Gillette Automates its Recruitment Process

The Gillette Company (www.gillette.com) today announced that it is automating its global recruitment processes to more effectively manage corporate recruiting and internal talent deployment. The Company will work with Recruitsoft, Inc., the leading provider of online hiring and talent flow solutions for large companies. The initiative will begin in North America, with global phase-in to follow.

"The Gillette Company is dedicated to attracting, motivating and retaining high-performing professionals in all areas of its business," said Eric A. Kraus, vice president, Corporate Communications. "We believe that our employees' talent, diversity and innovation are directly responsible for our leadership position as one of the world's premier consumer products companies."

The Gillette Company employs more than 36,000 people, nearly three-quarters of them outside the United States. Gillette manufacturing facilities are located around the world, and its products are distributed in over 200 countries and territories.

"We are thrilled to be working with Gillette to automate its entire recruiting process, bringing strategic benefits to its human resource department, employees and other departments across the organization." said Recruitsoft Chief Executive Officer Louis Tetu. "We are confident that this upgrading will enhance operational efficiencies, improving time-to-hire, cost-per-hire and time-to-contribution for new Gillette employees."

Recruitsoft's 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, skills-based profiling and email alerts about ACE candidates, to candidate background checking and communication management. Recruiter WebTop™ uses a proprietary pre-screening methodology based on skills assessment, making it easier for candidates and recruiters alike to manage the entire recruiting progress to allow the corporate recruiter to spend more time conducting in-depth candidate interviews and assessment. Recruitsoft's solution helps to increase the quality of hires, reduce time to contribution for new hires and increase retention rates.

About The Gillette Company
Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, The Gillette Company (www.gillette.com) is the world leader in male grooming products, including blades, razors and shaving preparations. Gillette also holds the number one position worldwide in selected female grooming products, such as wet shaving products and hair epilation devices. In addition, the Company is the world's top seller of alkaline batteries, toothbrushes and oral care appliances.

About Recruitsoft
Recruitsoft powers enterprise-wide talent flow for leading companies across many industries. Among Recruitsoft clients are Hewlett-Packard, Dow Chemical (NYSE: DOW), Agilent Technologies, Hasbro, Deloitte & Touche, Bombardier Aerospace and Transportation, MetLife, and Sutter Health. Among the benefits Recruitsoft brings to large organizations are faster time-to-hire, lower cost-per-hire, and ultimately, increased quality of hires. Recruitsoft is considered to be the best-practice ASP for recruitment management solutions, based on its proprietary ACE Recruiting™ methodology, designed in collaboration with large corporations to improve the corporate recruiting and internal talent matching and deployment processes through reengineering. Recruitsoft is a member of the HR-XML consortium.

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