Going Global - Woodside Energy Selects Taleo’s Enterprise Talent Management Suite To Meet Global Growth Plans
Woodside, Australia's largest publicly listed oil and gas exploration and production company, chooses Taleo to help drive global expansion plans
San Francisco, CA and Sydney, Australia — January 21, 2005 – Taleo Corporation, the world’s leading company focused solely on on-demand talent management solutions, and North America’s third largest pure-play SSP (Software Service Provider) based on revenue, today announced that Woodside Energy has selected Taleo’s Enterprise Talent Management Suite to replace its existing infrastructure for experienced hires.
Woodside, a fast growing Australian based energy and resources company, is one of the nation's most successful explorers, developers and producers of hydrocarbons. With employees across the globe, Woodside ranks in the top 20 companies by market capitalization on the Australian Stock Exchange.
Paul Callander, Taleo’s managing director for Asia Pacific, said that he welcomed Woodside as a client as “their decision demonstrates Taleo’s ability to help globally minded companies such as Woodside take the next step in talent management confidently, knowing that they have a scalable solution that can truly offer the flexibility required by multinationals to build and manage their operations consistently around the globe.”He continued to say, “Woodside has recognized the strategic importance of human capital, particularly with the growing concerns around the skills shortage being experienced in the resources sector. Thought leadership from a 50-year-old Australian company is both refreshing and encouraging.”
During the past five years Woodside has grown from a largely domestic oil and gas company to a global business with operations and developments across four continents.
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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