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Company Also Featured as December’s Issue Cover Story, “PeopleScout: Realigning the Pillars of the RPO Industry”

Chicago, IL – December 28, 2015 – HR Tech Outlook, a magazine that monitors today’s trends in HR technology solutions, has ranked PeopleScout as a Top 10 Recruitment Software Provider in its December 2015 issue. A distinguished panel including CEOs, venture capitalists, chief information officers, analysts, human resource specialists and the magazine’s editorial board chose providers with the capability to fulfill the need for cost-effective and flexible solutions “that add value to the HR landscape.”

PeopleScout is also the subject of the issue’s cover story, “PeopleScout: Realigning the Pillars of the RPO Industry.”  The article provides insight from PeopleScout on the company’s RPO solutions, including the technology that led it to being honored by the magazine as a top source of recruitment software solutions.

Jane Hussey, Managing Director of PeopleScout’s Australia and New Zealand region, says a primary reason PeopleScout was chosen by HR Tech Outlook is Springboard^™, the company’s proprietary applicant tracking system (ATS) and customer relationship management (CRM) software.

“Springboard^™ is a unique offering and it dramatically improves the efficiency of our clients’ overall recruitment process,” Hussey said.  “It’s customizable to meet changing client needs and has a rich set of features that make it extremely valuable as an all-in-one recruitment tool for sourcing, processing, and onboarding candidates. It also provides efficient solutions for human resource information systems, which makes Springboard^™ one of the most versatile HR technology solutions available.”

Another reason for PeopleScout’s recognition from HR Tech Outlook is its Higher Insights^™ recruitment analytics tool, which leverages big data received from the Springboard™ software, PeopleScout Senior Vice President Gerry Sullivan explained.

“Higher Insights^™ has helped several of our clients pinpoint areas for improvement and quickly restructure specific roles in order to maximize business productivity,” Sullivan said.  “For example, the information gleaned through Higher Insights^™ helped one of our clients in the travel and hospitality industry quickly restructure their crucial customer service roles and lower turnover by 30 percent. It also led to an 18 percent increase in sales productivity per associate.”

PeopleScout understands that technology has an important role in streamlining all recruitment processes. The development of recruitment technologies is one of the fastest growing trends in HR, and HR technology is currently providing the largest impact in RPO innovation.

“The ability to collect and analyze HR data is absolutely crucial to modern business,” said PeopleScout President Taryn Owen. “The talent pool is constantly shifting, and our technology solutions are constantly adapting in order to take our clients’ businesses to the next level.”
A digital copy of the December HR Tech Outlook magazine is available at http://www.hrtechoutlook.com/magazines/December/2015/.

More information about PeopleScout’s customizable and dynamic HR technology solutions can be found on the PeopleScout website, www.peoplescout.com.

About PeopleScout
PeopleScout, a TrueBlue Company, is a trusted global recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) provider offering full service support in nearly every industry & skill vertical. Headquartered in Chicago, IL and Sydney, Australia, PeopleScout provides innovative RPO solutions including enterprise, full cycle, partial cycle & project RPO as well as Recruiter On-Demand™, a contract solution designed by PeopleScout.
PeopleScout’s suite of services also includes employer branding, mobile optimization, sourcing, interviewing, candidate care, onboarding, ATS & CRM/Talent Community & reporting & analytics through PeopleScout Higher Insights™ for fully customized solutions. PeopleScout helps its clients make tens of thousands hires annually across a variety of industries & skill sets & improves quality of hire for companies with exempt & non-exempt hiring needs worldwide.

CHICAGO, November 18, 2015 — PeopleScout, a TrueBlue Company and a leading global recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) provider, announced today its integration with HRX, an Australia-based Recruitment and HR Solution Specialist. The change was announced at HRX’s Innovation Forum which took place in Sydney on Nov. 18. PeopleScout said the integration with HRX, whose locations will now be branded as PeopleScout | HRX, comes as part of its One Global PeopleScout initiative to increase its global footprint, which correspondingly includes the launch of a new website.

RPO is a fast-growing market in which companies retain providers such as PeopleScout and HRX to fill permanent jobs in their workforces. PeopleScout and HRX, whose clients include some of the world’s best-known companies, fill hundreds of thousands of positions annually. Since the HRX team became part of the PeopleScout group last year, it has added tremendous value through talent, technology, innovation and world-class global client delivery. The further integration of HRX means PeopleScout’s Asia Pacific headquarters will be based in Sydney, Australia. With an existing presence in the Latin America, Europe and Asia, the addition of the Sydney headquarters further solidifies PeopleScout’s position as a competitive global player.

