Half Times Fall 2017 yumpu

chairman’s letter | upfront
TECH BRINGS YOU CLOSER TO
Your Customers
OUR
LEAD
PRINCIPLES
Leadership by Example
Ethics First
An Openness to New Ideas
Dedication to Excellence
2 HALF TIMES
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n August, we launched our redesigned
external websites in the United States
and Canada. Our teams close to the
projects worked many months to
make the new roberthalf.com and
roberthalf.ca realities. But some of you may
wonder why a change was even necessary.
Whenever we design — or rethink — one
of our technology tools, we start with two
goals: to make it easier for you to find
likely clients and candidates, and for them
to find you.
Businesses today really can’t afford not
to offer online service options. Our tools
let companies choose how they work with
us. In fact, we are finding that most of
the job orders we receive online come
from people who have never worked with
us before. That means we’re connecting
with employers whom we might not have
otherwise reached.
OPENING A FAST LANE
Our next goal is to provide the quickest
and most targeted matches possible so that
prospects become loyal customers. When
our technology merges with our personal,
consultative approach, it’s well beyond the
scope of our competitors.
Hiring managers can use Candidate
Browsing to take advantage of improved
matching technology that enables them to
filter search results by distance, education,
relevant skills and related keywords.
It’s now easier than ever for employers
to browse our anonymous candidate
profiles at their convenience — and then
submit a job order online or contact our
professionals for more information.
New features also help candidates. When
they sign up for our job alerts, they can
receive emails the moment we have jobs that
match their qualifications. By early 2018,
our new external websites should have rolled
out in all countries where we have offices.
POWERING PRODUCTIVITY
The redesigned sites are only the newest of
our continued investments in technology.
Our strategy has never been about
giving you one magic bullet that can do
it all. Instead, we want you to rely on the
cumulative power of all the tech tools at
your disposal to help you make the most
productive use of your time.
Take Salesforce, which is now available in
all of our locations worldwide. Performing
your searches in Spotlight, for instance,
can save you time. Because of the
partnerships we’ve forged with job boards
like CareerBuilder, Dice and Monster,
you can easily and quickly locate ideal
matches with a single Spotlight search. I
encourage you to take advantage of its
extra features, such as the Planner and
Job Posting Writer, too.
Making full use of our technology can help
you play an important role in demonstrating
to customers that they can’t get our kind of
service anywhere else. Let’s make working
with us so easy, efficient and results-oriented
that clients and candidates keep coming back.
Max Messmer
Chairman and CEO