SANTA CRUZ, CA Apr 11, 2001 MagnaWare Inc. today announced the immediate availability of JobPortal, a software solution that automatically synchronizes job requisitions between human resource management systems (HRMS) and external company job boards and provides a full set of search and application tools for candidates. JobPortal is the first product of its kind designed specifically to add value to HRMS installations. By integrating directly with the PeopleSoft (NASDAQ: PSFT) HRMS, for instance, JobPortal helps organizations attract and hire the most qualified candidates in the shortest possible time and reduces the burden on their IT and web teams. Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), and SAP (NYSE:SAP) customers can also take full advantage of the benefits of JobPortal. Complementing an HRMS with JobPortal saves time and money, streamlines the recruiting process and further leverages a company's HRMS investment.
Today, many organizations rely on their IT or web team to manually update their external web site each time a job requisition is created, modified or removed in the HRMS. The process places an extra burden on the technical teams and job postings can take days or even weeks to be posted. These inefficiencies cost the organization time and money and increase the time to hire candidates. JobPortal solves the problems of traditional career pages by providing a fully automated job board that leverages an existing HRMS. Technical resources are freed for other tasks and the time for changes to appear on the site are minimized.
"MagnaWare's mission is to enhance the value of HRMS installations by enabling more efficient and effective work processes," explains Jo Peleus, CEO of MagnaWare. "JobPortal is a perfect example of how MagnaWare does this by seamlessly integrating with PeopleSoft, Oracle and SAP HRMS installations to automate the employment section of corporate web sites."
JobPortal provides a complete job board solution. In addition to the automatic posting of positions, a range of tools are available for candidates. Candidates can easily search for open positions, submit their resumes and simultaneously apply for multiple positions. JobPortal includes a flexible profiling engine to collect job-specific information from candidates and will automatically e-mail candidates when appropriate new jobs are posted. Recruiters and hiring managers are automatically notified of qualified applicants when used with MagnaWare Capture.
One of the first installations of MagnaWare JobPortal is at the Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNS). VNS is the largest not-for-profit home health care agency in the nation. Last year alone, VNS made over 6 million home visits to more than 116,000 patients. The successful VNS implementation was conducted by Acuent Inc., experts in ERP implementation and e-business integration.
"Recruiting and Retraining a staff of highly-skilled health care professionals is essential to the delivery of in-home health care services to our community," said John Wilson, HRIS Manager at VNS. "MagnaWare JobPortal will allow VNS to quickly post open positions to our corporate website and capture resumes for, and information about, the growing number of healthcare professionals who are turning to the internet to find new career opportunities. We hope that JobPortal will speed our hiring process and form the keystone of our Internet recruiting strategy."
"Over the past year, we've noticed that the trend toward Web-enabled enterprise solutions has grown steadily. An increasing number of our customers have asked us to help them link their back-office applications with their front-end Web sites," said Jeff Feakes, director of strategic development and alliances at Acuent. "The MagnaWare solutions, including JobPortal, allow our customers to make more effective use of their ERP systems to improve their recruiting productivity. The time and cost savings alone can justify the use of MagnaWare applications."
MagnaWare JobPortal is available for immediate installation. For more information please visit www.magnaware.com.
About MagnaWare
MagnaWare, Inc. is a leading provider of intelligent recruiting solutions that enable employers to efficiently attract and hire qualified job applicants. MagnaWare solutions use Internet technologies to extend the functionality of the leading HRMS/ERP providers including PeopleSoft, Oracle, SAP, Recruitsoft and others. Magnaware solutions are fully scalable with current installations processing from 12,000 to over 500,000 resumes per year. Only MagnaWare addresses the needs of multinational companies with support for 117 Roman and Asian languages. Magnaware's satisfied customers include Hewlett-Packard, Agilent Technologies, Levi Strauss & Company and Mellon Financial Corporation. MagnaWare is a privately held corporation with headquarters in Santa Cruz, California and European headquarters in London, England.
About Acuent
Acuent Inc., based in Parsippany, N.J., provides integrated business and technology solutions for Fortune 1000 companies, institutions of higher education and the public sector. The company has more than 400 customers, including Alliant Foodservice, Boeing, City of Milwaukee, Corcentric, Creative Planet, Intermedia Communications, Soka University of America, and the U.S. Army. Acuent has 500 employees and offices throughout the United States. Further information about Acuent can be found at www.acuent.com.
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