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            <title><![CDATA[Runners Point joins other major retail successes for StepStone]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[London, 26 June 2009 - StepStone, Europe&rsquo;s leading provider of human capital management solutions, today announces that Runners Point , a leading sports and leisure footwear retailer in Germany, has implemented StepStone&rsquo;s e-recruitment solution to support recruitment in the 100 stores it operates across the country. Runners Point joins leading global retailers, including Harrods, Carphone Warehouse, Selfridges, Monsoon, Tchibo, Carrefour, 7-Eleven and FatFace, that have implemented StepStone recruitment solutions to build their employer brands and engage with quality candidates. With around 1,000 sports-loving, dedicated and well trained staff, Runners Point prides itself on its range of products and the quality of the advice and service it provides.&nbsp; To maintain its leadership the retailer, headquartered in Recklinghausen, implemented the StepStone platform. &quot;By developing a successful career site and implementing the underlying e-recruitment capabilities, Runners ...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[StepStone highlights opportunities for employees in the slowdown]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Survey highlights five employee &lsquo;demographics&rsquo; &ndash; each with motivations that could be highly attractive to employers in the Cold War for talent. StepStone publishes guide to success in the Cold War for talent, with guidance for employees at every stage in their career. London &ndash; 11 June 2009 &ndash; Employees across Europe may find opportunities to secure their jobs, even improve their chances of promotion, in spite of the slowdown, StepStone claims today. Pressure to cut jobs and reshape the business has led to the emergence of a two-tier approach to HR at many European companies &ndash; a phenomenon StepStone has dubbed the &ldquo;Cold War&rdquo; for talent. As the cold war for talent plays out bosses find themselves announcing redundancies, while they also quietly identify candidates with key skills or aptitudes for recruitment or retention. Drawing on a survey of employees across Europe, the StepStone research highlights five demographic groups, each of which have ...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Worlds first research-based benchmarking tool coaches HR on how to build a successful talent strategy]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[London, UK, 9 June 2009 - A free, research-based benchmarking tool ( www.talentstrategyassessment.com ) demystifying talent management for public and private sector organisations wanting a health check in the discipline has been launched today. The tool has been jointly developed by StepStone, the leading provider of human capital management solutions, and Bersin &amp; Associates, an industry research and advisory services company dedicated to enterprise learning and talent management strategies. With this benchmarking tool, HR executives can quickly assess how their organisations&rsquo; talent strategies compare to those of other organisations &ndash; and pinpoint potential strengths and weaknesses. &ldquo;This is the first time an independent research based, assessment tool has been built around talent strategy for use by HR professionals around the world, highly relevant in these challenging economic times. The tool is aimed at developing the most successful talent management strategy ...]]></description>
            <link>http://www.stepstone.com/EN/news/article/?aID=525</link>        
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            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[StepStone teams up with Philips to deploy integrated Performance and Talent management system]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[StepStone teams up with Philips to deploy integrated Performance and Talent management system London UK, 3 June 2009 - StepStone, a leading provider of Human Capital Management solutions, has announced that Philips is to implement its new ETWeb talent and performance management platform.&nbsp; ETWeb will help Philips retain its world class workforce and plan for future success. Once completed, StepStone&rsquo;s solution will cover around 45,000 Philips employees across more than 60 countries. StepStone&rsquo;s platform will support Philips in better planning, managing and evaluating employees&rsquo; performance and development. The solution will also integrate a talent management module, enabling the health and well being multinational to better manage and track its internal talent, whilst also identifying and developing future leaders. Jef Pauwels, Vice President for Learning and Organizational Effectiveness at Philips, said: &ldquo;We are pleased to have selected StepStone as a partner ...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[SCA implements StepStones global e-recruitment platform to streamline the search for talent]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[London, UK 6 May 2009 &ndash; StepStone, a leading provider of human capital management solutions, today announced that SCA, a leading paper-based consumer goods manufacturer with 52,000 employees, has implemented StepStone&rsquo;s e-recruitment solution to provide a single platform for all internal and external recruitment across 40 countries worldwide. The StepStone solution will enable existing employees and external candidates alike to use one standardised recruitment platform to apply for any SCA vacancy worldwide, for the first time. At the same time, the solution is expected to deliver significant reductions in agency spend, recruitment admin and, most importantly, time and cost per hire. As a result, StepStone will enable SCA&rsquo;s local HR departments to manage larger volumes of candidates more efficiently than before, with the same recruitment resource. The platform has also enabled SCA to fulfill its commitment to its employees by giving them greater control and responsibility ...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[StepStone announces Global Seminar Series HRs Time to Shine]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[London, UK, 28 April 2009 &ndash; StepStone, the leading provider of human capital management solutions, today announced a series of global seminars spanning 21 cities designed to highlight how it&rsquo;s now HR&rsquo;s time to shine. The roadshow will demonstrate how HR departments can take advantage of the slowdown and show their true value by helping their organisation win what StepStone has identified as the Cold War for Talent. A global survey of the world&rsquo;s largest employers, published recently by StepStone, showed that despite widespread redundancies, many organisations are still finding it difficult to recruit and retain top talent. StepStone&rsquo;s seminars, which will take place during May and June visiting cities in the UK, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa and North America, will discuss how HR can increase its positive impact on the business by retaining its greatest talent assets, assess and develop employee skills to optimise internal resources and how to minimise ...]]></description>
