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Plantronics Taps Hire.com to Deliver Top Quality Candidates; Hire.com's Screening Capabilities Deliver Exceptional Experience for Candidates and Hiring Managers AUSTIN, Texas --(Business Wire)-- April 15, 2004 -- Hire.com today announced that Plantronics, a market leader in lightweight communications headsets, has taken its enterprise recruiting strategy to the next level by leveraging HireEnterprise to bolster the company's staffing and online screening processes. The Santa Cruz-based company is reducing the amount of time recruiters spend with candidates by approximately 70 percent through Hire.com's effective online screening capabilities, which enable HR staff to spend more time focusing on top quality candidates.As an organization well respected for innovation and quality within its product offerings, Plantronics carries that leadership example into its recruiting practice by applying the same quality effort throughout the company's staffing processes. With the sophisticated nature of the products Plantronics produces, there are very specific job requirements for many positions across the company. Plantronics is seeing significant success with online screening, by developing multi-dimensional qualifying questions to ensure candidates are well prepared to meet the needs of open positions. "By investing upfront and building a high quality screening process, we have impressed hiring managers and the community of potential candidates," said Layne Buckley, staffing manager at Plantronics. "We're finding that our focus on building multi-dimensional qualifying questions serves as a translation tool that in effect, gets the recruiter and the hiring manager on the same page." Across the organization, Plantronics sees between 80 and 100 resumes for a single job opening. In order to effectively respond to qualified candidates, Plantronics' staffing organization is partnering with hiring managers to create an efficient hiring process. The company holds informal workshops to engage hiring managers to educate them on qualifying questions and ensure they see the value in the process. By building relationships with candidates and having each of them go through a rich online qualifying process -- that can be tested, validated and tuned -- even the candidate community benefits. According to Buckley, "It's not unusual to hear feedback from candidates that say, regardless of whether you hire me, I feel as though you have asked all the right questions and believe I have been treated fairly in the process." "This focus on candidate service helps build loyalty among employees and potential employees," notes industry expert Kevin Wheeler, president of Global Learning Resources Inc. "Recruiters must find creative and interactive ways to get the information they need without creating pain and frustration for candidates. Tools to effectively and efficiently screen candidates online for skills, interest and ability are critical to the success of today's recruiters." "Plantronics has shown a clear commitment to growing their company and recruiting the world's top talent through their focus on high quality hiring practices," said Larry Orecklin, CEO of Hire.com. "As candidates look to potential employers, they should seek out organizations like Plantronics that take time to build relationships with prospects, and see the staffing process as a key step to business success. Hire.com customers like Plantronics represent the latest in thought-leadership and recruiting strategies that take their companies to the next level." About Hire.com Hire.com is a leading provider of Enterprise Recruiting solutions enabling businesses worldwide to hire and retain top-quality talent faster than any other solution in the market. Global 2000 companies, including BP, Roche Diagnostics, Prudential, Reuters, Kaiser and SITA have invested in Hire.com's unique modular system to achieve competitive advantage today and to prepare for their future talent management needs. HireEnterprise is a two-time award-winning product as named by HR Executive Magazine's Top 10 HR products of the year. Customers named Hire.com "Best in Customer Service" in ERE's 2002 and 2003 Annual Industry Surveys. More information on Hire.com and its proven solutions can be found at the Hire.com Web site at http://www.hire.com/ or by calling (800) 953-HIRE (953-4473). |
