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Expanding into Asia
Given the success in Europe of recent years PeopleXS has decided to continue the current growth strategy and further develop an establishment in Asia for the "Asia Pacific" market. Singapore to be exact. Nils Frenkel has been appointed as Managing Director and is currently exploiting the market there.
Nils has brings experience in setting up new offices and doing international sales. In one of his recent roles as 'Director of Sales' at a service company he was responsible for the APAC region.
The expansion in Asia is a logical result of the path taken in earlier years. to become a global player in the field of recruitment and talent management. With our current platform, we are well placed to serve multinationals and able to also quickly roll them out and make distinction into various countries or regions by segmenting the application. Our different language modules can also be used when deploying the system in these regions.
We have great confidence in this market and the growth they are currently experiencing. Expansion in Asia will make our product and our community of users even more interesting, larger and more professional because more users will participate and contribute ideas. Customers who have an office in Asia will be contacted by us or they can contact us for their recruitment and talent management activities to professionalize it further.
Eelco
Improve your recruitment conversion
Studies from Textkernel customers show that after the implementation of CV extraction, completing the application form by candidates is improved with 80%.
We have arranged that all Peoplexs customers can get a 50% discount on the installation costs of Textkernel. On top of that, you get a Textkernel license the first 2 months for free!
If you want to make use of this offer or you would like to know more please comment on the article here or contact your implementation consultant.
This offer is valid until the 1st of March 2010.
Update after a Fast & Furious week on the new platform
This is a follow-up to the March 2009 announcement of the infrastructure upgrade.
Overall, the infrastructure upgrade was a roaring success, and customers have been raving about the speed.
Here is a quote that reached us: "is peoplexs really so fast or is it only me?"
We got a cake from Pieter Hazelhoff, PerSelectief
As predicted, unfortunately there were a couple of "hiccups" on Monday. But with a full day of "enterprise" level logs/information to analyze, our team of engineers were able to quickly troubleshoot and solve the issues. With a stable system first thing Tuesday, we are able to concentrate on the few bugs that were caused by the upgrade, and those bugs have nearly all been solved and fixed in production already.
The biggest surprise is how fast PeopleXS is now. In the announcement blog, we predicted 20% speed increase, but we have found that nearly across the board the speed improvement is 40% to 200%, and even more in isolated cases. The speed comes from new servers, new application software (ColdFusion 8 Enterprise), a new database platform (MySQL 5.1 Enterprise), and what we call "Automatic Performance Correction".
Errors, time outs, and "white screens" have also been greatly reduced in the system, and we have improved systems to log and report such problems, so that our engineers can rapidly fix them.
Thank you, everyone, for your patience and positive remarks. This new platform will now enable us to focus on developing new features, and enhancing the current user experience to allow our customers to get things done more easily and efficiently. Enjoy!
Aaron Longnion
New Managing Director in Denmark
David van der Put has been appointed as Managing Director PeopleXS Nordic.
Our team in Denmark has delivered some remarkable results in the last couple of years and has performed well in a highly competetive market.
As always at PeopleXS, we started out in Copenhagen as a "garage" business (with David as the first employee) back in 2007. Now, only two years later, we have build-up an impressive track record and are one of the main players in the Danish market. Customers love us for our flexibility and ability to deliver high quality fast.
We wish David all the best in his new position (and in the move to our new office:-)
Leo
Citius Altius Fortius
This is the credo that belongs to the Olympics. Always striving to be swifter, higher stronger in achievements. As you agree, this credo applies not only to sports. However when I was asked to write about my preparation for the Marathon, I thought about the words Citius, Altius, Fortius many times. I have been training and try to get better all the time. I have to make a confession to you: I am not a runner by birth. And still after many work outs, getting to a run takes me some energy. I am always a bit grumpy before I go. It's just not my comfort zone. Better put: I am leaving that zone entirely, once I put on those light weight shoes getting ready for that thing. Only when the first steps are completed it becomes real fun. And that is normally after 5 minutes of running or so. And the run is completed I, like all runners, relive the joy because of released endorphin.