“We’re quite excited about further integrating with PeopleScout’s worldwide operations and sharing our collective values and expertise with clients around the globe,” HRX Managing Director Nicole Cook said. “Our clients will continue to work with the talent professionals they know and trust, and we will now be in a position to offer them a more robust workforce to fill their RPO needs and also provide services to their locations elsewhere in the world.”

As a part of the One Global PeopleScout initiative, PeopleScout has elevated its corporate website to complement the integration of the HRX team. The organization’s crisp, new aesthetic fully embodies the global future of PeopleScout, as well as the caliber of expertise and service delivery. PeopleScout’s new website features rich content around PeopleScout’s new global capabilities, presents an upgraded suite of solutions and industry thought leadership, and features an enhanced career center.

“Our One Global PeopleScout initiative supports our dedication to providing best-in-class service, no matter where our clients are located,” said Taryn Owen, President of PeopleScout. “The talent and solutions HRX offers significantly increase our ability to serve our customers on a global scale. We are proud to present our new website which fully reflects our unified position in the global marketplace and our commitment to excellence in innovation.”

More information about PeopleScout is now available at www.peoplescout.com.

About PeopleScout
PeopleScout, a TrueBlue Company, is a trusted global recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) provider offering full service support in nearly every industry & skill vertical. Headquartered in Chicago, IL and Sydney, Australia, PeopleScout provides innovative RPO solutions including enterprise, full cycle, partial cycle & project RPO as well as Recruiter On-Demand™, a contract solution designed by PeopleScout.
PeopleScout’s suite of services also includes employer branding, mobile optimization, sourcing, interviewing, candidate care, onboarding, ATS & CRM/Talent Community & reporting & analytics through PeopleScout Higher Insights™ for fully customized solutions. PeopleScout helps its clients make tens of thousands hires annually across a variety of industries & skill sets & improves quality of hire for companies with exempt & non-exempt hiring needs worldwide.

CHICAGO, September 21, 2015 — PeopleScout has earned one of the highest rankings for customer service among recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) firms according to the 2015 edition of HRO Today Magazine’s annual Baker’s Dozen list, the company announced today. PeopleScout, one of the world’s largest RPO providers, was ranked second worldwide in overall score through feedback from buyers and achieved the top score for breadth of service.

“Being distinguished as one of the elite companies in the world, based on customer satisfaction, is a great testament to PeopleScout’s ability to continuously satisfy and exceed the expectations of our clients,” said Taryn Owen, President of PeopleScout. “HRO Today has recognized us for ten years in a row as an industry leader on its Baker’s Dozen list, which illustrates PeopleScout’s ability to drive measurable results in partnership with our valued clients.”

The Baker’s Dozen list from HRO Today Magazine ranks RPO providers based on confidential surveys given to 900 HR executives who represent a broad spectrum of RPO buyers. The survey ranked 23 RPO providers according to pre-determined and weighted indexes, including breadth of services, size of the programs managed, and the quality of service provided. PeopleScout’s overall score was less than four-tenths of a point out of the leading position.

“It is with great pride that we recognize PeopleScout as second overall among the annual HRO Today Baker’s Dozen Customer Satisfaction Ratings,” said Elliot Clark, CEO and Chairman of SharedXpertise, Publishers of HRO Today. “PeopleScout has made great strides in service delivery this year, made clear by their additional recognition as number one in Breadth of Service.”

About PeopleScout
PeopleScout, a TrueBlue Company, is a trusted global recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) provider offering full service support in nearly every industry and skill vertical. PeopleScout provides innovative RPO solutions including enterprise, full cycle, partial cycle, and project RPO, as well as Recruiter On-Demand™, a contract solution designed by PeopleScout. PeopleScout’s suite of services also includes employer branding, mobile optimization, sourcing, interviewing, candidate care, onboarding, ATS and CRM/Talent Community, and reporting and analytics through PeopleScout Higher Insights™ for fully customized solutions. PeopleScout helps our clients make tens of thousands hires annually across a variety of industries and skill sets, and improves quality of hire for companies with exempt and non-exempt hiring needs worldwide.

Chicago, IL – March 31, 2015 — PeopleScout, one of the world’s largest recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) providers, has been recognized among the 2015 top Leadership 500 by Leadership Excellence Magazine for Service Delivery in Recruitment Process Outsourcing. The Leadership 500 Excellence Awards Program (LEAD2015), held at the Four Seasons Resort & Club in Dallas, TX at the end of March, featured a keynote address by former President Bill Clinton as well as presentations from several New York Times bestselling leadership authors.

