Taleo Holds Fourth Annual World Users’ Conference and Semi-Annual Regional Sessions
More than 300 global human resources professionals join Taleo for largest WORLD Users’ Conference to date
San Francisco & Huntington Beach, CA—April 4, 2005 – Taleo Corporation, the world’s leading company focused solely on on-demand talent management solutions, today announced the start of its fourth annual WORLD Users’ Conference. Each year, Taleo WORLD brings together hundreds of Taleo customers from the world’s most innovative organizations. This year, under the all-encompassing theme, “Ascent of the Talent Driven Enterprise,” Taleo customers will discuss the future of online workforce management, learn new tools in talent management to drive further enterprise value, share best practices, and network with peers at other leading organizations. Taleo WORLD takes place at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort & Spa located in Huntington Beach, California, April 4-6.
Malcolm Gladwell, the current New York Times #1 best selling author of Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, will deliver the keynote address at Taleo WORLD 2005. Gladwell's keynote address will focus on applying the research, social science, and other theories in his new book, to talent hiring and management issues to generate enterprise value.
Other Taleo WORLD highlights include:
- Procter & Gamble general session presentation entitled, “Operating in a Build from Within Environment: Implications in Today’s Mergers & Acquisitions Business Climate”
- JPMorgan Chase’s discussion on leveraging Taleo’s talent management solutions to ensure a smooth transition of talent during its merger with Bank One
- An industry expert roundtable with panelists Gerry Crispin, CareerXroads; Dr. Jac Fitz-enz, Human Capital Source; Katherine Jones, Aberdeen; Lisa Rowan, IDC; and Judy Sweeney, AMR Research, to address a number of evocative questions around the future of workforce management
- The Global Staffing Forum, comprised of Taleo users from HP, Serono, The Gillette Company and others, to discuss best practices in global talent management solution implementations
- Additional sessions presented by HR executives from Taleo customers including ADP, Johnson Controls, UnitedHealth Group, Mosaic, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, Intermountain Healthcare among many others, to address topics including contingent workforce management, maximizing quality of hire, implementing an effective assessment strategy, internal mobility programs, and many others.
Katherine Jones, enterprise applications research director, Aberdeen Group, stated, “Events such as Taleo WORLD provide the opportunity for Taleo’s global and diverse customer base to share successes in talent management. The industry roundtable will provide an excellent forum to learn more about the challenges, issues and achievements that leading organizations are facing in today’s talent economy. It provides a chance to learn from Taleo’s user community and to share my industry knowledge and insight about key market trends and challenges that are shaping today’s economy.”
Taleo WORLD includes four simultaneous session tracks including management, strategy, technical and Taleo University, providing attendees with several options of topic and level of expertise in order to best meet their individual business needs and objectives. Taleo University, formerly Taleo’s Educational Services, will provide attendees with practical, role-based knowledge and skills to optimize use of Taleo’s talent management solutions.
Platinum sponsors of Taleo WORLD include Taleo Partners ChoicePoint, eQuest, HireRight and HRchitect. Taleo partner Accurate Background is a silver sponsor of the conference. Taleo partners Batrus Hollweg International (BHI), DDI, ePredix, First Advantage, ITax Group, MagnaWare, NetKey, The Newman Group, Shaker Consulting, SHL Group, and Skill Survey are all bronze sponsors of Taleo WORLD 2005.
About Taleo Corporation
Taleo is the worldwide leader of on-demand Talent Management Solutions covering salaried, hourly and contingent workers. Taleo helps organizations of all sizes improve business performance by more effectively acquiring, deploying, retaining, measuring and managing their workforces. For the first time, Taleo arms HR Executives and Staffing Directors with the capability to wring out talent management costs, respond more quickly to organizational demands and drive workforce quality. Taleo turns talent management into a source of value, competitiveness and workforce performance management. Taleo serves the world’s most demanding businesses and is one of the world’s largest ASP’s with more than 400,000 users and 24 million candidates across 87 countries.
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