PORTLAND, Ore. – May 24, 2005 – Unicru®, Inc. today announced that Hastings Entertainment, Inc. (Nasdaq: HAST), a leading multimedia entertainment superstore retailer, has selected Unicru in an effort to improve operational efficiencies and increase consistency of the company’s hiring process. At Hastings, honesty, integrity, trust, respect and teamwork are the cornerstones of personal and professional growth. Unicru will help promote this message throughout Hastings’ 152 superstores by identifying only the best-fit candidates for hire.
“We looked at a number of hiring management system providers but quickly realized Unicru was clearly the leader in this industry,” said Dave Moffatt, vice president of human resources at Hastings. “Based on the attributes of its solution, the reputation of the company and the number of successful past deployments, we’re confident that we’ll see outstanding operational improvements. We’re satisfied with our selection of Unicru.”
Unicru will allow Hastings to lower the company’s hiring and labor costs by presenting only the best candidates to hiring management. Unicru also assists in streamlining tax credit capture, and minimizing the payment of non-qualifying unemployment claims, among other benefits. Hastings has implemented Unicru’s customer service, dependability and management assessments that focus on the key personality traits and skills associated with job success in the company’s sales positions.
“Unicru’s insight into the make-up of a quality, skilled candidate has enabled Hastings to remain at the top of its competitive game,” said Chris Marsh, president and CEO of Unicru Inc. “With our selection science and reporting capabilities, Hastings has a leg up on identifying those typically hard to find employees; those with the right skills, who stay longer and contribute to better business performance. Going one step further, the retailer can then capitalize on this by continuously finding more employees just like their best.”