Kronos
Enhancements reduce frontline hiring costs and improve workforce productvity
CHELMSFORD, Mass. (March 09, 2009) –
Kronos® Incorporated today announced availability of Workforce Acquisition(TM) 8.4. The selection and hiring solution enables employers to better predict job performance by applying science to their hiring decisions, ultimately leading to reduced frontline hiring costs and improved workforce productivity.
Workforce Acquisition 8.4 provides hiring managers with enhanced selection tools to help them quickly identify best-fit candidates in today’s rapidly expanding candidate pool. “The application-to-hire ratio — the number of job applicants for each position filled — has shifted sharply higher due to the state of the economy. With more job seekers competing for fewer job openings, the hiring process can be overwhelming,” said Steve Earl, director of marketing at Kronos. “We believe that hiring doesn’t have to be so hard, even in a tough economy. Workforce Acquisition 8.4 includes new capabilities aimed at enhancing the selection and hiring experience for managers and job applicants.”
Major enhancements in Workforce Acquisition 8.4 include:
Advanced selection science for long-term care organizations
In a tough economy, putting best-fit employees in front of customers is critical. The impact of a bad hire in long-term care is far greater than other industries. As a result, managers in long-term care must hire caregivers who are well-suited to the demands of the job and who are less likely to quit.
Workforce Acquisition 8.4 includes an enhanced Frontline Healthcare Assessment built by Kronos scientists specifically for long-term care. This behavioral assessment uses innovative scoring methodologies to produce two results from a single assessment: a prediction of job-fit; and a prediction of retention-related outcomes. These scores are made available immediately to the hiring manager to enhance their ability to select best-fit employees.
According to Lee Ann Lecheler, director of human resources at Cambridge Healthcare, a privately owned and operated community of rehabilitation and healthcare centers in Virginia, “Hiring and retaining the best caregivers who can provide a high quality of care to our residents and their families is critical to our success. The Kronos Frontline Healthcare Assessment has enabled us to create a repeatable, quality-driven process for selecting the best employees across our facilities.”
Support for field/hourly hiring in the UK
Workforce Acquisition 8.4 expands capabilities of the product to support the hiring of field-based employees in the UK. Support for UK-specific postal codes, international telephone numbers, job search by postal code, and applicant pooling functionality help hiring managers minimize the cost and time they spend hiring frontline staff. Online job applications now provide familiar, localized formats for telephone numbers and addresses to applicants in the UK.
After an initial rollout in the U.S. last year, Yum! Brands — parent company of A&W All American Foods, KFC, Long John Silver’s, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell — launched the Kronos online hiring solution in the UK last month. “An online hiring process that is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week is critical for our geographically dispersed, multi-branded business,” said John Kurnick, vice president, global talent management, Yum! Brands. “Workforce Acquisition will provide a consistent hiring experience throughout our company. We’re delighted to partner with Kronos to deploy this application to our first international business unit.”
Enhanced behavioral interview guide
An enhanced behavioral interview guide enables hiring managers to conduct more effective interviews and more efficient hiring decisions. The interview guide now provides visual indicators when specific follow-up is needed. It displays clear visual links between questions, responses, and follow-up questions, and better identifies marginal responses in the candidate application.
Applying to multiple brands
With new cross-site functionality in version 8.4, hiring managers can quickly and easily move applications from one brand to another without requiring job applicants to complete multiple job applications within the same company. These enhancements improve the candidate’s ability to apply for multiple jobs in less time, and save the hiring manager’s time by enabling them to assign the applicant to a location of a different brand.
Immediate validation of pay rates
Version 8.4 includes a new feature to ensure that the rate of pay being offered to an applicant is in line with the organization’s compensation structure. Hiring managers are notified immediately if they specify a pay rate outside the range for the position.
Personal address validation
Personal address data (city, state, and zip code) can be validated against United States Postal Service postal codes within a hiring workflow. By capturing errors at the source this new feature streamlines background checks and helps prevent errors from making their way into human resource and payroll systems.
Onboarding for salaried positions
Electronic onboarding saves hiring managers time and reduces the error-rates associated with manually completing new-hire paperwork. Workforce Acquisition 8.4 extends this existing capability to salaried recruiting and provides hiring managers and candidates the ability to electronically sign new-hire paperwork. This reduces costs associated with printing and mailing documents such as I-9s, W4s, and other state and customer-specific forms. Four new reports have also been added to help analyze and measure the effectiveness of salaried recruiting within a company.
Availability
Workforce Acquisition 8.4 is available now. Call (800) 355-4547 or visit www.kronos.com for more information.
About Kronos Incorporated
Kronos is the global leader in workforce management solutions that enable organizations to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity. Tens of thousands of organizations in 60 countries — including more than half of the Fortune 1000® — use Kronos time and attendance, scheduling, absence management, HR and payroll, hiring, and labor analytics applications. To learn how Kronos uniquely delivers complete automation and high-quality information in an easy-to-use solution, visit www.kronos.com.
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