Everyone's going green these days—including individuals, households, schools, communities and business of all sizes. Even global corporations are rapidly lining up to make commitments in energy reduction and sustainability.

In my household, the heat is on to reduce the use of electricity by allowing more natural light into the home and using less heating and air conditioning. We've switched to CFL light bulbs, even though it's a little harder to read the box scores and stock quotes without reading glasses. Our oldest daughter is a high school senior who plans to study environmental engineering in college. We're taking shorter showers—or in the case of my high school multi-sport athlete son, cutting out showers altogether on some days and using more deodorant. We're going organic and purchasing mega-sizes to reduce the wasteful packaging of smaller servings. And we're even using those non-masculine canvas shopping bags on trips to the grocery store instead of choosing "paper or plastic." All in the name of reducing our individual and collective carbon footprints.

Companies like Taleo are going green as well, but I have to admit I wasn't prepared for what came across the airwaves on a recent Sunday Night Football broadcast. NBC was kicking off their "Green is Universal" initiative to bring more awareness to the environment as both a corporate and a cultural issue.

Playing to this cause, the network unveiled their new green logo during the football game. Then, at halftime, they turned off all of the lights in studio 8G and did the halftime show and the rest of the game accompanied only by candlelight. NBC entertainment chief Ben Silverman also announced that all of NBC's prime-time shows that week would have a story line with an environmental theme.

So what does this have to do with eRecruiting, Software as a Service (SaaS), and on-demand Talent Management solutions? Plenty. By moving from a manual paper process to automated eRecruiting, Taleo can help your organization improve recruiting efficiency, reduce costs, and save trees in the process. It's a great way to help the environment while using talent to drive business performance.

Say goodbye to opening and sorting paper resumes, printing email attachments, and making copies of copies. Say hello to a more effective and greener way of recruiting. Make a commitment to sustainability, boost your employment brand, and differentiate your organization in the recruiting marketplace.

Saving Paper for the Trees

In many communities, paper makes up more than half of all municipal solid waste. Every resume, cover letter, envelope, or photocopy replaced by eRecruiting processes running on career websites cuts the amount of paper going into landfills.

eRecruiting also reduces energy use and pollution associated with manufacturing, transporting, and recycling paper products. Most of all, eRecruiting reduces the need to cut down trees to make new paper. You can calculate your paper savings at www.papercalculator.org.

The Candidate Experience is Happening Online

More candidates than ever before are performing job searches online. Company career websites on the Internet have emerged as the main way to attract, acquire, and hire job applicants. Candidates draw on their consumer web experiences to set their expectations for their online jobseeking experience. Increased consumer web activity, greater talent competition, and environmental awareness have combined to require a sophisticated online recruiting presence if you want to attract and engage top candidates.

Process Savings with Career Sites

Your online career site becomes a recruiting portal for digital data flowing into your eRecruiting system. Then you can reduce administrative overhead and process costs with self-service candidate information, eliminate duplicate data entry, simplify candidate short-list creation through automated prescreening, and streamline the staffing process.

With a career website, the impact of automated best practices goes far beyond posting jobs to create real value—another kind of green—for organizations that want to meet staffing and talent management goals more efficiently and effectively.

Energy Savings with SaaS Technology

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications running in a multi-tenant environment like Taleo tend to be greener than on-premise software and servers. Multi-tenancy delivers more efficient power utilization per customer resulting in a smaller carbon footprint. Subscribing to Taleo, the on demand SaaS leader in talent management, means you join more than 1,000 other organizations in helping reduce carbon emissions instead of powering more servers.

Taleo Powers the Green Recruiting Movement

Many Taleo customers are making a difference with green programs. But they are also using environmentally friendly recruiting practices to boost their employment brand and attract top talent.

Since 1999, Taleo has processed more than 60 million candidates for more than 1,000 organizations of all sizes. Assuming a two-page resume with an envelope and cover letter for each candidate, Taleo has enabled our customers to save thousands of trees.

But that's just the paper. Process automation also reduces carbon emissions and saves energy in mailing, storage, handling, filing, and reporting tasks. By automating the recruiting process, you can dramatically reduce your use of paper and energy:

• Resumes: Save paper, envelopes, and fuel. Improve storage, handling, and retention. Get structured candidate data and reduce data entry tasks.



• Job Advertising: Online sourcing and advertising reduces the size of newspapers, magazines, and newsletters. Post open positions on your career site and connect electronically to job boards.



• Onboarding: Cut down on paperwork and mailings while improving the process. Get new hires up to speed faster while increasing engagement and compliance.

You'll also get faster time to hire, lower cost per hire, and improved quality of hire. Fuel your organization’s environmental initiatives. Cut paper, not trees. Boost your employment brand. Get green with eRecruiting!

At Taleo, our logo and corporate color is and has always been green for a reason. So don't be surprised in your next business meeting with Taleo when one of our representatives pulls out a box of natural soy wax candles and demos our solutions for your team by candlelight!