As cost-conscious businesses grapple with the critical (and at times, costly) process of recruitment, Jobpartners.com launches a solution designed to streamline the process.
Jobpartners, a European company
specializing in people and talent management solutions, today announced the
launch of ActiveRecruiter Business Edition aimed at helping small and
medium-sized businesses (SMBs) streamline their recruiting process. ActiveRecruiter
Business Edition will be delivered to customers as an on-demand solution using
the Force.com platform, which currently serves 1.5 millions subscriptions for
55,000 customers worldwide. As a software as a service (SaaS) offering,
ActiveRecruiter Business Edition has a flat set-up cost and is charged on
demand on a price per user, per month basis
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Eric Genet, group vice president of SMBs
at Jobpartners said social networks are playing an increasingly important role
when it comes to reaching out to prospective candidates and companies have
started to tap into the informal HR data held in social networks, but it is
important that a companys use of social media does link back to its overall
candidate engagement process. If a companys attraction strategy is strong,
but its processes arent well managed, it severely risks damaging its
employment brand, he said. ActiveRecruiter Business Edition aims to provide
SMBs with the tools to centralize and streamline their recruitment processes in
order to deliver better candidate relationship management and reduce
recruitment costs.
The company said ActiveRecruiter Business
Edition is currently being trialed by a number of organizations including 3E,
an SME headquartered in Belgium who has selected the platform to manage its
national and international external recruitment. The solution is also tailored
to be flexible on communications, allowing companies to configure and brand
their own emails to candidates and tailor messages to specific candidate
groups. As an open platform, ActiveRecruiter Business Edition is integrated
with job aggregation services like eQuest and social networks such as Twitter
and LinkedIn. Using Google Maps functionality, candidates and jobs can also be
geo-coded to provide SMBs with increased visibility of which channels and
geographies are most effective and deliver the best return.
With many companies looking to reduce
their recruitment costs, ActiveRecruiter Business Edition is a true on-demand
service that puts SMBs back in control of their recruitment process, Genet
said. By delivering the service using the Force.com platform we are able to
deliver SMBs with a secure and reliable 24/7 service with no additional burden
to internal IT. This will help them to become more efficient, maximize their
recruitment investments and improve the overall quality of their hires and
candidate experience,
A recent survey from online payment
company SurePayroll revealed that three out of four surveyed business
owners admitted to hiring at least one employee they later wished they never
had, and many indicated that the mistake resulted in a significant financial
loss more than $10,000 a head, according to 12 percent of respondents. According
to the survey results, many small business owners are overlooking steps to
reduce the likelihood of a hiring mistake. Most who admitted to bad hiring
decisions said they resulted from a failure to accurately assess an employee's
personality, character or skill set.