Talent Technology
Talent Technology Corp. is a Software company located in Richmond, British Columbia that develops recruiting and hiring software for recruiting firms, staffing companies, job boards, executive search firms, and corporate HR departments. As of 2006, Talent Technology employed 105 people in Canada and the US.
History
Talent Technology Corp. is a privately held company that was co-founded by Jade Bourelle in 1999.1 Before founding Talent Technology, Jade was an executive search consultant and the founder of Teleskill Human Resource Solutions, a telecommunications recruitment firm.2
Products
Talent Technology has two product lines: HireDesk and Resume Mirror.
HireDesk in an on-demand applicant tracking system. There are two versions: HireDesk Corporate for small to mid-sized companies, and HireDesk Staffing for recruiting firms. Functionality includes candidate sourcing, job/requisition management, candidate communications, sales automation, and reporting.
The Resume Mirror product line consists of component technology that can be added on or embedded within corporate ERP systems and large recruiting or applicant tracking systems. The technology integrates with Oracle e-Recruitment, PeopleSoft Talent Acquisition Manager, and SAP e-Recruiting. There are currently two Resume Mirror products: Extraction and Search. The Extraction product functionality includes resume parsing and data extraction and resume processing. Search functionality is a conceptual search technology based on Latent Semantic Analysis.
Competition
Talent Technology Corp. competes in the recruiting and staffing software industry. Other companies in this industry include HRsmart, Bullhorn, PageUp People, Taleo, Main Sequence Technologies, Burning Glass and Hireability.
Partnerships
Talent Technology partners with organizations in the human resource management technology and services industry. Strategic partners include Microsoft, Oracle Corporation, and SAP. Industry alliances include the American Staffing Association, the Association of Executive Search Consultants, , Blue StepsHR.com, HR-XML Consortium, The Human Capital Institute, the Recruitment Process Outsourcing Association, and the Society for Human Resource Management.
Accomplishments
- Listed #201 in Backbone Magazine and Branham Group’s Top 300 Canadian Tech Companies in 2007
- Ranked #10 in Business in Vancouver’s Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies in 2007
- Listed in Workforce Magazine’s Hot List of applicant tracking system software products in 2007
- Named finalist in the Best Software as a Service and Best Human Resources Solution in 2007 by the Software & Information Industry Association
- President and CEO Jade Bourelle ranked Business in Vancouver’s Top 40 under 40 in 2006
- Received Human Resource Executive Award for Top HR Product in 2006
- Received Human Resource Executive Award for Top Ten Best Human Resource Product in 2004