Kenexa's solution for high-volume recruiting
By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 13 October 2004, 19:30 IST
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HYDERABAD: Kenexa, a global leader in comprehensive human resource solutions, today announced Kenexa StoreFront, the Company’s new applicant tracking solution designed from the ground up to support high-volume recruiting of hourly employees for retail environments. Presented via an in-store kiosk and Web-based solution, which are linked on the back end, Kenexa StoreFront streamlines recruitment by presenting only qualified candidates to retail hiring managers, giving them more time to focus on customer service and store operations. Kenexa StoreFront provides the necessary staffing functionality and workflow, including enabling hiring managers to manage and post jobs, schedule interviews, download a new hire packet and also offers interview suggestions and questions. It presents a vehicle for managers to electronically hire and reject candidates and offers extensive recruiting and hiring reporting. And because Kenexa StoreFront has an easy-to- use interface and intuitive technology that is configurable to an organization's hiring model, candidates are processed quickly and easily, reducing the cost and time per hire. “Hiring managers at retail stores are continuously in search of new talent, often due to high turnover or seasonal staffing needs,” said Kenexa’s CEO Rudy Karsan. “As a result, these managers are faced with bringing on new talent in a short amount of time, a task which traditionally proved challenging and required that they sift through a pile of applications. Without technology to automate the process, hiring just one candidate could take weeks to complete. Now, with Kenexa StoreFront, candidates can be screened, interviewed and hired in 20 minutes.” Candidates applying via the Kenexa StoreFront kiosk are pre-screened, and once qualified, are instructed to immediately meet with the hiring manager for an in-person interview. This approach provides an opportunity for viable talent to be considered instantly. Applicants applying online remotely are also pre-screened and after they meet the initial criteria are able to schedule their own in-person interview online. Karsan added, “Kenexa StoreFront represents another product in Kenexa’s growing family of applicant tracking solutions that are designed to meet our customers’ hiring needs. In the retail environment, candidates typically seek jobs in close proximity to where they live and want to be hired quickly, otherwise they may disengage and seek employment elsewhere. Kenexa StoreFront addresses that unique hiring model by enabling applicants to be pre-screened right away and move quickly through the interview and hiring process.

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