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Talent Management Solutions Enterprise Applicant Tracking

As part of our Talent Management software solutions, Kenexa serves large, domestic customers with highly complex, decentralized recruiting processes and supports multinational organizations with mutli-language requirements. Kenexa Recruiter® BrassRing enhances traditional applicant tracking systems that include requisition creation, processing and posting, resume searching, sorting and filing, applicant workflow, interview scheduling and tracking, candidate communications and reporting. Our best-of-breed web-based technology provides organizations everything they need to locate and track candidates as they move through the hiring process.

State and local organizations have access to a state-of-the-art recruiting solution, including management of Certification/eligibility lists and all aspects of the process that achieves immediate benefits.

  • Centralized and paperless management of the recruiting process, eliminating process redundancy, bottelnecks and communication gaps
  • Tracking recruitment metrics and allowing for customized reports and forms
  • Equal access to all candidates, improving EEO information retention, and assuring such transparent procedures as fair competition and the promotion of public access to pay scales and recall lists
  • Improve operational efficiencies and reduce recurring costs by aligning with state and local-specific workflows and processes
  • Quickly installed and placed into production for rapid return on investment
  • An intuitive interface and industry-leading feature set makes it easy to integrate and use

Kenexa Recruiter® BrassRing

Kenexa Recruiter BrassRing provides an intelligent, user-friendly solution that establishes an integrated process for all sources of talent, optimizes the workforce and increases organizational performance and competitive advantage. Kenexa Recruiter BrassRing helps organizations:

  • Manage all salaried, hourly and contract employees with one interface
  • Centralize and enrich talent pools
  • Recognize and redeploy internal talent
  • Standardize on a single, global platform
  • Recruit more efficiency and increase ROI

Kenexa Recruiter BrassRing FocusPoint

Kenexa Recruiter BrassRing FocusPoint provides our patented search technology for applicant-correctable extraction of resume data allowing candidates to sumbit their resume to organizations with exceptional speed and precision.

Kenexa Recruiter BrassRing Gateway

Kenexa Recruiter BrassRing Gateways allow organizations to leverage the power of the internet to attract top talent with a career site, tap your organization's internal talent pool to promote, develop and retain star employees, facilitate recruitment of quality candidates referred by your employees, and attract candidates who don't have internet access.

Kenexa Recruiter BrassRing Solutions

Kenexa Recruiter BrassRing also complements a full suite of solutions designed to assist organizations in overcoming challenges in the Talent Life Cycle. Kenexa Recruiter BrassRing supports organizations by:

  • Automating candidate scoring and ranking
  • Integrating with Kenexa's proprietary pre-employment assessment tools  
  • Creating intelligent workflow management
  • Integrating scheduling and communication management
  • Collaborating and sharing critical information worldwide
  • Enabling agency-wide collaborative applicant tracking
  • Eliminating process redundancies, bottlenecks and communication gaps
  • Customizing reports to deliver data
  • Integrating with best-of-breed HRIS platforms

 

Civil Service Register
Kenexa's Civil Service Register (CSR) provides for the establishment, maintenance, and management of examinations and lists.  CSR facilitates all aspects of examination set up and management, to include:
  • Test selection and configuration
  • Scheduling candidates for tests
  • Storage of and access to test materials
  • Candidate test progress tracking
  • Automated scoring
  • Results communications
  • Veteran's points assignment

CSR's list management functionality supports a variety of list types, such as referral and priority placement lists, from promulgation to expiration, as well as the ability to borrow, substitute, extend and restore lists. 

Community Gateway
Kenexa’s Community Gateway fosters a creative, collaborative and interactive communicative community for recruiters and candidates. With four separate module options, Community Gateway allows organizations to attract more qualified candidates, integrate more tightly with job boards and track potential candidates, allowing for more effective recruiting and decreased time-to-hire.

