“Seven Step’s growth is accelerating thanks to strong demand for RPO services across major industry sectors,” said Greg Karr, executive vice president of Seven Step Recruiting. “We are reaching critical mass as leading corporations in banking, insurance, and manufacturing appreciate the value of a strategic RPO partnership and leverage our results-driven approach to talent acquisition.”

Seven Step helps corporations rapidly find and hire high-quality candidates by optimizing, supplementing, or outsourcing their existing recruitment processes. The company has developed an open, collaborative recruitment approach that has been proven to help clients meet their recruitment goals regardless of complexity or difficulty. With an average time-to-fill rate of only thirty-five days, which is twenty-five percent lower than the industry average, Seven Step consistently earns high satisfaction ratings from its clients.

Seven Step Hits Benchmarks with Strategic Staffing and Technology

Performance highlights in the third quarter included continuing to deliver quarter over quarter hiring manager satisfaction results in the top quartile of Saratoga Benchmarks, increasing the number of key staff members by fifteen percent, and expanding its technology partnership with Avature, the human capital management software-as-a-service provider.

Added Mr. Karr, “Our attitude toward collaboration and productivity extends to partnerships with other innovators in talent acquisition. Like Seven Step, Avature is the leading innovator in its category. Leveraging Avature’s solution allows us to deliver more value even more quickly to our expanding roster of Fortune 500 clients.”

About Seven Step Recruiting

Founded in 2007 in Boston, Massachusetts, Seven Step has quickly become a leading provider of outsourced recruitment services, helping companies meet recruitment challenges regardless of volume, scale, resource constraints, compliance issues, or logistical hurdles. Unlike other recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) firms, Seven Step has developed a proprietary team-based approach to recruitment management that is flexible, scalable, and metrics-based from beginning to end. Seven Step is consistently rated very highly in customer satisfaction. In 2011, Seven Step was named to the Midmarket Baker’s Dozen of top RPO providers by HRO Today.

“I was looking for an organization with a culture that aligned with my beliefs about recruitment quality, service, employee development, and openness to innovation,” Ms. Calhoun said. “Meeting with the CEO and president of Seven Step was refreshing; I appreciated their commitment to putting an infrastructure in place that supports growth without sacrificing the quality of Seven Step’s employees or the service they deliver to clients.”

Ms. Calhoun has dedicated the greater part of the last decade to leading RPO and professional recruiting initiatives at two of the top talent acquisition companies. At Kelly HRfirst, she managed and implemented recruitment teams and accounts in the financial, high tech, and pharmaceutical industries. At Pinstripe, Inc., Ms. Calhoun lead, developed, and coached staff for several long-term strategic RPO clients in a variety of industries, including Call Center, Energy, Engineering, Financial Services, and Sales & Marketing.

“Katie is a perfect fit for Seven Step,” said Beth Gilfeather, CEO of Seven Step Recruiting. “She is authentic and innovative — a real leader — who has joined us just as we’ve reached critical mass and growth is taking off. Katie is as committed as we are to guiding that growth strategically and building on the exceptionally high quality of our service to clients. This is an exciting time for Seven Step, our people, and our clients.”

About Seven Step Recruiting

Founded in 2007 in Boston, Massachusetts, Seven Step has quickly become a leading provider of outsourced recruitment services that helps companies meet recruitment challenges regardless of volume, scale, resource constraints, compliance issues, or logistical hurdles. Unlike other recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) firms, Seven Step has developed a proprietary team-based approach to recruitment management that is flexible, scalable, and metrics-based from beginning to end. Seven Step is consistently rated very highly in customer satisfaction. For more information, please visit www.sevensteprpo.com.

In this year’s survey, more than three hundred RPO providers were rated on the breadth of their service, the size of the programs they manage, performance quality, and the quality of client service provided. Seven Step provides comprehensive RPO services and specializes in outsourced recruitment of high-volume, hard-to-fill positions.

"Reaching the top 13 of midmarket RPO providers validates Seven Step’s innovative team approach to talent acquisition," said Paul Harty, President of Seven Step Recruiting. "We’ve experienced sustainable growth in clients and projects because we deliver cost-effective, measurable recruitment results, and we anticipate a rapid expansion of our business."

"We’re particularly proud of the fact that we’ve achieved this industry recognition so quickly," added Beth Gilfeather, founder and CEO of Seven Step Recruiting. "Since we launched in 2007, Seven Step’s focus has been on generating results far beyond what companies have come to expect in RPO. And while client satisfaction is our most valued reward, it’s gratifying to receive this marketplace distinction — especially as a relatively new player in the space."

"The Baker’s Dozen RPO survey is the industry’s most credible perspective of top RPO firms because it is based on feedback from buyers themselves," said Debbie Bolla, Managing Editor at SharedXpertise, publishers of HRO Today magazine. "The resulting rankings are a trusted way to identify the best RPO provider to meet a company’s talent acquisition needs. We congratulate Seven Step on its breakthrough performance."

