State and Local Government

The Challenge | The Solution | The Results

The Challenge

Meet Your Challenges with Taleo

Taleo for State and Local Government provides leading state and local government agencies with on demand talent management solutions to assess, acquire, develop, and align their talent to provide better public service for their communities. Taleo provides a comprehensive suite of talent management solutions:

• Establish your city, state, county, or department as an employer of choice with compelling career sites.
• Take advantage of advanced sourcing tools and proven recruiting methods.
• Boost employee retention and development with performance management, career planning, succession planning, and goals alignment.
• Manage your existing talent and effectively compete for the best and brightest young workers.

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The Solution

Processes for Better Government Performance

Taleo for State and Local Government is built on the leading on demand talent management platform. You get the flexibility to adapt our solutions to your recruiting and performance management strategy. You also get the agility to change your processes to fit your ongoing needs. Taleo Enterprise Edition™ solutions helps you manage different career sites, hiring processes, and position descriptions with ease and simplicity for superior public service.

Recruiting: Hire the Best People

• Online Requisition Management: Manage all of your open positions with online hiring manager and HR access to route, approve, and review requisitions.
• Next Generation Candidate Portal: Show your candidates why they should work with your organization and provide them with immediate online status updates.
• Recruitment and Candidate Sourcing Tools: Post open requisitions to your career site and job boards. Use a variety of tools and methods to find the right people.
• Screening, Assessment, and Selection Capabilities: Powerful four-tier screening and assessment capabilities help you define exact requirements to match candidates precisely.
• Applicant Tracking: Rated in the Leaders Quadrant of the Gartner e-Recruiting Magic Quadrant, Taleo provides you with industry leading applicant tracking functionality.
• Certifications: Once you have your top candidates identified, you can produce your certificate of eligibles, share it with your hiring managers, and keep it for your records.
• Onboarding: Cut down on paperwork and get your new hires onboard and productive quickly.

Performance: Manage People to Drive Projects

• Performance Management: Go beyond annual performance reviews by giving your managers the tools to view team performance information quickly and easily.
• Goals Management: Align your people to the goals, objectives, and projects that are critically important to your community.
• Career Management: Engage your employees by giving them a vision of what their career can look like and the power to make it happen.
• Succession Planning: Make sure you know where your leaders and top performers of tomorrow are coming from and when they will be ready.

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The Results

Efficiency, Consistency and Cost Reductions

With a full suite of talent management tools built on a single platform, all your talent solutions from applicant tracking to goals management will share common components to leverage competencies, reporting, analytics, integration, and self-service configuration tools.

City, state and local governments rely on the Taleo on-demand talent management platform to deliver:

• Improved process efficiency.
• Higher quality of hire.
• Better constituent service.
• Dramatic cost reductions.
• Higher workforce productivity.
• Larger candidate pools.
• Stronger employer branding.
• More efficient use of resources.

Deliver Higher Performance at Your Government

Leading public and private sector organizations experience dramatic results and realize significant value with Taleo. Thousands of organizations have achieved quantifiable results through process efficiency, consistency, and ROI such as:

• Employer of Choice: Promotion your city, state, or county online as an employer of choice. Compete more effectively for the talent you need—hiring, developing, and retaining public servants with the right skills, experience, and attitude.
• Better Technology: Increase taxpayer value with efficient streamlined processes and state-of-the-art technology. Run our on demand solutions over the Internet with security, scalability, and reliability-with no capital investment or IT maintenance required.
• Consistent and Auditable Processes: Mitigate risk by providing a transparent and fair employment process to all residents so you can reduce potential lawsuits and associated legal costs.
• A Performance-Driven Culture: Use advanced solutions to conduct performance reviews, create succession plans, and align goals throughout your organization.

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