Recruitsoft Introduces New Paradigm in Hourly Staffing Management With ACE Assessment Webtop™
ACE Assessment WebTop, combined with a complete Hourly Solution, including Staffing Stations, provides only assessment platform with complete flexibility in assessment content and delivery
Company appoints Senior Industrial Psychologist Nathan Mondragon, Ph.D., to spearhead the development and validation of Recruitsoft Retail Assessments; Director of Sales, Retail Services, Adam Brenner; and other account executives to support the demand for hourly staffing solutions
Recruitsoft introduces Partner Certification Program for ACE Assessment WebTop, allowing customers to easily access assessment content across a broad range of vertical industries
San Francisco, CA – February 17, 2004 – Recruitsoft, Inc., the leading provider of staffing management services and solutions, today announced a new paradigm in staffing management with ACE Assessment WebTop, the only assessment platform giving customers complete flexibility in assessment content and delivery. The company also introduced its Staffing Stations and ACE Assessment Partner Certification Program to support the evolving assessment needs of its hourly customers. Additionally, the company recently appointed Dr. Nathan Mondragon, formally of Dell, Inc. and Development Dimensions International (DDI), to senior industrial psychologist to manage the company’s retail assessment development and has also named Adam Brenner, formerly of Unicru and Ariba, as director of sales, retail services.
Recruitsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Louis Tetu stated, “The introduction of our ACE Assessment WebTop, designed to meet the unique needs and intricacies of our hourly customers, builds on past achievements and expands our industry footprint within the hourly staffing marketplace. We are also very pleased to welcome Nathan, Adam and other members of their teams to Recruitsoft and look forward to their contributions.”
He continued, “Assessment tools help select the right talent for each job by measuring the skills, styles, interests and values of new and existing employees, which helps to improve retention, reduce shrinkage and increase organizational productivity. Our flexible Assessment WebTop integrates with third-party, customer proprietary or Recruitsoft retail developed, validated assessments. All this from a single enterprise staffing platform, one that does not require multiple integrations, represents a revolutionary approach to bringing quality hires into organizations quickly while improving productivity and increasing retention, resulting in significant value to the bottom line.”
Starbucks Vice President, Partner Resources, Christine Deputy stated, “As a growing organization opening a large number of retail stores, we continuously strive to enhance and optimize our processes to find quality candidates in a way that increases the customer experience and reduces turnover. Successfully staffing partners at our retail stores requires that a number of unique tools and processes are integrated such as behavioral assessments and background checks.” She added, “There are high costs associated with replacing an experienced front-line partner. An environment that fosters career advancement, mobility, and job satisfaction are what I believe to be the most important elements of retention. Recruitsoft has developed a solution to address and integrate what is necessary for organizations like Starbucks to manage the recruitment process for large numbers of candidates from the start of the application process to the hire of new partners.”
The Recruitsoft Enterprise Staffing Management Suite™ is at work for approximately 370,000 users in more than 80 countries and includes Recruitsoft Professional™, Recruitsoft Workforce OnDemand, Recruitsoft Hourly™, Recruitsoft Agency™, Recruitsoft Workforce Mobility™, Recruitsoft Regulatory & Diversity™ and Recruitsoft Campus™. The company’s solutions can be collectively or individually applied to multiple business processes, business cycles, geographic regions, hiring types and staffing models.
Staffing Stations work on and off-line
The Staffing Stations provide organizations with on-site access, specifically for walk-in candidates and capture predefined candidate data. This information is then electronically transmitted over the Internet or standard phone lines via a secure and simple interface. The on-site Staffing Stations have been designed to provide organizations with a lower cost alternative to a personal computer, have a small footprint, and can work in environments lacking Internet connectivity. Candidates can easily apply for jobs via the Staffing Station and other Recruitsoft Hourly solutions. Data collected via the Staffing Station can include validated assessments available through the ACE Assessment WebTop to help organizations predict job fit and integrate necessary steps defined as part of the process such as background checks, tax credit eligibility screening and more. Information gathered via Staffing Stations is transmitted directly into the customers’ candidate database, which includes all types of workers, and can also be transmitted quickly to managers in a non-Internet environment.
ARAMARK Director of Staffing and College Relations Jennifer Tracy commented, “ARAMARK has clearly recognized that by using Recruitsoft’s solutions at multiple levels that it has added value, including service benefits for our 9,000 hiring managers serving our exempt staff. As the typical hourly turnover rate for the services industry is significant, it is imperative that we hire and deploy talent that is the best fit for our organization, fast, for all types of workers. We have already started to implement the Recruitsoft Hourly solution across our five Regional offices and look forward to achieving exponential benefits across ARAMARK including increased productivity and retention.”
