Pinstripe and Client Partner Awarded The Human Resources Outsourcing Association 2012 “Exceptional” North America Recruitment Customer Relationship of the Year

Washington, DC (May 3, 2012) – During the Eighth Annual Human Resources Outsourcing Association (HROA) Awards Gala with the theme of “Be Exceptional,” Pinstripe and their client partner, ValueOptions, were recognized by industry peers with the North America Recruitment Customer Relationship of the Year award.

Pinstripe’s award submission focused on the importance of a customized solution despite the restraints of a clearly defined project: “The partnership between ValueOptions and Pinstripe Healthcare has proven that even in a tight timeframe with clearly defined requirements, a solution can be tailored to fit the exact needs of the situation, and through a strong project team, quickly refined and adjusted to meet changing needs.  Fast and efficient does not have to mean out-of-the-box.”

About the HROA
The HROA is the definitive independent organization for all those who purchase, provide, or participate in HR transformation and outsourcing. Its mission is to educate, promote research, publish, recognize, and provide networking opportunities to foster professionalism in HR transformation and HR outsourcing around. Its membership encompasses over 7,500 HR executives, including the largest 50 buyers, the top 30 providers, the leading sourcing advisors and attorneys, and the best thought leaders in HR Transformation. The HROA brings its diverse membership together to set standards and practices, provide peer networking, and maintain a robust curriculum.

Pinstripe & Client Partner Allstate Present “From Choosing to Excusing and Back: Successfully Transitioning Your RPO Partner” at the 2012 HRO Today Forum

BROOKFIELD, WI – May 1, 2012 – Pinstripe, Inc.’s Executive Vice President Angela Hills today presented alongside Susan Meehan, human resource senior manager from Allstate Insurance Company, at the 2012 HRO Today Forum on tips and tricks to successfully transition between recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) providers.

“Often cited as the fastest growing area with HRO, the RPO industry has reached an important maturity milestone, wherein early-adopter organizations are now moving to second, and sometimes third, generation providers for their RPO solutions. Companies in these categories are entering into the evaluation process with a lot of knowledge of what has worked and has not and therefore create new challenges for RPO providers,” said Hills.

In addition to diving into the Allstate transition case study, the presenters will draw from their expertise in talent acquisition and management to guide the attendees though strategies to avoid common pitfalls.

For more information about the presentation or to schedule time with Ms. Hills during the conference, please contact Kristen Wright at (262) 754-5340.

Pinstripe Announces Record Investments and Client Growth

Everest Group Recognizes Pinstripe Infrastructure Investments,
Market Success and Delivery Capabilities; Names Pinstripe “Star Performer”
BROOKFIELD, WI – April 19, 2012 – Pinstripe, Inc., the nation’s leading pure-play recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) provider, today announced continued record client growth for the first quarter of 2012.  Further validating Pinstripe’s industry leadership, Everest Group has declared Pinstripe a 2012 RPO Star Performer in the Everest Group PEAK Matrix, published in the April 2012 Recruitment Process Outsourcing  – Service Provider Landscape and Capability Assessment report.

Pinstripe CEO Sue Marks attributes the organization’s continued success to calculated, strategic investments in talent, technology, and infrastructure.  “Just as we do with our clients, we’ve hard-wired scalability into our strategic plans.  Our experience, coupled with our constant eye on the future, helps us to determine when to invest and in whom to invest to support our greater than market growth.”

Pinstripe has focused heavily on further specialization in core industry segments - Technology, Advanced Manufacturing, Financial Services and Healthcare.  By hiring opportunistically in tight alignment with this operational strategy, Pinstripe has secured top talent with deep industry expertise to fuel and sustain segment growth.  In the first three months of 2012, Pinstripe has signed new contracts with five organizations and executed multi-year contract extensions with an additional five, adding recognizable brands in each focus segment.

“Pinstripe’s recognition as a market Star Performer illustrates how their investments in critical hires, technology, infrastructure, service scope and footprint have paid off,” explained Rajesh Ranjan, vice president, and leader of Everest Group’s Business Process Outsourcing research program.  “Looking to the future, Pinstripe appears to have positioned themselves well with the people and the infrastructure to support still greater growth,” he concluded.

