TalentDrive and SmashFly Announce Recruitment Marketing Technology Partnership

Chicago, IL and Stow, MA (Vocus/PRWEB ) May 11, 2010 -- TalentDrive, the creator of the innovative on-demand resume sourcing technology, TalentFilter, today announced a partnership with SmashFly Technologies, provider of the recruitment marketing platform, WildFire. This partnership brings the resume sourcing power of TalentFilter to SmashFly’s centralized recruitment marketing platform, connecting users with qualified talent from one location.

During a shifting hiring environment, marketing the right message to the right candidates is essential for cost-effectively targeting talent. Through seamless integration, these recruitment-centric technology providers aligned to create a new approach to traditional sourcing and marketing. Users are now able to source thousands of paid and free job boards, social media sites, alumni networks, niche resume databases and the open web for new candidates, all from one location. With over 77.7 Million resumes online and over 50,000 global resume locations, this innovative approach to recruiting allows users to leverage the wealth of talent online.

SmashFly users now have access to both advanced resume sourcing and proactive recruitment marketing tools. Using sophisticated scoring and ranking, resumes are matched directly to the users’ job description. Through proactive recruitment marketing, interested, qualified candidates receive auto-emails, driving them to apply for the open position on the user’s career site. This unique product brings users a solution to a common problem—how to filter through the mass of resumes online to effectively reach the talent they need. This hybrid recruitment marketing and advanced sourcing solution is in “app” available through SmashFly’s recruitment marketing platform, WildFire.

“Every day we work to help our clients enhance their employment brand. If we can provide a solution that is “out-of-the-box” and helps them connect with higher quality candidates that fit their individual needs, in half the time, we consider our work a success. Aligned with our mission, we have brought to market an innovative recruitment marketing and sourcing solution that we are anxious to introduce to our clients,” said Mike Hennessy, founder and CEO of SmashFly Technologies.

“The opportunity to integrate our sourcing technology and develop a new, creative application for our tool with SmashFly is exciting. SmashFly shares our passion for innovation and value for marketing in the recruitment process—we are pleased to be able to bring our sourcing capability to an already robust recruitment platform. We look forward to continued innovation with our new partner, SmashFly,” said Sean Bisceglia, CEO TalentDrive.

About TalentDrive

TalentDrive has released the industry’s most innovative SaaS sourcing solution, TalentFilter. Over 55 global companies have helped us develop one of the most easy to use, on-demand, talent sourcing tools on the market. As a subscriber, our recruitment technology sweeps and unifies thousands of paid and free resume databases in one location. TalentFilter then matches, hierarchies the results, and provides contact through auto scheduling. Through direct users and our API Partner network, over 40,000 users have access to our technology. TalentFilter is proud to serve the United States, Europe, and The Pacific Rim. One search, one location, one technology. Thousands of sources. For more information, visit www.talentdrive.com.

About SmashFly Technologies

SmashFly Technologies set out to help companies Recruit Differently. Its flagship product WildFire enables businesses to simplify, automate, and harness their recruitment marketing in one integrated platform. WildFire is an enterprise recruitment marketing platform that delivers the same level of sophistication and functionality to recruitment marketing that companies have long enjoyed with talent management solutions. With this unique application, employers can deliver sophisticated recruitment marketing via rich media content, concurrently post jobs to multiple boards, and discover ways to improve response rates. Businesses around the globe are using WildFire to help transform their recruitment efforts from a job posting function to a strategic recruitment marketing role. For more information, visit SmashFly.com (http://www.smashfly.com) or call 1-888-282-3092.