Taleo, Formerly Recruitsoft, Holds Third Annual Users’ Group Meeting and Semi-Annual Regional Sessions
More than 250 human resources and technology professionals, industry experts, thought leaders, and partners join Taleo for Users’ Conference from organizations across the world
Alexis M. He
San Francisco, CA – April 26, 2004 – Taleo Corporation, formerly Recruitsoft, Inc., announced today it is holding its Annual World Users’ Conference and Semi-annual Regional Users’ Group Meetings April 25-28, at the Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort & Club in Aventura, Florida.
The Keynote presentation will be made by Alexis M. Herman, Former US Secretary of Labor, who will discuss “The Business Case For Workforce Diversity.” America’s 23rd Secretary of Labor and the first African American ever to lead the Labor Department, Secretary Herman was sworn in on May 1, 1997. Under Secretary Herman's stewardship, the United States’ unemployment rate reached a thirty-year record low of 3.9 percent in May 2000. Furthermore, unemployment among African Americans and Hispanics fell to record lows.
General Sessions from human resource and industry experts from companies such as ARAMARK, BMW Manufacturing Co., Dow Chemical, and Honeywell will focus on best practices and strategies around topics including the contingent workforce, managing a global workforce, value generation though staffing, internal mobility, alignment of staffing with business objectives, candidate attraction and employee retention, and others. Sponsors of the Users’ Conference consist of partners including ePredicts, eQuest, DDI, HireRight, ITax Group, Magnaware, The Newman Group, and Staffing Outsourcing Solutions.
ARAMARK Director of Staffing and College Relations Jennifer Tracy said, “We’re very excited to participate and present at this year’s users’ conference and look forward to the opportunity to collaborate with other industry professionals about their staffing management successes and best practices.” She added, “We’ve been particularly impressed with the Taleo solutions and how the service teams continue to work in partnership with us to ensure talent is optimized throughout our company. We are committed to hiring and retaining top talent and staffing all types of workers and are enthusiastic about extending this value even further by sharing knowledge with fellow Taleo users. ”
Regional Users Sessions and Special Interest Group Meetings
Eastern, Central and Western US and the Canadian Regional Users’ Groups as well as the Global Users’ Group will hold sessions April 28 in conjunction with the WORLD Conference. Taleo Regional Users Groups provide a forum for Taleo customers to share best practices with each other, learn about upcoming solution enhancements and provide feedback to product management and development at Taleo. The groups are self-run and governed, and all Taleo customers are eligible to participate. Taleo Users have also formed several Special Interest Groups that focus on best practices and technology in specific areas such as Hourly Staffing, Campus Recruiting/University Relations, Skills-based Staffing and Job Board Usage, among others.
Taleo Senior Vice President of Corporate Marketing & Communication Diane Pardee said, “We welcome everyone to the annual Users’ Conference and semi-annual Regional Sessions. The delivery of the enhanced solutions for hourly and temporary employees announced earlier this year reaffirms Taleo’s leadership in delivering for our customers the most complete enterprise staffing solutions available in the marketplace today. We feel that this event will provide another opportunity for our customers across multiple regions to learn new staffing strategies, share best practices and provide an open forum among our users, partners and product management team.”
The Taleo Enterprise Staffing Management Suite™ is at work for more than 365,000 registered users in more than 85 countries and includes Taleo Professional™, Taleo Hourly™, Taleo Workforce OnDemand™, Taleo Agency™, Taleo Workforce Mobility™, Taleo Regulatory & Diversity™, Taleo Campus™, Taleo Assessments™, Taleo Integration, and Taleo Staffing Metrics Reporter™. The company’s solutions can be applied to multiple business processes, business cycles, geographic regions, hiring types and staffing models.
About Taleo Corporation
Taleo Corporation (formerly known as Recruitsoft, Inc.), is a leading provider of enterprise staffing management solutions that enable organizations to establish, automate and manage worldwide staffing processes for professional, 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 similar to those employed successfully in supply chain management automation to more accurately match total labor demand and supply across complex organizations. Taleo customers include Honeywell, HP, Mercer Human Resource Consulting, P&G, Starbucks Corporation, SUEZ, UnitedHealth Group, Washington Mutual, Yellow Corporation, among many others. Taleo is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
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