The four module tools available in Community Gateway include:

  • Source
  • Post
  • Contacts
  • Really Simple Syndication (RSS)

Event Manager
Kenexa’s Event Manager helps recruiters create and automate the scheduling process for complex recruiting events providing a more streamlined event experience for large numbers of candidates at the same time. This automated scheduling capability is effective for college recruiting and other high-volume recruiting events, such as opening new retail or manufacturing locations. Event Manager enables recruiters to:

  • Schedule complex recruiting events and manage large volumes of candidates
  • Create an automated interview schedule for event dates
  • Send electronic event invites that allow candidates to schedule interview dates and times

Gateway Questionnaire Application Work Flows
Kenexa’s Gateway Questionnaires enhance the job-seeker experience by allowing organizations to create unique application flows for categories of positions or for individual positions requiring specific skill sets. When job seekers enter Talent Gateway and select positions, they can be guided through specific career paths that organizations preset. Kenexa’s Gateway Questionnaire Application Work Flows allow organizations to:

  • Tailor online application processes for specific positions or by job seeker audience
  • Create customized job-specific application processes for hourly and salaried candidates
  • Streamline the online process for job seekers and recruiters with question branching
  • Permit candidates to apply without creating a Talent Gateway profile

Mobile Recruiter
Kenexa’s Mobile Recruiter is a standalone companion solution that works in conjunction with the Kenexa BrassRing Talent Management system. Mobile Recruiter provides the ability to record candidate information, access requisitions, compose recruiter notes and update forms, and is available in Recruiter Mode and Job Fair Mode. Kenexa’s Mobile Recruiter also:

  • Empowers recruiters for off-site and campus recruiting
  • Allows recruiters to download necessary candidate forms from KRB
  • Synchronizes all updated files into the KRB database

Onboarding
Kenexa’s Onboarding solutions eliminate time constraints and errors by automating the onboarding process. This powerful collection of efficiency technologies, including a hiring checklist, online forms and automated notifications based on job function, enables new employees to be productive as soon as they start their jobs. Kenexa’s Onboarding solution provides a standard, repeatable process even if the organization's onboarding process varies by location, division or job title. Our onboarding solution allows organizations to:

  • Centralize and streamline the onboarding process to maximize new employee productivity
  • Automate communications with new hires and internal departments
  • Distribute a hiring procedures checklist for current employees to follow
  • Streamline the hiring process to make new employee hiring fast and easy

SmartApproval
Kenexa’s SmartApproval is a unique, innovative technology that establishes recruiting process approval workflows based on internal organizational hierarchy. This solution gives companies complete control over approval paths, while making it easier for everyone involved in the recruiting process. SmartApproval uses Kenexa’s proprietary eLink technology to route requisitions and forms using a web browser or Blackberry. For large, multi-divisional companies with established approval rules and an accurate system for tracking current employee roles, SmartApproval automation streamlines the process of getting approvals from all the right people.

Advanced Candidate Assessment
Kenexa Prove It® and Kenexa Selector™ asssessments can be automatically linked to Kenexa Recruiter BrassRing.  This enables automatic distribution of assessments to candidates with instantaneous scoring and reporting to your recruiters and hiring managers.  Assessment results are available within each candidate record in the recruiting management systems.   Assessments can be weighted and used to determine eligibility for next steps in the selection process. 

An assessment platform is also available to place testing services in a state-of-the-art environment.

Culture Assessment
Kenexa’s TeamFit® guides organizations through the three-step process of organization and candidate fit assessment so businesses can create the most effective culture possible. Our three-step process helps organizations select right-fit candidates to build an effective workforce and impact business on multiple levels. Our culture fit technology also:

  • Supports critical workforce initiatives such as retention, succession planning, and mergers and acquisitions
  • Builds dynamic teams for more effective business integration and strategy realignment

Triggered Communication
Kenexa’s Triggered Communication provides automated email message delivery based on defined templates and established conditions to initiate the communications. Organizations can define multiple conditions and complex relationships to initiate an email communication with candidates, hiring managers, seasonal workers or vendors involved in the recruitment process. With Kenexa Triggered Communication, organizations control the design, message content and delivery timing for each type of communication.