Talent Managment
Case Studies
Acxiom Corporation
Acxiom Corporation is a global provider of information and customer management products and services. The NASDAQ-traded, Little Rock, Arkansas-based company uses data, technology and other resources to help some of the world’s largest companies solve business problems and increase their efficiency. Acxiom’s clients include 9 of the top 10 retail banks and 8 of the top 10 telecommunications companies. Acxiom has received recognition from CIO magazine and Information Week magazine for its innovative use of information technology. Revenues for fiscal year 2005 were $1.2 billion. Acxiom has over 6,500 employees and offices in 20 locations worldwide.
ADESA Inc.
ADESA Inc. is a leading provider of wholesale vehicle auctions and related vehicle redistribution services, including automotive financing and salvage auto auctions. The publicly traded, Carmel, Ind.-based organization has six divisions and about 11,000 workers operating from more than 189 locations – most of them whole car and salvage vehicle auction units -- in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
Alaska Airlines
Alaska Airlines is the nation's ninth largest airline carrying more than 12 million customers per year across a route system that spans more than 40 cities and three countries. Originally headquartered in America's hinterland, the company moved to Seattle in the early 70s and has experienced consistent growth ever since both in route and fleet expansion and in the number of employees. Their fleet of 102 Boeing jets is one of the youngest among all major airlines and its reputation for outstanding service consistently earns best U.S. airline recognition from the likes of Travel + Leisure and Conde Nast Traveler magazines.
Allmerica Financial
Vurv is a leader in Web-based enterprise human capital management solutions for corporate HR departments and staffing companies. With Vurv’s sophisticated, “brain-like” search technology, which is incorporated in our hiring software, Allmerica recruiters are able to rapidly identify the best candidates and reduce their time-to-hire. Built on flexible architecture that integrates with existing products, Vurv preserves and leverages Allmerica’s investment in its payroll system.
BearingPoint
BearingPoint, the former consulting arm of KPMG LLC, is the leading provider of integrated systems serving more than 2100 companies worldwide – and nearly half of the Fortune 1000. Its new name underscores BearingPoint’s global commitment to set clear directions for clients so they achieve desired results with their business systems.
Boston Scientific
Boston Scientific (www.bostonscientific.com) is the worldwide leader in medical device manufacturing and is committed to providing alternatives to invasive surgery. Founded in the 1960s, the company has strategically acquired industry-leading companies to amass over $3 billion in revenue -- with much of its growth just in the last two years.
Burnett Personnel Services
Burnett Staffing Specialists is one of the United States' larger regional staffing firms. It fills temporary and permanent positions for companies in clerical, accounting, information technology, sales, human resources, engineering, legal and light industrial categories. Sue Burnett, Founder and CEO, started the company in 1974. She manages the firm with her husband Rusty Burnett, who joined the company in 1976 and serves as the CFO and ITO.
City Public Services
City Public Services (CPS) is by all definitions a top performer: the nation's largest municipally-owned energy company, it offers the lowest rates nationwide and has received the highest financial rating of any American electric system. CPS' vision is to be "the BEST publicly owned energy company" in the United States, and it understands that employee performance is key to achieving its goal.
Fifth Third Bancorp
Fifth Third Bank is a 146-year-old financial services company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Fifth Third has $98.3 billion in assets and over 1,000 full-service banking centers. The bank provides retail, commercial, credit card and investment products and services, and employs a diverse workforce of more than 20,000 dedicated and talented individuals.
Grant Thornton
For more than 80 years Grant Thornton has been delivering The Grant Thornton Experience to their clients – a relentless passion to provide superior service. Founded in 1924 and headquartered in Chicago, Grant Thornton LLP is the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International, one of the six global accounting, tax and business advisory organizations. With 580 offices worldwide, including 50 in the United States, the company offers auditing services, Sarbanes-Oxley expertise, mergers and acquisitions advice, tax services, and business valuations. Grant Thornton rates higher in client satisfaction than any of the top 50 U.S. firms, including the Big 4.
