MrTed Ltd., the global leader of Talent Acquisition Solutions, is offering a series of webinars designed to provide a glimpse of the unprecedented power and flexibility of its latest release, MrTedTalentLink Version 9, also known a Cloud 9. To learn more about the revolutionary software and how it will change the future of global talent acquisition, make plans today to attend one of our complimentary webinars introducing Cloud 9 at a time convenient for you.

“Cloud computing is a phrase being thrown around a lot today, but not everyone realizes how this technology will completely change the game in talent acquisition software,” said Jerome Ternynck, Chief Executive Officer of MrTed. “MrTed is offering these webinars to clearly explain the magnitude of this change and how Cloud 9 will bring the power and flexibility of cloud computing to talent acquisition software.”

With Cloud 9, users are completely free to personalize their desktop to fit their needs, thanks to: 

• Advanced cloud computing technology: This open architecture makes it fast and easy to connect with other talent management and HR applications, so users get the full benefit of cloud computing on their desktop. Think iGoogle.

• A world of apps: Our portable application modules allow clients to turn on, turn off, or completely configure to create a truly personalized experience that meets their individual needs and preferences.

• A dynamic user interface: Users are free to configure and rearrange apps in order to create a personalized workspace, rather than jumping from screen to screen or module to module.

“The on-demand user interface makes it easy for recruiters to personalize their own workspaces, and the open architecture makes it fast and easy to connect with other talent management and HR applications,” said Ternynck. “Users get the full benefit of cloud computing on their desktop. For talent acquisition software, Cloud 9 is the ultimate personalized recruitment platform.”

Make plans today to get your sneak preview at a time that works for you to witness first-hand the future of global talent acquisition.

MrTed announced today that users reaction to the newest release of its flagship product has been overwhelmingly favorable, particularly for the way MrTedTalentLink Version 9 – also called the Cloud 9 release – brings consumer-level friendliness to enterprise-level talent acquisition.

“This is an all-new breed of talent acquisition software, and its general release has met with a great response,” said Jerome Ternynck, CEO at MrTed. “Cloud 9 is a very special product. It transforms in the best way imaginable the user experience for an enterprise platform.”

Clients directly benefit of the advantages of the new release, MrTed has upgraded all its clients at the push of a button. Cloud 9 leverages the full potential of cloud computing. It is built on true service-oriented and open architecture, allowing for a world of application modules and an interactive, on-demand graphical user interface (GUI). The result is that Cloud 9 makes it easy for end users to personalize the solution to create the most suitable solution for their business.

“MrTed had said this version of MrTedTalentLink would be user-friendly, and it really is,” said Chris Herrmannsen, Group Managing Director of Ochre House. “It’s intuitive and easy to learn. Despite how robust and flexible the new design is, we didn’t need any training to start using the new features.  We can already see how this will truly enhance our recruitment service delivery to our end clients and will make the collaboration with our client managers easier’’

The formal release of Cloud 9 follows major recognition of the system in its beta stages by respected industry analysts who specifically cited the new version’s vision and potential.

Leading research and advisory consulting firm Bersin & Associates, in its September 2009 assessment of the state of the talent acquisition market, said MrTedTalentLink Cloud 9 “brings the next generation Talent Acquisition Solution towards the market, (as it) will fully embrace the cloud computing technology and enhance its partnerships.”

LONDON, February 23, 2010 – MrTed Ltd, the global leader of Talent Acquisition Solutions, exceeded analyst expectations for 2009 by thriving despite the worst global recession in a generation.  While other human capital software and services providers struggled to match their performance from previous years, MrTed rocketed to global distinction behind strong revenue, profitability and growth in international market share.  The company also expanded into significant new lines of business, released a much-anticipated new version of their flagship global talent acquisition solution, MrTedTalentLink and launched a category-killing, free and easy applicant tracking system.

“2009 was a year to remember,” said Jerome Ternynck, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of MrTed, “both for the tremendous challenges posed by the global economic recession and for MrTed’s ability to prosper during the toughest of times.  Every successful company owes a debt of gratitude to its clients.  And so I express my humble and heart-felt appreciation to our customers, old and new, who have brought us to this position of global talent acquisition leadership.”

MrTed’s banner year was punctuated by several notable achievements.  First of all, the company earned a profit for the 6^th straight year, despite strong cost pressures and economic headwinds. Growth and profitability were driven by the acquisition of major new clients on every continent, and across multiple industries, including the world’s largest deployment in ever, the Ministry of HR in China.

