JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (October 3, 2006) -- Vurv Technology (formerly Recruitmax), a global provider of technology and services for building great workforces, today announced the launch of Vurv Express and Vurv Now, designed to address the needs of small and medium-sized businesses. Vurv Express is a re-branded suite of products comprised of its popular Prohire recruitment product and the Performance Impact Workplace (PIW) performance management solution. Vurv Now is a new "quick-start" service offering designed to help customers facilitate rapid implementations of its enterprise talent management suite.
Vurv Express Recruitment (formerly Prohire) is a web-based recruitment and applicant tracking system designed to help HR professionals and staffing agencies attract and manage candidates, job requisitions, and employee information. Popular features include conceptual search and matching, self-service candidate career sites, assessments, EEO reporting, and complimentary job distribution to over 2,500 job boards. Vurv Express Recruitment also allows users to leverage competencies to populate job requirements, provide structured interview feedback, and calculate quality of hire measurements.
The companion offering to Vurv Express Recruitment - which can be licensed with the recruitment application or as a standalone solution - is Vurv Express Performance. Previously known as Performance Impact Workplace (PIW), Vurv acquired the product as part of its acquisition of KnowledgePoint. In addition to identifying underperformers, Vurv Express Performance helps companies boost retention and employee potential by engaging employees in the performance management process, aligning and managing goals, and by providing coaching ideas and employee development plans.
New upgrades to the product suite have enabled both products to share a common behavioral competency model so that employers can hire and interview based on the same competencies they will later use to conduct performance reviews.
Gartner Research Vice President, Jim Holincheck commented, "Competencies are an underlying foundational element in all of the applications in a talent management application suite. It is important to have a competency model that is shared and consistent across all of the applications."
Vurv Express currently has more than 600 recruitment customers and over 2,000 performance management customers, including McDonalds, Nascar, Porsche Cars North America, Barnes & Noble, Hair Club for Men & Women and Carnival Cruise Lines. For more information on Vurv Express, please visit www.vurvexpress.com.
Vurv Now offers medium-sized companies, as well as large enterprises with immediate needs, an alternative to the long and costly implementations that are common among traditional ERP and enterprise HR software implementations. Using a Rapid Implementation Methodology (RIM), u-Learning training tools from Vurv University, and a pre-configured solution with standard data, best practice examples of common workflow steps and ready-to-use templates, Vurv Now enables customers to realize a quicker ROI, while reducing upfront risks from time delays and lowering the total cost of ownership. Vurv Now solutions allow organizations to introduce change more slowly and focus on core processes first. Functionality to meet more complex needs - such as deploying additional geographies and business units - can be introduced as the need arises. Designed to ensure immediate productivity, this unique service offering helps customers address short-term recruitment and performance management pain points while providing a scalable, enterprise-class talent management solution. For more information on Vurv Now, please visit www.vurv.com/now.
Jamie Davis, Vice President of Vurv Express, shared, "Vurv Express and Vurv Now underscore our ongoing commitment to small and medium-sized businesses, both of which are rapidly growing market sectors. Companies of all sizes need to be able to successfully compete in the war for talent and these new offerings put businesses in a better position to attract and retain top performers - and they put them there fast."
About Vurv Technology
It´s all about the people!At Vurv Technology, formerly Recruitmax, we believe the fusion of individual creative energy, talent and passion with the organization´s purpose, mission and values creates an unstoppable force for success. With technology for recruitment, onboarding, performance, vendor and compensation management, Vurv is revolutionizing the way top organizations around the world invest in their people to accomplish the awesome. Feel the creative energy, talent and passion at www.vurv.com.
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