Atlanta-based Fitability Systems, LLC is a leading online recruiting and assessment company. Founded in May of 1999 by executives with experience recruiting, qualifying and deploying large sales forces, the Company is dedicated to developing innovative solutions to the $2 billion e-recruiting industry. Its primary service, enables the Company, as an application service provider (ASP), to deliver the most complete online recruiting solutions for corporations. Fitability provides solutions to hiring managers and human resource departments that are being overwhelmed by the tight labor market, the overload of Internet-submitted resumes, and the need to assess the applicants prior to an interview.

Fitability provides hiring managers and recruiters with a technique that assists automation of human resource departments and improve their selection process — allowing them to make better hiring decisions. Fitability helps clients find people who fit their companies and avoid the cost of bad hires.

The Company works with its customers to customize their hiring criteria for sales people, directs potential candidates to the site for an “online interview” and then Fitability makes a recommendation to the client as to how well the candidate matches the targeted profile. Fitability’s product is viewed as benefit to both the hiring company and the candidate. Fitability helps the candidate find a job that he/she will enjoy and hopefully stay with. In addition, Fitability’s customer finds candidates that “fit” their organization and reduces the ever-growing attrition rate.

Today Fitability is able to serve small firms as well as companies that have large-scale sales force requirements. Clients include Oracle, MediaOne/AT&T, Ameritech, Inter-Tel, Sands Brothers Investments, W.W. Grainger, Xeta Technologies, and ITC^DeltaCom. There are currently more than 450 users deployed or in the implementation process.

Fitability addresses the daunting problem today’s hiring managers face in filtering through more than 20 million resumes on the Internet as well as the hundreds they receive daily. Fitability focuses on the job description and its requirements to find the person who is the absolute best fit. This means that companies not only hire the right people but also can experience an increased retention rate resulting from the better "fit.”

Fitability’s system is 100% Web-based and requires no additional software, server installation or maintenance. It can be configured easily to each company's specific requirements.

Fitability provides over 750 Job Templates, each with a Job Fit Profile based on persons who are effective in the job. The candidate management and information service empowers a hiring manager to profile, assess, match, and communicate with potential candidates for positions available within the company. With Fitability, hiring managers send potential sales hires to that site where they participate in a 12-15 minute on-line “interview,” and then produces a report on the candidate and how he or she compares to the Job Fit Profile.

Fitability communicates via email with each potential candidate, keeping the process moving and keeping the hiring manager informed along the way. The system also delivers an interview guide on the position that can help younger, less experienced hiring managers become better interviewers. This whole process is done via the Internet, from wherever the potential recruit and the hiring manager happen to be. Managers get a “preview” of the person before they invest time interviewing them. The results are that Fitability allows companies to:

• hire better people faster
• make fewer “bad” sales hires (resulting in fewer open territories)
• lower turnover
• lower recruiting and training costs
• obtain better sales performance versus quota.

Fitability’s service involves five major sub-applications:

• Job Fit Profiles - A set of profiles based on Fitability's database of over 125,000 test results.
• Candidate Communications – Fitability’s platform allows the hiring manager or recruiter to establish contact with the candidate, direct him/her to Fitability’s on-line interview site, and to pro-actively keep the hiring manager informed as the candidate progresses through the hiring process.
• Online Interview - Facilitates an efficient, effective online interview with the candidate. In less than 20 minutes, Fitability obtains information that helps determine background and experience, salary history, and personality --information that is not on the resume to empower the hiring manager to make better decisions about proceeding with the candidate to the next step.
• Fitability File - When the hiring manager initiates contact with a prospective candidate, a "Fitability File" is created for that candidate. All assessment, matching, background, and interview information is compiled in that folder and is accessible on a secured basis by managers and executives throughout the organization. The file includes an interview guide as well as interviewing instructions and tips. The Fitability File can be forwarded to other authorized persons as needed.
• “My Candidates” Page - The entire process is managed by the hiring manager from his/her unique “My Candidates” Page. From this screen, the manager can track candidates, assign assessments and interviews, review results, and review interview guides and notes.