Human Resource Executive® magazine has announced the winners of its 18th Annual Top HR and Training Products of the Year awards. Winners will be recognized at an October 4th luncheon during the HR Technology Conference & Exposition at Chicago's Navy Pier.
"Each year the competition gets more competitive as the number of entries continue to grow and the caliber of products escalates," said David Shadovitz, conference chairman and editor and publisher of Human Resource Executive. "Our editors conduct thorough briefings and demonstrations of each of the top products, and this year's list of winners is comprised of some of the industry's top innovators. We look forward to recognizing each of them next week for their contributions to the HR and training industries."
The Magazine's top 10 choices for HR products and top five choices for training products are detailed in its October 2nd issue. The winners and their products are included below.
Top 10 HR Products of 2006:
- Career Solutions' Education in Motion, an interactive voice-response tool designed to help companies screen and evaluate job applicants who lack access to the Web or do not have a resume.
- eQuest's ProphesyTM, an analysis tool designed to predict which job boards will be most effective for a job posting prior to a recruiter making a selection. Automatically reads the job criteria, searches and returns a list of job boards, thereby predicting the most effective boards for that exact job in that exact location. It also conducts a cost-per-click analysis determining best job board ROI.
- HighRoads' Benefits Lifecycle Management (BLM) solution, version 2006, manages the complex and resource-intensive processes of sourcing, managing and evaluating large-scale employee health and welfare plans. Improves management of vendors, automates key benefits tasks, generates greater competition for bids and streamlines request-for-proposal (RFP) events.
- HireRight's Extended Workforce Screening Solution, a software solution for managing the background screening of vendor and partner employees, temporary employees and independent contractors who have access to a company's facilities, data, personnel and information systems.
- PayScale Inc.'s PayScale Professional, an online tool that gives instant access to current salary data that matches jobs and companies. Contains a unique search platform to enable salary comparisons with actual profile matches based on factors such as education, workplace skills, and length of service.
- Resume Mirror's Enterprise Applicant ManagerTM (EAM), delivers comprehensive applicant data management functions to automatically process, manage and respond to online registration and applicant submissions through the PeopleSoft Talent Acquisition Candidate Gateway.
- Taleo Corp.'s Taleo Reporting and Analytics, software which provides a single source of workforce data to enable complete reporting and analysis -- from standard monthly recruiting reports to sophisticated workforce planning and trend analysis.
- Trovix Inc.'s Trovix RecruitTM, a web-based intelligent talent matching application and tracking system with built-in proprietary search technology. Combines intelligent search capabilities with a full-featured applicant tracking system.
- VirtualEdge Corp.'s VE Pilot, software designed to drive talent pipeline performance by allowing recruiting organizations to build and share leads, manage opportunities, create marketing campaigns, forecast and engage talent.
- Joint winners are Lawson Software's Lawson Performance Management, software that provides an objective and comprehensive way to measure an employee's goal attainment and the specific behaviors that impact their overall performance, and Personnel Decisions International's (PDI) TalentView® of PerformanceTM, an Internet-based survey that incorporates behavioral-level performance indicators commonly referred to as Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scales (BARS).
Top Training Products of 2006:
- CustomerVision Inc.'s CustomerVision BizWiki overcomes one of the most critical Web Content Management (WCM) challenges for today's enterprises -- easy collaboration, real-time communication, and dynamic content creation for the knowledge worker.
- Elluminate Inc.'s Elluminate Live! Version 7.0. Enterprise Edition is a real-time eLearning and web collaboration tool built specifically for live, multimedia collaboration. Makes meetings more productive, training more effective, and learning more enjoyable. Educate, demonstrate, and collaborate in real time, without the need for travel or teleconferencing.
- Interactive Employment Training Inc.'s Think Before You Send: A Practical Guide to E-mail in the Workplace, designed to reduce e-mail risk by encouraging employees to think carefully before sending e-mails. It explains how e-mails can come back to either haunt an organization or help defend them and emphasizes the need to keep a professional tone to your organization's e-mail
- LearnKey Inc.'s Communications Skills for IT Specialists, educational software designed to improve written and spoken communication of IT specialists. Guides users on how to give an effective presentation and get a good grasp of what's necessary to resolve conflicts in ways that focus on results and leave all stakeholders with the sense of being heard.
- RWD®'s ePOSTTM (Electronic Point of Service Training) uses a Web-based training delivery method to empower your workforce to perform tasks to required standards in the fastest possible time, with the least support or intervention by others, and with minimal cost to an organization. ePOST provides task-specific information and assistance at the time and place it is needed.
Known for the size and the quality of its conference program, exhibitors, and attendees, the 9th Annual HR Technology Conference and Exposition is also a venue for the launching of new products and ideas for Human Resource software and services.
More information is available at http://www.HRTechnologyConference.com.