CBC/Radio-Canada Implements Taleo Solutions to Optimize Staffing Management

Successful implementation of Taleo solutions ensures staffing consistency and enhances staffing processes to find quality candidates quickly while increasing retention throughout the entire organization

Toronto and Quebec City– June 30, 2004 – Taleo Corporation, the leading provider of staffing management services and solutions, today announced that CBC/Radio-Canada, Canada's national public broadcaster, has successfully implemented the Taleo suite of solutions to manage enterprise staffing for its workforce.

“As one of Canada’s top employers, with approximately 8,000 English and French employees in offices across Canada, taking advantage of the latest technology to streamline our hiring processes and bring our corporation in line with best practices in the industry was a must,” said George C.B. Smith, CBC/Radio-Canada’s Senior Vice-President, Human Resources and Organization. “Taleo’s solutions have not only made applying for jobs at CBC/Radio-Canada easy and accessible, they have also reduced the time needed to connect well-qualified candidates with hiring managers.”

Taleo Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President Louis Tetu stated, “CBC/Radio-Canada is one of Canada’s largest and most important cultural institutions and we are pleased to be providing enterprise staffing management solutions to help CBC/Radio-Canada find quality candidates through a more efficient and streamlined process.” He continued, “We look forward to working closely with them as a partner in their human capital management efforts and are confident that we will deliver significant value, including increased productivity, retention and quality of hire, with our solutions today and in the future.”

The Taleo Enterprise Staffing Management Suite™ is at work for more than 365,000 registered users in more than 85 countries and includes Taleo Professional™, Taleo Hourly™, Taleo Workforce OnDemand™, Taleo Agency™, Taleo Workforce Mobility™, Taleo Regulatory & Diversity™, Taleo Campus™, Taleo Assessments™, Taleo Integration, and Taleo Staffing Metrics Reporter™. The company’s solutions can be applied to multiple business processes, business cycles, geographic regions, hiring types and staffing models.

About CBC/Radio-Canada

CBC/Radio-Canada is Canada's national public broadcaster and one of its largest cultural institutions. CBC/Radio-Canada reaches Canadians through eight national radio and television networks, its full-service Web sites, local/regional stations and affiliates, the all-news services CBC Newsworld and the Réseau de l’information (RDI), as well as the digital television channel Country Canada, and the continuous music network Galaxie. In addition, CBC/Radio-Canada has forged partnerships with other broadcasters and is a partner in the specialty television services ARTV and The Documentary Channel. Through this array of activities, CBC/Radio-Canada brings diverse regional and cultural perspectives into the daily lives of Canadians in English, French and eight aboriginal languages. CBC/Radio-Canada was included this year in Canada's Top 100 Employers.

About Taleo Corporation

Taleo Corporation (formerly known as Recruitsoft, Inc.), is a leading provider of enterprise staffing management solutions that enable organizations to establish, automate and manage worldwide staffing processes for professional, hourly and temporary staff. Taleo customers use the company’s solutions to enhance the quality, productivity and satisfaction of their workforces. Taleo solutions incorporate resource allocation principles similar to those employed successfully in supply chain management automation to more accurately match total labor demand and supply across complex organizations. Taleo customers include Honeywell, HP, Mercer Human Resource Consulting, P&G, Starbucks Corporation, SUEZ, UnitedHealth Group, Washington Mutual, Yellow Corporation, among many others. Taleo is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

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