BROOKFIELD, Wis., Nov. 14, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Pinstripe(r), Inc., a leading recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) and recruitment services firm, today announced the launch of Talent Mindset (www.talentmindset.com), an interactive online community designed to engage human resources (HR) executives and hiring managers in the exploration and implementation of best strategies, practices and tools for recruiting and retaining top talent and staying competitive as employers in the age of the demanding candidate. Talent Mindset is the brainchild of Pinstripe CEO Sue Marks, an industry thought leader with more than 25 years of HR experience.
"Our discussions with various HR executives over the years keep coming back to one principal theme -- the persistent challenge that companies face in identifying, attracting and retaining the best qualified candidates," said Sue Marks, CEO, Pinstripe. "This has become one of the top business issues of our era -- and in many industries, has reached a crisis point -- as traditional methods prove less and less effective in today's increasingly global, interconnected workplace."
The Economist recently called talent "the world's most sought after commodity," citing a Corporate Executive Board poll of senior HR executives in which three-quarters of respondents named "attracting and retaining" as their first priority, with 62 percent worried about company-wide talent shortages. Moreover, respondents expressed grave concerns about the quality of today's candidates.
"What we envision with Talent Mindset is a truly interactive community, bringing together HR practitioners to solve strategic HR issues as well as everyday staffing problems," added Anne Nimke, Pinstripe's President and COO. "This is not about selling services -- it's about building a knowledge base of the best and most innovative ideas and creating a dynamic community that provides fresh, critical thinking on an ongoing basis."
By registering with Talent Mindset, HR professionals can:
-- See how their organizations stack up against the 10 Demandments, a
new set of rules for building and sustaining relationships with
talented potential employees in the age of the demanding candidate
-- Assess their e-recruitment efforts and find out more about how to
integrate best career website practices into their candidate
sourcing and management initiatives
-- Participate in free interactive webcasts with leading HR thinkers
and visionaries
-- Access the Talent Mindset blog, regularly updated with new content,
ideas and opinion
Talent Mindset's next free webcast, "The 10 Demandments -- Rules to Live by in the Age of the Demanding Candidate," will take place on Tuesday, December 5, 2006 at 2 p.m. CST. Sue Marks and Anne Nimke will provide employers with practical insights for applying the Demandments to their relationships with job candidates and applicants. All attendees will receive an executive summary, and webcast participants will also be eligible to win a copy of Kelly Mooney's book, 10 Demandments: Rules to Live by in the Age of the Demanding Consumer.
About Pinstripe
An innovator in recruitment and employment process outsourcing, Pinstripe, Inc. designs, builds and manages talent acquisition and management systems for healthcare, financial services and technology companies. The company's proprietary Requisition-to-Results (R2R(r) platform is the first solution of its kind to integrate recruiting, hiring, on-boarding, and off-boarding practices into a complete, end-to-end outsourced approach to employee acquisition and retention. By partnering with Pinstripe, clients are able to maximize the economic, operational, and strategic benefits of a high performing workforce, while minimizing compliance, security and other risks.
Based in Brookfield, Wisconsin, Pinstripe was co-founded by Susan Marks and Anne Nimke, both 25-year industry veterans who previously established the largest independent staffing company in Wisconsin and HRfirst, an enterprise-wide recruitment process outsourcing firm. Both companies were sold to Kelly Services in 2000. Baird Venture Partners, the U.S.-based venture capital affiliate of investment firm Robert W. Baird & Co., is a major investor in Pinstripe. For more information about Pinstripe, please visit www.pinstripetalent.com.