Pinstripe was also recognized specifically in the Everest Group report for “strongest market success within [the] Major Contenders category” and ongoing “investments in proprietary recruitment technology.”  

“We continue to expand the capabilities of our exclusive technology platform, enabling our nearly 400 recruiters to focus on sourcing and hiring great talent for our clients. That’s the Pinstripe secret sauce - enabling great people to do great work for great client partners,” Marks shared.

Learn more about Pinstripe’s solutions and engage with its talent acquisition and recruitment resources at www.pinstripetalent.com.

Everest Group Methodology
Based on its evaluation framework PEAK Matrix, Everest Group selects Star Performers based on year-on-year improvement in market success and delivery capability.  Only those organizations that are top quartile performers on each parameter are identified as “Star Performers.”  To assess market success advancements, Everest Group evaluates the increase in the number of RPO clients, growth in recent successes, and the increase in the number of hires being managed.  Delivery capability is determined by reviewing annual growth in scale, increased scope of services, expansion of delivery footprint, and investments in technology enhancements, among other factors.

About Pinstripe, Inc.
Pinstripe, Inc. is the nation’s leading pure-play recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) provider.  Pinstripe delivers customized solutions that help clients align talent strategies to business objectives by integrating unmatched expertise, refined processes, and proprietary, as well as best-in-class, technologies. Consistent with Pinstripe’s brand promise “We Become You,” dedicated recruitment teams act as an extension of the human resources function, providing a tailored candidate experience reflective of the client’s brand, values and culture. Pinstripe primarily services clients in the advanced manufacturing, financial service, healthcare and technology industries at a single location or throughout the globe. For more information, please visit www.pinstripetalent.com or engage with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or our blogs.

Pinstripe Healthcare Sponsors 11th Annual WBL Summit

Pinstripe Healthcare Sponsors Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Health Care Industry Foundation’s 11th Annual Summit

BROOKFIELD, WI – March 13, 2012 – Pinstripe Healthcare, the leading provider of recruitment process outsourcing solutions in the healthcare industry, announced today their sponsorship  of the Women Business Leaders (WBL) of the U.S. Health Care Industry Foundation and WBL’s 11th Annual Summit being held March 13 -16 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

“Pinstripe Healthcare is an ongoing sponsor of the annual WBL Summit and has always played an active role in the foundation. The WBL is a critical organization to the industry we serve. I am honored to be taking a seat on their board among so many well respected healthcare thought leaders later this Spring,” stated Jill Schwieters, Pinstripe Healthcare President. Pinstripe Healthcare is a gold sponsor of this year’s Summit.

The 2012 WBL Summit will assemble more than 180 Board members, CEOs, and other senior executive women from the $2 trillion health care industry.  The three day event will help these senior leaders stay ahead of the curve as they face challenges in an industry undergoing tremendous change. The Summit also focuses on increasing visibility for senior executive women from the health care industry for board of director positions with companies across the entire U.S. economy.

Other sponsors of the Summit include: Healthways, Sanofi, GlaxoSmithKline, McKesson Corporation, Modern Healthcare, Optum, UnitedHealthcare, Catholic Health Initiatives, Deloitte, Mintz Levin, Navigant, UPMC, and founding sponsor EpsteinBeckerGreen

For a more detailed discussion with Pinstripe Healthcare President Jill Schwieters, please contact Kristen Wright (414-429-6778) to schedule an interview. For more information about the WBL Summit, visit www.wblsummit.org.

About Pinstripe Healthcare
Pinstripe Healthcare is a leader in recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) solutions for the healthcare industry. Pinstripe Healthcare delivers customized solutions that help provider-side organizations align talent strategies to patient care measures by integrating unmatched expertise, refined processes, and exclusive, as well as best-in-class, technologies. Consistent with Pinstripe’s brand promise “We Become You,” dedicated healthcare recruitment teams act as an extension of the client’s human resources function, providing a tailored candidate experience reflective of the its brand, values and culture.