MrTed also released a much-anticipated new version of their global talent acquisition solution, MrTedTalentLink.  The new release, dubbed “Cloud 9” has earned top marks from industry analysts like Gartner Group (who positioned MrTed in the “Visionaries” quadrant of the 2009 Magic Quadrant for e-Recruitment Software) and Bersin & Associates because of the solution’s advanced cloud architecture, application portability and dynamic user interface. 

Perhaps the most surprising success for MrTed was the launch of their free, feature-rich Applicant Tracking System (ATS) for recruiters in companies with as many as 2,500 employees.  SmartRecruiters catalyzed a revolution in the mid-market, attracting more than 3,000 clients in less than 6-months. Despite the fact that SmartRecruiters is still in beta, the solution is in daily use across thousands of companies, more than 30 industries, and in multiple countries. Leveraging an open SaaS model, solution enhancements and new features are driven entirely by the community of users. Industry experts expect SmartRecruiters to edge out most fee-based applicant tracking systems in the SMB market segment over the next 3 years.

“Based on our performance during the global economic crisis, it will be very interesting to see how we perform as the economy gradually recovers in 2010,” said Mr. Ternynck.  “My prediction is that we will beat expectations once more.” 

MrTed is already off to a brilliant start with major new International clients including the French Social Security, who is working with MrTed to complete the largest implementation of a talent acquisition solution in French government history. 

More information about MrTed is available at www.mrted.com

MrTed Ltd, the global leader of Talent Acquisition Solutions, today announced it is a founding launch partner of EuroCloud, Europe’s new cloud computing network of organizations created to further the SaaS revolution.

“With our strong belief in leveraging cloud computing to design enterprise-level talent acquisition solutions that are also consumer-friendly and easily personalized, we are excited to be involved in a partnership and community like EuroCloud to promote and encourage greater development and use of Software as a Service and Enterprise Cloud services and applications across Europe”, said Jerome Ternynck, CEO for MrTed.

EuroCloud was and is conceived by Pierre-José Billotte, President and Founder of the French ASP Forum, with a team of SaaS and cloud computing players from the UK, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Spain, to gather together leading SaaS vendors, enablers, integrators and industry experts to share best practices and expand business across the continent.
“The cloud model stands for global reach, ecosystem partnerships and integration, and my goal in developing EuroCloud is to encourage SaaS and cloud services and applications across Europe, and to advance their use,” Billotte said.

The leading research and advisory consulting firm Bersin & Associates said in its September, 2009, assessment1 of the state of the talent acquisition market that MrTedTalentLink Cloud 9 “brings the next generation Talent Acquisition Solution towards the market, (as it) will fully embrace the cloud computing technology and enhance its partnerships.”

“The MrTedTalentLink Cloud9 release will see general availability on December 31, letting users kick off the New Year in style with the world’s most advanced talent acquisition software platform,” Ternynck said.

“Organisations throughout Europe are rapidly moving toward cloud computing solutions to expand business, eliminate overly expensive and unfriendly software that isn’t personalized, doesn’t respond quickly enough to changing business demands and is simply outmoded,” Ternynck said. “We are eager to see organizations like EuroCloud propel greater adoption of models of cloud computing that truly represent the next generation.”

EuroCloud’s launch was supported by major companies in Europe and the United States that, like MrTed, do business in multiple international markets, and were selected to join EuroCloud based on the European scope of their business. In addition to MrTed, European Launch Promoters (ELP) include Amazon Web Services, McAfee, Microsoft Corp., Salesforce.com and others. For more information visit: www.eurocloud.org.

For more information about MrTed, visit our website at www.mrted.com.

LONDON, December 10, 2009 – MrTed today announced that the latest iteration of its flagship product – MrTedTalentLink v9 – will reach general availability on December 31, enabling users to kick-off the New Year in style with the world’s most advanced talent acquisition software platform.

For 10 years MrTed has been at the forefront of innovation in the cloud computing business, and MrTedTalentLink 9 continues the tradition. For the first time users can completely customize the MrTedTalentLink platform according to their unique needs and preferences – a significant achievement that has broad implications in terms of product usability and return on investment – and the architecture and user interface have been redesigned per the latest cloud computing protocols. The new platform reflects the desires of the user community with whom MrTed worked closely for three years to ensure the most flexible, enjoyable talent acquisition experience possible.