For over 30 years, Leadership Excellence has been identifying and recognizing the top 500 leadership organizations and their development programs through their yearly ranking publication of the same name. Previous honorees have included GE, Mastercard and DDI. The LEAD2015 conference assembles a subset of the world’s top leaders and broadcasts their stories and presentations live globally to chambers of commerce, schools, corporations, associations and non-profit organizations who then add their own localized leadership content. Highlights from this event will be captured and shared on the LEAD2015’s YouTube channel and will be made available in every country. The 2015 award winners are featured in the April edition of the Leadership Excellence Essentials.

“LEAD2015 is committed to providing access to the top thought leaders in today’s business world for those who otherwise might not be able to receive their message. Moreover, PeopleScout being chosen for this honor is a great source of pride for us as an organization.” said PeopleScout President Taryn Owen. “The foundation of our business is rooted in the same principles of leadership, continuing education, professional development and growth and we are truly appreciative of this recognition.”

About PeopleScout
PeopleScout, a TrueBlue company, is one of the world’s largest recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) provider, offering services aimed at helping companies improve quality of hire for their exempt and non-exempt hiring needs. PeopleScout’s suite of services includes RPO, employment branding, on-boarding, career counseling, and employee retention. Facilitating over 250,000 annual hires worldwide, PeopleScout serves businesses of all industries.

Chicago, IL – November 11, 2014 – PeopleScout, one of the world’s largest recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) providers, has been named a Military Friendly® Employer by G.I. Jobs magazine. This list identifies companies across the nation that possess the strongest employment opportunities and retention programs for transitioning veterans and veteran spouses seeking employment.

“Our Military Friendly Employers list, now in its 12th year, constitutes those companies consistently hiring from the military community and offering leading programs to support service members and spouses,” said Sean Collins, Vice President for Victory Media and a nine-year Navy veteran. “Our 2015 Military Friendly Employers reported hiring more than 155,000 service members and spouses over the last 12 months, an increase of more than 35 percent over last year. This isn’t a new hiring pledge─it’s an update of ongoing hiring activities from the leaders in post-military employment.”

Those named to the 2015 list represent over 180 companies from diverse industries ranging from healthcare to retail. Each year, hundreds of organizations vie for the opportunity to bear the Military Friendly Employer mark. The chosen organizations all share a dedication to the excellence in military recruiting and offering best-in-class programs in support of their veteran employees.

PeopleScout was selected based upon a deep analysis of veteran hiring initiatives and policies, including percentage military new hires, strength of veteran recruiting programs, veteran retention programs and National Guard and Reserve service policies. This achievement places the company in the top 2 percent of employers considered for the honor.

“We are exceedingly proud and excited to be recognized as a Military Friendly Employer,” PeopleScout President Taryn Owen said. “Veteran advocacy is core to our mission at PeopleScout and we are honored to have our efforts acknowledged at this level of prestige.”

Having placed more U.S. Military veterans in full-time employment than any other recruitment firm in the world, PeopleScout serves as a prime example of veteran advocacy. PeopleScout has created a unique system called the Veteran Talent Exchange (VTE) whereby veterans seeking employment will gain a broader opportunity to be placed into the right position for them. The VTE serves over 5,000 veteran candidates and connects them to its many respected partners. PeopleScout is a longtime proponent of military employment and has helped numerous clients establish formal veteran hiring programs and increase veteran hires.

About PeopleScout
PeopleScout, a TrueBlue company, is one of the world’s largest recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) providers, offering services aimed at helping companies improve quality of hire for their exempt and non-exempt hiring needs. PeopleScout’s suite of services includes RPO, employment branding, on-boarding, career counseling, and employee retention. Facilitating over 250,000 annual hires worldwide, PeopleScout serves businesses of all industries.

Chicago, IL – October 13, 2014 – PeopleScout, the world’s largest recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) provider, will be the lead sponsor and among the 40-plus employers in attendance at the Boston Recovering Warrior Employment Conference, where wounded, injured and ill veterans and their caregivers will have the opportunity to interview for new career opportunities.

The conference, to be held Oct. 14-15 at the Back Bay Event Center in Boston, is hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Hiring Our Heroes program and Wounded Warrior Project. This conference will mark Hiring Our Heroes’ 800th hiring event since the program’s inception in 2011.

The first day of the event will focus on interactive employment workshops and one-on-one discussions with human resources professionals. The second day will offer employers a chance to learn more about strengthening their veteran outreach and hiring practices. Nearly 40 wounded veterans have already been selected for 165 total interviews to occur during the conference. Registration remains open to all transitioning service members who wish to attend.

