More than half of the DAX 30 list of Germany’s largest businesses use StepStone solutions
London, 11 August 2008 – StepStone (www.stepstone.com), a leading global provider of total talent solutions, today announced three major wins for its solutions business in Germany, with a combined value of €2.5m. Deutsche Telekom, ThyssenKrupp and GEA Group are to implement StepStone’s Total Talent suite of recruitment and talent management solutions on a global basis.
With 242,000 employees and operations in some 50 countries, Deutsche Telekom (DTAG) is one of the world’s leading telecoms and information technology service providers. StepStone has been chosen to manage DTAG’s talent management globally, following an extensive evaluation process, in which StepStone alone could completely fulfil the customer’s specification.
ThyssenKrupp has added e-recruitment capabilities to its existing implementation of StepStone’s talent management solution. The new solution will enable ThyssenKrupp, with 190,000 employees worldwide and revenues of €51bn, to implement a global network of multilingual career sites, and capabilities for managing temporary and contract staff, all linked to a single database.
GEA Group, an existing user of StepStone’s e-recruitment solution, has chosen StepStone’s talent management platform over rival solutions from Europe’s largest vendors, to enable it to manage skills, succession planning and performance management for an employee base spanning 250 operating companies across 50 countries.
Colin Tenwick, CEO of StepStone commented: “Whilst demand for our Total Talent solutions continues to break records, it is particularly pleasing to see our cross-selling strategy achieving such notable successes with three of Europe’s most respected enterprises. StepStone now helps more than half of the DAX 30 list of leading German companies manage talent and recruitment. This is a strong endorsement of our solutions strategy and a telling indication of the sustained appetite for Total Talent management across Europe.”
About StepStone
StepStone was founded in Norway in 1996 and pioneered the development of online recruitment. Today, StepStone is a leading global provider of Total Talent Solutions, ranging from careers websites to on-demand software for e-recruitment and talent management. StepStone’s portfolio of Total Talent Solutions ranges from recruitment through on-boarding, training, career and succession planning, performance management and more. In addition, StepStone is Europe’s number two operator of careers websites (based on ComScore data). Covering 13 European countries, its portfolio of online properties allows recruiters to source candidates quickly and effectively through individually focused campaigns.
Thousands of organisations, including Amey, Aviva, AXA BMW, British Airways, Fiat, Royal Bank of Scotland and Xerox use StepStone's products and services to help them find, recruit, retain and develop qualified staff globally. StepStone is the only European-headquartered vendor to be recognised as a ‘leader’ by Gartner, Inc’s "Magic Quadrant for E-Recruitment Software, 2008” report and has also been awarded the highest rating for Employee Performance Software by Bersin and Associates.
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