HSBC
With more than $112 billion in managed assets, HSBC is a consumer lender that has served the needs of the middle-market customer for more than 120 years. HSBC is Fortune 500 company that employees more than 33,000 including over 200 recruiters and 5,500 hiring managers.
Leo Burnett
Leo Burnett Worldwide is a top ten global advertising agency and one of the historical giants in its industry. The company was founded at the height of the Great Depression in Chicago, where it remains anchored. Over the past 70 years, it has helped transform Maytag, Heinz, McDonalds and Kellogg’s, among others, into cultural icons. Leo Burnett Worldwide’s creative powers have helped popularize such well-known figures as Tony the Tiger, the Hamburglar, the Marlboro Man and the Altoids muscle man.
Level 3 Communications, Inc.
Level 3 Communications Inc. is an international telecommunications and information services provider. The Broomfield, Colorado-based company draws its name from protocols and standards used to describe Internet networks. Level 3 leases out over 23,000 miles of broadband fiber optic cable to some of the world’s largest communications companies, including AT&T, MCI, Qwest Communications and AOL. Its two subsidiaries, Software Spectrum and I-Structure offer business-to-business software services and IT infrastructure outsourcing services respectively. Level 3 revenue in 2004 was $3.7 billion.
MedCath
MedCath, a national healthcare provider primarily focused on cardiovascular services, has a focused mission: to redefine the way cardiovascular care is delivered in the United States. While each of MedCath’s majority owned hospitals is licensed as a general acute care hospital, they focus on serving the unique needs of patients suffering from cardiovascular disease.
Mission Hospitals
Tucked away on a 90-acre hilltop campus in the mountains of Asheville, North Carolina is Mission Hospitals, a regional medical referral center for the western quarter of the state and parts of several adjoining states. Ranked as one of the country's top 100 hospitals by Solucient, an Illinois-based provider of health-care information, Mission Hospitals improves the lives of patients through cutting-edge technology and the highest standards of patient care.
MSI International
MSI International is a major recruiting firm that places top talent around the world. Working from eight offices, mostly situated in the Southeastern United States, the majority of their placements are permanent and cover the healthcare, information technology, engineering, construction, banking and financial services industries and others. Among MSI International's clients are Fortune 500 firms, large publicly traded companies and privately held organizations.
Opportunity International Savings and Loans Limited
Opportunity International Savings and Loans Limited (Opportunity Ghana) is a non-bank financial institution dedicated to serving the poorest of the working poor. Licensed by the Central Bank of Ghana, the organization provides loans, deposits, and other financial services to micro and small entrepreneurs who have traditionally been excluded from banking and financial services. Opportunity Ghana was born of the belief that a transformational, formal financial institution was required to make a lasting economic impact on the entrepreneurial poor in Ghana.
Porsche
In September of 1984, Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (PCNA), became the exclusive importer, marketer, and distributor of Porsche automobiles for the United States. PCNA is a wholly- owned, indirect subsidiary of Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche AG. PCNA assumed distribution operations for Canada on January 1, 1995, when it established Porsche Cars Canada Ltd. (PCCL). PCCL, with an office in Toronto, sells Porsche automobiles, parts and accessories through its Canadian dealers. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, PCNA has three service training centers, five ports of entry and a network of "field" employees who are located in major cities throughout the U.S., providing sales, service, and parts support to 215 Porsche dealerships. Today, PCNA has approximately 350 North American personnel, all committed to providing the kind of dealer and customer support for which Porsche has long been known for.
Tiva Healthcare
Tiva Healthcare is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sheridan Healthcare, both of which are based in Sunrise, Florida. Tiva's staff recruits anesthesiologists, neonatologists and emergency room physicians for temporary and long-term positions with Sheridan and at medical organizations around the country. About 80 percent of Tiva's clients are hospitals.
Wynn Resorts
During the past two decades, Arte Nathan has built a reputation as one of Las Vegas' most innovative human resources professionals. In 2005, he faces his greatest challenge ever as Chief Human Resources Officer for the new Wynn Casino - at $2.7 billion, the biggest casino launch ever. Nathan's new high-tech, high- touch approach to volume recruiting may just change the game in Vegas and beyond.
