AB Volvo plans to boost workforce by employing the expertise of Kenexa which is a leading provider of talent acquisition and retention solutions. The Sweden-based automaker, world’s leading manufacturers of trucks, buses, construction equipment, drive systems for marine and industrial applications, and aerospace components and services, earlier announced that it has chosen Kenexa to support the global recruiting initiatives.
Kenexa, a Wayne-based company, will provide an online global recruitment management system, Kenexa Recruiter BrassRing, which will allow Volvo to enhance its ability to recruit the very best employees from a geographically diverse talent pool. Kenexa Recruiter BrassRing will support the automaker’s global recruitment process, including automating and streamlining the whole recruitment process and considerably slashing total hiring costs. These conditions are contained under the terms of the agreement of the two distinguished companies.
Troy Kanter, Kenexa's President and COO, has this to say: "In the highly competitive automotive market space, implementing Kenexa Recruiter BrassRing will help Volvo to attract, recruit and retain the very best talent in their field."
The Swedish automaker, founded in 1927, employs over 83,000 employees in 25 countries and markets its products in 185 countries. The company has already established a reputable name in the manufacture of automobiles which are equipped with quality parts like Volvo radiator. The company’s impressive business units include Volvo Trucks, Mack, Volvo Penta, Renault Trucks, Volvo Buses, Volvo Construction Equipment, Volvo Aero and Volvo Financial Services. In its 80-year history and global market penetration efforts, the units of the company have achieved outstanding worldwide brand recognition.
Kenexa Corporation, on the other hand, is a leading end-to-end provider of software, proprietary content, services and process outsourcing. Through its Recruiter BrassRing system, the company is able to manage more than 60 million candidate profiles. The company believes that talent has no limits. Hence, it endeavors to optimize human potential, increase happiness, and maximize the engagement of people by providing superior solutions for understanding, acquiring, developing and retaining talent.
Kenexa’s initiatives include applicant tracking, employment process outsourcing, employee engagement surveys, skills and behavioral assessments, performance management, structured interviews, multi-rater feedback surveys and HR Analytics. Its solutions make use of multiple sets of complex local business rules and languages within a single database. Kenexa solutions are accredited to the highest level of industry security standards. They are primarily created to enhance the efficiency of the company’s talent acquisition programs, raise employee productivity and retention, lessen costs, and perk up management decision by analyzing and shortening key HR metrics connected with employee performance.
By: Glady Reign