Press Release

SilkRoad OpenHire Gains Popularity Among Heathcare And Life Sciences Companies

SilkRoad technology inc., the leading provider of enterprise-class, easy-to-use content management and collaboration software, today announced the rapid adoption of its OpenHire Applicant Tracking System among healthcare and life sciences organizations looking to streamline their hiring processes.

Within health and life sciences organizations content with varied recruiting challenges. Hospitals around the country are experiencing high vacancy rates among nursing staff. The dearth of qualified candidates is expected to only get worse as baby boomers age and health care demands grow.

Life sciences companies are facing their own recruiting issues. HR managers are tasked with culling through hundreds of resumes to find the very best talent in the midst of steep hiring growth.

Until now, recruiters have collected resumes in a variety of formats – by email, fax and conventional paper – and maintained them in several different databases.

Using the OpenHire Applicant Tracking System, recruiters gain instant access to the information they need to make fast, informed recruiting decisions. Resumes from various sources are accessible via the web through one central interface, simplifying the recruiting and resource management process. OpenHire’s proprietary technology integrates with email, fax, online job boards, corporate job sites, and internal Intranets, eliminating the time and cost of importing resumes into a database. 

OpenHire has significantly reduced cost-per-hire while improving efficiency at numerous organizations. It has gained popularity among health care and life sciences organizations focused on optimizing HR activities. For example:

Colorcon, a division of Berwind Pharmaceutical Services, Inc., manufactures specialty chemicals for the pharmaceutical industry. Recruiting is often a challenge in their niche market. The company now uses OpenHire for true applicant tracking.

Intuitive Surgical, a developer of operative surgical robotics, evaluated numerous vendors, and selected OpenHire. Intuitive anticipates immediate utilization of the automated resume retrieval function.

Perrigo Company, a provider of generic pharmaceuticals, selected the
OpenHire Applicant Tracking System based on its intuitive user interface and the company's recruiting expertise. Perrigo plans to roll out OpenHire software in kiosks that will help automate the internal applicant process.

Dendrite International provides diversified sales, marketing, clinical and compliance solutions to the global life sciences and pharmaceutical industry. Using OpenHire, they are able to process resumes automatically in real time.

These companies join a prestigious group of life sciences organizations that are currently leveraging OpenHire to manage their recruiting processes. Some of these clients include Smith & Nephew, Orthofix, GEHA, Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare, Colorcon, Premier Healthcare and SBLI.

“OpenHire is a great fit for us,” said Michele Farhat, Corporate Recruiter at Perrigo Company. “Our industry is quite dynamic and constantly changing. To keep up, we need a hiring system that can support our recruitment needs. We believe OpenHire will deliver.”

OpenHire accepts and organizes incoming applications from multiple sources, and screens applicants using the client’s unique preset criteria. Its real-time reports enable managers to quickly evaluate the effectiveness of applicant sourcing, reduce hiring shortages and support EEO compliance.

“The health care market faces unique challenges in recruiting the best job candidates,” said Brian Platz, general manager of OpenHire for SilkRoad technology, inc. “OpenHire eliminates costly and time-consuming manual processing, freeing HR managers to focus on the candidates themselves. With OpenHire companies are seeing shorter hiring cycles, lower costs per hire, and more satisfied employees.”