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Pharma giant UCB in global recruitment drive

Biopharmaceutical company UCB has launched global revamp of its recruitment processes in partnership with Taleo Corporation.

UCB is a global biopharma company with a team of over 8,500 employees, a market presence in more than 40 countries, and numerous strategic partnerships across the industry.

Due to its global scale, UCB is putting talent intelligence "at the heart of its HR and recruitment function", to ensure that it can understand and unlock the potential of its global workforce.

Taleo has supported UCB's recruitment function since 2006, allowing the company insight into candidates and new hires, and so proved a solid partner for the company when they switched to a global recruitment process outsourcing model. The global capabilities of Taleo Recruiting means that it is ideally placed to assist the outsourced function, helping UCB to source, assess, and hire the best talent on a global scale.

Meanwhile, analytic tools will deliver insight from recruiting data captured throughout the hiring process, and allow UCB to create easy-to-read executive management reports which can help the company to make critical business decisions.

Ben Park, senior director, shared HR knowledge and operations at UCB, said, "Taleo provides us with a solution for our needs and is an investment for us in an area which is key to the success of our company - finding key talents who will bring value to our patients.. It has been a partner to us since 2006, and we are pleased to extend our contract with them and deepen our talent intelligence as a result. As a part of our agreement, all personal privacy rules and registration for the system have been met."