San Francisco, CA – January 24, 2005 – Taleo Corporation, the world’s leading company focused solely on on-demand talent management solutions, today announced the significant expansion of its solution partner program, further extending the value its online talent management solutions offer its Global 2000 customers. Taleo formed several additional partnerships recently with organizations providing key processes along the talent supply chain, including background screening, assessments and appointment scheduling, among others.
Through Taleo’s comprehensive partner program, talent management services from third party vendors are incorporated into Taleo’s solution workflows, including data and results, providing customers with a seamless process, valuable data, and talent management process optimization.
As part of Taleo’s expanding solution partner program, the company announced several additional providers offering pre-employment screening services including Accurate Background, First Advantage, and Kroll.
NetKey, which provides a software platform to support kiosk applications, also joined the company’s partner roster. In addition, ePredix and SHL joined Taleo’s growing solution partner program, providing assessment services along the talent management supply chain.
SkillSurvey, a provider of competency-based reference checking services, and Time Trade, offering solutions to automate appointment scheduling, were also announced as new Taleo partners.
“Our partner program has undergone significant growth over the past year, due to the high demand of our solutions and partner offerings from our growing global customer base,” said Jeff Carr, EVP and Chief Strategy Officer, Taleo Corporation. “We are committed to the ongoing expansion of our partner program to continually provide our customers with the most cutting-edge and comprehensive talent management processes and further extend the value that our solutions bring to our customers.”
Taleo’s newly announced partners join the company’s growing roster of solution partners including Batrus Hollweg International (BHI), DDI, HireRight, ITax Group, eQuest, Staffing Outsourcing Solutions (SOS), Magnaware, among several others.
About Taleo Corporation
Taleo Corporation (formerly Recruitsoft, Inc.) is the leading provider of enterprise talent management solutions that enable organizations to establish, automate and run worldwide talent management processes for salaried, hourly and temporary staff. Taleo customers use the company’s solutions to enhance the quality, productivity and satisfaction of their workforces. Taleo solutions incorporate resource allocation principles to more accurately match total labor demand and supply across complex organizations. Taleo solutions are delivered over the Internet to nearly 400,000 users in 87 countries, and serve 20 million candidates from 190 of the world’s 193 countries and independent states. Taleo’s principal office is located in San Francisco, CA.
Taleo received significant recognition during 2004 for its solutions, technologies and continued growth, including: “Top HR Product of the Year” from HR Executive Magazine; “HR Technology Award for Creative & Innovative Development of HR Technology” from IQPC; “TecHR Award for Staffing Process and Content Delivery Technologies” from IDC and TecHR; “11th Fastest Growing Technology Company” from Deloitte Technology Fast 500; “7th Fastest Growing Technology Company in Silicon Valley” from Deloitte Fast 50; “23rd Fastest Growing Private Company in the Bay Area” from the San Francisco Business Times; “Software 500 Listing” in Software Magazine’s “World’s Most Foremost Software and Services Leaders”; and “Top 100 Places to Work” from MacLean’s Magazine.
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