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Fast Recruiting,Inc Partners with Discount Cab to Create A Better, Faster & Greener Application Solution

Costa Mesa, CA and Glendale, AZ/ October 22, 2009 — Fast Recruiting, Inc,  a provider of Web-based recruiting management and scheduling solutions and Total Transit, Inc, of Glendale, Arizona, which operates several leading transportation companies including Discount Cab,  have joined forces to implement the Fast Recruiting paper-saving, web-based application process for contracting cab drivers.


"Fast Recruiting's online application process fits into Total Transit's mission of being the greenest transportation company we can be,” said Craig Hughes, CEO of Total Transit, Inc.  “Prospective drivers now apply directly on our website and our recruiters then automatically schedule interviews, run background checks, enroll prospective drivers into our training classes, and get them through the approval process and into a green cab."

Fast Recruiting’s Web-based system is truly a win-win for transportation companies that must process a high volume of applicants.  Online recruitment not only provides Discount Cab’s management with time savings and other efficiencies; it is also primarily paperless.

“We estimate 75% less paper usage when a company converts to online recruiting,” said Bart Bement, CEO of Fast Recruiting, Inc.   “In this economy, companies such as Discount Cab are getting many applications each day.  At an average of five pages for each applicant, the annual savings in paper is huge and truly helps companies to reduce their carbon footprint.”

And most importantly, online recruiting helps to screen out the approximately 38% of applicants who do not meet the basic requirements of the position. This enables the recruiter to focus on the 62% that are actually qualified.   Previously, all applicants qualified or not, would just show up to apply.

Before meeting the applicant, integrated background checks are completed within the Fast Recruiting system, alerting the recruiter to any past criminal and traffic convictions as well as incorrect Social Security numbers.

"The biggest challenge for us in this project was to accommodate the regulatory issues inherent in contracting cab drivers, while at the same time making the application experience an easy one for even the novice Internet user," commented Bement.   "With the help of Discount Cab’s recruiting, safety and management staff, we designed an online application process that works for even the newest of Internet users.” 

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Discount Cab: Now in its 25th year of operation, Discount Cab is Arizona’s largest cab company, operating more than 550 cabs throughout Phoenix and Tucson. For more information on Discount Cab, please visit www.discountcab.com. Find Discount Cab on Twitter at twitter.com/discount_cab or on Facebook at Facebook.com/discountcab

Media Contact:  PBS/FastRecruiting

Name: Bart Bement

Phone number: 949-608-7141

e-mail address:  bart@fastrecruiting.net

Fast Recruiting Introduction and Background

So here it is…the very first Fast Recruiting blog post.  A good time to let you in on who we are, where we came from, and how we got into the Applicant Tracking System and Workforce Management software business.  We didn’t get into this business willingly; we had every intention of finding an existing solution that really would work for us. 

To bring you up to speed, we owned a 1,400 employee Driver Staffing and fleet outsourcing business and really needed a system for driver recruiting, remote hours collection, and real time management of each days remote positions staffing. I must have personally looked at 30+ systems in the HRIS, Applicant Tracking System, assessment testing, background checks and time and attendance space for high volume employers.  We saw some great features and products, but we did not see anything that had all that we required wrapped up into one solution.  The overall solutions we did see were too spendy, and for our type regional management…well they would never have been able to figure it out without much hand holding and training, something we did not relish doing.  Not that there’s anything wrong with holding the hands of your staff, but hey, we only have two each!

In 2000, still without a complete solution, we sold our company.  With the capital from the sale, and some excellent local programmers, we started Databay, which was a very specific web based system for just the type of company we had sold.  The “dream system” we had always wanted and could not find….A system that is easy for the staff to use, yet powerful in its abilities.  Our first client….you guessed it, the management of the old company.  This system still runs this company’s and others Recruiting, HR management, Customer Service CRM, Hours collection, payroll, billing, margin analysis and first level accounting!  It is quite an encompassing system, but very specific to the needs of this type company.

In 2007 we spun off the recruiting portions of what we had created in Databay and founded FastRecruiting, a very flexible web based applicant tracking system for high volume recruiting using both web and IVR automated phone interviews reporting to the comprehensive applicant tracking and communication system. In 2009, we incorporated our onboarding, shift scheduling and performance management features enabling us to encompass a full range of key needs in all our client companies.

To sum it up, the result of our 20 yrs of experience with this type workforce is included in every line of code in our system.  We understand the realities involved in managing a remote workforce and our system accounts for this with easy to use functionality, user accountability, and easy applicant experiences.