Introducing MrTedTalentLink 9
―This is an all-new breed of talent acquisition software that we believe users are absolutely going to love,‖ said Jerome Ternynck, CEO at MrTed. ―We have gone to great lengths to make Cloud 9 a special product that fundamentally changes the way recruiters interact with their talent acquisition platform. The response from early adopters has been tremendously positive. I’m happy to say that MrTed has once again set the standard for talent acquisition software.”

Leading research and advisory consulting firm Bersin & Associates, in their September 2009 assessment1 of the state of the talent acquisition market said MrTedTalentLink Cloud 9 ―brings the next generation Talent Acquisition Solution towards the market, (as it) will fully embrace the cloud computing technology and enhance its partnerships.”

Key Enhancements and Benefits
Advanced cloud computing technology – MrTedTalentLink 9’s new architecture is the result of over three years of research by MrTed. It features a configurable candidate database that can easily integrate data from any source, an independent business logic layer exposed through web services,
1 ―Talent Acquisition Systems 2010: Facts, Practical Analysis, Trends, and Provider Profiles‖, Madeline Laurano, Principal Analyst, September 2009
and an on-demand user interface so recruiters can customize their own workspaces. This open architecture makes it fast and easy to connect with other talent management and HR applications, so users get the full benefit of cloud computing on their desktop.

A world of apps – MrTedTalentLink 9 presents business processes as portable application modules that users can turn on, turn off, or customize to create a truly personalized experience. Cloud 9 includes apps for all major business processes, including internal and external recruitment, outplacement, contingent workforce management, vendor management, candidate processing, time sheeting, offer management, on-boarding and more. Apps are portable and can be used with other systems and interfaces, while external applications developed by other vendors can be integrated inside the Cloud 9 workspace. By leveraging the power of MrTed apps, users can enjoy the benefits of a personalized platform that meets their individual needs and preferences.

Dynamic user interface – MrTedTalentLink 9 users are free to configure and rearrange apps in order to create a personalized workspace and navigation experience. The dynamic interactivity of the user interface allows apps to be resized, dragged, dropped and even layered. Even though the interface processes large amounts of data, Cloud 9’s asynchronous data retrieval keeps the presentation layer running quickly and smoothly—a result that can only be described as enjoyable for the user. Users spend most of their time in a dynamic and personalized workspace, rather than jumping from screen to screen or module to module. In this way MrTedTalentLink more closely resembles a favorite website than like an enterprise software program.

―We’ve all seen or experienced enterprise software that claims to be flexible and user friendly but is not,‖ said Robert Chwastek, MrTed’s VP Product Development. ―What stands out about MrTedTalentLink 9 is the extent to which the product can be shaped to meet each user’s individual requirements. This truly is the most open enterprise software product with which I’ve seen, and that openness is key to increasing user adoption, user productivity and user enjoyment. ‖
For more information about TalentLink 9 visit www.mrted.com

MrTed Ltd, the global leader of Talent Acquisition Solutions, today announced a significant contract with Shanghai Foreign Service Company Ltd. (SFSC), one of the largest human resources service providers in China and the country’s largest provider of recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) services.

MrTed will provide technology and support for SFSC’s far-ranging and highly complex recruitment RPO services. This contract opens the door to roll out MrTedTalentLink to more than 13,000 clients across China. The contract is the second in the last quarter between MrTed and a major Chinese organization and also follows the recent release of an independent market analysis by Bersin & Associates that shows MrTed to be the leading provider of talent acquisition solutions worldwide for large employers.

Established in 1984, SFSC is a professional company in human resources service industry that provides advanced solutions for recruitment, employee dispatching, HR agency, payroll management, benefit administration, consulting and training services. With a nationwide service network, complete service products, one-up technical platform, high-level quality management and professional service teams, SFSC provides professionals with a one-stop HR outsourcing service for more than 13,000 clients and quality services for more than 350,000 employees. Currently 85 percent of the Fortune Global 500 in China use SFSC services.

“This contract with SFSC definitely solidifies our global leadership position in the RPO and human resources outsourcing space, as well as our leadership in China,” said Jerome Ternynck, CEO for MrTed. “With the introduction of MrTedTalentLink Version 9 and its cloud computing capability, our Chinese customers have the complete freedom to access and customize the information they need when and where they need it. It’s a quantum leap in terms of competitive advantage.”

