Recruitment Factory - 03/2001

SAP AG and Futurestep have announced their intention to create Recruitment Factory, a combination of recruiting software and Internet-based staffing services that will help companies hire qualified candidates with unprecedented speed and efficiency.

Recruitment Factory will include leading e-business software from SAP that fully integrates with customers' current enterprise resource planning systems and human resources applications, such as mySAP(TM) HR. It will also provide access to the full range of Futurestep's global recruiting services.

Companies have often found online bulletin boards and unconnected screening services time-consuming and unproductive. They also overlook potential candidates who might not be actively seeking new employment. Recruitment Factory solves these challenges by streamlining the recruitment process, from gathering and evaluating candidates' profile information to matching their qualifications with companywide job openings and controlling the associated administrative costs.

While a rapidly growing array of vendors offer technology and services to handle different steps of the recruiting process, companies have lacked an end-to-end offering that fully automates the process of locating, evaluating and hiring the best available candidates, said Palle Bisgaard, president of Business Solutions, Europe, at Futurestep. The relationship between Futurestep and SAP promises to revolutionise companies' recruitment practices by delivering a complete human capital management system built with innovative software, rich content and sophisticated recruiting services.

www.futurestep.com
www.mysap.com