Federated Department Stores Honored with Three Wins at 2005 ER Excellence Awards
WetFeet, Inc., provider of a leading hiring management system, WetFeet RecruiterTM, today announces Federated Department Stores’ honors for excellence at the recent ER Expo 2005 Spring Conference. Federated won the first annual ER Excellence award for Best Corporate Careers Website and received Honorable Mention for two additional awards, the Most Strategic Use of Technology and Recruiting Leader of the Year for Susan Burns, Operating Vice President of Employment Initiatives and College Relations at Federated Department Stores.
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) April 27, 2005 -- WetFeet, Inc., provider of a
leading hiring management system, WetFeet RecruiterTM, today announces Federated Department
Stores' honors for excellence at the recent ER Expo 2005 Spring Conference.
Federated won the first annual ER Excellence award for Best Corporate Careers
Website and received Honorable Mention for two additional awards, the Most
Strategic Use of Technology and Recruiting Leader of the Year for Susan Burns,
Operating Vice President of Employment Initiatives and College Relations at
Federated Department Stores.
Nominees for the Best Corporate Careers
Website award were judged on the innovative, interactive, and comprehensive
nature of their online recruitment sites. Federated Department Stores'
Retailology® career site (www.Retailology.com) exemplifies excellence in all these
facets with its individual branded sites, profiles of success, career paths, job
descriptions, video presentations, a self-assessment tool, dedicated college
recruitment site, training and development info, and seamlessly integrated job
search engine, which also delivers custom screening questions by
position.
Originally designed to educate students on careers in the
retail industry, Federated has greatly expanded Retailology and its online
presence by launching individually branded career websites for each of its
retail and support divisions, including Macy's and Bloomingdale's, and
implementing WetFeet Recruiter's Hiring Management System enterprise-wide. This has enabled
Federated to integrate job posting, job searching, and online applications
across all divisions of the company with an extremely robust, content-rich, and
easy-to-use candidate interface. Federated also contributed to the development
of WetFeet Recruiter's recently implemented Enterprise Interview SchedulerTM, the industry's first
integrated candidate self-service technology for high-volume interview
scheduling, a factor that contributed to the firm’s additional recognition in
the Most Strategic Use of Technology award category. Retailology currently
receives an average of 11,600 visitors a day.
In addition to these
corporate awards, Susan Burns, Federated's Operating Vice President of
Employment Initiatives and College Relations, earned an Honorable Mention in the
individual category of Recruiting Leader of the Year. Susan's vision and
devotion to excellence have enabled Federated to develop and establish its
employment brand and recruitment website into the dominant career portal in the
retail industry. Susan has been instrumental in collaborating with WetFeet to
provide technical solutions that streamline the recruiting process and improve
both recruiters' and candidates' experiences.
Hosted by the Electronic
Recruiting Exchange, the ER Excellence Awards is an annual awards program
recognizing excellence in corporate recruitment practices throughout the world.
The awards are judged by a leading panel of recruiting industry experts and
practitioners, including Dr. John Sullivan, Gerry Crispin, Lou Adler, Kevin
Wheeler, as well as top staffing executives from T-Mobile and
Starbucks.
Federated has been a pioneer in the retail industry in
utilizing technology to distinguish its employment brand, improve the candidate
experience, and provide informative, up-to-date, interactive information.
WetFeet celebrates this industry recognition of excellence for Federated’s
Retailology corporate careers website.
About Federated Department
Stores, Inc.
Federated Department Stores, Inc. (www.fds.com), headquartered in Cincinnati, OH, with corporate
offices in Cincinnati and New York, is one of the nation's leading department
store retailers. Founded in 1929, Federated employs 112,000 employees and
operates more than 450 retail stores in 34 states, Guam and Puerto Rico under
well-know brand names such as Macy's and Bloomingdale's. The company also
operates macys.com and Bloomingdale's By Mail. Annual sales: $15.6
billion.
About WetFeet, Inc.
WetFeet, Inc., headquartered in San
Francisco, California, has been a leading provider of recruitment management
systems and services since 1994. WetFeet’s on-demand recruitment software
platform, WetFeet Recruiter (www.WetFeetRecruiter.com), now including Enterprise Interview
SchedulerTM, is the Web-based recruitment system used by top companies
nationwide to manage their hiring process across the enterprise. In addition,
WetFeet's Strategic Services Group provides corporate clients with expertise and
services focused on recruitment website usability and benchmarking, campus
recruiting strategy and execution, and recruitment marketing and sourcing
programs.
For additiional information, contact:
WetFeet, Inc.
101 Howard Street, Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94105
Kim Kreutzer,
Product Manager
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866-4-WETFEET
(866-493-8333)
415-284-7900
www.WetFeetRecruiter.com
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