About Seven Step Recruiting

Founded in 2007 in Boston, Massachusetts, Seven Step has quickly become a leading provider of outsourced recruitment services that helps companies meet recruitment challenges regardless of volume, scale, resource constraints, compliance issues, or logistical hurdles. Unlike other recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) firms, Seven Step has developed a proprietary team-based approach to recruitment management that is flexible, scalable, and metrics-based from beginning to end. Seven Step is consistently rated very highly in customer satisfaction. For more information, please visit www.sevensteprpo.com.

The 2011 JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge® Series, celebrated its 35th consecutive year of owning and operating a global comemoration of corporate teamwork, camaraderie and community giving.

Team Seven Step was comprised of various recruiters, coordinators, and executives all of whom completed the race with great times.

Congratulations to all who competed in this year's race...We'll be back for more next year!

Team Seven Step before the big race!

“Seven Step’s rapid growth is validation of our focus on customers’ recruitment objectives and long-term needs,” said Paul Harty, president of Seven Step Recruiting. “Using our simple but powerful RPO methodology, we continue to exceed customer expectations and lead the industry in efficiency and effectiveness.”

Seven Step helps corporate clients achieve their high-quality, high-speed hiring goals by optimizing, supplementing, or outsourcing their existing recruitment processes. The company has developed an open, collaborative recruitment productivity process that has been tested and refined over time to help clients meet their recruitment goals regardless of complexity or difficulty. With an average time-to-fill rate of only 35 days, which is 25 percent lower than the industry average, Seven Step consistently earns high satisfaction ratings from its clients.

Seven Step Expands Partnership with IBM

A strategic partnership with IBM Human-Capital Management on delivery of RPO services continues to be a strong source of growth. Working with IBM, Seven Step is completing all of General Motors' corporate, engineering, design, and non-union factory worker hires for 2011. As companies decide to reverse workforce reductions from the past few years of recession, Seven Step is in an excellent position to meet the demand to help fill thousands of positions. This year, the company expects to make more than 4,000 hires on behalf of General Motors alone.

Seven Step Ramps Up Hiring to Support Growth

Seven Step projects a 125 percent or greater increase in its total number of hires in the upcoming quarter. To accommodate this level of activity, the company has added 40 key staff members and acquired 16,000 square feet of new office space in Boston’s Government Center.

Seven Step Leverages Best Practices HR Technology

The company’s commitment to innovation shows in its unprecedented implementation of an integrated recruitment solution, which is being launched by two of the recruitment software industry's most important players. For General Motors, Seven Step has created higher levels of recruitment efficiency and productivity by identifying and deploying a unique integration between Taleo's best-in-class talent management solution and Avature's groundbreaking software-as-a-service human capital management solution.

“As our clients' recruitment needs continue to grow in complexity and volume, there is a strategic imperative to leverage best-in-class technology,” continued Harty. “Through our partnership with IBM, we worked with both Taleo and Avature’s solutions and saw the substantial benefits of integrating the two for our customers. Together, we created an end-to-end candidate recruiting management solution that is delivering extraordinary results for clients such as General Motors.”

About Seven Step Recruiting

Founded in 2007 in Boston, Massachusetts, Seven Step has quickly become a leading provider of outsourced recruitment services that helps companies meet recruitment challenges regardless of volume, scale, resource constraints, compliance issues, or logistical hurdles. Unlike other recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) firms, Seven Step has developed a proprietary team-based approach to volume recruitment management that is flexible, scalable, and metrics-based from beginning to end. To date, Seven Step has made 17,000 successful hires for its clients with an average time-to-fill of only 35 days, which is close to 25 percent lower than the industry average. The company consistently scores very high in customer satisfaction. More information about Seven Step may be found at www.sevensteprpo.com.

Several of our clients are planning to attend as well. If you're curious, ask us to introduce you. We'll walk away while you ask our client all about their experience with Seven Step RPO. (We're pretty sure they'll say good things. We've got a track record of making clients quite happy.)

Then, on Tuesday night, May 24, join us for a special cocktail reception in the Venetian. As the cocktail party's presenting sponsor, we're out to make sure you have a good time. And at Seven Step, we know how to have a good time almost as effectively as we know how to meet complex recruitment challenges!

We're looking forward to seeing you in Vegas!

Seven Step has been talent acquisition partners with GM for a year now, and we’re delighted to see our relationship continue to grow, especially when there are cookies and gifts involved!

The new application process will consolidate three corporate branded career portals into one. New source-tracking capabilities were also created, which will facilitate more focused and effective candidate acquisition/sourcing efforts in the future.

The Seven Step recruitment team is also developing a redesigned recruitment work-flow for the client, making for a more efficient and productive process for addressing their client’s needs.

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