WAYNE, Pa. (November 28, 2005) - - Kenexa ® (NASDAQ: KNXA), a leading provider of talent management solutions, today announced that Troy, N.Y.-based MapInfo Corporation (NASDAQ: MAPS) has selected Kenexa Recruiter ® to automate its global recruiting process and power its online career center.
MapInfo is a global company and the leading provider of location intelligence solutions, integrating software, data and services to provide greater value from location-based information and drive more insightful decisions for businesses and government organizations around the world.
MapInfo´s Executive Vice President, Human Resources, Bert C. Tobin, said, "Our investment in Kenexa Recruiter will give us the ability to proactively expand and manage our growing global pipeline of qualified candidates. The system will help decrease hiring costs, limit turnover time, and can support our larger initiatives, such as career development and succession planning."
To select Kenexa Recruiter, MapInfo Corporation conducted a formal request for proposal (RFP) process. A team of MapInfo HR and IT resources considered a number of products and made the final choice of Kenexa Recruiter. Tobin continued, "Kenexa gave us the best options for the long-term because they can easily integrate with our PeopleSoft HRMS plus their user-friendly interface was enthusiastically received by our corporate recruiters. It can also be integrated with solutions that are critical to streamlining the recruiting process, such as background check vendors."
President of Kenexa´s Human Capital Management Division, Troy Kanter, commented, "We´re pleased to welcome MapInfo to our growing roster of Kenexa Recruiter customers. MapInfo continues to experience fast growth and Kenexa Recruiter will help them reduce their hiring costs and increase their speed to hire by automating and streamlining their entire recruitment process."
Highly configurable, Kenexa Recruiter mirrors an organization´s existing business processes instead of forcing a company to change its way of doing business. Kenexa Recruiter´s 100% Web-based architecture is delivered through Kenexa´s world-class hosting facilities or may be implemented on site. Kenexa Recruiter supports job postings to more than 1,100 free and fee-based Internet job boards and integrates with major human resource management systems as well as other Kenexa products.
About Kenexa
Kenexa Corporation (NASDAQ:KNXA) provides outsourcing, employee research and software to help organizations more effectively recruit and retain a productive workforce. Kenexa solutions include applicant tracking, employment process outsourcing, phone screening, skills and behavioral assessments, structured interviews, performance management, multi-rater feedback surveys, employee engagement surveys and HR Analytics.
Headquartered in Wayne, Pa. (outside Philadelphia), Kenexa employs more than 600 people worldwide. More information about Kenexa and its global locations can be accessed at www.kenexa.com.
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