Specialty Retailer PETCO Selects Kenexa StoreFront to Automate Recruiting
24 Mai 2005 - 4:08PM
PR Newswire (US)
Specialty Retailer PETCO Selects Kenexa StoreFront to Automate
Recruiting Kenexa's Retail Solution Designed to Help PETCO Screen
and Hire Candidates Quickly and Effectively in More Than 750 Stores
- WAYNE, Pa., May 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Kenexa(R), a provider of
talent acquisition and retention solutions, today announced that
San Diego, California-based PETCO Animal Supplies, Inc.
(NASDAQ:PETCE), a specialty retailer of premium pet food, supplies
and services, has selected Kenexa StoreFront(TM). Kenexa StoreFront
is an applicant tracking solution designed to support the
high-volume recruiting of salary and hourly employees for retail
environments. Kenexa StoreFront will help streamline recruiting for
PETCO's regional offices and more than 750 stores located in 47
states throughout the United States. It will replace PETCO's
existing paper-based process for in-store recruiting and its
current applicant tracking solution, which supports regional office
recruiting but does not have the functionality to support in- store
recruiting. Kenexa StoreFront will be deployed in July 2005,
providing candidates the option to apply for positions from a new
career Web page accessible on the PETCO Web site at
http://www.petco.com/ or at kiosks that will be available in 25
percent of PETCO stores this year. PETCO expects that kiosks will
be rolled out to all stores in 2006. Paul Schmitt, PETCO's Vice
President of Organizational Effectiveness, said, "We wanted an
applicant tracking solution that could automate recruiting for
store positions and put Store Management in direct control of this
important responsibility. We selected Kenexa for their willingness
to customize the solution to meet our unique requirements and for
Kenexa StoreFront's deep functionality and intuitive interface that
was specifically designed with retail hiring in mind." With Kenexa
StoreFront, applicants are prescreened to meet the qualifications
of the position for which they are applying. Qualified applicants
that meet the initial screening criteria are then provided to
PETCO's hiring managers for additional consideration. Troy Kanter,
President of Kenexa's Human Capital Management Division, said,
"PETCO has created a highly engaging shopping experience with
extremely loyal 'pet parent' customers who are also prime
employment candidates. Kenexa StoreFront will allow these customers
to apply for PETCO job openings easily in-store or on-line while
they are shopping for their pet food, treats, and supplies. In
fact, these pet parents may be even more knowledgeable about a
particular store's inventory and the PETCO brand than non-customer
candidates, which can translate into faster on-boarding and a
better employee fit." Schmitt added, "Kenexa StoreFront will enable
PETCO to pursue a more active style of recruiting while
significantly improving the quality of the candidates that we hire.
With a reduction in manual processes and the ability to rapidly
screen candidates, we expect a dramatic reduction in the time-to-
hire at the store level and the costs associated with hiring."
About Kenexa StoreFront(TM) Kenexa StoreFront is an applicant
tracking solution designed to support high-volume recruiting of
hourly employees for retail environments. Presented via a Web-based
solution and in-store kiosks, which are linked on the back end,
Kenexa StoreFront streamlines recruitment by presenting only
qualified candidates to retail hiring managers, freeing up more
time to focus on customer service and store operations. About
Kenexa Kenexa Corporation (http://www.kenexa.com/) provides
software, services and proprietary content that enable
organizations to more effectively recruit and retain employees.
Kenexa solutions include applicant tracking, employment process
outsourcing, phone screening, skills and behavioral assessments,
structured interviews, performance management, multi-rater feedback
surveys, employee engagement surveys and HR Analytics. Kenexa is
headquartered in Wayne, Pa. More information about Kenexa and its
global locations can be accessed at http://www.kenexa.com/. About
PETCO Animal Supplies, Inc. PETCO is a leading specialty retailer
of premium pet food, supplies and services. PETCO's vision is to
best promote, through its people, the highest level of well being
for companion animals, and to support the human-animal bond. PETCO
generated net sales of more than $1.8 billion in fiscal 2004. It
operates over 750 stores in 47 states and the District of Columbia,
as well as a leading destination for on-line pet food and supplies
at http://www.petco.com/. Since its inception in 1999, The PETCO
Foundation, PETCO's non-profit organization, has raised more than
$23 million in support of more than 2,700 non-profit grassroots
animal welfare organizations around the nation. Note to Editors:
Kenexa is a registered trademark and Kenexa StoreFront is a
trademark of Kenexa Corporation. Other product or service names
mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.
DATASOURCE: Kenexa CONTACT: Sarah Teten, Kenexa, +1-800-391-9557, ;
Shawn Underwood, PETCO Animal Supplies, Inc., +1-858-909-4662, ; or
Jeanne Achille, The Devon Group, +1-732-542-2000, ext. 11, , for
Kenexa Web site: http://www.petco.com/ Web site:
http://www.kenexa.com/
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