Talent Acquisition Management Solution

Friday, February 9, 2007

Staffing, recruitment and on-boarding talent is an important part of a successful organization.

The execution of this critical task is complicated by the thousands of agencies, multiple hiring managers and legions of candidates. Very quickly this job can become overwhelming.

An efficient Vendor Management System (VMS) is necessary to manage expectations as well as the resume submittal process. VMS's, like nextSource's TAMS, provide the structure, efficiency and communication needed to eliminate the inefficiencies that plague the traditional procurement process.

What makes TAMS so useful is its straightforward framework. It provides separate modules (e.g. Sourcing, Procurement, Accounting and Reporting) which connect content with data. TAMS also provides staffing agencies, hiring managers, payroll and accounting with their own respective, customizable views of the entire process. While providing this insight to so many different people, TAMS still allows the daily workflow to be managed centrally through a designated onsite manager or by the corporation.

TAMS is also a great way to keep track of time on a project. For example, when the TAMS administrator approves a submittal from an agency, an e-mail is sent to the hiring manager, alerting him/her that new talent has been submitted whose profile is available for viewing. After reviewing, the hiring manager can either request an interview or decline the candidate. If the candidate is declined, the manager is prompted to provide comments to the submitting agency to improve the quality of matching for future submittals. If the hiring manager requests an interview with the candidate, TAMS will generate an email informing the agency of the manager's availability for a telephone or in-person interview.

To make things even better, by using TAMS you can augment an organization's pool of qualified candidates by extending their reach to multiple agencies. When additional agencies are added to the preferred vendor list, TAMS integrates them seamlessly by consolidating billable hours and fees across all external staffing agencies providing a single invoice to the customer.