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Authoria Recruiting Advances State of the Art in Employers’ Drive for “Quality of Hire”

New Capabilities Make Recruiters, Hiring Managers, Other Participants More Effective in Finding, Attracting, and Retaining Best-Fit Talent

Chicago, IL – October 9, 2007 – 

At the HR Technology Conference & Expo, Authoria, Inc., the leader in integrated talent management solutions, today introduced a new version of Authoria Recruiting. The new release improves upon Authoria’s ground-breaking innovations in tracking and measuring Quality of Hire, by empowering hiring managers and recruiters to better define hiring requirements and by extending the hiring process to include participants who don’t use a dedicated recruiting solution.

The new Authoria Recruiting is a core component of Authoria Talent Management, the industry-leading suite of integrated talent-management products for recruiting, performance management, compensation, succession planning, and benefit/policy communications.

“Authoria’s innovations in Quality of Hire have been a giant step forward, in terms of helping employers maximize the effectiveness of their hiring process.... This new version of Authoria Recruiting has raised the bar even higher, and we look forward to taking advantage of the new capabilities as part of our strategic emphasis on managing talent.”

– Kimia Watton, Vice President of Recruiting, Aon Corporation

The major areas of enhancement in Authoria Recruiting include:

• Positive Impact™ Email Forms – Leveraging the most popular application for business professionals, Email, Authoria Recruiting now makes it possible to perform key hiring tasks -- such as approval of draft requisitions, feedback from interviewers, and approval of job offers – securely within Email, yet capture the results within the recruiting application. This gives all participants in the process the flexibility to accomplish hiring tasks within their familiar Email environment, including Microsoft Outlook and BlackBerry.
• Enhanced Job Model – Authoria Recruiting now gives hiring managers access to job descriptions that are much more detailed and up-to-date than those provided by an ERP system. These enhanced job descriptions include pre-screening questions that can be created by the employer’s HR organization, or based on data from specialist providers. Hiring managers can then tailor the requirements to reflect the needs of a specific department or location. Since the hiring manager is not starting from scratch or cutting-and-pasting from an outdated description, he or she can more clearly specify the requirements for the job, which in turn improves the recruiter’s likelihood of finding “best-fit” candidates.
• Requisition Creation Wizard – To kick-start the hiring cycle, this new wizard provides hiring managers with a simple, three-step process for creating a requisition.

 

“Authoria’s innovations in Quality of Hire have been a giant step forward, in terms of helping employers maximize the effectiveness of their hiring process,” said Kimia Watton, Vice President of Recruiting at Aon Corporation. “This new version of Authoria Recruiting has raised the bar even higher, and we look forward to taking advantage of the new capabilities as part of our strategic emphasis on managing talent.”

“Best-fit talent can’t be found in a resume,” said Tod Loofbourrow, Authoria Chairman and CEO. “It requires active collaboration among recruiters, hiring managers, and everyone else involved in the hiring process. By opening up this process to participants who live in Email all day, and helping hiring managers and recruiters better define what they’re searching for, Authoria Recruiting streamlines the path to higher-quality hires, and helps employers ‘make talent count’.”

The new features in Authoria Recruiting can be seen at the conference’s Integrated Performance & Recruiting Shootout, Thursday October 11 at 11:00 a.m. (Central time); and in the Authoria booth, #412, at the HR Technology Expo. The new Authoria Recruiting will be delivered to customers, via Authoria’s on-demand delivery model, later this month.

About Authoria
Authoria® helps the world’s most competitive employers achieve superior business results, by optimizing the way they recruit, develop, compensate, retain, and engage top talent. Designed for business managers as well as HR professionals, the company’s integrated talent management (ITM) solutions enable more effective recruiting, performance management, compensation management, and succession planning across an organization. Authoria serves more than 300 large organizations and 4 million managers and employees with our on-demand Internet-based solutions. Customer companies include Aetna, Boeing, and Reuters.