Serono deploys Recruitsoft's global staffing management solutions

Serono engineers its staffing management processes to find quality candidates faster, in real-time, and adopts self-service model to improve services for recruiters, hiring managers and candidates worldwide Recruitsoft, Inc. (www.recruitsoft.com), the provider of staffing management solutions for global organizations, announced today that Serono S.A. (www.serono.com), a Switzerland-based global biotechnology leader, successfully implemented Recruitsoft's Enterprise Staffing Management Solutions in countries across Europe and North America.

Serono Group Resourcing Manager Madeline Poulton stated, It is important for us to have staffing solutions that are synergistic with the way we do business. As a company, we aspire to create an environment that enables our people to excel and innovate and to contribute to the advancement of our global biotechnology organization. Before implementing Recruitsoft, our process was highly manual and decentralized. Employees and external candidates can now easily see career opportunities and apply for them in real-time and our recruiters and hiring managers are starting to find quality candidates faster.
She added, Since we went live on the solutions, we have significantly improved the visibility of our open positions globally. There are lots of people interested in working for us and for the first time we can easily store and retrieve the relevant applications. She added, Additionally, our processes for staffing in multiple countries have been streamlined and we have started to reduce our hiring cycle time. Our first quality hire with Recruitsoft took just two weeks.

Today global organizations are demanding online staffing solutions and processes that meet their diverse business needs, stated Recruitsoft Vice President of International Sales and Global Alliances Benoit Leclerc. We are pleased that Serono has chosen Recruitsoft as a partner to improve its global staffing processes, and together with our configurable workflow platform and self-service solutions, we are helping to improve productivity and reduce cycle-time and costs, while allowing for more effective collaboration with candidates and hiring mangers, and simultaneously improving the overall customer experience.

Recruitsoft Enterprise Staffing Solutions include comprehensive services methodologies and toolkits to deliver ACETM Staffing Best Practices through a fully configurable, workflow-enabled suite of software applications. The software applications support every aspect of the staffing supply chain, from requisition management, sourcing, resume management, searching and pre-screening to retention, enabling true e-headhunting and optimal staffing management. Recruitsoft Enterprise Staffing Solutions help large organizations to: find highly qualified candidates faster; better assign people to jobs; increase return on human assets; optimize the use of resources; shorten the overall time to contribution; increase retention of the best and brightest contributors, enterprise-wide; and importantly, improve overall performance from the hired workforce, resulting in increased productivity.

About Serono
Serono is a global biotechnology leader. The Company has six recombinant products on the market, Gonal-F, Luveris, Ovidrel/Ovitrelle, Rebif, Serostim and Saizen (Luveris is not approved in the USA). In addition to being the world leader in reproductive health, Serono has strong market positions in neurology, metabolism and growth. The Company's research programs are focused on growing these businesses and on establishing new therapeutic areas. Currently, there are seventeen new molecules in development.
In 2001, Serono achieved worldwide revenues of US$1.38 billion, and a net income of US$317 million, making it the third largest biotech company in the world based on revenues. The Company operates in 45 countries, and its products are sold in over 100 countries. Bearer shares of Serono S.A., the holding company, are traded on the virt-x (SEO) and its American Depositary Shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange (SRA).

About Recruitsoft
Recruitsoft delivers services and technology to manage enterprise staffing and optimize talent flow for large global organizations such as Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Dow Chemical (NYSE: DOW), Fortis, Starbucks Corporation, P & G, Thomson, Agilent Technologies, The Gillette Company, Deloitte & Touche, Bombardier, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and UnitedHealth Group, among many others. Recruitsoft's full-service offering includes the software, services and computing infrastructure to enable large corporations to rapidly improve staffing processes and generate significant ROI.