profile updated Apr 15, 2008, 8:20 AM
Kenexa Corporation provides 360-degrees of service to companies when it comes to recruiting and retaining employees. One Wall Street analyst referred to the company as a "one stop shop" and indeed, this appears to be the company's strength. It is one of the best-known names in recruitment, having begun as a headhunter to the insurance industry in 1987. Six years after its founding, the company offered one of the first ATS products. That was in 1993 and soon after, Kenexa began acquiring other companies as it began moving into the full range of human capital management.
By 2000, after shedding its staffing business and buying up more than a dozen other companies, it officially changed its name from TalentPoint to Kenexa Corporation. The company struggled during the first years under its new name, suffering along with the U.S. national economy, It was forced to postpone an IPO, finally going public in June 2005 at $12.25 a share. In December 2007, analysts at KeyBanc Capital Markets rated the company with a "buy" rating. The 12-month target price is set to $24.
Kenexa's products include an applicant tracking system, testing and assessment solutions such as those offered by its ProveIt! division, employee management products, and outsourcing services to help firms in their hiring processes. As a result of the acquisitions of Webhire, Inc., Knowledge Workers, Gantz Wiley Research, Psychometric Services Ltd. and BrassRing in 2006, the company's client base reached approximately 3,000 companies, including approximately 166 companies on the Fortune 500 list. The client base includes companies such as Microsoft, Philips Electronics, Wachovia, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Office Depot, Beckman Coulter, Time Warner, Target, Bank of America, Petco, and Circuit City.News & Updates 
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Kenexa Releases Assessment Tools Measuring Engagement (Company)
Kenexa has released Performance Indicators, a web-based suite of pre-employment assessment tools designed to identify prospective employees who have a propensity to be engaged, to work well in a team and to demonstrate excellent customer service orientation. May 29, 2008, 1:56 PM -
Kenexa Releases New Version Of Recruiter BrassRing (Company PR)
Improved user controls, better communication with candidates and simplified job posting are part of the latest revision of Kenexa Recruiter BrassRing. May 15, 2008, 12:46 PM -
Kenexa Secrets Finally Revealed (HR Executive)
Kenexa CEO Rudy Karsan invited a group of influencers to his home for dinner and then six hours of in-depth briefings at company headquarters in Wayne, Pa., the next day. In fact, early in the briefings, he apologized for "Kenexa not being as present in the HR community since the IPO" and the meeting was intended to remedy that. It did. May 8, 2008, 10:33 AM -
Go Green And Make Your Workers Proud (PR)
Kenexa Research Institute says working for an organization where employees positively view "green" efforts has a significant, favorable impact on how they rate their pride in the organization, overall satisfaction and willingness to recommend it as a place to work. Apr 21, 2008, 6:36 PM -
Kenexa Opens State-of-the-Art Campus in India (money.cnn.com)
Kenexa Opens State-of-the-Art Campus in India Mar 18, 2008, 1:18 PM
Products & Services
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Employee Assessment
Includes skills testing, psychometric and personality assessments, structured interviews, phone screening, simulation exercises, competency modeling and assessment centers to help select top performers for employment, identify areas for personal development and determine potential successors in an organization -
Talent Acquisition
Software for global recruitment, workforce transformation, vendor management, campus recruiting, diversity recruiting and employment process outsourcing plus a full range of consulting services including recruitment process consulting, workforce planning, change management and candidate experience mystery shop services -
Talent Management
Includes software for large enterprise, mid-market and hourly applicant tracking, onboarding, performance management, succession planning, career development, mentoring programs and HR Analytics; career center optimization and system integrations services, as well as recruitment process consulting and candidate experience mystery shop services. -
Surveys
Kenexa's survey solutions include employee engagement surveys, 360ยบ multi-rater feedback, exit interviews, compliance surveys and action planning. They also offer consulting services for leadership coaching, training, content optimization and post-survey evaluation.