Recruitforce.com Announces Recruitforce.com 4.0, the Fastest, Easiest, and Most Flexible Way Yet to Manage Recruiting Online

Delivering a streamlined user interface, powerful customization features, and a web services integration API, Recruitforce.com 4.0 advances its flexibility to suit employers of any size in any industry

SANTA CLARA, CA (PRWEB) September 1, 2003 -- Recruitforce.com, a leading provider of on-demand staffing management solutions, today launched Recruitforce.com 4.0, the fastest, easiest, and most flexible way yet to manage recruiting online. Designed for companies of all shapes and sizes, Recruitforce.com 4.0 allows the scalable and secure management of candidates, requisitions, the corporate careers website, and all aspects of hiring process management.

Since its February 2003 introduction, Recruitforce.com has seen acceleration in adoption of its online service throughout a wide range of industries. In response, Recruitforce.com 4.0 includes enhanced customization features, a redesigned user interface making the system even easier to use, and a web services integration API allowing quick integration with other enterprise applications.

"From technology and services to retail and healthcare, Recruitforce.com has penetrated a diverse array of industries very quickly" said Bill Almon, Chairman of Recruitforce.com and former CEO of Conner Peripherals, Fortune magazines pick for Americas Fastest Growing Company. "The flexibility delivered in version 4.0 combined with quick implementation, ease of use, and affordability, make Recruitforce.com a great value for any company that does the majority of its recruiting online."

Because all Recruitforce.com solutions are delivered as online services, upgrades are immediately available with no hardware or software requirements, consulting charges or upgrade costs. Recruitforce.com 4.0 has been deployed to all Recruitforce.com customers instantaneously, and is now available for new users.

Key features in the new release include:

New User Interface: The overall page layout, navigation, and look and feel has been enhanced to provide an even more intuitive and efficient user experience. Designed for quick access to core information, each candidate and requisition page provides an instant snapshot of all relevant data without the need to navigate through multiple screens.

Custom Fields: Recruitforce.com 4.0 allows the addition of custom fields to candidate and requisition forms, providing an easy way to store, track and search on specific information required by any organization.

Candidate Contact Management: Calls and responses can be logged, and emails can now be sent to candidates directly from within Recruitforce.com. All communication is logged and attached to each candidates record. Email to candidates can be constructed from Email Templates for quick, standardized correspondence. Templates can be shared among the team or marked as private, and can make use of merge fields which are automatically replaced with live data before an email is sent.

Candidate Import Wizard: A new import tool provides a way to get started quickly by importing resumes from disk or candidate data from a CSV file (the standard export format for Microsoft Excel, Outlook, ACT!, etc). The import tool automatically creates new candidate records in Recruitforce.com and associates them with the appropriate source and requisition. Any resume in the DOC, RTF, PDF, HTML, or TXT format is accepted.

Online Application Form Builder: The online application form can be fully customized by adding new sections, arbitrary html, and custom candidate fields providing a way to display and capture specific information required from each applicant.

Web Services Integration: Recruitforce.com 4.0 exposes open, standards-based, XML APIs, providing an integration solution that is easy to deploy and upgrade - allowing businesses of any size or complexity to integrate Recruitforce.com with other enterprise applications such as ERP, HR, Finance and Payroll systems.

Other new features include an enhanced candidate search engine with automatic ranking of search results based on any combination of keywords, boolean phrases, and field values; sequential approval processes with the ability to assign default requisition and offer letter approvers; new AAP and cost-per-hire reports; improved Pipeline views and requisition cloning.

"Conventional enterprise staffing software such as Resumix or PeopleSofts eRecruit typically require six figure investments, six month implementation cycles, and time-intensive training programs," said Matt Robinson, CEO of Recruitforce.com. "With Recruitforce.com 4.0 we have pulled ahead of the software crowd by delivering a faster, easier, more affordable solution entirely over the Internet with the flexibility to meet the needs of any organization in any industry."

The surge in online job applicants because of the Internet and rising unemployment has made it increasingly cumbersome for companies to store, track, and manage candidate data. Recruitforce.com delivers an immediate solution by providing an easy to use online service on an affordable pay-as-you-go basis.

About Recruitforce.com
Recruitforce.com builds and delivers enterprise staffing management solutions as scalable online services. The Recruitforce.com product suite - Group Service, Professional Service and Corporate Service - gives companies of all sizes a complete view of staffing activity throughout the organization. The companys solutions provide integrated online candidate, requisition and careers website management to help companies optimize staffing efficiency from candidate acquisition through the entire hiring process.

As a purely web-based subscription service, there is no traditional software to buy, install, upgrade or maintain and the system can be deployed in days rather than weeks or months - ensuring the fastest possible return on investment. Founded in 2002, Recruitforce.com is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. For more information, visit www.recruitforce.com or call 1-408-986-8082.

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