Recruitsoft Announces Van Ella Alliance For Online Candidate Background Checks

Recruitsoft's new alliance further streamlines the recruiting supply chain through Recruiter WebTop™

San Francisco, CA – (BUSINESS WIRE) – September 7, 2000 –

Recruitsoft, the leading Application Service Provider (ASP) for Web-based hiring management systems, announced today an alliance with James E. Van Ella Associates (www.jev.com), the leading online background checking firm, to provide automated candidate background checks via Recruitsoft’s Recruiter WebTop™. Recruiter WebTop powers the career Web pages of large corporations and provides a complete business application over the Internet that supports every aspect of the corporate recruiting process, from requisition management, to complete candidate sourcing-including labor exchanges-proprietary skills-based profiling and now, automated candidate background checking. Van Ella’s automated background checking services are designed to help HR professionals make decisions quickly, more efficiently and with confidence.

"We are pleased to form this alliance with Van Ella Associates in order to better serve our Global 2000 clients," said Recruitsoft CEO Louis Tetu. "Background checking is an important step for many of our clients, and Recruitsoft is committed to bringing one-stop recruitment to the desktops of recruiters worldwide. Once again we have formed an alliance with a leader in service to ensure complete automation of the human resource supply chain-via the Internet and our Recruiter WebTop."

Recruiter WebTop will now help users to save additional time and cost by conducting initial background checks-in virtually no time-before spending their valuable time interviewing interesting candidates. This is further assurance that the candidates recruiters spend "face time" with are fully qualified, through initial Recruiter WebTop skills-based screening and now, automated background checking.

Using Van Ella’s Background Now service through Recruitsoft’s Recruiter WebTop, recruiters with one click can send an inquiry about a particular candidate and receive an electronic response just seconds later. Employers may choose Background Now or elements of a full background check, which may include education verification; criminal activity on the County, State and Federal levels; reference checking; litigation review; motor vehicle and employment history verification, among others.

"Recruitsoft fits well with our mission to offer the highest level of professional investigative service by combining tradition with technology to achieve outstanding results," said Elizabeth Van Ella, president and chairman of Van Ella Associates. "We are pleased to be affiliated with this leading HMS and we look forward to building our client roster even more through Recruitsoft. We also plan to refer our clients to Recruitsoft in return."

Commenting about the alliance, IDC Director of Career and Learning Services Research Ellen Julian said, "eRecruiting solutions are changing the landscape of the employment industry. This alliance represents another step in that evolution, as Recruitsoft’s solution continues to automate and enable the full ‘recruiting supply-chain,’ now including background checking."

About Recruitsoft
Recruitsoft, a San Francisco-based Application Service Provider (ASP), delivers the most complete online recruiting solutions for leading companies across many industries, including United Airlines (NYSE: UAL), Bombardier Aerospace and Transportation, Cabletron Systems (NYSE: CS), and Sutter Health. The company’s Recruiter WebTop application service provides a complete business application over the Internet to power the career Web pages of large corporations, leading to faster time-to-hire, lower cost-per-hire, and ultimately, increased quality of hires. Recruitsoft introduced the pay-per-hire fee structure to the web-based recruiting industry and is considered to be the best-practice ASP for recruitment management solutions, based on its proprietary ACE Recruiting™ process technology, designed in collaboration with large corporations to re-engineer and streamline the corporate recruiting process. Recruitsoft recently announced several alliances through which it became the first HMS to integrate all areas of candidate sourcing. These services are always one-click away and include: job postings on the corporate Web site, the company Intranet, job boards, advertising in all print media and, importantly, contract-assisted candidate sourcing.

In addition to providing the world’s leading online recruitment solution, Recruitsoft is the parent company of iLogos research, which studies and monitors trends in the Internet recruiting industry. iLogos periodically publishes reports and indexes and is dedicated to understanding the needs of large corporations seeking qualified talent.

Recruitsoft is funded in part by Telesystem Software Ventures LP (Telsoft), a venture-capital arm of Telesystem Ltd., a Red Herring Top 100 company; and by Omnicom (NYSE:OMC), the world’s leading provider of marketing communications and advertising services, through its Internet investment arm, Communicade.

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