            <link>http://www.stepstone.com/EN/news/article/?aID=521</link>        
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            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[StepStone Publishes Q1 / 2009 Results]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Strong operating performance in Q1 despite challenging economic conditions - 16% EBITDA margin and &euro;4.6m cash from operations in Q1 2009 Highlights Revenue of &euro;26.9m EBITDA of &euro;4.2m &ndash; 16% margin &euro;4.6m cash generated from operations Recurring revenues from talent management products up by 30% year on year 32% Online EBITDA margin &ndash; maintained at 2008 levels Operating cost base reduced by &euro;3.8m (14%) between Q4 08 and Q1 09 Results for the quarter StepStone has continued to progress by delivering another profitable quarter generating &euro;4.6m of cash from operations whilst continuing to experience challenging market conditions across all markets in which the company operates. There was continued demand for the enterprise solutions products i-GRasp and ETWeb as customers increasingly sought to maximise returns from their investment in people. Demand for the Online recruitment products, as in the prior quarter, continued to decline as customers review ...]]></description>
            <link>http://www.stepstone.com/EN/news/article/?aID=520</link>        
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            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Firms Still Struggle To Recruit Top Talent Despite Global Job Losses]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[StepStone report urges HR Directors to grasp opportunities as companies look to hire as well as fire in new &lsquo;Cold War for Talent&rsquo; London, 12 March 2009 &ndash; Organisations around the globe are still grappling with recruiting and retaining talented employees despite the number of available workers growing daily as job losses mount worldwide, according to a major global research report of business leaders&rsquo; views released today by StepStone . The Cold War for Talent , researched and prepared by the Economist Intelligence Unit, paints a picture of a very different job market from a year ago, with organisations recruiting talent for key posts on one hand while making redundancies on the other.&nbsp; Pools of retrenched workers are being scoured for top talent and benefits are being reworked to keep talented employees motivated and performing during a tough time. &ldquo;Several commentators have claimed that with the arrival of a global recession the &lsquo;war for talent ...]]></description>
            <link>http://www.stepstone.com/EN/news/article/?aID=513</link>        
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            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[StepStone Publishes Q4 / 2008 Results]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Balanced product portfolio delivers revenue growth in uncertain markets Q4 2008 vs. Q4 2007 Revenue up 9% to &euro;31.0m Solutions delivers 17% revenue growth with 84 new customers Online revenue growth slows to 3% Underlying EBITDA of &euro;4.6m compared to &euro;5.6m Action taken in November to reduce Online cost base by &euro;2m per quarter EBITDA of &euro;2.5m, after &euro;2.1m reorganisation charge &euro;2.3m cash generated from operations Summary Company Q4 2008 revenue was &euro;31.0m, up 9% from &euro;28.6m in Q4 2007. Underlying organic revenue growth excluding acquisitions was 6%. StepStone&rsquo;s strategy is to have a portfolio of products delivered to a wide geographic base of customers. The Software as a Service products generate predictable revenues whilst the online products, which clearly benefit from the long term structural shift from traditional media to online search and matching, are more affected by cyclical changes in demand. There was continued strong demand for ...]]></description>
            <link>http://www.stepstone.com/EN/news/article/?aID=510</link>        
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            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[StepStone Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in Leading Analyst Firms 2009 Employee Performance Management Software Magic Quadrant]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Analyst Evaluation Based on StepStones Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute StepStone, a leading global provider of human capital management solutions, headquartered in Europe, today announced it is positioned in the 'Leaders' quadrant in Gartner, Inc's 2009 &quot;Magic Quadrant for Employee Performance Management Software. 1 According to the report: Leaders had strong product functionality and superior customer experience with the vendor and its products. In addition, leading vendors had strong or emerging multinational solutions (with corresponding service and support). StepStone believes that its profitable financial position, strong global footprint presence, best-in-class capabilities and above average high quality customer support rating solidified StepStones leading position. StepStone also was named a Leader in Gartners most recent Magic Quadrant for E-Recruitment Software 2008, based on the companys completeness of vision and ability to execute. 2 StepStones ...]]></description>
            <link>http://www.stepstone.com/EN/news/article/?aID=508</link>        
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            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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