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From housekeepers to dancers to executives, an Edmond-based human resources company has captured the majority of the gaming community along the Las Vegas Strip and is fast moving in on the Oklahoma market.

HRLogix helps companies - such as MGM Grand, The Borgota and Stratosphere - save time and resources with its Web-based applicant tracking system, automating the hiring, recruiting and documentation process. The company also develops Web sites for clients where their job openings can be posted on up to 1,000 different sites across the nation.

Maryann Gagnon, founder and president of HRLogix, opened her doors in 2002 and since has hired 15 employees. In that first year, she landed MGM Grand as a client.

The largest hotel and casino in the world had 11 full-time human resources employees and waded through 28,000 applicants, of which 1,200 were hired. In less than a year, Gagnon's applicant tracking system more than doubled the casino's hires with 30 percent fewer recruiters, refined the applicant pool by screening out 22 percent more nonqualified applicants, cut its advertising budget in half and reduced its labor budget by more than $100,000. Additionally, the average applicant quality score increased by 38 percent, which generated cost savings in pre-employment security screening.

Gagnon said she started working the Vegas Strip because it's such a highly regulated industry, which makes for much more paperwork on behalf of the employers. And apparently, it's paid off.

"It is such a tight community, that (MGM) has been referring us to their friends and other hotels and properties, and that's what has expanded us most - referrals," Gagnon said, adding that those referrals have led her to the Oklahoma gaming market, including the Million Dollar Elm casinos going up in Sand Springs and Tulsa.

"We've been able to fill all the positions for (Million Dollar Elm) before the casino even opened," she said.

"We are very well positioned to capture this market ... and help the gaming market to explode in Oklahoma. There's no other company doing what we do for the gaming industry. We know it inside and out at this point. We're on top of the legislation and we're continuously designing our system to match the needs of the legislation."

Other Oklahoma clients include Advanced Foods and Groendyke Transport Inc. in Enid, American Fidelity, Norman Regional Hospital and Comanche County Hospital in Lawton.

Company revenues totaled $750,000 in 2003, and Gagnon said that number will more than double this year.

"We cash-flowed the business within the first year, which is highly unusual in this industry," she said.

Gagnon has more than 15 years' experience in human resources. Prior to founding HRLogix, she was the vice president of sales and consulting for Staffmark, a national staffing company. Prior to Staffmark, Gagnon worked with CoreStaff, where she headed the consulting division of productivity solutions. Her focus was to streamline the recruiting and hiring practices, predominately with hourly workers, to implement best practices and streamline efficiencies with many Fortune 500 companies

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