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SilkRoad OpenHire Gains Popularity Among Healthcare and Life Sciences Companies; OpenHire Applicant Tracking System Streamlines Hiring and Drives Down Recruiting CostsWINSTON-SALEM, N.C. --(Business Wire)-- July 18, 2005 -- SilkRoad technology inc., the leading provider of enterprise-class, easy-to-use content management and collaboration software, today announced the rapid adoption of its OpenHire Applicant Tracking System among healthcare and life sciences organizations looking to streamline their hiring processes. Using the OpenHire Applicant Tracking System, recruiters gain instant access to the information they need to make fast, informed recruiting decisions. Resumes from various sources are accessible via the web through one central interface, simplifying the recruiting and resource management process. OpenHire's proprietary technology integrates with email, fax, online job boards, corporate job sites, and internal Intranets, eliminating the time and cost of importing resumes into a database. OpenHire has significantly reduced cost-per-hire while improving efficiency at numerous organizations. It has gained popularity among health care and life sciences organizations focused on optimizing HR activities. For example: Colorcon, a division of Berwind Pharmaceutical Services, Inc., manufactures specialty chemicals for the pharmaceutical industry. Recruiting is often a challenge in their niche market. The company now uses OpenHire for true applicant tracking. Intuitive Surgical, a developer of operative surgical robotics, evaluated numerous vendors, and selected OpenHire. Intuitive anticipates immediate utilization of the automated resume retrieval function. Perrigo Company, a provider of generic pharmaceuticals, selected the OpenHire Applicant Tracking System based on its intuitive user interface and the company's recruiting expertise. Perrigo plans to roll out OpenHire software in kiosks that will help automate the internal applicant process. Dendrite International provides diversified sales, marketing, clinical and compliance solutions to the global life sciences and pharmaceutical industry. Using OpenHire, they are able to process resumes automatically in real time. These companies join a prestigious group of life sciences organizations that are currently leveraging OpenHire to manage their recruiting processes. Some of these clients include Smith & Nephew, Orthofix, GEHA, Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare, Premier Healthcare and SBLI. "We chose OpenHire over other competitive solutions we evaluated because it fit our needs best, ensured a fast deployment and provided an easy-user interface for our staff, which was previously unfamiliar with applicant tracking systems," said Michele Farhat, Corporate Recruiter at Perrigo Company. "With OpenHire we were up and running in as little as five weeks and now have a much more streamlined and organized system for tracking and placing new employees, saving our company time and ensuring greater productivity for the business as a whole." About SilkRoad www.SilkRoadtech.com. |
