profile updated Sep 11, 2008, 6:29 PM
With some 9,000 clients, including three-fourths of the Fortune 500, TALX is one of the largest providers of payroll services in the U.S. Its business is focusedin three areas: hiring, pay reporting and compliance.
Hiring services include assessments and talent management, paperless new hires, and tax credits and incentives. Pay reporting services include electronic time tracking, paperless pay, and W-2 management. Compliance services include employment and income verifications through The Work Number, unemployment tax management, and I-9 management.
Founded in 1973 as Interface Technology, Inc., the company became TALX in 1990 and went public six years later. Early in the dotcom boom TALX began offering its services over the Internet, surviving and even growing when it turned bust.
By 2006 the company was on its way to doing a quarter of a billion dollars in business year, with a large portion of it coming from its employment and income verification business. The service, branded as The Work Number, is used to verify employee income and proving employment. Recruiters use it as part of their pre-employment screening. That year the company bought Performance Assessment Networks adding testing to its pre-employment services.
In 2007 TALX was acquired by Equifax, the consumer credit agency, for about $1.4 billion in cash, stock and debt transaction.
News & Updates 
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TALX Executive Named to Test Publisher Association Board (prweb)
The Association of Test Publishers (ATP) has named Reid Klion, Ph.D. to its 2009 Board of Directors where he will serve a two-year term. Dr. Klion is Chief Science Officer for the TALX assessment division.
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Lowe's and TALX to Talk Compliance at HR Tech (PRWeb)
Lowe’s and TALX will examine HR compliance issues and discuss outsourcing as an effective tool to help manage this critical area at the upcoming HR Technology Conference in Chicago Oct. 15-17. The session entitled “The ‘Lowe-down’ on Achieving Improved Compliance through Outsourcing in Today’s Employment Lifecycle" is scheduled for Oct. 16 at 11 a.m. Sep 22, 2008, 10:46 AM
Products & Services
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The Work Number
Automated employment and income verification for employees and pre-employment screening. -
Assessments and Talent Acquisition
TALX works with some 50 test publishers to offer more than 650 assessment tools in categories such as intelligence, personality, integrity, skills, etc. The company calls the program pan (Performance Assessment Network). Clients get access to human capital experts to advise on unique testing needs.