“We are pleased to be supported by an organization that has such a positive impact on this country’s employment climate,” said Marady Leary, Director of Education at Hiring Our Heroes. “PeopleScout’s consistent excellence in finding, hiring and retaining veterans serves as a valuable complement to Hiring Our Heroes’ core mission.”

Carl Vickers, Senior Military Recruiter and Wounded Warrior Project alumni will be at the conference representing PeopleScout, a TrueBlue company. He will interview candidates on behalf of PeopleScout as well as its clients and will also introduce candidates to PeopleScout’s Veteran Talent Exchange, a unique platform matching over 5,000 veterans to jobs with a variety of partnered employers.
“These individuals sacrificed a great deal to serve this country; it is a distinct honor and a privilege to have the opportunity to serve them in return,” said Patrick Beharelle, President and COO of TrueBlue Outsourcing Solutions.

The Boston Recovering Warrior Employment Conference will be the first of five Wounded Warrior job fairs sponsored by PeopleScout over the next year. PeopleScout is an established advocate for veterans, having placed more U.S. Military veterans in full-time employment than any other recruitment firm in the world. The company places about 17,600 veterans in jobs annually and in 2013, PeopleScout announced a partnership with Walmart to help reach 100,000 veteran hires in five years. With a team of more than 50 veterans and military spouses, PeopleScout is able focus on the specific needs of veteran candidates.

“Veteran advocacy is at the heart of PeopleScout’s fundamental initiatives,” said Taryn Owen, President of PeopleScout. “We are excited for this event, as well as future chances to a put veterans on a career path.”

About PeopleScout
PeopleScout, a TrueBlue company, is the world’s largest recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) provider, offering services aimed at helping companies improve quality of hire for their exempt and non-exempt hiring needs. PeopleScout’s suite of services includes RPO, employment branding, on-boarding, career counseling, and employee retention. Facilitating over 250,000 annual hires worldwide, PeopleScout serves businesses of all industries.

Chicago, IL – September 12, 2014 – PeopleScout/HRX, the world’s largest recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) provider, announced it has recently received two new honors from both Everest Group and HRO Today Magazine.

Everest Group, a global business advisory firm, named PeopleScout/HRX as a Leader and as a Star Performer in its 2014 Global Recruitment Process Outsourcing PEAK Matrix™ Report. Additionally, PeopleScout/HRX has been ranked the #4 RPO provider worldwide in HRO Today Magazine’s annual Baker’s Dozen list of major RPO firms.

Everest Group’s annual RPO PEAK Matrix™ Report evaluated 22 top RPO providers worldwide on delivery capabilities surrounding scale, scope, technology, delivery footprint, and buyer satisfaction. Everest Group also identified certain providers as the “2014 RPO Market Star Performers.” This recognition was measured by year-over-year growth, number of clients, revenue, and number of hires managed per year. PeopleScout/HRX was among only two providers in the world to be recognized with both accolades.

“Being distinguished as a Leader and as a Star Performer by Everest is a great testament to our dedication to customer service and achieving our clients’ strategic goals,” said Taryn Owen, President of PeopleScout. “This recognition is further affirmation of our team’s best-in-class service.”

HRO Today Magazine’s Baker’s Dozen list ranks RPO providers based on confidential surveys completed by over 900 HR executives. These executives represent a broad spectrum of RPO buyers. Twenty-three RPO providers were rated on three pre-determined indices, each weighted differently, which included breadth of services, size of the programs managed, and the quality of service provided. This is the company’s ninth consecutive appearance on the RPO Baker’s Dozen.

“We take a great deal of pride in providing RPO services that satisfy and surpass the unique needs of each of our clients,” said Jane Hussey, HRX Managing Director. “These honors illustrate our ability to provide and retain great talent for our clients.”

About PeopleScout and HRX
PeopleScout, a TrueBlue company, is the world’s largest recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) provider, offering services aimed at helping companies improve quality of hire for their exempt and non-exempt hiring needs. PeopleScout’s suite of services includes RPO, employment branding, on-boarding, career counseling, and employee retention. Facilitating over 250,000 annual hires worldwide, PeopleScout serves businesses of all industries.

HRX, a TrueBlue company headquartered in Sydney, is the leading recruitment process outsourcing provider in Australia and New Zealand, offering a partnership model that provides strategic sourcing, employment branding, workforce planning and additional services to custom build an end-to-end recruitment solution to meet each client’s specific needs. HRX’s Springboard eRecruitment system is a proprietary applicant tracking system, developed to provide flexibility around complex business models to automate and innovate the recruitment process.

