Earlier this month, Human Resource Executive magazine recognized the winners of its 20th Annual Top HR and Top Training Products of the Year awards at a luncheon held during the Technology Conference & Exposition at McCormick Place in Chicago. A variety of HR software, applicant tracking systems and recruiting software providers were awarded the honor of being able to call themselves the best in the businesses.

"For 20 years, Human Resource Executive(R) magazine has recognized excellence and innovation in the HR vendor community with its Top 10 HR and Top Training products awards," said David Shadovitz, who is the editor-in-chief and co- publisher of Human Resource Executive(R) and also the co-chair of the conference. "This year's contest attracted a much wider array of solutions that seem to be mastering software integration and the use of Web 2.0 technology. We're happy to once again be able to recognize the industry's most innovative developers and their products that are delivering on their promises and making HR's job easier during the 11th Anniversary HR Technology Conference & Exposition(R)."

The top three choices for HR software, applicant tracking systems, recruiting software and training products will be featured in the HRE’s October issue and are as follows:

• Salary.com’s TalentManager Succession Planning, which allows users to search for candidates using a variety of information including competencies, performance, readiness, potential and promotability. Through this recruiting program, workers have their own employee profile. This allows HR manages to compare workers through position requirements or performance reviews.
  
• Development Dimensions International Inc., Success Profiles: This program is designed to automate analysis of jobs and competency management through a combination of customization, automation and integration with other talent-management providers. Through this, HR managers can filter competency data by industry, job level and job function. Reports are then made available instantly.
  
• EQuest’s Prophesy3: This program is an end-to-end tracking system which includes analytics. It offers assistance from posting jobs all the way through the hiring process, aiding applicant tracking in a variety of different ways.

Other’s to be included in the top 10 of esteemed HR software and product providers included: Avature USA’s Recruiting CRM, HighRoads Inc,’s The Lab, JWT INSIDE Track, Keneza SimSJT, HumanConcepts’ OrgPlus Enterprise Blueprint, LinkedIn Corporate Solutions’ LinkedIn Recruiter and HireRight, Inc.’s HireRight Enterprise.

The top training products of the year were FraklinCovey and Ninth House’s The 7 Habits for Highly Effective People (Interactive Edition), Talent Keepers Inc.’s Onboard Connection and ELT Inc.’s Wage & Hour.

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