About WBL
The Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Health Care Industry Foundation™ is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established to address the unmet needs of the senior executive women of the U.S. health care industry. There are over 3,000 senior executive women and women board members in the WBL network. The goal of the invitation-only WBL network is to help these senior executive women in the health care industry improve their businesses and continue to grow professionally, such as through corporate board opportunities. The WBL Foundation also serves as a resource to companies and search firms seeking board members. In addition to its Summits, WBL holds a variety of other programming and networking opportunities, including receptions at major health care industry conferences and educational events.  For more information about the WBL Foundation, visit wbl.org or follow WBL on Twitter at @wblfoundation. For more information about the WBL organization contact Eleanor Whitley at ewhitley@wbl.org.

Personnel Today: RPO and talent management specialist, Ochre House, unveils new employer brand practice

Pinstripe’s global partnership with Ochre House was referenced in a Personnel Today article about Ochre House’s new employer brand practice.

“International RPO and talent management specialist, Ochre House, has announced the opening of a new practice which will focus on helping its clients develop highly effective employer brands.

The practice, which will draw on resources and expertise at the company's offices in London, Dubai and Hong Kong and within its US partner, Pinstripe, will be headed by Director of Brand, Digital and Comms, Andy Curlewis. Curlewis joins Ochre House from the communications agency, Other, where he led projects for such major businesses as RBS, O2, Unilever and BDO.”

To read the complete article, please visit: http://www.personneltoday.com/blogs/press-release-service/2012/03/rpo-and-talent-management-specialist-ochre-house-unveils-new-employer-brand-practice.html

No Slowing Down: HRO Today’s Annual Roundup of the Top Deals in Recruiting

BROOKFIELD, WI – February 28, 2012 –Pinstripe’s partnerships with Allstate Insurance Company and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia were featured in HRO Today’s Annual Roundup of Top Deals in Recruiting, published in its January/February edition.

“Our report on top RPO deals of 2011 was based on research performed by the editorial staff of HRO Today. In some but not all instances, the information was provided by RPO providers themselves. Data was also obtained from the editors’ market knowledge of bidding processes and their awards. For each listing, we researched the services and the hiring volumes and verified the information through the client or other sources. We have not listed hiring volumes or the division of exempt and non-exempt because of confidentiality agreements. The listings vary from program sizes that involve 500 hires to 10,000 hires. Volume is not the only benchmark, however, as we considered the breadth of services and the percentage of the talent pool involved in hard-to-fill categories. The deals are listed in alphabetical order by client.”

Read the article in its entirety here: http://www.hrotoday.com/files/RPODeals_0.pdf#

Pinstripe Global Partner Ochre House Acquires TAAHEED and Carmichael Fisher

BROOKFIELD, WI - February 27, 2012 - Commentary regarding an acquisition announcement by Pinstripe’s global partner and fellow leader in international recruitment process outsourcing, Ochre House, is featured on NelsonHall’s website. A selection of the commentary, including references to the Pinstripe and Ochre House partnership, is included below.

Analyst comments:
Already one of the largest RPO providers in EMEA, these acquisitions will accelerate Ochre House's positioning. Ochre House not only gains recruitment expertise in the Middle East North Africa region and the fast growing TAAHEED company, whose revenues have grown 200% in the past year, but now strengthens its global RPO capability and being able to provide RPO across all major regions and continents. Ochre House has come a long way from providing RPO primarily in the U.K. in 2007 to now providing RPO in ~40 countries in regions which include:

Europe
Middle East
North Africa
Asia Pacific

Further, via its partnership with U.S. based Pinstripe, Ochre House has global reach into North America and Latin America, where Pinstripe provides RPO for one its joint global clients in countries including the U.S, Canada, Mexico and Brazil, while Ochre House provides RPO across EMEA in ~15 countries.

The Ochre House and Pinstripe partnership, which began in 2009 has proven to be one of the most successful in the industry, winning brand name joint clients. Success is attributed to both companies sharing similar values and key success factors including:

• Both are pureplay RPO specialists whose focus is permanent recruitment
• Both are focused on talent management, not just recruitment, providing what NelsonHall sees as the richer, more value-added RPO services that include: talent strategy, internal mobility, employer branding and engagement, development and retention of employees.

