profile updated May 15, 2009, 12:22 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, MrTed 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 MrTed points to on the website, there are slicker vendors, though few that can handle the 40 languages the company claims proficiency in.
In late 2008 MrTed launched a free ATS aimed at the lower end market. In less than six months there were 1,000 client companies signed up and using the SaaS provisioned system. Called SmartRecruiters, the system really, honestly is entirely free. And though you won't find all the power of its TalentLink suite, SmartRecruiters is not some stripped down version, but a useful ATS with resume parsing, CRM, job board, and other features for which other companies charge up to $100 a month per use.
Not only do we think MrTed 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.
News & Updates 
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MrTed Declares 2009 A Banner Year (MrTed)
MrTed reports that it had a banner year in 2009, managing to be profitable for its sixth consecutive year,while earning praise for its latest release of TalentLink.
Named Cloud 9, the release earned MrTed a place in the “Visionaries” quadrant of the Gartner Group's 2009 Magic Quadrant for e-Recruitment Software.
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French Social Security Selects MrTed (MrTed)
MrTed says it has secured the largest talent acquisition software and services engagement in French public sector history. The partnership between the French Social Security and MrTed will provide more than 600 Social Security offices with web-based recruitment and talent acquisition capability. Feb 17, 2010 -
TalentLink Cloud 9 In General Release (MrTed Ltd)
The latest iteration of MrTed's flagship product – MrTedTalentLink v9 – which was rolled out early in the summer, will have its general release at the end of the month.
TalentLink Cloud 9, as the product is also known, integrates apps into its talent acquisition solution and has an improved user interface.
Dec 10, 2009, 10:19 AM -
Gartner Places MrTed in Visionaries Quadrant (MrTed Ltd)
MrTed Ltd, a global provider of talent acquisition solutions, is positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the “Visionaries” quadrant of the “Magic Quadrant for E-Recruitment Software.” Dec 8, 2009, 9:38 AM -
China RPO Selects MrTed (PR)
Shanghai Foreign Service Company chooses MrTedTalentLink as core technology platform. Dec 7, 2009, 10:16 AM -
Broadbean Job Posting Services Now Available To MrTed Clients (MrTed Ltd)
MrTed Ltd, a global provider of talent acquisition solutions, has entered a strategic technology partnership with Broadbean Technology, a global leader in ad distribution and response tracking technology.
The partnership will give MrTed’s customers the ability to instantly advertise positions to any job board.
Nov 10, 2009, 9:56 AM -
Free Bersin Webinar To Detail Talent Acquisition Tech Choices (MrTed Ltd)
Selecting a talent acquisition system today is not unlike what choosing a car to buy used to be like.
With dozens of vendors all claiming to be leaders, it's a daunting challenge for an organization to pick a system that meets its needs today and can grow as it does in the future.
To help, MrTed is sponsoring a free webinar to help employers understand the differences that define today's talent acquisition systems.
Presented by Madeline Laurano, principal analyst at Bersin & Associates, the webinar will be held Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 1:00 p.m. EST / 10:00 a.m. PST. , in association with Talent Management Technology. Register here. Nov 2, 2009, 4:42 AM -
Free Whitepaper Discusses Virtues of Personalization (MrTed Ltd)
“The Next-Generation GUI: A Truly Personalized Workspace to Leverage the Power of Enterprise Computing, " is a new whitepaper free from MrTed that explains how a GUI (graphical user interface) that leverages open architecture, cloud computing and portable applications modules (apps) can offer a personalized, on-demand experience for the user.
Oct 19, 2009, 9:10 AM -
MrTed Closes Software Deal With Chinese Government (Company PR)
The Chinese government has signed a deal with MrTed to build a nationwide online talent acquisition system to help companies throughout the country improve the process by which they attract and hire the right talent.
The project supports a nationwide initiative to develop and leverage online talent acquisition services to increase speed and accuracy of hiring for tens of thousands of companies across all industries throughout the country
Sep 22, 2009, 2:10 PM -
TalentDrive and MrTed Partner For Resume Sourcing (PR release)
TalentDrive, provider of on-demand resume sourcing technology, TalentFilter, has partnered with ATS provider MrTed. The companies will combine TalentFilter's resume sourcing and matching technology with the full-featured MrTedTalentLink recruiting solution, enabling users to leverage the internet for advanced resume sourcing.
Sep 17, 2009, 12:25 PM
Products & Services
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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. -
SmartRecruiters
A free (yes, really truly free) ATS that offers a remarkable range of useful features for the SMB market. Sign-up and you won't be disappointed, nor will you be hounded to buy modules or add-ons. The company earns a commission on the sale of job postings made through the system and on outsourced services.