TalentDrive and JobPartners Announce Recruitment Technology Partnership

Leading Global Talent Management Solution Offers Advanced Online Resume Sourcing

Chicago, IL and London, UK (Vocus) December 2, 2009

TalentDrive, the creator of the innovative on-demand resume sourcing technology, TalentFilter, announced today a partnership with Jobpartners, a European leader in people and talent management solutions. This partnership combines the strength of TalentFilter’s advanced resume sourcing and matching technology with Jobpartner’s comprehensive talent management solutions, enabling users to leverage the internet for advanced resume sourcing through their existing people management suite.

As recruiters, HR Professionals, and candidates alike clamor for an efficient, effective solution for sourcing, recruiting and interacting with candidates during the hiring process; TalentDrive and Jobpartners jumped at the opportunity to collaborate and produce an improved technology solution. This partnership brings to market a user-focused product that allows clients to harness the wealth of resumes online for sourcing, helping them connect with highly qualified Talent in a consistent approach. Users are able to source thousands of job boards and resume locations, pulling highly qualified candidates from the 77.7 million resumes online today.

These leading global brands connected to offer users a unified tool to capitalize on the influx of resumes going online everyday, in addition to searching the Jobpartners’ ATS, ActiveRecruiter, helping to effectively target qualified talent from all available resume locations in half the time. Using advanced scoring and ranking, resumes are returned according to the user’s job description and directly imported into the JobPartners’ solution suite. The platform provides a cohesive recruiting and management solution to help ensure the company’s brand image never falters, while effectively recruiting the absolute top Talent available.

“JobPartners truly stands above the noise in the recruitment technology provider space by continually delivering a product with the end-user in mind. This characteristic is what attracted us to Jobpartners and reassures us that as partners, we will work in unison to provide tools that help our current and future clients connect with the Talent they need to be successful. We are impressed with Jobpartners dedication to innovation and the importance of user-friendly technology,” said Sean Bisceglia, CEO TalentDrive.

“As we continue to offer solutions for our clients that improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness of their recruitment processes, the need to incorporate an online sourcing function became apparent. By offering our users the ability to harness the millions of resumes online through our partnership with TalentDrive, we stay true to our mission of keeping people at the forefront of our decisions, streamlining the talent management process for optimum results, and bringing innovation to our technology,” said Xavier Marchioni, CEO of Jobpartners.

About TalentDrive
TalentDrive has released the industry’s most innovative SaaS sourcing solution, TalentFilter(SM). Over 55 global companies have helped us develop one of the most easy to use, on-demand, talent sourcing tools on the market. As a subscriber, our recruitment technology sweeps and unifies thousands of paid and free resume databases in one location. TalentFilter then matches, hierarchies the results, and provides contact through auto scheduling. Through direct users and our API Partner network, over 40,000 users have access to our technology. TalentFilter is proud to serve the United States, Europe, and The Pacific Rim. One search, one location, one technology. Thousands of sources. For more information, visit http://www.talentdrive.com].

About JobPartners
Headquartered in the U.K. with nine offices in Europe and the U.S., Jobpartners was one of the first companies solely dedicated to providing comprehensive, global people and talent management solutions delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS).

Jobpartners' solutions help organisations effectively attract, connect, develop and retain the quality people they need to remain competitive in today's global business environment. Working for clients such as Carrefour, Deutsche Post DHL, Nationwide, Nike, Rabobank Group and Xerox, Jobpartners provides talent and people management solutions in more than 50 countries across all industries and in 28 languages.For more information visit http://www.jobpartners.com].

Media Contact:
Alissa Gothard, TalentDrive, 312.676.4204, alissa(at)talentdrive(dot)com
Alex Crawshaw, Spark Communications, +44 (0) 20 7436 0420, jobpartners(at)sparkcomms(dot)co(dot)uk

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