Careerify and CGI Payroll Services, a division within CGI Group Inc, are proud to introduce a partnership.  CGI Group Inc. is the fifth largest independent information technology and business process services firm in the world. With approximately 73,000 members located in offices and global delivery centers in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific, CGI offers a comprehensive portfolio of services including high-end business and IT consulting, systems integration, application development and maintenance, infrastructure management as well as a wide range of proprietary solutions.

Careerify will be looking to provide CGI clients with the ability to create a recruiting culture through Careerify’s SMART (Social Media & Referral Technology) platform through an available integration with CGI’s applicant tracking system, Njoyn.  “With over 98% of mid- to large businesses now utilizing social media recruiting, many are looking to significantly enhance their return on investment. Careerify is excited to provide this significant return to CGI Njoyn customers by enabling employees to recruit on behalf of their employers, and leverage their social graph to find the best people.” said Harpaul Sambhi, CEO of Careerify.

About Careerify:

Founded in 2009, Careerify helps companies build a lasting recruitment culture by transforming each employee into recruitment ambassadors. By combining social big data and an engagement platform, Careerify solutions provide HR the ability to market talent acquisition needs through social media, continually engage employees through behavior driven milestones,  and help employees identify the best talent via employee referral within their social graph. Customers include SunGard, Bayer, Emerson, Rent-A-Center, Eloqua and Good Technology. Careerify is a privately held company with offices in Toronto and San Francisco. For more information, please visit us atwww.careerify.net.

About CGI Payroll Services:

CGI provides payroll processing and human resources management services for private Canadian businesses of all sizes. These services allow Canadian businesses to improve their productivity and reduce the costs related to employee management. In collaboration with our business partners, CGI processes payrolls and supports the human resources management of over 28 000 private businesses in Canada. Our services are designed, supported, and operated by 500 members. For more information, please visit www.njoyn.com.

 Careerify is proudly to present to you, “Building a Recruiting Culture” webcast series!

After analyzing 800 companies across North America and EMEA, including 84% of Fortune’s Top Workplaces to Work for, Careerify will be highlighting the best practices around building an effective recruitment culture to drive an engaged workforce to recruit for you.We will be covering companies such as SAS Institute and Google that continually strive for 50% of their hires to come via employees.

In our six-part, 30-minute webcast, we will dive into challenges, solutions and case studies and provide you with practical steps and strategic outline.

Thursday April 4th, 12:30- 1:00 ET: Lack of Employee Engagement in the Recruiting Process

Tuesday April 9th, 12:30- 1:00 ET: Ineffective Employee Referral Program

Thursday April 11th, 12:30- 1:00 ET: Building a Vibrant Recruitment Culture

Tuesday April 16th, 12:30- 1:00 ET:  Driving Social Recruitment via employees

Tuesday April 18th, 12:30- 1:00 ET: Limiting Recruitment Spend

Thursday April 23rd, 12:30- 1:00 ET: Solutions to High Turnover through strategic hires

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Talent Collective is a resourcing consultancy that, over two decades, has helped companies to build and run internal talent acquisition and RPO functions. Talent Collective advises on recruitment strategy, helps organisations to understand and navigate the recruitment technology market, and provides implementation and training services that are delivered with both an eye for innovation but also a deep understanding of what really works.

It is our great pleasure to partner with Talent Collective. Talent Collective helps companies evolve their talent acquisition strategies, implement and get the most out of recruitment technologies, and up-skill internal resourcing teams It is a match made in heaven: Talent Collective is a sought out thought-leader providing services on recruitment culture and Careerify significantly accelerates this culture through an innovative platform. Together, Careerify and Talent Collective provides organizations with the ability to significantly optimize and enhance their talent acquisition business units.

Visit Talent Collective website for more information.

Business relationship empowers further scalability of social recruitment and engagement platform

Toronto, ON – May 17 2012

Social Recruitment Platform Company Announces new Recommendation Engine and Selection for Microsoft BizSpark One Program

As of February 2012, 3,498,000 jobs were waiting to be filled within the U.S; however filling these positions is not a simple undertaking. Sometimes compared to finding a needle in a haystack, sourcing the right mix of talent, qualifications, and fit can be a cumbersome process for recruiters and employers alike. In fact, top CEOs continually rank finding and retaining talent as their company’s #1 priority.

