Jobs.co.za Partners with Entelect to provide Integrated Recruitment Management Solution

1 September 2009: Jobs.co.za today announces its partnership with Entelect Software to provide its clients with a fully integrated web-based Recruitment Management Solution.

Jobs.co.za, South African Job Portal, and Entelect Software, an established Johannesburg based Software Development, Products and Resourcing Company, will co-operate to deliver best-in-class recruitment management solutions under the technology implementation and talent acquisition expertise offered by both partners. Entelect's Recruitment Management System (RMS) was developed in 2004 with the sole intention of assisting recruitment agencies with all operational and support requirements, enabling more placement throughput, and promoting interactive engagement with candidates, clients and internal staff, all through a user-friendly agency specific branded web interface. Entelect already has a strong client footprint in the recruitment industry with a number of agencies using the RMS successfully on a daily basis. Jobs.co.za, established in 1997 underwent a face-lift a year ago to provide an affordable online recruitment advertising solution with sophisticated job application filtering and matching technology. Jobs.co.za ranks number one on major search engines such as Google, by extending its search engine optimised job content to search engines, as well as social and professional networks.

Says Gillian Meier, CEO of Jobs.co.za: 'To ensure that our client's job advertisements are not only seen by the active job seeker audience on Jobs.co.za, we adopt a very rigorous search engine optimisation strategy. In addition to ranking for niche search terms on major search engines, our strategy includes exposure of our client's jobs across contextually relevant websites as well as social media and professional networks. By exposing our job content to this extended audience it becomes necessary for recruiters to have scalable recruitment management systems in place that enables them to manage job applications most effectively, and we believe that Entelect's Recruitment Management System provides the best functionality for recruitment agencies to wholly manage the recruitment process as well as their internal productivity.'

Dr Charles Pritchard, CEO of the Entelect group comments: 'We recently upgraded our Recruitment Management System to be more search engine friendly, and subsequently embarked on a programme to find an SEO friendly job portal that we could partner with and further empower our clients take command of the web and put them ahead of their competitors. Our analysis put Jobs.co.za at the forefront of search engine technology, and after meeting Gillian and her team, understanding their business model and vision, we knew we had a match! It made a lot of business sense for both parties to work together and immediately puts us ahead of our competitors in terms of our total offering to recruitment agencies - both from a pricing and functionality perspective. Overall the user experience is optimized: Clients no longer have to process hundreds of incoming emails that are fired off from job portals, and candidates need only apply once for a position, whether coming from Jobs.co.za or the client specific RMS website.'

Entelect's RMS, which caters for all front and back-office requirements of recruitment agencies or departments, automatically integrates into Jobs.co.za to extend the job advertising reach to an online audience while centralising application management and streamlining the response handling process. Entelect's already established system now provides clients with the benefit of automated cross-job postings, while receiving applications in a single location that can be managed in an established, comprehensive Recruitment Management Suite - all of which is under the client's control and branding. Under the terms of the agreement, Entelect becomes a partner for sale and implementation of Jobs.co.za's online advertising solutions with a reciprocal reseller agreement in place for Jobs.co.za to extend its services to include the full-cycle RMS.