Jason Xu, the General Manager of RPO business, SFSC, said the company chose MrTed because, as the recent Bersin & Associates report noted, MrTed is extremely well-suited for large companies that require systems with multiple processes and the ability to manage compliance and operations in multiple languages.

“We are also very excited about the potential for MrTedTalentLink Cloud 9, with its full embracing of cloud computing technology for RPO services and what that could mean for SFSC,” said Xu.
Today, SFSC’s customers include leading multinational companies, wholly owned foreign enterprises, joint ventures of Chinese companies and foreign companies, cooperative companies of Chinese and foreign companies, state-owned enterprises, and private businesses covering high-tech industries in communication electronics, IT, bio-technology, Internet, automotive, petrochemical, medical, financial and the fast-consumables industry.

“This is a significant and very exciting opportunity for MrTed,” said Johnny Wang, Managing Director for MrTed
China. “Our collaboration with SFSC further proves our ability to serve a global client base, and particularly highlights our understanding of the Chinese market.”

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MrTed Ltd, the leading global provider of Talent Acquisition Solutions, has entered a strategic technology partnership with Broadbean Technology, the global leader in advert distribution and response tracking technology.

The partnership will give MrTed’s customers the ability to instantly advertise positions to any job board from their familiar front office interface. This powerful combination will enable organisations to identify new recruitment channels, reduce cost per hire and build their brand across untapped communities.

Broadbean is used by hundreds of staffing companies and employers around the world to manage job posting delivery. The software helps organisations increase the effectiveness of online recruitment advertising by providing exact return on investment metrics on job board performance.

“Our goal is to provide a unified talent acquisition process for our users. Job boards are at the core of talent attraction and the Broadbean integration provides our users with a seamless link between MrTed and hundreds of advertising outlets. Broadbean’s market leading position and innovative technology made them the natural choice for this technology partnership” said Raymond van der Wal, Global Director Services MrTed.

Lee Anne Davey, Client Services Director commented “We are pleased to have this partnership in place with MrTed and it will allow clients to expand their recruitment efforts globally without the need to implement new technology. We have been working with MrTed for over 5 years and share a number of mutual clients. Both companies have invested this year to enhance the service offering and user experience by putting in place the Broadbean Hybrid integration. This strategic partnership will reinforce both parties mission to offer clients the most advanced, effective and scalable recruitment tools on the market”.

MrTed Ltd, together with TalentManagementTech.com (TMT) and Bersin & Associates today announced a free webinar to be held on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 1:00 p.m. EST / 10:00 a.m. PST.

“Enter the Choices for the Enterprise: Large Organizations Face Wide Selection of Talent Acquisition Systems” is the second installment in an ongoing series of webinars exploring the evolution of talent acquisition systems. Madeline Laurano, principal analyst at Bersin & Associates who led a recent study of talent acquisition systems, will share key findings and insight to help enterprise organizations discern the many systems at their disposal for handling talent acquisition. Attendees, who may register here, will receive a complimentary executive summary of the Bersin & Associates report, “Talent Acquisition Systems 2009: Facts, Practice Analysis, Trends and Provider Profiles.”

“During strong and weak economies alike, investment in talent acquisition systems remains a priority for best-practice companies,” said Laurano, who is responsible for Bersin and Associates’ research in talent acquisition, an area which includes workforce planning, sourcing strategies, screening and assessments, RPO, employer branding, and onboarding. Laurano has also worked as research analyst for ERE Media, the Aberdeen Group, and Linkage, Inc.

“Among the leading best-practice organizations are the largest, the enterprise players,” Laurano continued. “But they need their bearings. Choosing the best-suited solution from among a large number of talent acquisition system providers can easily overwhelm even the most seasoned, savvy human resources department. Bersin & Associates’ latest research helps guide that selection with a comprehensive review of the products, players and partnerships.”

Attendees of this talent acquisition systems webinar will have access to important findings in Bersin & Associates’ otherwise proprietary research. Innovation no longer comes at the expense of deep functionality, according to the study’s findings, which indicate that the marketplace for talent acquisition technology is teeming with this very innovation. Providers offer technology suited to just about any scenario, and the task for the enterprise has become sifting among the preponderance of choices to find the one solution that fits.