Wayland MA – November 17, 2006 - Softscape, the industry pioneer in innovative people management, today announced its next generation hiring management system designed to offer customers unprecedented flexibility to manage every aspect of hiring. The application, which is fully integrated into the company’s Softscape Apex human capital management (HCM) platform, offers customers a new level of configurability to match their existing recruiting and hiring processes. New configuration options span workflows, menus, forms, appearance, and security for requisition management, approvals, job postings, referral tracking, job profile templates, skill assessments, evaluation criteria, offer management, and localization. Hiring Management, like all Softscape products can be deployed On-Demand, On-Premise, or purchased and hosted by Softscape.
Softscape’s Hiring Management module also goes further than typical recruiting systems by helping organizations more clearly define what it takes to be successful in any given role. At the core of the Hiring Management module is Softscape’s unique Job Profiler, which provides easy-to-use wizards that help managers define very detailed selection criteria, beyond the requisition and job description. Detailed criteria include identifying key competencies, critical experiences, behaviors, professional skills, goals to be achieved, key performance indicators (KPIs) to be measured, and organizational and cultural fit. This new level of job profiling gets to the heart of essential criteria and enables organizations to better match candidates to jobs.
· Job Profiler
Defines top performer criteria and selection criteria across a full spectrum of requirements
· Requisition Management
Configurable workflow management for the creation and approval of job orders
· Advanced Skill Search
Search across existing employees, as well as current candidates, from single database
· Job Posting
Streamlines the posting to third party job boards
· Applicant Pre-screening & Tracking
Enables recruiters and hiring managers to filter applicants and prioritize top candidates
· Interview Scheduling
Enables recruiters and hiring managers to schedule interviewing teams, and even coordinate specific question focus for each interviewer
· Interview Questions
Hundreds of behavioral-based interviewing questions to prepare interviewers before meeting candidates
· Candidate Assessments
Provides consistent evaluation format to more clearly compare candidates specifically to job profile and selection criteria
· Multi-interviewer Feedback
Gathers results from multiple interviewers and provides comprehensive reporting for complete candidate evaluation
The Hiring Management module is also inherently linked with other modules across the Softscape Apex HCM platform including performance management, goal management, competency management, succession planning, learning management, compensation planning, workforce planning, HR management, and workforce analytics. Customers benefit from this tight integration by enabling managers to leverage candidate assessments completed during the hiring process to define the new employee’s initial talent profile. This can reveal any skill gaps in order to prioritize development needs at on-boarding, accelerate goal setting with KPI metrics for annual performance reviews, provide the basis for future skill assessments, and measure effectiveness of the recruiting and hiring processes.
The one-to-one matching of job profile to talent profile enables:
· Employees to define and execute development plans in real-time
· Managers to validate job profiles based on both historical records and assessments of employee job performance
· Managers to effectively determine if team members can be developed to updated profiles
· Managers to improve overall hiring processes and accuracy