An untapped potential exists in that the right candidate for any company likely exists in their employees’ networks, and is also more likely to stay with the company in the long-term if they are hired through a referral. Careerify, a social recruiting referral platform does just that by helping top companies identify and source talent within their employees’ social and professional networks. Careerify has announced its technology capability expansion with its new Recommendation Engine.

“Social media has become a key source of recruitment, but targeting and sourcing the right candidate can be a difficult task, which is why we’re very pleased to announce our Recommendation Engine that can automatically identify and advise an employee on the right candidates in their networks,” said Harpaul Sambhi, Careerify CEO.

With recent customer wins and a fast-growing technology, Careerify also announced that it was recently selected to join the Microsoft BizSpark One program. The prestigious program identifies a small number of high-potential startups in the Microsoft BizSpark network comprised of more than 45,000 companies from over 100 countries around the world. Companies in the BizSpark One program demonstrate a strong potential to succeed, and shape the industry’s future.

“We’re honored to be recognized by Microsoft, an organization that has unwavering focus on entrepreneurship and innovation,” said Sambhi. “Being provided access to Microsoft business and technology advisors will be extremely beneficial as we continue to expand our capabilities and add new features to our software.”

Microsoft works closely through a one-to-one relationship with high-potential startups in the BizSpark One program, providing customized engagement plans to accelerate their growth including access to technical, marketing and business development resources.

“The BizSpark One program is comprised of some of the strongest startups in the industry,” said Mark Relph, Senior Director of the Strategic and Emerging Business Team at Microsoft. “Careerify has an innovative business model and is poised for success in the HR technology space. We look forward to continuing to work with them through their tremendous growth and development.”

About Careerify:
Careerify is a social recruitment and employee engagement software that allows organizations to connect with their employees’ vast social networks, creating an opportunity to reach millions of candidates, and source the best talent for their business. Located in Toronto and San Francisco, Careerify is enabling mid- enterprise employers across 13 countries to expand their brand to millions.

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The Microsoft 2011 Blue Sky Awards highlight Canadian-centric developer talent

June 9 2011 (Toronto, ON) – Microsoft Canada announced today that Careerify, a leader in social media talent acquisition and employee engagement solutions, is the winner of the 2011 Blue Sky ISV Innovation Excellence Awards.  The award recognizes Careerify for its market-changing approach to solving significant business problems, as well as for its innovative use of leading technologies.  The awards are presented annually by Microsoft Canada Inc.

“We are very excited to see Careerify acknowledged for its innovative social recruitment and employee engagement solution that helps improve corporate branding and lower recruitment costs,” said Harpaul Sambhi, Careerify’s CEO and founder.  “Careerify’s on-demand solutions for recruitment and increased employment brand ultimately empower and engage employees throughout an organization to help improve its overall performance. Making this vision a reality required significant technological innovation.”

Careerify’s innovative use of Microsoft-based software has helped the company build applications with a combination of functionality, usability and scalability in order to become the Groupon for organization’s internally for recruitment.

From Left to Right: Gladstone Grant – VP of Microsoft, Harpaul Sambhi – CEO of Careerify, Markus Steinwender – Software Lead of Careerify, Christian Beauclair – Principal Develop Evangelist – Microsoft Canada

“Microsoft Canada is pleased to name Careerify as our 2011 Blue Sky Award winner,” said Gladstone Grant, vice president, Developer and Platform Group, Microsoft Canada. “In a nation of gifted developers, Careerify’s cloud-based social recruiting platform, built on the Windows Azure platform, has raised the bar of excellence displaying the creativity, innovation and forward thinking that is core to the values of the Awards.”

The Blue Sky Award will enable Careerify to benefit from a customized engagement plan from Microsoft, including access to Microsoft resources in software and business development, to help drive engagement and increase market visibility.

About Careerify Corporation

Careerify is a social talent acquisition and employee engagement software that great organizations use to build their recruitment strategy on.  This platform allows organizations to connect with their employee’s vast social networks, creating a great opportunity to reach millions of candidates and find the best talent from those that you trust most; your employees.This results in less administration, improved tracking, greater visibility to your employment brand all while saving you money. For more information, please visit www.careerify.net.

About The Blue Sky ISV Innovation Excellence Awards

Established in 2008, The Blue Sky ISV Innovation Excellent Awards reward Canadian developers for creative thinking and innovation. The competition offers a platform for showcasing the great talents of Independent Software Vendors from coast-to-coast to an audience of Microsoft experts and other industry voices.  The winning entrant will gain national recognition along with software development support, business development resources and increased visibility within Microsoft.  For more information, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/canada/bluesky/