I experienced an expected, but nice surprise some weeks ago. I wanted to run the City Pier City half marathon (21 km) in The Hague, but couldn't, because there were some other commitments I had that Saturday. Although I did some 25 workouts prior to the CPC, according to the running schedule I was still not ready to the full 21km. Two weeks before the actual CPC date, I left home for an 18km run. On half way point (Nike+ and Ipod tell you exactly when you reach it) I felt there was much more energy in my legs than only another 9km to get me home. I figured that, if I would run an extra 1,5km before returning, I would complete 21km. Not too difficult to understand, and doing it felt equally easy. So I did.
At 10,5km (and 125 meters to be exact) I returned. The run back through the dunes, with great ocean views was an easy and fun time. On the way home I realized that going the extra mile makes gives you energy! The mental realization that I would run the first ½ marathon ever in my life, fueled me with a feeling of exuberance, that made forget about sore legs, thirst or the temptation to stop and relax. I only wanted one thing: run it out!
A lesson learned was that, being at a half way point and extending a little, (for even better results) makes it relatively easy, because you only have the same predictable distance ahead of you. So getting half way is my focal point now, the rest will follow easily. That is for running.
I have been trying to apply this metaphor in other walks of life, the only difficulty is: finding an answer to the question "when am I half way?" This can apply to your business dealings, projects, relationships or even your life! No Nike/iPod available to tell you exactly where you stand in those situations! However our heart and intuition help us to discover these things. But we simply don't get exact answer on such questions. And that's only good! We better not know when some things will end. So enjoy the ride, because just like running, before you know it, it's over! Citius Altius Fortius, and...Carpe Diem!
Have an outstanding day!
Frank Oddens
Use PeopleXS for internal-external mobility
The last few months the focus has shifted from recruitment to mobility. Companies are facing major changes with workforce reduction as a result of the resession.
Did you know PeopleXS can also be used for Mobility? Companies can increase the visibility of this group of employees and forward them to other internal vacancies. The mobility process can be integrated with portals which recruitment agencies can use, and thus offer jobs. The company may also choose to pass the employee profile through the portal if it is desired that a recruitment agency should take over the entire process. The employee will, via a link in an email or a portal login, be able to create a profile and indicate what positions are of interest.
Like all PeopleXS functionality, mobility can be custom made to adapt to your needs.
Leo
PeopleXS goes blogging...
The internet is evolving, and so is the blogging phenomenon. Today we don't only see the well-known personal weblogs, the blogging community has evolved to be a more topic-based system. When you look around, you will soon discover that most personal blogs have started focusing on a few topics - design, art, welfare, history, religion, movies etc.
Along with the personal blogs you will also find business blogs. And yes, that's what this is. They are often known to be even more focused on a few topics, and their goal is also somewhat different than the personal blogs.
We at PeopleXS felt a blog to be a good choice, since it will reach out to recruiters, (users of PeopleXS or not - it does not matter). Also to other HRM professionals, partners and all other people that have an interest in "the buzz" in and around topics related to Talent Management and Talent Acquisition in particular. Our goal is to be transparent, informative, and (even) organic about it! Anyway, enough said about the "why" we go blogging.
And now for something completely different: The media bombards us with the "credit crisis" Every hour we get new updates on how the billions of Euros that are (or were?) available by the governments are provided at high interest to dinosaurs (such as Fortis and ING Bank in the Netherlands for example) But, how does it effect you as a recruiting professional? Do you see the number of vacancies decrease? In finance sector there is obviously a downturn, but how is your specific sector doing? If you are a corporate recruiter, are you nervous? Or do you even see positive effects? One campus recruiter Marijke van Rij (managing director at CV Butler) noted a very nice consequence related to the economic turmoil to me: "Candidates are way more decisive and choose much faster than before the crisis started". Let us know what you experience, we are anxious to know. Have a good week and hire with passion!
Frank Oddens, CEO www.PeopleXS.com
Ideeen top 5:
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(42 votes) Candidate search improvement:
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(30 votes) Distinction between externally and internally published vacancies
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(29 votes) Manager Notification: Add link to MGR Portal
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(35 votes) Bullet points
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(15 votes) Optimize filters
Released ideas
2010-07:
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Merge of duplicate entries in one step
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Print candidates
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Back to search results
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Notification when manager gives feedback into the form (for other contacts)
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View vacacy example from managersportal
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