Kenexa

Kenexa, an IBM Company
Subsidiary
Industry Employment solutions
Founded 1987
Founder Nooruddin S. Karsan, Co-Founder, Rhea Varghese, Co-Founder, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Headquarters Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States
Revenue $154M (USD)
Number of employees
 2600
Parent IBM
Website www.kenexa.com

Kenexa, an IBM Company provides employment and retention solutions to assist organizations in hiring and keeping workers. It offers recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) (which assists in global recruiting);[1] onboarding solutions (form management for electronic signature, legal documents and workflow tracking); employee assessment, abilities assessment for emplyoment candidates (Kenexa Prove It[2]); and Kenexa Interview Builder, a structured interview archive with example questions.

History

In 1987, Kenexa began by providing recruitment services. Within the first decade of operation, the firm creating its first automated recruiting management system, and provided employee research and employee performance management integrated with on-demand software.

By 1998, the company had purchased fifteen organizations, allowing them to offer on-demand human capital management services.During the next 3 years, the firm acquired four additional companies and thus was able to offer employee screening, behavioral assessment and skills testing products.

In 2005, the company realized its initial public offering followed by the acquisition of BrassRing LLC, Gantz Wiley Research, Knowledge Workers Inc., Psychometric Services and Webhire, which preceded the purchase of HRC Human Resources Consulting GmbH and StraightSource in 2007, which expanded their business in Europe.

From 2008-2009, Kenexa expanded to 30 offices in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America. The company also took control of Quorum International Search Limited. This was followed in 2010 by Kenexa's acquisitions of the Centre for High Performance Development and Salary.com.[3][4]

On August 27, 2012, it was announced that Kenexa had been acquired by IBM for $1.3 billion.[5] The acquisition was closed on December 4, 2012 and Kenexa became known as Kenexa, an IBM Company with approximately 2,800 Kenexa employees in 21 countries joining IBM.[6]

Divisions

Brassring LLC, Founded in 1999 in Waltham, Massachusetts,, is a provider of candidate searching, hiring strategy, skills management and outsourcing software solutions.[7]

The Centre for High Performance Development , founded in 1996 in London, England, is a management training company that offers human resources consultancy, leadership development and management training.[8]

Gantz Wiley Research, founded in 1986, and located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is a survey data analysis firm which conducts surveys of employees and clients for customers ranging from banks to discount stores.[9][10] The company was responsible for creating the WorkTrends database of employee survey results, which looked at subjects such as customer relations, employee engagement, and leadership.[9]

Knowledge Workers, Inc. of Englewood, Colorado,[11] founded in 1985, supplies technology assistance and human resource consulting to government agencies.[12]

Salary.com, Inc. is a compensation and human resource management solutions company in the United States human capital software as a service (SaaS) market. The company's services are used by compensation professionals for compensation planning.[13]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Kenexa Corporation | Company Profile from Hoover’s". Hoovers.com. Retrieved 2015-10-08.
  2. ↑ Archived March 27, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ "IBM Smarter Workforce". Kenexa. 2015-04-30. Retrieved 2015-10-08.
  4. ↑ Archived November 26, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ↑ "I.B.M. Snaps Up Kenexa". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-10-08.
  6. ↑ "IBM Smarter Workforce". Kenexa. 2015-04-30. Retrieved 2015-10-08.
  7. ↑ "IBM Kenexa BrassRing Inc.: Private Company Information - Businessweek". Investing.businessweek.com. Retrieved 2015-10-08.
  8. ↑ "Centre for High Performance Development Limited: Private Company Information - Businessweek". Investing.businessweek.com. 2010-07-26. Retrieved 2015-10-08.
  9. 1 2 "Kenexa Corporation KNXA description of business". Hotstocked.com. 2015-10-02. Retrieved 2015-10-08.
  10. ↑ Archived November 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
  11. ↑
  12. ↑ https://web.archive.org/20110930144239/http://www.nasscom.in/Nasscom/templates/NormalPage.aspx?id=43381. Archived from the original on September 30, 2011. Retrieved March 24, 2011. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  13. ↑ "Salary.com, Inc.: CEO and Executives - Businessweek". Investing.businessweek.com. Retrieved 2015-10-08.
  14. ↑ "You searched for bakers dozen customer satisfaction ratings 2010". HRO Today. Retrieved 2015-10-08.
  15. ↑ "Fast Tech Newcomers". Forbes. Retrieved 2015-10-08.
  16. ↑ "Best of the Bunch". Hreonlnie.com. Retrieved 2015-10-08.
  17. ↑ "Best Talent Management Software | 2015 Reviews of the Most Popular Systems". Capterra.com. Retrieved 2015-10-08.

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