the employment assessments company, with AtHome Agent, an assessment tool  that identifies job candidates who have the ability to thrive when working from home, even for extended periods of time.

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A graphical organization chart mapping feature is now a part of SmartSearch, a talent acquisition management and recruiting business solution.

The new org chart feature creates a graphical illustration showing where in a corporate hierarchy a contact stands. Ideal for staffing agency, executive search, and consulting agency users to analyze sales activity, the mapping capability also lets users “hover” over a contact record for quick viewing or click-through to a list of managers the contact reports to as well as a list of subordinates.

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WorkForce Software, Inc.,a provider of workforce management solutions for organizations with complex labor requirements and compliance concerns, reported today that revenue for the first two quarters of 2009 increased by 64 percent over the same period last year.

The company attributed much of the growth to the introduction of EmpCenter Fatigue Management, a program that enables utilities with nuclear facilities to comply with a new regulation from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Nearly 70 percent of the utility companies that operate nuclear power reactor sites, which includes 16 nuclear companies, 4 contractors, 32 locations, and approximately 90,000 employees, are using EmpCenter.

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TRANSEARCH International India, a leading retained executive search firm in India and a member of the Association of Executive Search Consultants selected FILEFINDER as its executive search management system. view article »

On-demand recruitment software company Newton will launch a recruitment process outsourcing application this year and a version of its applicant tracking system (ATS) aimed at recruitment companies early in the new year. view article »