DSM Goes Live on Recruitsoft’s Enterprise Staffing Management Solutions
Successful 75-Day implementation improves DSM’s global staffing management processes, enhances communication with candidates and allows for recruiting in real-time
Amsterdam, The Netherlands – November 5, 2002 –
Recruitsoft, Inc., the leading provider of staffing management solutions for global organizations, announced today that DSM (www.dsm.com), a Netherlands-based company providing worldwide organizations with life science products, performance materials and industrial chemicals, has successfully implemented Recruitsoft’s Enterprise Staffing Management Solution.
Headquartered in Heerlen, The Netherlands, DSM has approximately 20,000 employees located across 200 offices and production sites in more than 40 countries. According to DSM’s Managing Board of Directors Chairman Peter Elverding: “The individual and the organization must have something to offer each other over the long-term. This is a question of personal appreciation, it’s a question of substance, of a good and interesting job with a company you can be proud of.”
DSM Executive of Sourcing and Corporate Recruitment Bas van Buijtenen stated, “We recognize that individual people are the key to the success of any organization, which is why DSM has a strong tradition in Management Development. Management Development starts with the recruitment process. We selected Recruitsoft’s skills-based staffing management solutions to support us in ensuring that there is an even better match between the candidate and the job, creating a solid foundation for development opportunities and long term career prospects. The first phase of the implementation process was extremely smooth and, with the support of Recruitsoft’s services team, the project took less than 75 days to deploy.”
He added, “The solutions not only allow us to go paperless, but also to respond to applications more professionally. This is because the management of candidates across the multitude of countries and business units that we operate in has become easier for our recruiters. We also expect to significantly reduce the number of instances where we involve search agencies in the staffing process.”
Recruitsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Louis Tetu stated, “We are very pleased to be working with DSM to deliver enterprise-wide staffing management solutions that help find quality candidates faster in a repeatable, scalable fashion.” He continued, “Our configurable workflow platform enables multinational corporations the ability to configure enterprise-staffing workflows to meet global staffing needs, from such macro factors as country, region, company and division, to such micro factors as individual job type. We are confident that with higher quality processes, DSM will not only achieve cost savings but also enterprise-wide productivity improvements and greater retention through enhanced hire quality.”
Recruitsoft Enterprise Staffing Solutions include comprehensive services methodologies and toolkits to deliver ACE™ Staffing Best Practices through a fully configurable, workflow-enabled suite of software applications. The software applications support every aspect of the staffing supply chain, from requisition management, sourcing, resume management, searching and pre-screening to retention, enabling true e-headhunting and optimal staffing management. Recruitsoft Enterprise Staffing Solutions help large organizations to: find highly qualified candidates faster; better assign people to jobs; increase return on human assets; optimize the use of resources; shorten the overall time to contribution; increase retention of the best and brightest contributors, enterprise-wide; and importantly, improve overall performance from the hired workforce, resulting in increased productivity.
About DSM
Based in The Netherlands, DSM is active worldwide in life science products, performance materials and industrial chemicals. The group has annual sales of close to EUR 6 billion and employs about 20,000 people at more than 200 sites across the world. DSM ranks among the global leaders in many of its fields. The company’s strategic aim is to grow its sales – partly through acquisitions – to a level of approx. EUR 10 billion by 2005. By that time at least 80% of sales should be generated by specialties, i.e. advanced chemical and biotechnological products for the life science industry and performance materials. This strategy represents a continuation of the company’s ongoing transformation and concentration on global leadership positions in high-added-value activities characterized by high growth and more stable profit levels.
About Recruitsoft
Recruitsoft delivers services and technology to manage enterprise staffing and optimize talent flow for large global organizations such as Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Dow Chemical (NYSE: DOW), Fortis, Starbucks Corporation, P & G, Thomson, Agilent Technologies, The Gillette Company, Deloitte & Touche, Bombardier, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and UnitedHealth Group, among many others. Recruitsoft’s full-service offering includes the software, services and computing infrastructure to enable large corporations to rapidly improve staffing processes and generate significant ROI.
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