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Authoria Delivers “Quality of Hire” with Authoria Recruiting 2007

Innovative Technology Drives Better Collaboration between Hiring Managers and Recruiters, to Deliver Higher-Quality Candidates and Hires

Waltham, MA – November 13, 2006 – 

Authoria, Inc., the leader in integrated talent management solutions, today unveiled Authoria Recruiting™ 2007, which delivers industry-first capabilities that help employers improve not only recruiting efficiency but the quality of candidates and new hires. Through a set of new Positive Impact™ features that include actionable organization charts, candidate-feedback ratings, in-context analytics, in-context coaching, and advanced search capabilities, Authoria Recruiting 2007 empowers hiring managers to participate actively in the recruiting process and collaborate effectively with recruiters.

Authoria Recruiting 2007 adds important new functionality to Authoria’s integrated talent management solution.  Of the company’s 300-plus enterprise customers, 30 – including Hess Corporation, PepsiAmericas, and Charles Schwab & Co. – rely on Authoria’s integrated talent management solution to maximize the ability of their people to achieve business goals.

“Employers recognize that for the recruiting function to meet their critical talent needs, they must go beyond the traditional measures of time-to-fill and cost-per-hire, and find ways to track, measure, and enhance the quality of candidates in the pipeline and new hires,” said Authoria Chairman and CEO Tod Loofbourrow.  “The key to gaining control of quality of hire is to make it easy and attractive for the hiring manager to be an active participant in the recruiting process, and to collaborate with recruiters.  The new capabilities in Authoria Recruiting 2007 directly support that collaboration, and – through integration with the performance management, succession planning, and compensation processes – extend the benefit of improved quality of hires throughout the talent-management lifecycle.”

“Technology has made great progress in improving recruiting processes and productivity,” said Lou Adler, CEO of The Adler Group.  “Authoria has developed some new ideas in this area that are worthy of serious evaluation.  I am especially encouraged by the great strides the company has made in focusing on the critical role hiring managers play in the process.”

A Positive Impact on Improving “Quality of Hire”

A recent survey conducted by Authoria showed that 67 percent of businesses are struggling to measure the effectiveness of recruiting, with 69 percent of respondents citing improvement in measuring “quality of hire” as a key imperative.  In defining the roadblocks to successfully measuring “quality of hire,” 60 percent graded the collaboration between their hiring managers and recruiters as less than effective.  Until now, recruiting technology that directly addresses these issues has been substantially lacking.

“Regis Corporation is a global leader in salons and hair-restoration centers, with 11,000 locations and such well-known brands as Supercuts and MasterCuts,” said Karen Woodson, Director of Talent Management, Regis Corporation.  “Coupled with our phenomenal growth, we faced challenges in finding and attracting top talent.  Our costs were high, it was taking too long, and we had no way to measure the quality of hire.”

“Leveraging Authoria Recruiting, we’ve substantially improved the quality of the new hires we bring into the company,” Woodson continued.  “We also cut our time-to-hire in half, and saved over $500,000 in fees in just seven months.  Now, we’re linking our recruiting implementation with Authoria Performance, so we can track the success of those new hires as they move through the organization; and with Authoria Succession, so we can identify and develop our next generation of leaders.”

Authoria Recruiting 2007 includes all the standard features expected of an applicant tracking system (ATS), to improve recruiting efficiency.  By incorporating new features built on Authoria’s innovative Positive Impact™ technology, though, the solution far exceeds traditional approaches.  The Positive Impact technology underlies the product’s user interface, content, and workflow, and supports Authoria’s unique emphasis on enhancing quality of hire: 

• Positive Impact™ Organization Charts – Actionable organization charts provide hiring managers with a familiar and intuitive means to access all the functionality they need to participate in the recruiting process.  From the Positive Impact Organization Chart, managers can view all open positions, open new requisitions, specify job descriptions and competencies, review candidates, and perform all other tasks related to recruiting.
  
  
• Positive Impact™ Ratings – Authoria Recruiting 2007 provides a mechanism for hiring managers to give quick feedback to recruiters, ranking candidates on a 1-5 star scale.  This gives recruiters valuable insight into the quality of candidates already in the pipeline, and enables them to focus on the top candidates.
  
  
• Positive Impact™ Analytics – Powerful, in-context analytics and key performance indicators measure the quality of talent hired and the effectiveness of talent sources, as well as the efficiency of the recruiting process.
  
  
• Positive Impact™ Coaching – In-context coaching provides hiring managers with just-in-time support, drawing from Authoria’s knowledge of best practices in preparing job descriptions, developing prescreening questions, managing interviews, and other recruiting activities.
  
  
• Positive Impact™ Search – Through advanced search capabilities, hiring managers can quickly scan the organization’s talent community, including external and internal candidates, to find candidates who match specific criteria for current openings.

Authoria Recruiting meets the needs of millions of recruiters, hiring managers, and candidates for many of the world’s largest enterprises.

About Authoria
Authoria® is the leading provider of integrated talent management solutions, helping employers increase the productivity of their workforce in driving their business strategy forward.  Authoria’s products have been awarded Top Product of the Year by Human Resource Executive Magazine six times, more than any vendor in the history of HR technology.  Authoria® 2007 includes recruiting, performance management, compensation management, succession planning, and benefit and policy communication, while providing just-in-time knowledge and coaching for managers and employees.  Authoria’s award-winning solutions have proven successful for more than 300 large employers, representing more than 10 million employees.  Customer companies include Boeing, Pfizer, Reuters, and Unocal.