profile updated Mar 6, 2008, 10:25 PM
This global company with the curious name is focused exclusively on recruitment. If you are looking for a soup-to-nuts HR systems vendor, look elsewhere. But for a full-service recruitment solution especially well-suited to the needs of multinational companies with a wide recruiting net, Mr. Ted offers TalentLink to manage the entire recruitment lifecycle, including contingent management and outplacement.
Web-based TalentLink components cover ATS, career center hosting, staffing vendor management, internal recruitment, and more, including comprehensive analytics tools that go well beyond the usual time- and cost-to-fill metrics. Components like the career center can be independently deployed without buying the entire TalentLink suite. If that's your interest, then at least for the career center examples Mr.Ted points to on the website, there are slicker vendors, though few that can handle the 40 languages the company claims proficiency in.
Not only do we think Mr.Ted does recruiting right, so does Red Herring, which named the company a finalist in its 100 best European technology companies in 2007. It's raised $35 million in venture capital since its founding, primarily from BV Capital and Holland Venture.
The company became profitable in 2003, spending some of its profits and VC money to acquire German E-recruitment company Refline and push into Asia, opening an office in Beijing. The company's biggest strength is its international know-how. That's also why most of its customers are European or foreign subsidiaries of U.S. firms. The company's primary sales area is Europe; only a few U.S. firms are among its clients, which collectively have more than 50,000 corporate users of TalentLink.
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MrTedTalentLink
A suite of software as a service recruitment tools including ATS, hosted career site, onboarding, staffing vendor management, internal recruitment, contingent workforce management, diversity, and outplacement. Use one or all of the tools, which are provided via the Web in some 40 languages and are compliant with local rules. -
MrTedTalentHub
A middleware product that connects MrTedTalentLink to a company's existing HR information systems and to 3rd party services, such as background checking, assessment. payroll services and the like.