TrueBlue, Inc. announced today that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Seaton Corp., including its PeopleScout, Staff Management | SMX, HRX and StudentScout service lines.

“We are pleased to have these respected and industry-leading brands join TrueBlue along with their talented employees,” TrueBlue CEO Steve Cooper said. “We can now offer a broader range of specialized solutions to help clients better manage their workforce.”

Cooper said TrueBlue will expand many of the centralized practices used by PeopleScout and Staff Management | SMX to support the company’s strategy to deliver its staffing services through a smaller branch footprint.

“Our acquisition strategy has always been about building new competencies,” he said. “The addition of Staff Management | SMX allows us to address the complex needs of customers with large, industrial workforces. Similarly, just as we’ve helped customers increase the productivity of their workforces through access to specialized staffing services, the addition of PeopleScout means customers can now rely on TrueBlue to do the same for recruiting their full-time workforce.”

The acquisition makes TrueBlue the largest industrial staffing provider in the U.S., bringing 2013 pro forma revenue to $2.3 billion.

About TrueBlue:
TrueBlue (NYSE: TBI) is a leading staffing provider that helps over 130,000 businesses be more productive through easy access to dependable temporary labor. TrueBlue provides specialized staffing solutions and onsite workforce management to industries that include construction, manufacturing, transportation, aviation, waste, hospitality, retail, renewable energy and more. Repeatedly recognized as one of Forbes Magazine’s “Most Trustworthy Companies” for its accounting and governance practices, TrueBlue connects approximately 375,000 people to work annually across the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico. Learn more about TrueBlue at www.trueblue.com.

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Today, recruiting and outsourcing firm Seaton hosted U. S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez for a roundtable discussion organized by Skills for Chicagoland’s Future, a signature initiative of Mayor Rahm Emanuel that partners with local employers, such as Seaton, to identify their available hiring needs and matches them with qualified unemployed job seekers in Chicago and Cook County.

Today’s roundtable allowed Secretary Perez to see firsthand the success of the Skills for Chicagoland’s Future program and hear from a variety of its business partners and board members about the value of a demand-driven approach to workforce development. The Secretary also addressed challenges and concerns expressed by business leaders and discussed how his office can offer assistance. Secretary Perez’s visit also included a tour of Seaton’s offices and a meeting with several Seaton employees who were placed in their current jobs through Skills for Chicagoland’s Future.

Seaton CEO Patrick Beharelle sits on the board for Skills for Chicagoland’s Future and to date The Seaton Companies have hired more than 250 employees through the program. “It’s an unfortunate fact that once an individual has been unemployed for a certain amount of time, they are at a disadvantage when competing with employed candidates for jobs. This creates a spiral effect that makes it harder and harder for these people to re-enter the workforce,” Beharelle commented. “We’re proud to be working with Skills for Chicagoland’s Future to change that scenario and I welcome Secretary Perez to our headquarters for an overview of how the program works.”

At today’s event, Secretary Perez expressed his commitment to finding new ways to address the skills gap. “Through an industry-driven model that aligns with the needs of businesses, Skills for Chicagoland’s Future provides job seekers with the opportunity to gain credentials and opportunities that can lead them on a path toward jobs that are in demand today.”

“We are honored to have the opportunity to meet with Secretary Perez and show him firsthand the success of a demand-driven approach to reducing unemployment here in Chicago through our partnerships with companies such as Seaton,” said Marie Trzupek Lynch, president and CEO of Skills for Chicagoland’s Future. “Seaton has been a tremendous partner of ours. The company originally committed to hire 170 unemployed job seekers through our program, and have exceeded that goal, hiring more than 250 to date. We look forward to continuing to work with them in the future.”

About Skills for Chicagoland’s Future

SCF is a signature initiative of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel that partners with local employers to identify their available hiring needs and matches them with qualified unemployed job seekers in the Chicago metro area. Since SCF was launched in September 2012, it has generated 750 hiring commitments and more than 500 placements. SCF provides recruitment, placement and training services at no cost to the job seeker.www.skillsforchicagolandsfuture.com

About Seaton

Headquartered in Chicago, Seaton is a $580+ million outsourcing and recruiting company that operates under the Staff Management, StudentScout and PeopleScout brands and was recently recognized as America’s #1 job creator among privately held companies. Founded in 1988, the firm now has over 25,000 employees and operates in more than 60 countries; and since 2009, the firm has more than doubled in size. www.seatoncorp.com

Press Contacts

Jennifer Hutchison at jennifer_hutchison@jtpr.com, 312-573-5468 for Skills for Chicagoland’s Future
Gerry Sullivan at gsullivan@peoplescout.com, 312-915-5036 for Seaton