Resumix Corrects and Replaces Previous Announcement, BW1136, CA-RESUMIX.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 1999-- Best Buy Newest Fortune 500 Company to Choose Resumix Automated Staffing Solution Nation's Largest Consumer Electronic and Appliance Specialty Retailer Selects Resumix 5 to Automate Staffing Resumix(R), Inc., the leading automated staffing solution provider, today announced that the nation's number one consumer electronics and appliance specialty retailer, Best Buy Co., Inc. has chosen the Resumix 5 system to help automate its growing staffing needs. Best Buy plans to nearly double its number of retail stores in operation in the next five years and is implementing Resumix 5 to track potential employees. "As Best Buy continues to grow, the Resumix 5 system is an essential part of our business strategy, allowing us to streamline our hiring process and track potential candidates," stated Kathy McLean, HRIS HRIS Human Resource Information System HRIS High-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer HRIS Highway Research Information Service HRIS High Resolution Infrared Sounder manager of Best Buy. "After reviewing several options, we selected Resumix because of its sophistication so·phis·ti·cate v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates v.tr. 1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly. 2. and ease-of-use." Resumix 5 contains an intelligent Knowledge Base that goes beyond the power of a simple keyword software Software that is used to recognize words and phrases in a document or Web page against an existing list of words/phrases. Such software is used for all sorts of identification purposes as well as to generate hypertext links. See virtual hypertext. system. The Resumix Knowledge Base interprets an applicant's resume, extracts experience and skills from natural language usage and matches those skills to the position criteria. Managing the Implementation Process According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Best Buy's McLean, the Resumix implementation process has been smooth. Resumix's comprehensive training program was one of the fundamental tools used by Best Buy to help them implement the system efficiently. At the end of Best Buy's 1999 fiscal year, the Company operated 311 stores and will be on track to have more than 600 stores nationwide by the year 2004. The Resumix system will strengthen Best Buy's ability to quickly and efficiently identify candidates required to staff for this volume of growth. "The Resumix 5 system is ideal for rapidly expanding corporations such as Best Buy," said Mindy Fiorentino, director of product marketing for Resumix. "Our sophisticated automated staffing solution and intelligent technology reduces time and cost per hire. It outperforms other solutions and will help Best Buy achieve its growth goal efficiently and cost effectively." How Resumix 5 Works The Resumix 5 system reduces overall recruitment costs by maintaining a database of potential applicants. Additionally, it saves resource time by sorting resumes based on qualifications, automating letters to potential applicants and forwarding qualified applicants to hiring managers via email. In order to easily and accurately measure an organization's performance on items such as job postings, recruiter activity reports and EEO EEO Equal Employment Opportunity EEO Equal Employment Office EEO Eastern European Outreach (Murrieta, CA) EEO Extremely Elliptical Orbit EEO Exotic Electro-Optics, Inc. statistics, standard or custom reports can be produced by the Resumix 5 system. Best Buy is among the growing list of Resumix customers that have reduced time and cost per hire by utilizing Resumix automated staffing solutions. Other Resumix customers include SAIC SAIC - http://saic.com. , IDT IDT Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA, USA) IDT I Don't Think IDT Identity Theft IDT Interrupt Descriptor Table IDT Integrated DNA Technologies IDT Inactive Duty Training IDT Instructional Design & Technology , Ornda HealthCorp, UPS, Southwest Airlines This article is about the American airline. For the former Japanese airline, see Japan Transocean Air. For the British airline, see Air Southwest. Southwest Airlines Co. , Platinum Technology Platinum Technology Inc. was founded by Andrew Filipowski in 1987 to market and support deployment of Database Management software products and the applications enabled by database management technology and render related services. , Jet Propulsion Labs, Lockheed Martin, Qualcomm and Cornell University. About Best Buy Minneapolis-based Best Buy Co., Inc. retails name brand consumer electronics, personal computers, entertainment software and appliances. The Company strives to improve people's lives by making technology and entertainment products affordable and easy to use. Best Buy is ranked 199 on the Fortune 500 with annual revenues of $10 billion. The Company operates 311 locations in 36 states. For CDs and DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. movies, visit the Company's on-line store at www.bestbuy.com. About Resumix Founded in 1988, Resumix provides advanced automated staffing and skills management software solutions that enable organizations to source and identify the most qualified people required to fill the open positions needed to accomplish an organization's objectives. Resumix automated staffing solutions allow quick and cost-effective high-quality matching of job requisitions with the most qualified internal and external applicants. Resumix's clients include Fortune 1000 corporations, universities, healthcare, financial organizations and government entities. Resumix is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif. More information is available at http://www.resumix.com. |
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