Read the posting in its entirety here: http://nelson-hall.com/service-line-programs/hr-outsourcing/tracking-service/?avpage-views=article&id=74382&fv=2

Pinstripe Participates in Inaugural TLNT Transform HR Conference

BROOKFIELD, WI – February 27, 2012 – Pinstripe, Inc., one of the nation’s leading recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) firms, today opened the Pinstripe Wifi Lounge at the 2012 TLNT Transform HR conference in Austin, TX, which runs from February 27 – 28. Providing sweet treats, charging stations and free wifi, the Lounge is the place for conference attendees to take a break, mix and mingle.

Also available in the Lounge is exclusive access to Pinstripe’s Research Report “Investments in Recruiting: Getting the Most for Your Sourcing Dollars” that was developed in partnership with Bersin & Associates, and access to Pinstripe’s talent acquisition experts who can answer questions and provide insights into how Pinstripe provides RPO differently – Recruitment Process Out of the ordinary.

About TLNT Transform
Transform is for talent managers and HR leaders who are looking for cutting-edge insights and best practices from innovative and forward-thinking companies. At Transform, some of the sharpest and most accomplished HR and talent management practitioners and thought leaders working today will be presenting. HR pros who have helped to direct and drive forward-looking companies such as Hard Rock International, Southwest Airlines, Martha Stewart Omnimedia, Edmunds.com, Yahoo!, Daxko, Saba, Humetrics, and many more. For more information visit: http://transform.tlnt.com/2012/live

About Pinstripe, Inc.
Pinstripe, Inc. is one of the nation’s leading recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) providers and has been ranked among the nation’s top RPO firms for four years consecutively on HRO Today magazine’s Baker’s Dozen list.  Pinstripe delivers customized solutions that help clients align talent strategies to business objectives by integrating unmatched expertise, refined processes, and proprietary, as well as best-in-class, technologies. Consistent with Pinstripe’s brand promise “We Become You,” dedicated recruitment teams act as an extension of the human resources function, providing a tailored candidate experience reflective of the client’s brand, values and culture. Pinstripe primarily services clients in the advanced manufacturing, consumer brand, financial service, healthcare and technology industries. For more information, please visit www.pinstripetalent.com or engage with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or our blogs.

H&HN: Managing Workforce Costs

Pinstripe Healthcare President Jill Schwieters is prominently quoted in this article entitled Managing Workforce Costs, a part of H&HN’s Fiscal Fitness series.

“It’s a challenge for organizations to understand the total cost of labor, even though it’s their biggest cost,” says Jill Schwieters, president, Pinstripe Healthcare... “It’s the quality of talent and making sure you have the right people with the right competencies and skills in the right job.”

Read the article in its entirety here: http://bit.ly/ypcur1

Jill Schwieters Presents at 2012 People in Health Care Talent Management Summit

Pinstripe Healthcare Presents
Innovating for Results: Embracing Transformative Recruitment
at 2012 People in Health Care Talent Management Summit

BROOKFIELD, WI – February 7, 2012 – Today, Jill Schwieters, President of Pinstripe Healthcare, a leader in recruitment process outsourcing for the healthcare industry, presented the opening address at the 2012 People in Health Care Talent Management Summit in Houston, Texas, presented by Talent Management Alliance.

Speaking on the importance of cultivating a culture of innovation within healthcare organizations, Schwieters shared insights into how human resource professionals can play a leadership role by taking firm steps to hire and retain innovative talent, and put the policies and procedures in place that can help those individuals thrive.

For more information about Pinstripe Healthcare’s presence at People in Health Care 2012, or to inquire about having Jill Schwieters speak at your event, please contact Kristen Wright at (262) 754-5340.

About People in Health Care Talent Management Summit
With patient care being their number one objective, no other industry has a more crucial need for top talent and management of that talent than health care. Succeeding in today’s turbulent environment demands a mix of strategic talent management and business know-how. The passing of the health care bill by congress drove long standing issues of staffing shortages, leadership capability and financial stability to the forefront of the health care argument. One of the biggest issues faced by health care organizations was how to staff & pay for patient care. The People in Health Care Talent Management Summit takes place from February 7-8 at the Crowne Plaza Houston.