Hire.com Chosen By Adobe for Worldwide Talent Management

Hire.com's talent management suite was chosen by Adobe Systems Incorporated in November 2002 for use worldwide and is scheduled for deployment at the end of March following a 90-day implementation process. By standardizing on HireEnterprise across its global offices, Adobe will be able to use international tracking and reporting capabilities to streamline all recruitment and staffing efforts. Next month, Adobe is planning to launch HireEnterprise in the US, UK, Germany, France, India, Canada, and Japan.

HireEnterprise's worldwide reporting capabilities will allow multiple regions to relate staffing information quickly and in a consistent format, saving time and cost from the previous process of sharing spreadsheets of data that were keyed in manually to a central database. Also, because Adobe's worldwide offices will be able to collect candidate profile information online, the company can not only share that information, but also store and share submitted resumes in the Adobe PDF file format worldwide. This will eliminate large costs associated with scanning the more than one thousand resumes the company receives monthly.

HireEnterprise's modularity, open-source features and knowledgeable support staff will allow Adobe to integrate this talent management technology with its worldwide SAP ERP system and LDAP technology, as well as overcome the challenges associated with localizing the solution to be in line with regional business processes and employment practices specific to each area.

In February 2003, StepStone ASA and Hire.com announced a strategic alliance to jointly address the emerging market for talent management solutions in Europe by combining Hire.com's award-winning talent management solution, HireEnterprise, with StepStone's European leadership in online recruitment.

As companies battle with the need to streamline their internal organisations whilst continuing to attract top talent, so more and more of them are exploiting the immediacy and global reach of the web as the centrepiece of their recruitment strategies, commented Colin Tenwick, CEO of StepStone.

Finding and keeping highly-qualified, specialized talent in multiple regions of the world is a daunting task for global companies like Adobe, added Kevin Bethke, CEO of Hire.com. HireEnterprise will enable Adobe to implement one talent solution across the company that can create consistent, progressive staffing processes.