{"id":889,"date":"2008-04-30T01:00:11","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=889"},"modified":"2008-04-30T01:01:34","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T09:01:34","slug":"taleo-goes-down-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=889","title":{"rendered":"Taleo Goes Down Market"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cRecruiting and retaining talent is the number one challenge for SMBs, and job boards, Excel spreadsheets and Outlook fall short when it comes to competing for superior candidates,\u201d said Jason Blessing, group vice president and general manager, SMB, Taleo. \u201cWith this alliance, Taleo and Paychex are empowering SMBs with a compelling and high-value offering that will allow them to better source and retain passive and active candidates and then easily feed all new hire information into the Paychex Preview payroll system.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 ((Taleo Press Release<\/a>.))<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I was a bit surprised to see this, but given that Taleo is so dominant in the large enterprise recruiting space, their only places to grow their market was really in performance (general release earlier this year) and down market.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On it\u2019s face, Paychex seems like a decent place to start, but I\u2019m honestly a little surprised that they didn\u2019t go with someone like Ceridian instead.\u00a0 ADP is an obvious elimination since they own Virtual Edge, another recruiting system.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Paychex is not an intuitive solution for Taleo to partner with since their own technology is far behind Taleo\u2019s.\u00a0 First, Paychex HR customers often deal with technology that is well behind competitors such as ADP and Ceridian.\u00a0 Second, There are comparatively few Paychex HR customers compared to Ceridian and ADP.\u00a0 Most of Paychex customers are pure payroll, although this has been shifting for quite some time.\u00a0 Lastly, an organization like Paychex which has severely limited penetration into the medium size employer market.<\/p>\n

Even then, Paychex is probably the number 2 provider (behind ADP) for the small employer, so if Taleo is looking to increase penetration into 100 and 200 employee companies, perhaps this does make good sense.\u00a0 Payroll is a very low priced commodity market, and while I don\u2019t know how Taleo is pricing their services, it certainly can\u2019t be similar to the enterprise market.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One thing I know for sure, the SMB market is in for some interesting competition now that Taleo is in the mix for their business.\u00a0 As always, more high quality choices just means better news for the rest of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cRecruiting and retaining talent is the number one challenge for SMBs, and job boards, Excel spreadsheets and Outlook fall short when it comes to competing for superior candidates,\u201d said Jason Blessing, group vice president and general manager, SMB, Taleo. \u201cWith…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15,20,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hr-technology","category-talent-acquisition","category-talent-management","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}