ACE Assessment WebTop and Partner Assessments
The Recruitsoft ACE Assessment WebTop includes a platform that allows certified users to easily configure and deploy assessments with content that is validated, allowing organizations to find quality candidates quickly that are the best fit. Through the Partner Certification Program for the ACE Assessment WebTop, certified Recruitsoft partners are supplied with the tools to define and manage assessment content, scoring algorithms and hiring bands. Recruitsoft customers hiring hourly workers can easily access assessment partner content through the assessment platform, giving them a broad range of assessments across various vertical industries. Additionally, Recruitsoft customers that have direct ownership of company proprietary assessment content can also become certified users of the ACE Assessment WebTop.
Retail Assessments
Recruitsoft has also designed and validated its own proprietary ACE Retail Assessments to improve staffing effectiveness specifically in retail organizations. Built with a bottom line focus by assessing key dimensions to improve retention, reduce shrinkage, and increase overall quality of hire, candidates that are assessed and hired through these retail assessment solutions are qualified for requisite knowledge, skills, background and abilities to perform the job. Similar to the third-party and customer proprietary assessments, Recruitsoft Retail Assessments are easily accessible through the Recruitsoft designed ACE Assessment WebTop.
“With 80 percent of our workforce comprised of hourly workers, many of them part-time and seasonal, it is important that we have the means of attracting, hiring and retaining qualified candidates quickly,” stated Hyatt Hotels and Resorts Director of Staffing Susan Steffy. “The processes available to us with Recruitsoft Hourly ensure that the proper steps are taken systematically to bring the right candidate on board for our managers quickly, the first time. Recruitsoft also understands the importance of strategic tax credit screening as well as background checking and compliance and has integrated all of it into its staffing supply chain.”
Recent Hires
Nathan Mondragon, Ph.D was recently appointed senior industrial psychologist and brings more than a decade of experience in industrial and organizational psychology. Dr. Mondragon will manage the ongoing development of Recruitsoft’s ACE Retail Assessments and help support the certification of ACE Assessment WebTop partners. Prior to working at Recruitsoft, he was an Organizational Development Strategist of Global Learning and Development at Dell, Inc. Prior to Dell, Dr. Mondragon held several consulting and leadership positions at companies such as Development Dimensions International (DDI), SHL/Aspen Tree Software and Aon Consulting. In these roles he was responsible for market analysis, new product development, sales support, and consulting services leadership to mainly provide leading-edge assessment services. He was one of the pioneers in creating online assessment tools for hourly and professional hiring and has a deep history in retail assessment solutions.
Adam Brenner was recently appointed Recruitsoft director of sales, retail services, and brings more than 15 years of global sales experience across a wide range of industries, with particular focus on Retail, Human Resources and Technology. At Recruitsoft, Brenner will be responsible for implementing sales strategies and managing and overseeing the company’s global retail sales operations. Prior to joining Recruitsoft, Brenner was a regional sales manager at Unicru. Prior to that, he served as a managing director at Ariba, a leading Enterprise Spend Management (ESM) solutions provider, for the company’s Latin American Operations. At Ariba, he established operations across multiple countries in Latin America and under his leadership grew sales to $60 million in less than three years. Prior to that, he served as a regional sales director at PeopleSoft’s PeopleSoft Select division; and prior to that, he served as applications sales director at Oracle Corporation. Brenner has also held leadership positions both domestically and abroad for companies such as KPMG and Deloitte and Touche, among others.
Joining Brenner’s team, formerly a regional sales manger of Unicru, is Recruitsoft Account Executive Eddie Gray. Gray brings significant technology, human resources and manufacturing sales and management experience from companies such as Mercury Interactive, Optio Software, Parametric Technology and Honeywell.
About Recruitsoft
Recruitsoft, with headquarters in San Francisco, CA, delivers a comprehensive suite of solutions to manage complete enterprise staffing, including permanent and contingent hires: professional, hourly, agency, campus, centralized, decentralized and multinational. Through the Recruitsoft enterprise Staffing Management Suite, the company’s solutions provide organizations the ability to manage both permanent employees and non-permanent workers, whether contingent, temporary or service contractors, on one common platform. Recruitsoft solutions optimize the flow of talent throughout large organizations such as ARAMARK, Blockbuster, Bombardier, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Dow Chemical, Fortis Inc., The Gillette Company, Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, Hyatt Hotels and Resorts, KPMG, Mutual of Omaha, P & G, PepsiAmericas, Pitney Bowes Inc., Starbucks Corporation, SUEZ, Thomson, Toyota, UnitedHealth Group, Wachovia, Washington Mutual, among many others. Recruitsoft has received a number of accolades, including the industry’s leading staffing solutions according to the HR.com 2003 Buyers Guide.
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